Josef Sommer
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1934-06-26 (91 years old)
Place of Birth
Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Josef Sommer
Biography
Maximilian Josef Sommer (born June 26, 1934) is a German-American retired stage, television, and film actor. His best known roles are as The President in X-Men: The Last Stand, Senator Jessup in The Sum of All Fears, Peter Lassiter in The Family Man, Curtis Flemming in Shaft, Dr. Eaton in Patch Adams, Phelps Bowen in The Chamber, Clive Peoples Jr. in Nobody's Fool, Mr. Duckworth in The Mighty Ducks, Chief Paul Schaefer in Witness, Max Richter in Silkwood, Sam Taylor in Independence Day, Rothko in Dirty Harry, and narrator for the film Sophie's Choice.
Known For
Acting
(2010)
The Other Guys
as District Attorney Radford (uncredited)
(2008)
Stop-Loss
as Senator Orton Worrell
(2007)
The Invasion
as Dr. Henryk Belicec
(2006)
The Elephant King
as Bill Hunt
(2006)
X-Men: The Last Stand
as The President
(2002)
The Sum of All Fears
as Senator Jessup
(2002)
Searching for Paradise
as Carl Greenslate
(2000)
Shaft
as Curt Flemming
(2000)
The Family Man
as Peter Lassiter
(2000)
The Next Best Thing
as Richard Whittaker
(2000)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
as Woodrow Wilson
(1999)
(1998)
Patch Adams
as Dr. Eaton
(1998)
Bulworth
as Doctor (uncredited)
(1996)
The Chamber
as Phelps Bowen
(1996)
Mistrial
as Nick Mirsky
(1996)
Hidden in America
as Edward Millerton
(1995)
Strange Days
as Palmer Strickland
(1995)
(1995)
Kansas
as Joseph 'Joe' Farley
(1995)
Moonlight and Valentino
as Thomas Trager
(1994)
(1994)
Nobody's Fool
as Clive Peoples Jr.
(1994)
The Enemy Within
as Defence Secretary Charles Potter
(1994)
Don't Drink the Water
as Ambassador Magee
(1993)
Malice
as Atty. Lester Adams
(1992)
The Mighty Ducks
as Mr. Ducksworth
(1992)
An American Story
as Henry Meade
(1992)
Hostages
as Tom Sutherland
(1992)
Citizen Cohn
as Albert Cohn
(1991)
Shadows and Fog
as Priest
(1991)
Under Cover
as Stewart Merriman
(1991)
Before the Storm
as Stewart Merriman
(1990)
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
as Polonius
(1990)
When Will I Be Loved?
as Martin Ransil
(1989)
Bloodhounds of Broadway
as Waldo Winchester
(1989)
Money, Power, Murder.
as Jack Finley
(1989)
Chances Are
as Judge Fenwick
(1989)
Forced March
as Richard Kline
(1989)
Bridge to Silence
as Al Duffield
(1989)
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
as Charles Estiman
(1988)
Dracula's Widow
as Lannon
(1987)
The Rosary Murders
as Lieutenant Koznicki
(1987)
The Betty Ford Story
as President Gerald Ford
(1987)
A Special Friendship
as General Winder
(1986)
Double Image
as James Angleton
(1985)
Witness
as Chief Paul Schaeffer
(1985)
D.A.R.Y.L.
as Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
(1985)
Target
as Barney Taber
(1985)
Brotherly Love
as Mr. Rafferty
(1985)
The Execution of Raymond Graham
as Jim Neal
(1984)
Iceman
as Whitman
(1983)
Silkwood
as Max Richter
(1983)
Independence Day
as Sam Taylor
(1983)
Sparkling Cyanide
as George Barton
(1983)
Saigon: Year of the Cat
as Jack Ockham
(1982)
Sophie's Choice
as Narrator (voice)
(1982)
Still of the Night
as George Bynum
(1982)
Hanky Panky
as Adrian Pruitt
(1981)
Absence of Malice
as McAdam
(1981)
Reds
as State Department Official
(1981)
Rollover
as Roy Lefcourt
(1980)
Hide in Plain Sight
as Jason R. Reid
(1980)
The Henderson Monster
as Dr. Martin Grossman
(1980)
Doctor Franken
as Mr. Parker
(1979)
Too Far to Go
as Henry Mills
(1978)
Oliver's Story
as Dr. Dienhart
(1977)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Larry Butler
(1976)
The Front
as Committee Chairman
(1976)
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
as Pomeroy
(1975)
The Stepford Wives
as Ted Van Sant
(1975)
(1974)
Enemies
as Nikolai
(1974)
Man on a Swing
as Pete Russell
(1972)
(1971)
Dirty Harry
as Rothko