Josef Sommer
Department: Acting
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
Dirty Harry
1971
Chances Are
1989
Malice
1993
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
The Next Best Thing
2000
Patch Adams
1998
The Mighty Ducks
1992
Don't Drink the Water
1994
The Invasion
2007
Sparkling Cyanide
1983
Nobody's Fool
1994
The Chamber
1996
Stop-Loss
2008
Witness
1985
The Elephant King
2006
Silkwood
1983
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006
D.A.R.Y.L.
1985
Double Image
1986
Bulworth
1998
Rollover
1981
Hide in Plain Sight
1980
Absence of Malice
1981
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989
Bridge to Silence
1989
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
1989
An American Story
1992
Dracula's Widow
1988
Too Far to Go
1979
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985
The Front
1976
Money, Power, Murder.
1989
Oliver's Story
1978
The Henderson Monster
1980
Man on a Swing
1974
Searching for Paradise
2002
Independence Day
1983
Enemies
1974
Forced March
1989
The Betty Ford Story
1987
Strange Days
1995
Shadows and Fog
1991
When Will I Be Loved?
1990
Still of the Night
1982
Mistrial
1996
The Enemy Within
1994
Under Cover
1991
Before the Storm
1991
Saigon: Year of the Cat
1983
The Sum of All Fears
2002
Hanky Panky
1982
Brotherly Love
1985
Hostages
1992
Iceman
1984
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1994
Kansas
1995
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
1972
A Special Friendship
1987
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
2000
Letter to My Killer
1995
Valley Forge
1975
Shaft
2000
Sophie's Choice
1982
Reds
1981
Citizen Cohn
1992
Doctor Franken
1980
Moonlight and Valentino
1995
The Family Man
2000
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976
The Stepford Wives
1975
Target
1985
The Rosary Murders
1987
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
1990
Hidden in America
1996
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999
The Other Guys
2010
The Proposition
1998
Ally McBeal
1997
Providence
1999
Early Edition
1996
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
Without a Trace
2002
The Equalizer
1985
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Under Cover
1991
A Woman Named Jackie
1991
The Andros Targets
1977
The Kennedys of Massachusetts
1990
The West Wing
1999
Law & Order
1990
The Scarlet Letter
1979
Mourning Becomes Electra
1978
Law & Order
1990
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
1999
Great Performances
1971
Great Performances
1971
Hothouse
1988