Josef Sommer
Acting
Born: June 26, 1934 (age 92) · Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Highest Rated
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
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
The Other Guys
2010
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Patch Adams
1998
Dirty Harry
1971
The Family Man
2000
The Sum of All Fears
2002
Witness
1985
The Invasion
2007
Strange Days
1995
Shaft
2000
Photos (3)
Movies (77)
The Other Guys
District Attorney Radford (uncredited)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Larry Butler
The Sum of All Fears
Senator Jessup
The Invasion
Dr. Henryk Belicec
Dirty Harry
Rothko
The Family Man
Peter Lassiter
Shaft
Curt Flemming
Patch Adams
Dr. Eaton
Witness
Schaeffer
Strange Days
Palmer Strickland
Sophie's Choice
Narrator (voice)
The Mighty Ducks
Mr. Ducksworth
Nobody's Fool
Clive Peoples Jr.
Malice
Atty. Lester Adams
The Rosary Murders
Lieutenant Koznicki
Bulworth
Doctor (uncredited)
The Chamber
Phelps Bowen
Stop-Loss
Senator Orton Worrell
D.A.R.Y.L.
Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
Shadows and Fog
Priest
Iceman
Whitman
Chances Are
Judge Fenwick
The Stepford Wives
Ted Van Sant
Reds
State Department Official
Absence of Malice
McAdam
Still of the Night
George Bynum
Target
Barney Taber
Silkwood
Max Richter
Mistrial
Nick Mirsky
Don't Drink the Water
Ambassador Magee
Bloodhounds of Broadway
Waldo Winchester
The Next Best Thing
Richard Whittaker
The Front
Committee Chairman
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
Woodrow Wilson
The Proposition
Dryer
Forced March
Richard Kline
The Enemy Within
Defence Secretary Charles Potter
Moonlight and Valentino
Thomas Trager
Hanky Panky
Adrian Pruitt
Sparkling Cyanide
George Barton
Valley Forge
Brig. Gen. Varnum
Dracula's Widow
Lannon
Man on a Swing
Pete Russell
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
Charles Estiman
Hide in Plain Sight
Jason R. Reid
Oliver's Story
Dr. Dienhart
Rollover
Roy Lefcourt
Double Image
James Angleton
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Col. Morrow
Brotherly Love
Mr. Rafferty
Independence Day
Sam Taylor
The Elephant King
Bill Hunt
Hidden in America
Edward Millerton
Doctor Franken
Mr. Parker
Citizen Cohn
Albert Cohn
An American Story
Henry Meade
Letter to My Killer
1995
The Execution of Raymond Graham
Jim Neal
Money, Power, Murder.
Jack Finley
Too Far to Go
Henry Mills
Enemies
Nikolai
Before the Storm
Stewart Merriman
Kansas
Joseph 'Joe' Farley
Saigon: Year of the Cat
Jack Ockham
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999
The Henderson Monster
Dr. Martin Grossman
Under Cover
Stewart Merriman
X-Men: The Last Stand
The President
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
Proctor
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Polonius
The Betty Ford Story
President Gerald Ford
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Pomeroy
Bridge to Silence
Al Duffield
Hostages
Tom Sutherland
When Will I Be Loved?
Martin Ransil
Searching for Paradise
Carl Greenslate
A Special Friendship
General Winder
TV Shows (25)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Patrick Rumsey · 1 eps
Law & Order
Defense Attorney Patrick Rumsey · 1 eps
Law & Order
Judge Lawrence Hellman · 1 eps
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Spencer Durning · 1 eps
The West Wing
Steve Gaines · 1 eps
Without a Trace
Peter Ducek · 1 eps
American Playhouse
Doc · 1 eps
American Playhouse
Waldo Winchester · 1 eps
Great Performances
Nikolai · 1 eps
Great Performances
Polonius · 1 eps
Screen Two
James Angleton · 1 eps
The Equalizer
Ernest Rasher · 1 eps
Early Edition
John Dobbs · 2 eps
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1 eps
Ally McBeal
Henry Thompson · 1 eps
Providence
Thomas Wheelock · 1 eps
The Adams Chronicles
Charles Lee · 1 eps
A Woman Named Jackie
Joseph Kennedy Sr. · 3 eps
Hothouse
Dr. Sam Garrison · 7 eps
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
2 eps
The Andros Targets
Benson Fisher · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Brig. Gen. Varnum · 1 eps
The Kennedys of Massachusetts
Franklin D. Roosevelt · 3 eps
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 4 eps
Mourning Becomes Electra
Ezra Mannon · 5 eps