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