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