Josef Sommer

Birthday: 1934-06-26
Birthplace: Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

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.

Credits

Year Title Character
2008-03-28 Stop-Loss Senator Orton Worrell
2007-08-17 The Invasion Dr. Henryk Belicec
2006-05-24 X-Men: The Last Stand The President
2006-04-26 The Elephant King Bill Hunt
2002-06-24 Searching for Paradise Carl Greenslate
2002-05-31 The Sum of All Fears Senator Jessup
2002-05-19 The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change Woodrow Wilson
2000-12-12 The Family Man Peter Lassiter
2000-06-15 Shaft Curt Flemming
2000-03-03 The Next Best Thing Richard Whittaker
1999-05-09 The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1998-12-25 Patch Adams Dr. Eaton
1998-05-15 Bulworth Doctor (uncredited)
1996-12-01 Hidden in America Edward Millerton
1996-11-02 Mistrial Nick Mirsky
1996-10-11 The Chamber Phelps Bowen
1995-10-13 Strange Days Palmer Strickland
1995-09-29 Moonlight and Valentino Thomas Trager
1995-08-09 Letter to My Killer
1995-07-27 Kansas Joseph 'Joe' Farley
1994-12-23 Nobody's Fool Clive Peoples Jr.
1994-12-18 Don't Drink the Water Ambassador Magee
1994-08-24 The Enemy Within Defence Secretary Charles Potter
1994-02-26 Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker Col. Morrow
1993-09-29 Malice Atty. Lester Adams
1992-11-29 An American Story Henry Meade
1992-10-02 The Mighty Ducks Mr. Ducksworth
1992-09-23 Hostages Tom Sutherland
1992-08-22 Citizen Cohn Albert Cohn
1991-12-05 Shadows and Fog Priest
1991-07-13 Before the Storm Stewart Merriman
1991-01-05 Under Cover Stewart Merriman
1990-12-03 When Will I Be Loved? Martin Ransil
1990-11-02 William Shakespeare's Hamlet Polonius
1989-12-10 Money, Power, Murder. Jack Finley
1989-11-03 Bloodhounds of Broadway Waldo Winchester
1989-11-03 Forced March Richard Kline
1989-04-30 Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman Charles Estiman
1989-04-09 Bridge to Silence Al Duffield
1989-03-10 Chances Are Judge Fenwick
1988-09-14 Dracula's Widow Lannon
1987-08-28 The Rosary Murders Lieutenant Koznicki
1987-03-31 A Special Friendship General Winder
1987-03-02 The Betty Ford Story President Gerald Ford
1986-04-06 Double Image James Angleton
1985-11-17 The Execution of Raymond Graham Jim Neal
1985-11-08 Target Barney Taber
1985-06-14 D.A.R.Y.L. Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
1985-05-28 Brotherly Love Mr. Rafferty
1985-02-08 Witness Chief Paul Schaeffer
1984-04-13 Iceman Whitman
1983-12-14 Silkwood Max Richter
1983-11-29 Saigon: Year Of The Cat Jack Ockham
1983-11-05 Sparkling Cyanide George Barton
1983-01-21 Independence Day Sam Taylor
1982-11-19 Still of the Night George Bynum
1982-06-04 Hanky Panky Adrian Pruitt
1981-12-25 Reds State Department Official
1981-11-19 Absence of Malice McAdam
1981-10-11 Rollover Roy Lefcourt
1980-05-27 The Henderson Monster Dr. Martin Grossman
1980-03-21 Hide in Plain Sight Jason R. Reid
1980-01-13 Doctor Franken Mr. Parker
1979-03-12 Too Far to Go Henry Mills
1978-12-15 Oliver's Story Dr. Dienhart
1977-12-14 Close Encounters of the Third Kind Larry Butler
1976-09-17 The Front Committee Chairman
1976-04-22 Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys Pomeroy
1975-12-03 Valley Forge
1975-02-12 The Stepford Wives Ted Van Sant
1974-02-24 Man on a Swing Pete Russell
1974-01-23 Enemies Nikolai
1972-01-01 The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope Proctor
1971-12-23 Dirty Harry Rothko