Josef Sommer
Acting
Born 1934-06-26 · Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
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 · Movie
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 · Movie
Patch Adams
1998 · Movie
Sophie's Choice
1982 · Movie
Witness
1985 · Movie
Strange Days
1995 · Movie
Silkwood
1983 · Movie
The Front
1976 · Movie
Nobody's Fool
1994 · Movie
The Family Man
2000 · Movie
Reds
1981 · Movie
Shadows and Fog
1991 · Movie
The Stepford Wives
1975 · Movie
Absence of Malice
1981 · Movie
Chances Are
1989 · Movie
The Mighty Ducks
1992 · Movie
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
1989 · Movie
Bridge to Silence
1989 · Movie
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006 · Movie
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
1972 · Movie
Brotherly Love
1985 · Movie
Before the Storm
1991 · Movie
When Will I Be Loved?
1990 · Movie
A Special Friendship
1987 · Movie
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976 · Movie
D.A.R.Y.L.
1985 · Movie
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985 · Movie
Under Cover
1991 · Movie
Forced March
1989 · Movie
The Sum of All Fears
2002 · Movie
Valley Forge
1975 · Movie
Letter to My Killer
1995 · Movie
An American Story
1992 · Movie
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
1990 · Movie
The Betty Ford Story
1987 · Movie
Enemies
1974 · Movie
Citizen Cohn
1992 · Movie
The Henderson Monster
1980 · Movie
Searching for Paradise
2002 · Movie
Doctor Franken
1980 · Movie
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1994 · Movie
The Other Guys
2010 · Movie
Hostages
1992 · Movie
Bulworth
1998 · Movie
Kansas
1995 · Movie
Money, Power, Murder.
1989 · Movie
Independence Day
1983 · Movie
Malice
1993 · Movie
Sparkling Cyanide
1983 · Movie
Saigon: Year of the Cat
1983 · Movie
Iceman
1984 · Movie
The Elephant King
2006 · Movie
The Proposition
1998 · Movie
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
2000 · Movie
Double Image
1986 · Movie
Man on a Swing
1974 · Movie
Hide in Plain Sight
1980 · Movie
Stop-Loss
2008 · Movie
Too Far to Go
1979 · Movie
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989 · Movie