Josef Sommer
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
PHOTOS
TV Series
Ally McBeal
6.6
Providence
6.5
Early Edition
7.3
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
7.9
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
6.3
Without a Trace
7.2
The Equalizer
7.2
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Under Cover
6
A Woman Named Jackie
9.2
The Andros Targets
5
Hothouse
5
The Kennedys of Massachusetts
7.2
The West Wing
8.258
Law & Order
7.4
The Scarlet Letter
4.7
Mourning Becomes Electra
4.5
Law & Order
7.4
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
7.565
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
4.7
Great Performances
5.3
Great Performances
5.3
Movies
Dirty Harry
7.443
Chances Are
6.6
Malice
6.3
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
7.347
The Next Best Thing
5.272
Patch Adams
7.313
The Mighty Ducks
6.549
Don't Drink the Water
5.537
The Invasion
6.026
Sparkling Cyanide
6.1
Nobody's Fool
6.9
The Chamber
6
Stop-Loss
6.127
Witness
7.096
The Elephant King
5.9
Silkwood
6.951
X-Men: The Last Stand
6.4
D.A.R.Y.L.
6.41
Double Image
5.7
Bulworth
6.313
Rollover
5.1
Hide in Plain Sight
5.281
Absence of Malice
6.629
Bloodhounds of Broadway
5.6
Bridge to Silence
6.5
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
6.5
An American Story
5.8
Dracula's Widow
4.421
Too Far to Go
1
The Execution of Raymond Graham
6.444
The Front
7
Money, Power, Murder.
3.833
Oliver's Story
4.8
The Henderson Monster
4
Man on a Swing
5.8
Searching for Paradise
4
Independence Day
5.5
Enemies
0
Forced March
6.5
The Betty Ford Story
0
Strange Days
7.007
Shadows and Fog
6.7
When Will I Be Loved?
0
Still of the Night
5.719
Mistrial
5
The Enemy Within
5.713
Under Cover
0
Before the Storm
0
Saigon: Year Of The Cat
4.6
The Sum of All Fears
6.357
Hanky Panky
5.294
Brotherly Love
7
Hostages
5.889
Iceman
6.1
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
6.154
Kansas
5
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
0
A Special Friendship
0
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
5.7
Letter to My Killer
6
Valley Forge
0
Shaft
6
Sophie's Choice
7.329
Reds
6.886
Citizen Cohn
6.25
Doctor Franken
2
Moonlight and Valentino
5.6
The Family Man
6.8
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
6
The Stepford Wives
6.691
Target
5.9
The Rosary Murders
5.53
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
0
Hidden in America
5.056
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
4.75
The Other Guys
6.31