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
7.933
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
6.3
Without a Trace
7.2
The Equalizer
7.197
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
8.257
Law & Order
7.4
The Scarlet Letter
4.7
Mourning Becomes Electra
4.5
Law & Order
7.4
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
7.6
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
4.7
Great Performances
5.5
Great Performances
5.5
Movies
Dirty Harry
7.448
Chances Are
6.6
Malice
6.261
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
7.348
The Next Best Thing
5.273
Patch Adams
7.317
The Mighty Ducks
6.6
Don't Drink the Water
5.537
The Invasion
6
Sparkling Cyanide
6.1
Nobody's Fool
6.9
The Chamber
5.977
Stop-Loss
6.1
Witness
7.096
The Elephant King
5.9
Silkwood
6.9
X-Men: The Last Stand
6.41
D.A.R.Y.L.
6.412
Double Image
5.857
Bulworth
6.329
Rollover
5.1
Hide in Plain Sight
5.281
Absence of Malice
6.6
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
4.4
Too Far to Go
1
The Execution of Raymond Graham
6.4
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
7.011
Shadows and Fog
6.742
When Will I Be Loved?
0
Still of the Night
5.723
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
6.359
Hanky Panky
5.294
Brotherly Love
7
Hostages
5.889
Iceman
6.109
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
5.714
Letter to My Killer
6
Valley Forge
0
Shaft
6.019
Sophie's Choice
7.343
Reds
6.9
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
5.1
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
4.2
The Other Guys
6.312