Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 26, 1934
Place of Birth
Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Credits
100 titles
Josef Sommer
Biography
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
Filmography
The Other Guys
District Attorney Radford (uncredited)
Stop-Loss
Senator Orton Worrell
The Invasion
Dr. Henryk Belicec
X-Men: The Last Stand
The President
The Elephant King
Bill Hunt
Without a Trace
Peter Ducek
Searching for Paradise
Carl Greenslate
The Sum of All Fears
Senator Jessup
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Spencer Durning
The Family Man
Peter Lassiter
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
Woodrow Wilson
Shaft
Curt Flemming
The Next Best Thing
Richard Whittaker
The West Wing
Steve Gaines
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Patrick Rumsey
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
Providence
Thomas Wheelock
Patch Adams
Dr. Eaton
Bulworth
Doctor (uncredited)
The Proposition
Dryer
Ally McBeal
Henry Thompson
Hidden in America
Edward Millerton
Mistrial
Nick Mirsky
The Chamber
Phelps Bowen
Early Edition
John Dobbs
Strange Days
Palmer Strickland
Moonlight and Valentino
Thomas Trager
Letter to My Killer
Kansas
Joseph 'Joe' Farley
Nobody's Fool
Clive Peoples Jr.
Don't Drink the Water
Ambassador Magee
The Enemy Within
Defence Secretary Charles Potter
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Col. Morrow
Malice
Atty. Lester Adams
An American Story
Henry Meade
The Mighty Ducks
Mr. Ducksworth
Hostages
Tom Sutherland
Citizen Cohn
Albert Cohn
Shadows and Fog
Priest
A Woman Named Jackie
Joseph Kennedy Sr.
Before the Storm
Stewart Merriman
Under Cover
Stewart Merriman
Under Cover
Stewart Merriman
When Will I Be Loved?
Martin Ransil
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Polonius
Law & Order
Defense Attorney Patrick Rumsey
The Kennedys of Massachusetts
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Money, Power, Murder.
Jack Finley
Bloodhounds of Broadway
Waldo Winchester