Josef Sommer
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1934-06-26
Place of Birth: Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Popularity: 1.6
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
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Law & Order
1990
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
Without a Trace
2002
The West Wing
1999
Great Performances
1971
The Equalizer
1985
Early Edition
1996
Providence
1999
Screen Two
1985
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
Ally McBeal
1997
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
The Sum of All Fears
2002
Dirty Harry
1971
The Other Guys
2010
The Family Man
2000
The Invasion
2007
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Shaft
2000
Witness
1985
Patch Adams
1998
Strange Days
1995
The Adams Chronicles
1976
The Andros Targets
1977
Chances Are
1989
A Woman Named Jackie
1991
Hothouse
1988
Sophie's Choice
1982
Stop-Loss
2008
D.A.R.Y.L.
1985
Malice
1993
The Mighty Ducks
1992
Reds
1981
The Chamber
1996
Iceman
1984
Nobody's Fool
1994
The Stepford Wives
1975
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
1999
Silkwood
1983
Bulworth
1998No Photo
Under Cover
1991
The Scarlet Letter
1979
The Front
1976
Shadows and Fog
1991
Absence of Malice
1981
Hanky Panky
1982
The Proposition
1998
Moonlight and Valentino
1995
Mourning Becomes Electra
1978
The Next Best Thing
2000
Citizen Cohn
1992
The Kennedys of Massachusetts
1990
Still of the Night
1982
Sparkling Cyanide
1983
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
1989
Don't Drink the Water
1994
The Enemy Within
1994
Target
1985
Mistrial
1996
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989
Oliver's Story
1978
Too Far to Go
1979
Rollover
1981
Independence Day
1983
Man on a Swing
1974
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
2000
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999
Valley Forge
1975
Dracula's Widow
1988
Brotherly Love
1985
An American Story
1992
Kansas
1995
The Betty Ford Story
1987
Forced March
1989
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976
Hostages
1992
Letter to My Killer
1995
The Rosary Murders
1987
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985
Hide in Plain Sight
1980
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1994
Saigon: Year of the Cat
1983
Enemies
1974
Under Cover
1991
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
1990
Hidden in America
1996
Double Image
1986
The Henderson Monster
1980
A Special Friendship
1987
When Will I Be Loved?
1990
Doctor Franken
1980
Before the Storm
1991
The Elephant King
2006
Money, Power, Murder.
1989
Bridge to Silence
1989
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
1972