Josef Sommer
Acting • Born 1934-06-26
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.
Filmography
99 credits
Dirty Harry
Movie • 1971
Rothko
Chances Are
Movie • 1989
Judge Fenwick
Malice
Movie • 1993
Atty. Lester Adams
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Movie • 1977
Larry Butler
The Next Best Thing
Movie • 2000
Richard Whittaker
Patch Adams
Movie • 1998
Dr. Eaton
The Mighty Ducks
Movie • 1992
Mr. Ducksworth
Don't Drink the Water
Movie • 1994
Ambassador Magee
The Invasion
Movie • 2007
Dr. Henryk Belicec
Sparkling Cyanide
Movie • 1983
George Barton
Nobody's Fool
Movie • 1994
Clive Peoples Jr.
The Chamber
Movie • 1996
Phelps Bowen
Stop-Loss
Movie • 2008
Senator Orton Worrell
Witness
Movie • 1985
Schaeffer
The Elephant King
Movie • 2006
Bill Hunt
Silkwood
Movie • 1983
Max Richter
X-Men: The Last Stand
Movie • 2006
The President
D.A.R.Y.L.
Movie • 1985
Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
Double Image
Movie • 1986
James Angleton
Bulworth
Movie • 1998
Doctor (uncredited)
Rollover
Movie • 1981
Roy Lefcourt
Hide in Plain Sight
Movie • 1980
Jason R. Reid
Absence of Malice
Movie • 1981
McAdam
Bloodhounds of Broadway
Movie • 1989
Waldo Winchester
Bridge to Silence
Movie • 1989
Al Duffield
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
Movie • 1989
Charles Estiman
An American Story
Movie • 1992
Henry Meade
Dracula's Widow
Movie • 1988
Lannon
Too Far to Go
Movie • 1979
Henry Mills
The Execution of Raymond Graham
Movie • 1985
Jim Neal
The Front
Movie • 1976
Committee Chairman
Money, Power, Murder.
Movie • 1989
Jack Finley
Oliver's Story
Movie • 1978
Dr. Dienhart
The Henderson Monster
Movie • 1980
Dr. Martin Grossman
Man on a Swing
Movie • 1974
Pete Russell
Searching for Paradise
Movie • 2002
Carl Greenslate
Independence Day
Movie • 1983
Sam Taylor
Enemies
Movie • 1974
Nikolai
Forced March
Movie • 1989
Richard Kline
The Betty Ford Story
Movie • 1987
President Gerald Ford
Strange Days
Movie • 1995
Palmer Strickland
Shadows and Fog
Movie • 1991
Priest
When Will I Be Loved?
Movie • 1990
Martin Ransil
Still of the Night
Movie • 1982
George Bynum
Mistrial
Movie • 1996
Nick Mirsky
The Enemy Within
Movie • 1994
Defence Secretary Charles Potter
Under Cover
Movie • 1991
Stewart Merriman
Before the Storm
Movie • 1991
Stewart Merriman
Saigon: Year of the Cat
Movie • 1983
Jack Ockham
The Sum of All Fears
Movie • 2002
Senator Jessup
Hanky Panky
Movie • 1982
Adrian Pruitt
Brotherly Love
Movie • 1985
Mr. Rafferty
Hostages
Movie • 1992
Tom Sutherland
Iceman
Movie • 1984
Whitman
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Movie • 1994
Col. Morrow
Kansas
Movie • 1995
Joseph 'Joe' Farley
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
Movie • 1972
Proctor
A Special Friendship
Movie • 1987
General Winder
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
Movie • 2000
Woodrow Wilson
Letter to My Killer
Movie • 1995
Valley Forge
Movie • 1975
Shaft
Movie • 2000
Curt Flemming
Sophie's Choice
Movie • 1982
Narrator (voice)
Reds
Movie • 1981
State Department Official
Citizen Cohn
Movie • 1992
Albert Cohn
Doctor Franken
Movie • 1980
Mr. Parker
Moonlight and Valentino
Movie • 1995
Thomas Trager
The Family Man
Movie • 2000
Peter Lassiter
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Movie • 1976
Pomeroy
The Stepford Wives
Movie • 1975
Ted Van Sant
Target
Movie • 1985
Barney Taber
The Rosary Murders
Movie • 1987
Lieutenant Koznicki
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Movie • 1990
Polonius
Hidden in America
Movie • 1996
Edward Millerton
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
Movie • 1999
The Other Guys
Movie • 2010
District Attorney Radford (uncredited)
The Proposition
Movie • 1998
Dryer
Ally McBeal
TV • 1997
Henry Thompson
Providence
TV • 1999
Thomas Wheelock
Early Edition
TV • 1996
John Dobbs
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Patrick Rumsey
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
TV • 1983
Without a Trace
TV • 2002
Peter Ducek
The Equalizer
TV • 1985
Ernest Rasher
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Brig. Gen. Varnum
Under Cover
TV • 1991
Stewart Merriman
A Woman Named Jackie
TV • 1991
Joseph Kennedy Sr.
The Andros Targets
TV • 1977
Benson Fisher
The Kennedys of Massachusetts
TV • 1990
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The West Wing
TV • 1999
Steve Gaines
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Defense Attorney Patrick Rumsey
The Scarlet Letter
TV • 1979
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mourning Becomes Electra
TV • 1978
Ezra Mannon
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Judge Lawrence Hellman
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV • 2001
Spencer Durning
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
TV • 1999
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Nikolai
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Polonius
Hothouse
TV • 1988
Dr. Sam Garrison