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.
Filmography (100)
The Other Guys
Stop-Loss
The Invasion
X-Men: The Last Stand
The Elephant King
Without a Trace
The Sum of All Fears
Searching for Paradise
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
The Family Man
Shaft
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
The Next Best Thing
The West Wing
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Providence
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
Patch Adams
Bulworth
The Proposition
Ally McBeal
Early Edition
The Chamber
Mistrial
Hidden in America
Strange Days
Letter to My Killer
Moonlight and Valentino
Kansas
Nobody's Fool
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
The Enemy Within
Don't Drink the Water
Malice
The Mighty Ducks
An American Story
Citizen Cohn
Hostages
Before the Storm
A Woman Named Jackie
Under Cover- Under Cover
Shadows and Fog
When Will I Be Loved?
The Kennedys of Massachusetts
Law & Order
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Bridge to Silence
Chances Are
Forced March
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
Bloodhounds of Broadway
Money, Power, Murder.
Hothouse
Dracula's Widow
A Special Friendship
The Rosary Murders
The Betty Ford Story
Double Image
Brotherly Love
The Equalizer
Screen Two
Witness
The Execution of Raymond Graham
D.A.R.Y.L.
Target
Iceman
Silkwood
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Sparkling Cyanide
Independence Day
Saigon: Year of the Cat
Sophie's Choice
American Playhouse
Still of the Night
Hanky Panky
Reds
Absence of Malice
Rollover
The Henderson Monster
Doctor Franken
Hide in Plain Sight
The Scarlet Letter
Too Far to Go
Mourning Becomes Electra
Oliver's Story
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Andros Targets
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
The Adams Chronicles
The Front
Valley Forge
The Stepford Wives
Man on a Swing
Enemies
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
Dirty Harry
Great Performances
Hallmark Hall of Fame