Josef Sommer

Acting

Born June 26, 1934, Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

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

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