Josef Sommer
Born: 1934-06-26
Place of Birth: Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
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
Oliver's Story
1978★ 4.6
The Family Man
2000★ 6.8
Shaft
2000★ 6.0
An American Story
1992★ 5.8
Witness
1985★ 7.1
The Other Guys
2010★ 6.3
Dirty Harry
1971★ 7.5
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977★ 7.4
Patch Adams
1998★ 7.3
The Invasion
2007★ 6.0
The Sum of All Fears
2002★ 6.4
Iceman
1984★ 6.2
Strange Days
1995★ 7.0
Nobody's Fool
1994★ 6.8
Bulworth
1998★ 6.3
Target
1985★ 5.9
Money, Power, Murder.
1989★ 3.8
Silkwood
1983★ 6.9
Kansas
1995★ 5.0
D.A.R.Y.L.
1985★ 6.4
Brotherly Love
1985★ 7.0
Mistrial
1996★ 5.1
Malice
1993★ 6.3
Sophie's Choice
1982★ 7.3
Under Cover
1991★ 0.0
Hostages
1992★ 5.9
The Mighty Ducks
1992★ 6.6
Chances Are
1989★ 6.6
Double Image
1986★ 5.9
Rollover
1981★ 5.1
The Chamber
1996★ 6.0
Independence Day
1983★ 5.5
Saigon: Year of the Cat
1983★ 4.6
Reds
1981★ 6.9
Sparkling Cyanide
1983★ 5.8
The Stepford Wives
1975★ 6.7
Doctor Franken
1980★ 2.0
Dracula's Widow
1988★ 4.3
Valley Forge
1975★ 0.0
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989★ 5.6
The Rosary Murders
1987★ 5.5
Absence of Malice
1981★ 6.6
Stop-Loss
2008★ 6.1
Still of the Night
1982★ 5.7
Shadows and Fog
1991★ 6.7
The Proposition
1998★ 6.1
The Front
1976★ 7.0
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
1989★ 6.5
Hanky Panky
1982★ 5.3
Man on a Swing
1974★ 5.8
The Next Best Thing
2000★ 5.3
Moonlight and Valentino
1995★ 5.5
The Elephant King
2006★ 5.6
Citizen Cohn
1992★ 6.0
The Enemy Within
1994★ 5.7
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006★ 6.4
Hidden in America
1996★ 5.1
Before the Storm
1991★ 0.0
Don't Drink the Water
1994★ 5.5
Letter to My Killer
1995★ 6.0
Bridge to Silence
1989★ 6.5
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
2000★ 5.8
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976★ 6.0
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985★ 6.4
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1994★ 6.2
The Henderson Monster
1980★ 4.0
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999★ 4.2
Hide in Plain Sight
1980★ 5.3
Forced March
1989★ 6.5
The Betty Ford Story
1987★ 0.0
Enemies
1974★ 0.0
A Special Friendship
1987★ 0.0
When Will I Be Loved?
1990★ 0.0
Too Far to Go
1979★ 2.0
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
1990★ 0.0
Searching for Paradise
2002★ 4.0
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
1972★ 0.0