Josef Sommer
Acting
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.
As actor 100
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Law & Order
1990
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
The West Wing
1999
Without a Trace
2002
Great Performances
1971
American Playhouse
1982
Screen Two
1985
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
Early Edition
1996
The Equalizer
1985
Ally McBeal
1997
Providence
1999
The Other Guys
2010
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
The Invasion
2007
The Sum of All Fears
2002
The Family Man
2000
Dirty Harry
1971
Patch Adams
1998
Witness
1985
Shaft
2000
Strange Days
1995
The Adams Chronicles
1976
Malice
1993
The Mighty Ducks
1992
Sophie's Choice
1982
The Andros Targets
1977
Stop-Loss
2008
D.A.R.Y.L.
1985
Chances Are
1989
Bulworth
1998
Shadows and Fog
1991
The Proposition
1998
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Nobody's Fool
1994
Hanky Panky
1982
Target
1985
The Stepford Wives
1975
Absence of Malice
1981
The Chamber
1996
Silkwood
1983
Reds
1981
Iceman
1984
Hothouse
1988
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
2000
Doctor Franken
1980
A Woman Named Jackie
1991
The Front
1976
Valley Forge
1975
The Next Best Thing
2000
Sparkling Cyanide
1983
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
1999
Under Cover
1991
Double Image
1986
The Kennedys of Massachusetts
1990
Still of the Night
1982
Mistrial
1996
The Enemy Within
1994
Oliver's Story
1978
The Scarlet Letter
1979
Man on a Swing
1974
The Rosary Murders
1987
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989
Mourning Becomes Electra
1978
Rollover
1981
Moonlight and Valentino
1995
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
1989
Citizen Cohn
1992
Dracula's Widow
1988
Don't Drink the Water
1994
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1994
The Elephant King
2006
Too Far to Go
1979
Money, Power, Murder.
1989
Hidden in America
1996
An American Story
1992
The Henderson Monster
1980
Brotherly Love
1985
Enemies
1974
Saigon: Year of the Cat
1983
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
1990
A Special Friendship
1987
Bridge to Silence
1989
Hide in Plain Sight
1980
Before the Storm
1991
Independence Day
1983
Letter to My Killer
1995
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999
Under Cover
1991
Forced March
1989
The Betty Ford Story
1987
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976
Kansas
1995
When Will I Be Loved?
1990
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
1972
Hostages
1992
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006
Searching for Paradise
2002