Josef Sommer
Born: 1934-06-26
• 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
The Other Guys
Stop-Loss
The Invasion
X-Men: The Last Stand
The Elephant King
Searching for Paradise
The Sum of All Fears
The Family Man
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
Shaft
The Next Best Thing
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
Patch Adams
Bulworth
The Proposition
Hidden in America
Mistrial
The Chamber
Strange Days
Moonlight and Valentino
Letter to My Killer
Kansas
Nobody's Fool
Don't Drink the Water
The Enemy Within
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Malice
An American Story
The Mighty Ducks
Hostages
Citizen Cohn
Shadows and Fog
Before the Storm
Under Cover
When Will I Be Loved?
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Money, Power, Murder.
Bloodhounds of Broadway
Forced March
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
Bridge to Silence
Chances Are
Dracula's Widow
The Rosary Murders
A Special Friendship
The Betty Ford Story
Double Image
The Execution of Raymond Graham
Target
D.A.R.Y.L.
Brotherly Love
Witness
Iceman
Silkwood
Saigon: Year of the Cat
Sparkling Cyanide
Independence Day
Sophie's Choice
Still of the Night
Hanky Panky
Reds
Absence of Malice
Rollover
The Henderson Monster
Hide in Plain Sight
Doctor Franken
Too Far to Go
Oliver's Story
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Front
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Valley Forge
The Stepford Wives
Man on a Swing
Enemies
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
Dirty Harry