Josef Sommer
ActorMaximilian 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.
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ACTOR77
The Other Guys
2010
District Attorney Radford (uncredited)
Stop-Loss
2008
Senator Orton Worrell
The Invasion
2007
Dr. Henryk Belicec
The Elephant King
2006
Bill Hunt
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006
The President
Searching for Paradise
2002
Carl Greenslate
The Sum of All Fears
2002
Senator Jessup
The Next Best Thing
2000
Richard Whittaker
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
2000
Woodrow Wilson
Shaft
2000
Curt Flemming
The Family Man
2000
Peter Lassiter
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999
Patch Adams
1998
Dr. Eaton
Bulworth
1998
Doctor (uncredited)
The Proposition
1998
Dryer
The Chamber
1996
Phelps Bowen
Mistrial
1996
Nick Mirsky
Hidden in America
1996
Edward Millerton
Strange Days
1995
Palmer Strickland
Kansas
1995
Joseph 'Joe' Farley
Letter to My Killer
1995
Moonlight and Valentino
1995
Thomas Trager
Don't Drink the Water
1994
Ambassador Magee
Nobody's Fool
1994
Clive Peoples Jr.
The Enemy Within
1994
Defence Secretary Charles Potter
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1994
Col. Morrow
Malice
1993
Atty. Lester Adams
The Mighty Ducks
1992
Mr. Ducksworth
An American Story
1992
Henry Meade
Hostages
1992
Tom Sutherland
Citizen Cohn
1992
Albert Cohn
Shadows and Fog
1991
Priest
Under Cover
1991
Stewart Merriman
Before the Storm
1991
Stewart Merriman
When Will I Be Loved?
1990
Martin Ransil
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
1990
Polonius
Chances Are
1989
Judge Fenwick
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989
Waldo Winchester
Bridge to Silence
1989
Al Duffield
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
1989
Charles Estiman
Money, Power, Murder.
1989
Jack Finley
Forced March
1989
Richard Kline
Dracula's Widow
1988
Lannon
The Betty Ford Story
1987
President Gerald Ford
A Special Friendship
1987
General Winder
The Rosary Murders
1987
Lieutenant Koznicki
Double Image
1986
James Angleton
Witness
1985
Schaeffer
D.A.R.Y.L.
1985
Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985
Jim Neal
Brotherly Love
1985
Mr. Rafferty
Target
1985
Barney Taber
Iceman
1984
Whitman
Sparkling Cyanide
1983
George Barton
Silkwood
1983
Max Richter
Independence Day
1983
Sam Taylor
Saigon: Year of the Cat
1983
Jack Ockham
Still of the Night
1982
George Bynum
Hanky Panky
1982
Adrian Pruitt
Sophie's Choice
1982
Narrator (voice)
Rollover
1981
Roy Lefcourt
Absence of Malice
1981
McAdam
Reds
1981
State Department Official
Hide in Plain Sight
1980
Jason R. Reid
The Henderson Monster
1980
Dr. Martin Grossman
Doctor Franken
1980
Mr. Parker
Too Far to Go
1979
Henry Mills
Oliver's Story
1978
Dr. Dienhart
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
Larry Butler
The Front
1976
Committee Chairman
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976
Pomeroy
Valley Forge
1975
Brig. Gen. Varnum
The Stepford Wives
1975
Ted Van Sant
Man on a Swing
1974
Pete Russell
Enemies
1974
Nikolai
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
1972
Proctor
Dirty Harry
1971
Rothko
