Josef Sommer
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday26 June 1934 (92 years old)
Place of birthGreifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Known credits100
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.
The Other Guys
2010 · District Attorney Radford (uncredited)
Stop-Loss
2008 · Senator Orton Worrell
The Invasion
2007 · Dr. Henryk Belicec
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006 · The President
The Elephant King
2006 · Bill Hunt
Without a Trace
2002 · Peter Ducek
Searching for Paradise
2002 · Carl Greenslate
The Sum of All Fears
2002 · Senator Jessup
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 · Spencer Durning
The Family Man
2000 · Peter Lassiter
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
2000 · Woodrow Wilson
Shaft
2000 · Curt Flemming
The Next Best Thing
2000 · Richard Whittaker
The West Wing
1999 · Steve Gaines
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · Patrick Rumsey
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
1999
Providence
1999 · Thomas Wheelock
Patch Adams
1998 · Dr. Eaton
Bulworth
1998 · Doctor (uncredited)
The Proposition
1998 · Dryer
Ally McBeal
1997 · Henry Thompson
Hidden in America
1996 · Edward Millerton
Mistrial
1996 · Nick Mirsky
The Chamber
1996 · Phelps Bowen
Early Edition
1996 · John Dobbs
Strange Days
1995 · Palmer Strickland
Moonlight and Valentino
1995 · Thomas Trager
Letter to My Killer
1995
Kansas
1995 · Joseph 'Joe' Farley
Nobody's Fool
1994 · Clive Peoples Jr.
Don't Drink the Water
1994 · Ambassador Magee
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
An American Story
1992 · Henry Meade
The Mighty Ducks
1992 · Mr. Ducksworth
Hostages
1992 · Tom Sutherland
Citizen Cohn
1992 · Albert Cohn
Shadows and Fog
1991 · Priest
A Woman Named Jackie
1991 · Joseph Kennedy Sr.
Before the Storm
1991 · Stewart Merriman
Under Cover
1991 · Stewart Merriman
Under Cover
1991 · Stewart Merriman
When Will I Be Loved?
1990 · Martin Ransil
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
1990 · Polonius
Law & Order
1990 · Defense Attorney Patrick Rumsey
Law & Order
1990 · Judge Lawrence Hellman
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