Josef Sommer
Acting

Josef Sommer

Born 26 June 1934 · Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
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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

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