Josef Sommer
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.
Filmography
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
1972 · 10.0
Before the Storm
1991 · 9.0
A Special Friendship
1987 · 9.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · 8.8
A Woman Named Jackie
1991 · 8.8
The West Wing
1999 · 8.3
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · 8.0
The Kennedys of Massachusetts
1990 · 7.8
Bridge to Silence
1989 · 7.7
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 · 7.6
Under Cover
1991 · 7.5
Hothouse
1988 · 7.5
Dirty Harry
1971 · 7.5
The Adams Chronicles
1976 · 7.4
Early Edition
1996 · 7.4
Patch Adams
1998 · 7.3
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 · 7.3
Sophie's Choice
1982 · 7.3
Law & Order
1990 · 7.3
Without a Trace
2002 · 7.2
The Equalizer
1985 · 7.2
Screen Two
1985 · 7.1
The Front
1976 · 7.1
Witness
1985 · 7.1
Strange Days
1995 · 7.0
The Andros Targets
1977 · 7.0
Valley Forge
1975 · 7.0
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976 · 7.0
Silkwood
1983 · 6.9
Reds
1981 · 6.9
Nobody's Fool
1994 · 6.9
The Family Man
2000 · 6.8
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983 · 6.7
Providence
1999 · 6.7
The Stepford Wives
1975 · 6.7
Shadows and Fog
1991 · 6.7
Chances Are
1989 · 6.6
American Playhouse
1982 · 6.6
The Mighty Ducks
1992 · 6.6
Absence of Malice
1981 · 6.6
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
1989 · 6.6
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985 · 6.6
Forced March
1989 · 6.6
Ally McBeal
1997 · 6.5
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006 · 6.4
D.A.R.Y.L.
1985 · 6.4
The Sum of All Fears
2002 · 6.4
The Other Guys
2010 · 6.3
Malice
1993 · 6.3
Bulworth
1998 · 6.3
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1994 · 6.3
Citizen Cohn
1992 · 6.3
Iceman
1984 · 6.2
Stop-Loss
2008 · 6.1
Great Performances
1971 · 6.1
The Invasion
2007 · 6.1
Shaft
2000 · 6.0
Sparkling Cyanide
1983 · 6.0
The Henderson Monster
1980 · 6.0
Doctor Franken
1980 · 6.0
Searching for Paradise
2002 · 6.0
The Chamber
1996 · 5.9
Man on a Swing
1974 · 5.9
The Proposition
1998 · 5.9
Target
1985 · 5.9
The Elephant King
2006 · 5.9
Independence Day
1983 · 5.9
The Enemy Within
1994 · 5.8
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
2000 · 5.8
Still of the Night
1982 · 5.7
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989 · 5.7
Hide in Plain Sight
1980 · 5.7
The Rosary Murders
1987 · 5.7
Moonlight and Valentino
1995 · 5.6
Don't Drink the Water
1994 · 5.6
Kansas
1995 · 5.5
Double Image
1986 · 5.4
Money, Power, Murder.
1989 · 5.4
Mistrial
1996 · 5.4
Saigon: Year of the Cat
1983 · 5.3
The Next Best Thing
2000 · 5.2
Hanky Panky
1982 · 5.2
Rollover
1981 · 5.1
Hidden in America
1996 · 5.1
Mourning Becomes Electra
1978 · 5.0
Oliver's Story
1978 · 4.8
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999 · 4.8
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
1999 · 4.7
Dracula's Widow
1988 · 4.6
The Scarlet Letter
1979 · 4.5
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
1990 · 0.0
Enemies
1974 · 0.0