Josef Sommer
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.
99 acting credits
Acting · 99
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Law & Order
1990
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
Without a Trace
2002
The West Wing
1999
Great Performances
1971
The Equalizer
1985
Early Edition
1996
Providence
1999
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
Ally McBeal
1997
Screen Two
1985
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
The Sum of All Fears
2002
The Invasion
2007
The Other Guys
2010
Dirty Harry
1971
The Family Man
2000
Patch Adams
1998
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Shaft
2000
A Woman Named Jackie
1991
The Andros Targets
1977
Strange Days
1995
Witness
1985
Sophie's Choice
1982
Malice
1993
Nobody's Fool
1994
Reds
1981
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
1999
The Mighty Ducks
1992
The Adams Chronicles
1976
The Stepford Wives
1975
Bulworth
1998
Chances Are
1989
Silkwood
1983
Hothouse
1988
Iceman
1984
Under Cover
1991
D.A.R.Y.L.
1985
The Kennedys of Massachusetts
1990
The Scarlet Letter
1979
The Chamber
1996
Stop-Loss
2008
Mourning Becomes Electra
1978
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
1989
Absence of Malice
1981
Sparkling Cyanide
1983
The Front
1976
Shadows and Fog
1991
The Next Best Thing
2000
Still of the Night
1982
Mistrial
1996
Hanky Panky
1982
The Proposition
1998
Don't Drink the Water
1994
Target
1985
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
2000
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1994
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989
Rollover
1981
Oliver's Story
1978
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985
Citizen Cohn
1992
Moonlight and Valentino
1995
The Enemy Within
1994
Too Far to Go
1979
Hidden in America
1996
The Rosary Murders
1987
Independence Day
1983
Kansas
1995
Enemies
1974
The Betty Ford Story
1987
Man on a Swing
1974
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976
Saigon: Year of the Cat
1983
Hostages
1992
Under Cover
1991
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006
Hide in Plain Sight
1980
Doctor Franken
1980
Double Image
1986
An American Story
1992
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
1972
Bridge to Silence
1989
Brotherly Love
1985
Searching for Paradise
2002
Dracula's Widow
1988
Money, Power, Murder.
1989
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
1990
A Special Friendship
1987
Valley Forge
1975
The Elephant King
2006
When Will I Be Loved?
1990
Letter to My Killer
1995
The Henderson Monster
1980
Before the Storm
1991
Forced March
1989