Josef Sommer

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1934-06-26 (91 years old)

Place of Birth

Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

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.

Acting

1971

Dirty Harry

as Rothko

1989

Chances Are

as Judge Fenwick

1993

Malice

as Atty. Lester Adams

2000

The Next Best Thing

as Richard Whittaker

1998

Patch Adams

as Dr. Eaton

1992

The Mighty Ducks

as Mr. Ducksworth

1994

Don't Drink the Water

as Ambassador Magee

2007

The Invasion

as Dr. Henryk Belicec

1983

Sparkling Cyanide

as George Barton

1994

Nobody's Fool

as Clive Peoples Jr.

1996

The Chamber

as Phelps Bowen

2008

Stop-Loss

as Senator Orton Worrell

1985

Witness

as Chief Paul Schaeffer

2006

The Elephant King

as Bill Hunt

1983

Silkwood

as Max Richter

2006

X-Men: The Last Stand

as The President

1985

D.A.R.Y.L.

as Dr. Jeffrey Stewart

1986

Double Image

as James Angleton

1998

Bulworth

as Doctor (uncredited)

1981

Rollover

as Roy Lefcourt

1980

Hide in Plain Sight

as Jason R. Reid

1981

1989

Bloodhounds of Broadway

as Waldo Winchester

1989

Bridge to Silence

as Al Duffield

1992

An American Story

as Henry Meade

1988

1979

Too Far to Go

as Henry Mills

1976

The Front

as Committee Chairman

1989

Money, Power, Murder.

as Jack Finley

1978

Oliver's Story

as Dr. Dienhart

1980

The Henderson Monster

as Dr. Martin Grossman

1974

Man on a Swing

as Pete Russell

2002

Searching for Paradise

as Carl Greenslate

1983

Independence Day

as Sam Taylor

1974

Enemies

as Nikolai

1989

Forced March

as Richard Kline

1987

The Betty Ford Story

as President Gerald Ford

1995

Strange Days

as Palmer Strickland

1991

1990

When Will I Be Loved?

as Martin Ransil

1982

Still of the Night

as George Bynum

1996

Mistrial

as Nick Mirsky

1994

The Enemy Within

as Defence Secretary Charles Potter

1991

Under Cover

as Stewart Merriman

1991

Before the Storm

as Stewart Merriman

1983

2002

The Sum of All Fears

as Senator Jessup

1982

Hanky Panky

as Adrian Pruitt

1985

Brotherly Love

as Mr. Rafferty

1992

Hostages

as Tom Sutherland

1984

Iceman

as Whitman

1995

Kansas

as Joseph 'Joe' Farley

1987

A Special Friendship

as General Winder

2000

Shaft

as Curt Flemming

1982

Sophie's Choice

as Narrator (voice)

1981

Reds

as State Department Official

1992

Citizen Cohn

as Albert Cohn

1980

Doctor Franken

as Mr. Parker

1995

Moonlight and Valentino

as Thomas Trager

2000

The Family Man

as Peter Lassiter

1975

The Stepford Wives

as Ted Van Sant

1985

Target

as Barney Taber

1987

The Rosary Murders

as Lieutenant Koznicki

1996

Hidden in America

as Edward Millerton

2010

The Other Guys

as District Attorney Radford (uncredited)

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