Josef Sommer

Actor Jun 26 (age 91) Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany 1951–2010 (59 year career)

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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 i…

Known For

Film

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Larry Butler

Film

Patch Adams

Dr. Eaton

Film

X-Men: The Last Stand

The President

Film

Dirty Harry

Rothko

Film

Witness

Schaeffer

Film

The Other Guys

District Attorney Radford (uncredited)

Film

The Family Man

Peter Lassiter

Film

Strange Days

Palmer Strickland

Filmography

Acting (97)

Movies (77)

The Other Guys

2010

as District Attorney Radford (uncredited)

6.3

Stop-Loss

2008

as Senator Orton Worrell

6.1

The Invasion

2007

as Dr. Henryk Belicec

6.0

The Elephant King

2006

as Bill Hunt

5.6

X-Men: The Last Stand

as The President

The Sum of All Fears

as Senator Jessup

Searching for Paradise

as Carl Greenslate

The Family Man

as Peter Lassiter

Shaft

as Curt Flemming

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change

as Woodrow Wilson

The Next Best Thing

as Richard Whittaker

The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer

Patch Adams

as Dr. Eaton

Bulworth

as Doctor (uncredited)

The Proposition

as Dryer

Mistrial

as Nick Mirsky

The Chamber

as Phelps Bowen

Hidden in America

as Edward Millerton

Strange Days

as Palmer Strickland

Kansas

as Joseph 'Joe' Farley

5.0

Letter to My Killer

1995

6.0

Moonlight and Valentino

as Thomas Trager

Nobody's Fool

as Clive Peoples Jr.

Don't Drink the Water

1994

as Ambassador Magee

5.5

The Enemy Within

1994

as Defence Secretary Charles Potter

5.7

Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker

1994

as Col. Morrow

6.2

Malice

1993

as Atty. Lester Adams

The Mighty Ducks

as Mr. Ducksworth

Hostages

as Tom Sutherland

An American Story

as Henry Meade

Citizen Cohn

as Albert Cohn

Shadows and Fog

as Priest

Under Cover

as Stewart Merriman

Before the Storm

1991

as Stewart Merriman

William Shakespeare's Hamlet

1990

as Polonius

When Will I Be Loved?

1990

as Martin Ransil

Chances Are

1989

as Judge Fenwick

6.6

Bloodhounds of Broadway

1989

as Waldo Winchester

5.6

Money, Power, Murder.

1989

as Jack Finley

3.8

Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman

as Charles Estiman

Bridge to Silence

as Al Duffield

Forced March

as Richard Kline

Dracula's Widow

as Lannon

The Rosary Murders

as Lieutenant Koznicki

5.5

The Betty Ford Story

1987

as President Gerald Ford

A Special Friendship

1987

as General Winder

Double Image

as James Angleton

Witness

as Schaeffer

D.A.R.Y.L.

as Dr. Jeffrey Stewart

Brotherly Love

as Mr. Rafferty

Target

as Barney Taber

The Execution of Raymond Graham

as Jim Neal

Iceman

as Whitman

Saigon: Year of the Cat

as Jack Ockham

Silkwood

as Max Richter

Independence Day

as Sam Taylor

Sparkling Cyanide

as George Barton

Sophie's Choice

as Narrator (voice)

Still of the Night

as George Bynum

Hanky Panky

as Adrian Pruitt

Reds

as State Department Official

Absence of Malice

as McAdam

Rollover

as Roy Lefcourt

Doctor Franken

as Mr. Parker

Hide in Plain Sight

as Jason R. Reid

The Henderson Monster

1980

as Dr. Martin Grossman

Too Far to Go

as Henry Mills

Oliver's Story

as Dr. Dienhart

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1977

as Larry Butler

7.4

The Front

1976

as Committee Chairman

7.0

Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys

as Pomeroy

The Stepford Wives

as Ted Van Sant

Valley Forge

Man on a Swing

as Pete Russell

Enemies

as Nikolai

The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope

1972

as Proctor

Dirty Harry

1971

as Rothko

7.4

Television (20)

Without a Trace

2002

as Peter Ducek

7.2

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

2001

as Spencer Durning

7.6

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Patrick Rumsey

The West Wing

as Steve Gaines

Providence

as Thomas Wheelock

The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer

Ally McBeal

as Henry Thompson

Early Edition

as John Dobbs

A Woman Named Jackie

as Joseph Kennedy Sr.

Under Cover

as Stewart Merriman

Law & Order

as Judge Lawrence Hellman

7.3

The Kennedys of Massachusetts

1990

as Franklin D. Roosevelt

Hothouse

as Dr. Sam Garrison

The Equalizer

as Ernest Rasher

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

1983

6.5

The Scarlet Letter

1979

as Nathaniel Hawthorne

4.1

Mourning Becomes Electra

as Ezra Mannon

The Andros Targets

as Benson Fisher

Great Performances

as Nikolai

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Brig. Gen. Varnum

8.6