Cast
Josef Sommer
Acting
Cast
Josef Sommer
Known for
Acting
Born
1934-06-26
From
Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Also known as M. Josef Sommer, Josef Somer, جوزف سومر
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.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Larry Butler
Dirty Harry
as Rothko
Chances Are
as Judge Fenwick
The Sum of All Fears
as Senator Jessup
The Other Guys
as District Attorney Radford (uncredited)
Shaft
as Curt Flemming
The Family Man
as Peter Lassiter
The Invasion
as Dr. Henryk Belicec
Witness
as Schaeffer
Patch Adams
as Dr. Eaton
Strange Days
as Palmer Strickland
Malice
as Atty. Lester Adams
The Mighty Ducks
as Mr. Ducksworth
The Front
as Committee Chairman
Bulworth
as Doctor (uncredited)
Iceman
as Whitman
The Stepford Wives
as Ted Van Sant
Stop-Loss
as Senator Orton Worrell
Sophie's Choice
as Narrator (voice)
Reds
as State Department Official
Silkwood
as Max Richter
The Chamber
as Phelps Bowen
The Next Best Thing
as Richard Whittaker
Nobody's Fool
as Clive Peoples Jr.
Absence of Malice
as McAdam
Moonlight and Valentino
as Thomas Trager
Brotherly Love
as Mr. Rafferty
Target
as Barney Taber
D.A.R.Y.L.
as Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
Hanky Panky
as Adrian Pruitt
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
as Col. Morrow
Mistrial
as Nick Mirsky
Shadows and Fog
as Priest
Sparkling Cyanide
as George Barton
Still of the Night
as George Bynum
Citizen Cohn
as Albert Cohn
Kansas
as Joseph 'Joe' Farley
Man on a Swing
as Pete Russell
The Enemy Within
as Defence Secretary Charles Potter
Don't Drink the Water
as Ambassador Magee
The Proposition
as Dryer
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
as Charles Estiman
Too Far to Go
as Henry Mills
Hidden in America
as Edward Millerton
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
as Woodrow Wilson
Independence Day
as Sam Taylor
Bloodhounds of Broadway
as Waldo Winchester
Double Image
as James Angleton
Valley Forge
as Brig. Gen. Varnum
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
The Elephant King
as Bill Hunt
Forced March
as Richard Kline
Rollover
as Roy Lefcourt
Enemies
as Nikolai
Under Cover
as Stewart Merriman
An American Story
as Henry Meade
Hide in Plain Sight
as Jason R. Reid
When Will I Be Loved?
as Martin Ransil
X-Men: The Last Stand
as The President
Money, Power, Murder.
as Jack Finley
Hostages
as Tom Sutherland
Oliver's Story
as Dr. Dienhart
Saigon: Year of the Cat
as Jack Ockham
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
as Proctor
The Rosary Murders
as Lieutenant Koznicki
The Execution of Raymond Graham
as Jim Neal
Letter to My Killer
A Special Friendship
as General Winder
Doctor Franken
as Mr. Parker
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
as Polonius
Before the Storm
as Stewart Merriman
The Betty Ford Story
as President Gerald Ford
The Henderson Monster
as Dr. Martin Grossman
Searching for Paradise
as Carl Greenslate
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
as Pomeroy
Dracula's Widow
as Lannon
Bridge to Silence
as Al Duffield