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.
★7.4
MOVIE1977
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Larry Butler
★6.4
MOVIE2002
The Sum of All Fears
as Senator Jessup
★7.1
MOVIE1985
Witness
as Schaeffer
★6.3
MOVIE2010
The Other Guys
as District Attorney Radford (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE2007
The Invasion
as Dr. Henryk Belicec
★6.8
MOVIE2000
The Family Man
as Peter Lassiter
★7.3
MOVIE1998
Patch Adams
as Dr. Eaton
★7.5
MOVIE1971
Dirty Harry
as Rothko
★6.3
MOVIE1998
Bulworth
as Doctor (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1992
The Mighty Ducks
as Mr. Ducksworth
★6.2
MOVIE1984
Iceman
as Whitman
★7.0
MOVIE1995
Strange Days
as Palmer Strickland
★7.0
MOVIE1975
Valley Forge
as Brig. Gen. Varnum
★7.3
MOVIE1982
Sophie's Choice
as Narrator (voice)
★6.0
MOVIE2000
Shaft
as Curt Flemming
★5.9
MOVIE1974
Man on a Swing
as Pete Russell
★6.7
MOVIE1975
The Stepford Wives
as Ted Van Sant
★5.4
MOVIE1986
Double Image
as James Angleton
★6.1
MOVIE2008
Stop-Loss
as Senator Orton Worrell
★6.3
MOVIE1993
Malice
as Atty. Lester Adams
★6.9
MOVIE1994
Nobody's Fool
as Clive Peoples Jr.
★6.6
MOVIE1989
Chances Are
as Judge Fenwick
★6.4
MOVIE1985
D.A.R.Y.L.
as Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
★5.3
MOVIE1996
Mistrial
as Nick Mirsky
★5.9
MOVIE1983
Sparkling Cyanide
as George Barton
★6.6
MOVIE1981
Absence of Malice
as McAdam
★5.6
MOVIE1987
The Rosary Murders
as Lieutenant Koznicki
★5.3
MOVIE2000
The Next Best Thing
as Richard Whittaker
★6.9
MOVIE1983
Silkwood
as Max Richter
★6.0
MOVIE1996
The Chamber
as Phelps Bowen
★5.1
MOVIE1996
Hidden in America
as Edward Millerton
★5.7
MOVIE1989
Bloodhounds of Broadway
as Waldo Winchester
★5.6
MOVIE1995
Moonlight and Valentino
as Thomas Trager
★9.0
MOVIE1991
Before the Storm
as Stewart Merriman
★6.7
MOVIE1991
Shadows and Fog
as Priest
★6.9
MOVIE1981
Reds
as State Department Official
★5.7
MOVIE1982
Still of the Night
as George Bynum
★5.3
MOVIE1982
Hanky Panky
as Adrian Pruitt
★6.1
MOVIE1998
The Proposition
as Dryer
★6.3
MOVIE1994
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
as Col. Morrow
★7.3
MOVIE1985
Brotherly Love
as Mr. Rafferty
★7.0
MOVIE1976
The Front
as Committee Chairman
★5.9
MOVIE2006
The Elephant King
as Bill Hunt
★6.4
MOVIE1992
An American Story
as Henry Meade
★5.9
MOVIE1985
Target
as Barney Taber
★6.0
MOVIE1980
The Henderson Monster
as Dr. Martin Grossman
★6.6
MOVIE1989
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
as Charles Estiman
★4.6
MOVIE1988
Dracula's Widow
as Lannon
★7.7
MOVIE1989
Bridge to Silence
as Al Duffield
★6.3
MOVIE1992
Citizen Cohn
as Albert Cohn
★5.4
MOVIE1989
Money, Power, Murder.
as Jack Finley
★4.7
MOVIE1999
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
★5.8
MOVIE1994
The Enemy Within
as Defence Secretary Charles Potter
★5.7
MOVIE1980
Hide in Plain Sight
as Jason R. Reid
★6.5
MOVIE1995
Letter to My Killer
★5.6
MOVIE1994
Don't Drink the Water
as Ambassador Magee
★3.5
MOVIE1979
Too Far to Go
as Henry Mills
★5.2
MOVIE1981
Rollover
as Roy Lefcourt
★5.3
MOVIE1983
Saigon: Year of the Cat
as Jack Ockham
★5.9
MOVIE1983
Independence Day
as Sam Taylor
★4.8
MOVIE1978
Oliver's Story
as Dr. Dienhart
★6.0
MOVIE1980
Doctor Franken
as Mr. Parker
MOVIE1987
The Betty Ford Story
as President Gerald Ford
★9.0
MOVIE1990
When Will I Be Loved?
as Martin Ransil
★8.0
MOVIE1991
Under Cover
as Stewart Merriman
MOVIE1974
Enemies
as Nikolai
★5.8
MOVIE2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
as Woodrow Wilson
★9.0
MOVIE1987
A Special Friendship
as General Winder
★5.5
MOVIE1995
Kansas
as Joseph 'Joe' Farley
★6.1
MOVIE1992
Hostages
as Tom Sutherland
★6.6
MOVIE1989
Forced March
as Richard Kline
★6.4
MOVIE2006
X-Men: The Last Stand
as The President
★6.6
MOVIE1985
The Execution of Raymond Graham
as Jim Neal
★7.5
MOVIE1976
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
as Pomeroy
★6.0
MOVIE2002
Searching for Paradise
as Carl Greenslate
★10.0
MOVIE1972
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
as Proctor
MOVIE1990
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
as Polonius