Josef Sommer
Actor
Born June 26, 1934 in Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
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.
Filmography
The Other Guys
District Attorney Radford (uncredited)
Stop-Loss
Senator Orton Worrell
The Invasion
Dr. Henryk Belicec
X-Men: The Last Stand
The President
The Elephant King
Bill Hunt
Without a Trace
Peter Ducek
Searching for Paradise
Carl Greenslate
The Sum of All Fears
Senator Jessup
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Spencer Durning
The Family Man
Peter Lassiter
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
Woodrow Wilson
Shaft
Curt Flemming
The Next Best Thing
Richard Whittaker
The West Wing
Steve Gaines
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Patrick Rumsey
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
Providence
Thomas Wheelock
Patch Adams
Dr. Eaton
Bulworth
Doctor (uncredited)
The Proposition
Dryer
Ally McBeal
Henry Thompson
Hidden in America
Edward Millerton
Mistrial
Nick Mirsky
The Chamber
Phelps Bowen
Early Edition
John Dobbs
Strange Days
Palmer Strickland
Moonlight and Valentino
Thomas Trager
Letter to My Killer
Kansas
Joseph 'Joe' Farley
Nobody's Fool
Clive Peoples Jr.
Don't Drink the Water
Ambassador Magee
The Enemy Within
Defence Secretary Charles Potter
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Col. Morrow
Malice
Atty. Lester Adams
An American Story
Henry Meade
The Mighty Ducks
Mr. Ducksworth
Hostages
Tom Sutherland
Citizen Cohn
Albert Cohn
Shadows and Fog
Priest
A Woman Named Jackie
Joseph Kennedy Sr.
Before the Storm
Stewart Merriman
Under Cover
Stewart Merriman
When Will I Be Loved?
Martin Ransil
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Polonius
Law & Order
Defense Attorney Patrick Rumsey
The Kennedys of Massachusetts
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Money, Power, Murder.
Jack Finley
Bloodhounds of Broadway
Waldo Winchester
Forced March
Richard Kline
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
Charles Estiman
Bridge to Silence
Al Duffield
Chances Are
Judge Fenwick
Dracula's Widow
Lannon
Hothouse
Dr. Sam Garrison
The Rosary Murders
Lieutenant Koznicki
A Special Friendship
General Winder
The Betty Ford Story
President Gerald Ford
Double Image
James Angleton
The Execution of Raymond Graham
Jim Neal
Target
Barney Taber
The Equalizer
Ernest Rasher
D.A.R.Y.L.
Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
Brotherly Love
Mr. Rafferty
Witness
Schaeffer
Screen Two
James Angleton
Iceman
Whitman
Silkwood
Max Richter
Saigon: Year of the Cat
Jack Ockham
Sparkling Cyanide
George Barton
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Independence Day
Sam Taylor
Sophie's Choice
Narrator (voice)
Still of the Night
George Bynum
Hanky Panky
Adrian Pruitt
American Playhouse
Doc
Reds
State Department Official
Absence of Malice
McAdam
Rollover
Roy Lefcourt
The Henderson Monster
Dr. Martin Grossman
Hide in Plain Sight
Jason R. Reid
Doctor Franken
Mr. Parker
Too Far to Go
Henry Mills
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Oliver's Story
Dr. Dienhart
Mourning Becomes Electra
Ezra Mannon
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Larry Butler
The Andros Targets
Benson Fisher
The Front
Committee Chairman
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Pomeroy
The Adams Chronicles
Charles Lee
Valley Forge
Brig. Gen. Varnum
The Stepford Wives
Ted Van Sant
Man on a Swing
Pete Russell
Enemies
Nikolai
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
Proctor
Dirty Harry
Rothko
Great Performances
Nikolai
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Brig. Gen. Varnum