Josef Sommer

Born: 1934-06-26 in Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Known For: Acting

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.

Filmography

2010

The Other Guys as District Attorney Radford (uncredited)

2008

Stop-Loss as Senator Orton Worrell

2007

The Invasion as Dr. Henryk Belicec

2006

The Elephant King as Bill Hunt
X-Men: The Last Stand as The President

2002

Without a Trace as Peter Ducek
The Sum of All Fears as Senator Jessup
Searching for Paradise as Carl Greenslate

1998

Patch Adams as Dr. Eaton
The Proposition as Dryer
Bulworth as Doctor (uncredited)

1997

Ally McBeal as Henry Thompson

1996

Early Edition as John Dobbs
The Chamber as Phelps Bowen
Mistrial as Nick Mirsky
Hidden in America as Edward Millerton

1995

Kansas as Joseph 'Joe' Farley
Strange Days as Palmer Strickland
Moonlight and Valentino as Thomas Trager
Letter to My Killer

1994

Nobody's Fool as Clive Peoples Jr.
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker as Col. Morrow
Don't Drink the Water as Ambassador Magee
The Enemy Within as Defence Secretary Charles Potter

1993

Malice as Atty. Lester Adams

1992

The Mighty Ducks as Mr. Ducksworth
Hostages as Tom Sutherland
An American Story as Henry Meade
Citizen Cohn as Albert Cohn

1991

Shadows and Fog as Priest
Under Cover as Stewart Merriman
Before the Storm as Stewart Merriman
A Woman Named Jackie as Joseph Kennedy Sr.
Under Cover as Stewart Merriman

1990

Law & Order as Defense Attorney Patrick Rumsey
William Shakespeare's Hamlet as Polonius
When Will I Be Loved? as Martin Ransil
The Kennedys of Massachusetts as Franklin D. Roosevelt

1989

Forced March as Richard Kline
Chances Are as Judge Fenwick
Money, Power, Murder. as Jack Finley
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman as Charles Estiman
Bloodhounds of Broadway as Waldo Winchester
Bridge to Silence as Al Duffield

1988

Dracula's Widow as Lannon
Hothouse as Dr. Sam Garrison

1987

The Rosary Murders as Lieutenant Koznicki
The Betty Ford Story as President Gerald Ford
A Special Friendship as General Winder

1986

Double Image as James Angleton

1985

The Equalizer as Ernest Rasher
Witness as Chief Paul Schaeffer
Target as Barney Taber
D.A.R.Y.L. as Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
Brotherly Love as Mr. Rafferty
The Execution of Raymond Graham as Jim Neal

1984

Iceman as Whitman

1983

Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Independence Day as Sam Taylor
Sparkling Cyanide as George Barton
Silkwood as Max Richter
Saigon: Year of the Cat as Jack Ockham

1982

Sophie's Choice as Narrator (voice)
Still of the Night as George Bynum
Hanky Panky as Adrian Pruitt

1981

Reds as State Department Official
Rollover as Roy Lefcourt
Absence of Malice as McAdam

1980

Doctor Franken as Mr. Parker
Hide in Plain Sight as Jason R. Reid
The Henderson Monster as Dr. Martin Grossman

1979

The Scarlet Letter as Nathaniel Hawthorne
Too Far to Go as Henry Mills

1978

Oliver's Story as Dr. Dienhart
Mourning Becomes Electra as Ezra Mannon

1977

Close Encounters of the Third Kind as Larry Butler
The Andros Targets as Benson Fisher

1976

The Front as Committee Chairman
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys as Pomeroy

1975

Valley Forge
The Stepford Wives as Ted Van Sant

1974

Man on a Swing as Pete Russell
Enemies as Nikolai

1972

The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope as Proctor

1971

Great Performances as Nikolai
Dirty Harry as Rothko

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Brig. Gen. Varnum