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

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

1994

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

1993

Malice as Atty. Lester Adams

1992

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

1991

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

1990

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

1989

Chances Are as Judge Fenwick
Bloodhounds of Broadway as Waldo Winchester
Money, Power, Murder. as Jack Finley
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

1988

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

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

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

1984

Iceman as Whitman

1983

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

1982

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

1981

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

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

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

1977

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

1976

The Adams Chronicles as Charles Lee
The Front as Committee Chairman
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys as Pomeroy

1975

The Stepford Wives as Ted Van Sant
Valley Forge as Brig. Gen. Varnum

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