Josef Sommer
Acting
Born June 26, 1934 · 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.
Filmography50+ titles
A Woman Named Jackie
The West Wing
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Bridge to Silence
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Dirty Harry
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Without a Trace
Patch Adams
Law & Order
Sophie's Choice
Witness
Strange Days
The Front
Nobody's Fool
Silkwood
Reds
The Family Man
Shadows and Fog
The Stepford Wives
The Mighty Ducks
Forced March
Chances Are
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Absence of Malice
Ally McBeal
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
X-Men: The Last Stand
The Sum of All Fears
An American Story
D.A.R.Y.L.
The Other Guys
Bulworth
Malice
Iceman
Stop-Loss
Hostages
Great Performances
The Invasion
Shaft
The Chamber
Target
Sparkling Cyanide
Man on a Swing
The Enemy Within
Still of the Night
Moonlight and Valentino
The Rosary Murders
Hidden in America
Mistrial