Josef Sommer
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.
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Birthday
6/26/1934
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
7.4
Dirty Harry
7.5
The Next Best Thing
5.3
Malice
6.2
Patch Adams
7.3
The Mighty Ducks
6.5
Don't Drink the Water
5.5
Chances Are
6.6
The Invasion
6
Sparkling Cyanide
6
The Chamber
6
Nobody's Fool
6.8
Stop-Loss
6.1
Witness
7.1
Silkwood
6.9
The Elephant King
5.7
X-Men: The Last Stand
6.4
D.A.R.Y.L.
6.4
Double Image
5.6
Rollover
5.1
Hide in Plain Sight
5.3
Absence of Malice
6.6
Bloodhounds of Broadway
5.7
Bridge to Silence
6
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
6.8
An American Story
5.7
Too Far to Go
1
The Execution of Raymond Graham
6.6
Oliver's Story
4.5
The Henderson Monster
0
Independence Day
5.6
Forced March
6
The Betty Ford Story
0
Strange Days
7
Shadows and Fog
6.8
Still of the Night
5.7
Mistrial
4.8
The Enemy Within
5.6
Dracula's Widow
4.6
Saigon: Year Of The Cat
4.8
The Sum of All Fears
6.3
Hanky Panky
5.3
Brotherly Love
7
Hostages
6.6
Iceman
6.1
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
6.4
Kansas
5
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
0
A Special Friendship
0
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
5.7
Valley Forge
0
Letter to My Killer
6
Shaft
6
Sophie's Choice
7.3
Reds
6.9
Citizen Cohn
6.3
Doctor Franken
2
Moonlight and Valentino
5.7
The Family Man
6.8
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
6
The Stepford Wives
6.7
Target
5.8
The Rosary Murders
5.4
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
0
Hidden in America
5.9
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
5.3
Money, Power, Murder.
5.2
The Front
6.9
Man on a Swing
5.8
Searching for Paradise
0
Enemies
0
When Will I Be Loved?
0
Bulworth
6.3