Acting

Josef Sommer

Born 1934-06-26 · 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.

Credits

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The Other Guys
as District Attorney Radford (uncredited)
2010
Stop-Loss
as Senator Orton Worrell
2008
The Invasion
as Dr. Henryk Belicec
2007
X-Men: The Last Stand
as The President
2006
The Elephant King
as Bill Hunt
2006
Without a Trace
as Peter Ducek
2002
Searching for Paradise
as Carl Greenslate
2002
The Sum of All Fears
as Senator Jessup
2002
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Spencer Durning
2001
The Family Man
as Peter Lassiter
2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
as Woodrow Wilson
2000
Shaft
as Curt Flemming
2000
The Next Best Thing
as Richard Whittaker
2000
The West Wing
as Steve Gaines
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Patrick Rumsey
1999
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
1999
Providence
as Thomas Wheelock
1999
Patch Adams
as Dr. Eaton
1998
Bulworth
as Doctor (uncredited)
1998
The Proposition
as Dryer
1998
Ally McBeal
as Henry Thompson
1997
Hidden in America
as Edward Millerton
1996
Mistrial
as Nick Mirsky
1996
The Chamber
as Phelps Bowen
1996
Early Edition
as John Dobbs
1996
Strange Days
as Palmer Strickland
1995
Moonlight and Valentino
as Thomas Trager
1995
Letter to My Killer
1995
Kansas
as Joseph 'Joe' Farley
1995
Nobody's Fool
as Clive Peoples Jr.
1994
Don't Drink the Water
as Ambassador Magee
1994
The Enemy Within
as Defence Secretary Charles Potter
1994
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
as Col. Morrow
1994
Malice
as Atty. Lester Adams
1993
An American Story
as Henry Meade
1992
The Mighty Ducks
as Mr. Ducksworth
1992
Hostages
as Tom Sutherland
1992
Citizen Cohn
as Albert Cohn
1992
Shadows and Fog
as Priest
1991
A Woman Named Jackie
as Joseph Kennedy Sr.
1991
Before the Storm
as Stewart Merriman
1991
Under Cover
as Stewart Merriman
1991
Under Cover
as Stewart Merriman
1991
When Will I Be Loved?
as Martin Ransil
1990
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
as Polonius
1990
Law & Order
as Defense Attorney Patrick Rumsey
1990
Law & Order
as Judge Lawrence Hellman
1990
The Kennedys of Massachusetts
as Franklin D. Roosevelt
1990
Money, Power, Murder.
as Jack Finley
1989
Bloodhounds of Broadway
as Waldo Winchester
1989
Forced March
as Richard Kline
1989
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
as Charles Estiman
1989
Bridge to Silence
as Al Duffield
1989
Chances Are
as Judge Fenwick
1989
Dracula's Widow
as Lannon
1988
Hothouse
as Dr. Sam Garrison
1988
The Rosary Murders
as Lieutenant Koznicki
1987
A Special Friendship
as General Winder
1987
The Betty Ford Story
as President Gerald Ford
1987
Double Image
as James Angleton
1986
The Execution of Raymond Graham
as Jim Neal
1985
Target
as Barney Taber
1985
The Equalizer
as Ernest Rasher
1985
D.A.R.Y.L.
as Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
1985
Brotherly Love
as Mr. Rafferty
1985
Witness
as Schaeffer
1985
Screen Two
as James Angleton
1985
Iceman
as Whitman
1984
Silkwood
as Max Richter
1983
Saigon: Year of the Cat
as Jack Ockham
1983
Sparkling Cyanide
as George Barton
1983
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
Independence Day
as Sam Taylor
1983
Sophie's Choice
as Narrator (voice)
1982
Still of the Night
as George Bynum
1982
Hanky Panky
as Adrian Pruitt
1982
American Playhouse
as Doc
1982
American Playhouse
as Waldo Winchester
1982
Reds
as State Department Official
1981