Josef Sommer
Birthday
1934/06/26 (90 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Also know 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.
Acting
(1971) Dirty Harry
as Rothko
(1989) Chances Are
as Judge Fenwick
(1993) Malice
as Atty. Lester Adams
(1977) Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Larry Butler
(2000) The Next Best Thing
as Richard Whittaker
(1998) Patch Adams
as Dr. Eaton
(1992) The Mighty Ducks
as Mr. Ducksworth
(1994) Don't Drink the Water
as Ambassador Magee
(2007) The Invasion
as Dr. Henryk Belicec
(1983) Sparkling Cyanide
as George Barton
(1994) Nobody's Fool
as Clive Peoples Jr.
(1996) The Chamber
as Phelps Bowen
(2008) Stop-Loss
as Senator Orton Worrell
(1985) Witness
as Chief Paul Schaeffer
(2006) The Elephant King
as Bill Hunt
(1983) Silkwood
as Max Richter
(2006) X-Men: The Last Stand
as The President
(1985) D.A.R.Y.L.
as Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
(1986) Double Image
as James Angleton
(1998) Bulworth
as Doctor (uncredited)
(1981) Rollover
as Roy Lefcourt
(1980) Hide in Plain Sight
as Jason R. Reid
(1981) Absence of Malice
as McAdam
(1989) Bloodhounds of Broadway
as Waldo Winchester
(1989) Bridge to Silence
as Al Duffield
(1989) Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
as Charles Estiman
(1992) An American Story
as Henry Meade
(1988) Dracula's Widow
as Lannon
(1979) Too Far to Go
as Henry Mills
(1985) The Execution of Raymond Graham
as Jim Neal
(1976) The Front
as Committee Chairman
(1989) Money, Power, Murder.
as Jack Finley
(1978) Oliver's Story
as Dr. Dienhart
(1980) The Henderson Monster
as Dr. Martin Grossman
(1974) Man on a Swing
as Pete Russell
(2002) Searching for Paradise
as Carl Greenslate
(1983) Independence Day
as Sam Taylor
(1974) Enemies
as Nikolai
(1989) Forced March
as Richard Kline
(1987) The Betty Ford Story
as President Gerald Ford
(1995) Strange Days
as Palmer Strickland
(1991) Shadows and Fog
as Priest
(1990) When Will I Be Loved?
as Martin Ransil
(1982) Still of the Night
as George Bynum
(1996) Mistrial
as Nick Mirsky
(1994) The Enemy Within
as Defence Secretary Charles Potter
(1991) Under Cover
as Stewart Merriman
(1991) Before the Storm
as Stewart Merriman
(1983) Saigon: Year Of The Cat
as Jack Ockham
(2002) The Sum of All Fears
as Senator Jessup
(1982) Hanky Panky
as Adrian Pruitt
(1985) Brotherly Love
as Mr. Rafferty
(1992) Hostages
as Tom Sutherland
(1984) Iceman
as Whitman
(1994) Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
as Col. Morrow
(1995) Kansas
as Joseph 'Joe' Farley
(1972) The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
as Proctor
(1987) A Special Friendship
as General Winder
(2000) The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
as Woodrow Wilson
(1995) Letter to My Killer
as ---
(1975) Valley Forge
as ---
(2000) Shaft
as Curt Flemming
(1982) Sophie's Choice
as Narrator (voice)
(1981) Reds
as State Department Official
(1992) Citizen Cohn
as Albert Cohn
(1980) Doctor Franken
as Mr. Parker
(1995) Moonlight and Valentino
as Thomas Trager
(2000) The Family Man
as Peter Lassiter
(1976) Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
as Pomeroy
(1975) The Stepford Wives
as Ted Van Sant
(1985) Target
as Barney Taber
(1987) The Rosary Murders
as Lieutenant Koznicki
(1990) William Shakespeare's Hamlet
as Polonius
(1996) Hidden in America
as Edward Millerton
(1999) The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
as ---
(2010) The Other Guys
as District Attorney Radford (uncredited)
(1997) Ally McBeal
as Henry Thompson
(1999) Providence
as Thomas Wheelock
(1996) Early Edition
as ---
(1999) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Patrick Rumsey
(1983) Scarecrow and Mrs. King
as ---
(2002) Without a Trace
as Peter Ducek
(1985) The Equalizer
as Ernest Rasher
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Brig. Gen. Varnum
(1991) Under Cover
as Stewart Merriman
(1991) A Woman Named Jackie
as Joseph Kennedy Sr.
(1977) The Andros Targets
as Benson Fisher
(1988) Hothouse
as Dr. Sam Garrison
(1990) The Kennedys of Massachusetts
as Franklin D. Roosevelt
(1999) The West Wing
as Steve Gaines
(1990) Law & Order
as Defense Attorney Patrick Rumsey
(1979) The Scarlet Letter
as Nathaniel Hawthorne
(1978) Mourning Becomes Electra
as Ezra Mannon
(1990) Law & Order
as Judge Lawrence Hellman
(2001) Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Spencer Durning
(1999) The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
as ---
(1971) Great Performances
as Nikolai
(1971) Great Performances
as Polonius