Josef Sommer

Born

June 26, 1934 (91 years old)

Known For

Acting

Place of Birth

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.

Known For

6.4

Patch Adams

The Other Guys

District Attorney Radford (uncredited)

6.3

2010

Stop-Loss

Senator Orton Worrell

6.1

2008

The Invasion

Dr. Henryk Belicec

6.0

2007

X-Men: The Last Stand

The President

6.4

2006

The Elephant King

Bill Hunt

5.9

2006

Without a Trace

Peter Ducek · (1 episode)

7.2

2002

Searching for Paradise

Carl Greenslate

4.0

2002

The Sum of All Fears

Senator Jessup

6.4

2002

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Spencer Durning · (1 episode)

7.6

2001

The Family Man

Peter Lassiter

6.8

2000

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change

Woodrow Wilson

5.7

2000

Shaft

Curt Flemming

6.0

2000

The Next Best Thing

Richard Whittaker

5.3

2000

The West Wing

Steve Gaines · (1 episode)

8.3

1999

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Patrick Rumsey · (1 episode)

7.9

1999

The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer

4.2

1999

The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer

(2 episodes)

4.7

1999

Providence

Thomas Wheelock · (1 episode)

6.5

1999

Patch Adams

Dr. Eaton

7.3

1998

Bulworth

Doctor (uncredited)

6.3

1998

Ally McBeal

Henry Thompson · (1 episode)

6.6

1997

Hidden in America

Edward Millerton

5.1

1996

Mistrial

Nick Mirsky

5.0

1996

The Chamber

Phelps Bowen

6.0

1996

Early Edition

John Dobbs · (2 episodes)

7.3

1996

Strange Days

Palmer Strickland

7.0

1995

Moonlight and Valentino

Thomas Trager

5.6

1995

Letter to My Killer

6.0

1995

Kansas

Joseph 'Joe' Farley

5.0

1995

Nobody's Fool

Clive Peoples Jr.

6.9

1994

Don't Drink the Water

Ambassador Magee

5.5

1994

The Enemy Within

Defence Secretary Charles Potter

5.7

1994

Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker

Col. Morrow

6.2

1994

Malice

Atty. Lester Adams

6.3

1993

An American Story

Henry Meade

5.8

1992

The Mighty Ducks

Mr. Ducksworth

6.5

1992

Hostages

Tom Sutherland

5.9

1992

Citizen Cohn

Albert Cohn

6.3

1992

Shadows and Fog

Priest

6.7

1991

A Woman Named Jackie

Joseph Kennedy Sr. · (3 episodes)

9.2

1991

Before the Storm

Stewart Merriman

0.0

1991

Under Cover

Stewart Merriman · (14 episodes)

6.0

1991

Under Cover

Stewart Merriman

0.0

1991

When Will I Be Loved?

Martin Ransil

0.0

1990

William Shakespeare's Hamlet

Polonius

0.0

1990

Law & Order

Defense Attorney Patrick Rumsey · (1 episode)

7.4

1990

Law & Order

Judge Lawrence Hellman · (1 episode)

7.4

1990

The Kennedys of Massachusetts

Franklin D. Roosevelt · (3 episodes)

7.2

1990

Money, Power, Murder.

Jack Finley

3.8

1989

Bloodhounds of Broadway

Waldo Winchester

5.6

1989

Forced March

Richard Kline

6.5

1989

Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman

Charles Estiman

6.5

1989

Bridge to Silence

Al Duffield

6.5

1989

Chances Are

Judge Fenwick

6.6

1989

Dracula's Widow

Lannon

4.4

1988

Hothouse

Dr. Sam Garrison · (7 episodes)

5.0

1988

The Rosary Murders

Lieutenant Koznicki

5.5

1987

A Special Friendship

General Winder

0.0

1987

The Betty Ford Story

President Gerald Ford

0.0

1987

Double Image

James Angleton

5.9

1986

The Execution of Raymond Graham

Jim Neal

6.4

1985

Target

Barney Taber

5.9

1985

The Equalizer

Ernest Rasher · (1 episode)

7.2

1985

D.A.R.Y.L.

Dr. Jeffrey Stewart

6.4

1985

Brotherly Love

Mr. Rafferty

7.0

1985

Witness

Chief Paul Schaeffer

7.1

1985

Iceman

Whitman

6.1

1984

Silkwood

Max Richter

7.0

1983

Saigon: Year Of The Cat

Jack Ockham

4.6

1983

Sparkling Cyanide

George Barton

6.1

1983

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

(1 episode)

6.3

1983

Independence Day

Sam Taylor

5.5

1983

Sophie's Choice

Narrator (voice)

7.3

1982

Still of the Night

George Bynum

5.7

1982

Hanky Panky

Adrian Pruitt

5.3

1982

Reds

State Department Official

6.9

1981

Absence of Malice

McAdam

6.6

1981

Rollover

Roy Lefcourt

5.1

1981

The Henderson Monster

Dr. Martin Grossman

4.0

1980

Hide in Plain Sight

Jason R. Reid

5.3

1980

Doctor Franken

Mr. Parker

2.0

1980

Too Far to Go

Henry Mills

1.0

1979

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne · (4 episodes)

4.7

1979

Oliver's Story

Dr. Dienhart

4.8

1978

Mourning Becomes Electra

Ezra Mannon · (5 episodes)

4.5

1978

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Larry Butler

7.3

1977

The Andros Targets

Benson Fisher · (1 episode)

5.0

1977

The Front

Committee Chairman

7.0

1976

Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys

Pomeroy

6.0

1976

Valley Forge

0.0

1975

The Stepford Wives

Ted Van Sant

6.7

1975

Man on a Swing

Pete Russell

5.8

1974

Enemies

Nikolai

0.0

1974

The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope

Proctor

0.0

1972

Dirty Harry

Rothko

7.4

1971

Great Performances

Nikolai · (1 episode)

5.3

1971

Great Performances

Polonius · (1 episode)

5.3

1971

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Brig. Gen. Varnum · (1 episode)

8.6

1951