
Josef Sommer
Known for: Acting
Born: June 26, 1934
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 i…
Known for

Don't Drink the Water
1994

Double Image
1986

Dracula's Widow
1988

The Betty Ford Story
1987

Witness
1985

Money, Power, Murder.
1989

Forced March
1989

Rollover
1981

An American Story
1992

Iceman
1984

Letter to My Killer
1995

Target
1985

The Rosary Murders
1987

The Next Best Thing
2000

The Mighty Ducks
1992

Sparkling Cyanide
1983

Stop-Loss
2008

The Elephant King
2006

Too Far to Go
1979

Searching for Paradise
2002

When Will I Be Loved?
1990

The Enemy Within
1994

Saigon: Year of the Cat
1983

Doctor Franken
1980

Chances Are
1989

D.A.R.Y.L.
1985

Bridge to Silence
1989

Independence Day
1983

Still of the Night
1982

Hanky Panky
1982

Hostages
1992

A Special Friendship
1987

The Family Man
2000

The Invasion
2007

Hide in Plain Sight
1980

Absence of Malice
1981

Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
1989

The Henderson Monster
1980

Under Cover
1991

Hidden in America
1996

Malice
1993

Nobody's Fool
1994

Mistrial
1996

Before the Storm
1991

Brotherly Love
1985

Moonlight and Valentino
1995

Patch Adams
1998

Silkwood
1983

Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989

Oliver's Story
1978

Kansas
1995

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
2000

Citizen Cohn
1992

William Shakespeare's Hamlet
1990

The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999

The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985

Shaft
2000

The Proposition
1998

Enemies
1974

Strange Days
1995

Dirty Harry
1971

The Sum of All Fears
2002

Valley Forge
1975

The Chamber
1996

The Front
1976

Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1994

The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
1972

The Stepford Wives
1975

X-Men: The Last Stand
2006

Shadows and Fog
1991

Man on a Swing
1974

Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976

Sophie's Choice
1982

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977

Reds
1981

The Other Guys
2010

Ally McBeal
1997

Providence
1999

Early Edition
1996

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999

Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983

Without a Trace
2002

The Equalizer
1985

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Under Cover
1991

A Woman Named Jackie
1991

The Andros Targets
1977

The Kennedys of Massachusetts
1990

The West Wing
1999

Law & Order
1990

The Scarlet Letter
1979

Mourning Becomes Electra
1978

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001

The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
1999

Great Performances
1971

Hothouse
1988

The Adams Chronicles
1976

Screen Two
1985

Bulworth
1998