Actor
Josef Sommer
92 years · Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany · 77 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 77
The Other Guys
2010 · District Attorney Radford (uncredited)
On Netflix
Stop-Loss
2008 · Senator Orton Worrell
The Invasion
2007 · Dr. Henryk Belicec
On YouTube Free
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006 · The President
On Disney Plus
The Elephant King
2006 · Bill Hunt
On fuboTV
Searching for Paradise
2002 · Carl Greenslate
The Sum of All Fears
2002 · Senator Jessup
On Kanopy
The Family Man
2000 · Peter Lassiter
On Hulu
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
2000 · Woodrow Wilson
On fuboTV
Shaft
2000 · Curt Flemming
On Kanopy
The Next Best Thing
2000 · Richard Whittaker
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999 · Actor
Patch Adams
1998 · Dr. Eaton
Bulworth
1998 · Doctor (uncredited)
The Proposition
1998 · Dryer
Hidden in America
1996 · Edward Millerton
Mistrial
1996 · Nick Mirsky
The Chamber
1996 · Phelps Bowen
Strange Days
1995 · Palmer Strickland
On Hulu
Moonlight and Valentino
1995 · Thomas Trager
Letter to My Killer
1995 · Actor
Kansas
1995 · Joseph 'Joe' Farley
Nobody's Fool
1994 · Clive Peoples Jr.
On Philo
Don't Drink the Water
1994 · Ambassador Magee