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