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