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
Acting
Place of birth
Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Birthday
26 June 1934
Dirty Harry
7.449
Chances Are
6.598
Malice
6.275
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
7.35
The Next Best Thing
5.234
Patch Adams
7.309
The Mighty Ducks
6.577
Don't Drink the Water
5.551
The Invasion
6.037
Sparkling Cyanide
5.923
Nobody's Fool
6.891
The Chamber
5.989
Stop-Loss
6.112
Witness
7.1
The Elephant King
5.889
Silkwood
6.94
X-Men: The Last Stand
6.419
D.A.R.Y.L.
6.409
Double Image
6
Bulworth
6.3
Rollover
5.221
Hide in Plain Sight
5.441
Absence of Malice
6.647
Bloodhounds of Broadway
5.667
Bridge to Silence
7.667
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
6.5
An American Story
6.357
Dracula's Widow
4.6
Too Far to Go
3.5
The Execution of Raymond Graham
6.6
The Front
7.033
Money, Power, Murder.
5.375
Oliver's Story
4.804
The Henderson Monster
6
Man on a Swing
5.944
Searching for Paradise
6
Independence Day
5.9
Enemies
0
Forced March
6.6
The Betty Ford Story
0
Strange Days
7.009
Shadows and Fog
6.741
When Will I Be Loved?
9
Still of the Night
5.697
Mistrial
5.304
The Enemy Within
5.75
Under Cover
8
Before the Storm
9
Saigon: Year of the Cat
5.333
The Sum of All Fears
6.37
Hanky Panky
5.336
Brotherly Love
7.333
Hostages
6.1
Iceman
6.214
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
6.286
Kansas
5.5
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
10
A Special Friendship
9
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
5.8
Letter to My Killer
6.5
Valley Forge
7
Shaft
6.009
Sophie's Choice
7.322
Reds
6.874
Citizen Cohn
6.25
Doctor Franken
6
Moonlight and Valentino
5.602
The Family Man
6.815
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
7.5
The Stepford Wives
6.682
Target
5.934
The Rosary Murders
5.625
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
0
Hidden in America
5.35
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
4.727
The Other Guys
6.33
The Proposition
6.171