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
7.443
Chances Are
6.6
Malice
6.3
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
7.346
The Next Best Thing
5.3
Patch Adams
7.3
The Mighty Ducks
6.547
Don't Drink the Water
5.537
The Invasion
6.026
Sparkling Cyanide
6.1
Nobody's Fool
6.9
The Chamber
6
Stop-Loss
6.127
Witness
7.1
The Elephant King
5.9
Silkwood
7
X-Men: The Last Stand
6.408
D.A.R.Y.L.
6.41
Double Image
5.7
Bulworth
6.313
Rollover
5.1
Hide in Plain Sight
5.281
Absence of Malice
6.628
Bloodhounds of Broadway
5.6
Bridge to Silence
6.5
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
6.5
An American Story
5.8
Dracula's Widow
4.421
Too Far to Go
1
The Execution of Raymond Graham
6.444
The Front
7
Money, Power, Murder.
3.833
Oliver's Story
4.8
The Henderson Monster
4
Man on a Swing
5.8
Searching for Paradise
4
Independence Day
5.5
Enemies
0
Forced March
6.5
The Betty Ford Story
0
Strange Days
7.006
Shadows and Fog
6.7
When Will I Be Loved?
0
Still of the Night
5.719
Mistrial
5
The Enemy Within
5.7
Under Cover
0
Before the Storm
0
Saigon: Year Of The Cat
4.6
The Sum of All Fears
6.358
Hanky Panky
5.294
Brotherly Love
7
Hostages
5.889
Iceman
6.1
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
6.154
Kansas
5
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
0
A Special Friendship
0
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
5.7
Letter to My Killer
6
Valley Forge
0
Shaft
6.02
Sophie's Choice
7.3
Reds
6.886
Citizen Cohn
6.25
Doctor Franken
2
Moonlight and Valentino
5.6
The Family Man
6.8
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
6
The Stepford Wives
6.7
Target
5.9
The Rosary Murders
5.53
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
0
Hidden in America
5.438
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
4.75
The Other Guys
6.31