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
7.452
Chances Are
6.589
Malice
6.262
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
7.345
The Next Best Thing
5.255
Patch Adams
7.313
The Mighty Ducks
6.557
Don't Drink the Water
5.488
The Invasion
6.031
Sparkling Cyanide
6.1
Nobody's Fool
6.847
The Chamber
6
Stop-Loss
6.116
Witness
7.1
The Elephant King
5.647
Silkwood
6.932
X-Men: The Last Stand
6.413
D.A.R.Y.L.
6.413
Double Image
5.9
Bulworth
6.301
Rollover
5.1
Hide in Plain Sight
5.3
Absence of Malice
6.626
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
4.3
Too Far to Go
2
The Execution of Raymond Graham
6.4
The Front
7
Money, Power, Murder.
3.8
Oliver's Story
4.648
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
6.995
Shadows and Fog
6.721
When Will I Be Loved?
0
Still of the Night
5.673
Mistrial
5.1
The Enemy Within
5.7
Under Cover
0
Before the Storm
0
Saigon: Year of the Cat
4.6
The Sum of All Fears
6.359
Hanky Panky
5.3
Brotherly Love
7
Hostages
5.9
Iceman
6.18
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
6.2
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
6.018
Sophie's Choice
7.332
Reds
6.873
Citizen Cohn
6.022
Doctor Franken
2
Moonlight and Valentino
5.513
The Family Man
6.803
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
6
The Stepford Wives
6.683
Target
5.894
The Rosary Murders
5.5
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
0
Hidden in America
5.1
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
4.2
The Other Guys
6.3