Josef Sommer

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

98

Gender

Male

Birthday

1934-06-26 (90 years old)

Place of Birth

Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Also Known As

  • M. Josef Sommer
  • Josef Somer
  • جوزف سومر

Josef Sommer

Biography

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

X-Men: The Last Stand
6.4%

X-Men: The Last Stand

May 24, 2006

The Other Guys
6.3%

The Other Guys

Aug 6, 2010

Patch Adams
7.3%

Patch Adams

Dec 25, 1998

Dirty Harry
7.4%

Dirty Harry

Dec 23, 1971

The Family Man
6.8%

The Family Man

Dec 12, 2000

The Sum of All Fears
6.4%

The Sum of All Fears

May 31, 2002

Witness
7.1%

Witness

Feb 8, 1985

The Invasion
6.0%

The Invasion

Aug 17, 2007

Strange Days
7.0%

Strange Days

Oct 13, 1995

Shaft
6.0%

Shaft

Jun 15, 2000

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Acting

2010
The Other Guys as District Attorney Radford (uncredited)
2008
Stop-Loss as Senator Orton Worrell
2007
The Invasion as Dr. Henryk Belicec
2006
X-Men: The Last Stand as The President
2006
The Elephant King as Bill Hunt
2002
Without a Trace as Peter Ducek
2002
Searching for Paradise as Carl Greenslate
2002
The Sum of All Fears as Senator Jessup
2001
Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Spencer Durning
2000
The Family Man as Peter Lassiter
2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change as Woodrow Wilson
2000
Shaft as Curt Flemming
2000
The Next Best Thing as Richard Whittaker
1999
The West Wing as Steve Gaines
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Patrick Rumsey
1999
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
1999
Providence as Thomas Wheelock
1998
Patch Adams as Dr. Eaton
1998
Bulworth as Doctor (uncredited)
1997
Ally McBeal as Henry Thompson
1996
Hidden in America as Edward Millerton
1996
Mistrial as Nick Mirsky
1996
The Chamber as Phelps Bowen
1996
Early Edition
1995
Strange Days as Palmer Strickland
1995
Moonlight and Valentino as Thomas Trager
1995
Letter to My Killer
1995
Kansas as Joseph 'Joe' Farley
1994
Nobody's Fool as Clive Peoples Jr.
1994
Don't Drink the Water as Ambassador Magee
1994
The Enemy Within as Defence Secretary Charles Potter
1994
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker as Col. Morrow
1993
Malice as Atty. Lester Adams
1992
An American Story as Henry Meade
1992
The Mighty Ducks as Mr. Ducksworth
1992
Hostages as Tom Sutherland
1992
Citizen Cohn as Albert Cohn
1991
Shadows and Fog as Priest
1991
A Woman Named Jackie as Joseph Kennedy Sr.
1991
Before the Storm as Stewart Merriman
1991
Under Cover as Stewart Merriman
1991
Under Cover as Stewart Merriman
1990
When Will I Be Loved? as Martin Ransil
1990
William Shakespeare's Hamlet as Polonius
1990
Law & Order as Defense Attorney Patrick Rumsey
1990
Law & Order as Judge Lawrence Hellman
1990
The Kennedys of Massachusetts as Franklin D. Roosevelt
1989
Money, Power, Murder. as Jack Finley
1989
Bloodhounds of Broadway as Waldo Winchester
1989
Forced March as Richard Kline
1989
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman as Charles Estiman
1989
Bridge to Silence as Al Duffield
1989
Chances Are as Judge Fenwick
1988
Dracula's Widow as Lannon
1988
Hothouse as Dr. Sam Garrison
1987
The Rosary Murders as Lieutenant Koznicki
1987
A Special Friendship as General Winder
1987
The Betty Ford Story as President Gerald Ford
1986
Double Image as James Angleton
1985
The Execution of Raymond Graham as Jim Neal
1985
Target as Barney Taber
1985
The Equalizer as Ernest Rasher
1985
D.A.R.Y.L. as Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
1985
Brotherly Love as Mr. Rafferty
1985
Witness as Chief Paul Schaeffer
1984
Iceman as Whitman
1983
Silkwood as Max Richter
1983
Saigon: Year Of The Cat as Jack Ockham
1983
Sparkling Cyanide as George Barton
1983
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
Independence Day as Sam Taylor
1982
Sophie's Choice as Narrator (voice)
1982
Still of the Night as George Bynum
1982
Hanky Panky as Adrian Pruitt
1981
Reds as State Department Official
1981
Absence of Malice as McAdam
1981
Rollover as Roy Lefcourt
1980
The Henderson Monster as Dr. Martin Grossman
1980
Hide in Plain Sight as Jason R. Reid
1980
Doctor Franken as Mr. Parker
1979
Too Far to Go as Henry Mills
1979
The Scarlet Letter as Nathaniel Hawthorne
1978
Oliver's Story as Dr. Dienhart
1978
Mourning Becomes Electra as Ezra Mannon
1977
Close Encounters of the Third Kind as Larry Butler
1977
The Andros Targets as Benson Fisher
1976
The Front as Committee Chairman
1976
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys as Pomeroy
1975
Valley Forge
1975
The Stepford Wives as Ted Van Sant
1974
Man on a Swing as Pete Russell
1974
Enemies as Nikolai
1972
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope as Proctor
1971
Dirty Harry as Rothko
1971
Great Performances as Nikolai
1971
Great Performances as Polonius
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Brig. Gen. Varnum
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