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
Top 40 Movies
The Enemy Within
1994
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1994
The Chamber
1996
Stop-Loss
2008
The Stepford Wives
1975
The Invasion
2007
The Mighty Ducks
1992
Hide in Plain Sight
1980
Enemies
1974
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
1989
The Sum of All Fears
2002
Dirty Harry
1971
Witness
1985
The Family Man
2000
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
Reds
1981
The Next Best Thing
2000
Strange Days
1995
Patch Adams
1998
Sophie's Choice
1982
The Other Guys
2010
Shaft
2000
Silkwood
1983
The Betty Ford Story
1987
Malice
1993
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985
Hidden in America
1996
Chances Are
1989
Nobody's Fool
1994
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999
A Special Friendship
1987
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
1990
Citizen Cohn
1992
Hanky Panky
1982
The Front
1976
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989
D.A.R.Y.L.
1985
Too Far to Go
1979
Iceman
1984
Moonlight and Valentino
1995