Acting
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.
Movies with Josef Sommer
The Sum of All Fears
2002
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
The Other Guys
2010
Dirty Harry
1971
The Invasion
2007
The Family Man
2000
Patch Adams
1998
Strange Days
1995
Shaft
2000
Witness
1985
Sophie's Choice
1982
Bulworth
1998
Iceman
1984
The Mighty Ducks
1992
Stop-Loss
2008
D.A.R.Y.L.
1985
Nobody's Fool
1994
Mistrial
1996
Malice
1993
Chances Are
1989
The Stepford Wives
1975
Valley Forge
1975
Silkwood
1983
The Chamber
1996
Reds
1981
The Next Best Thing
2000
Absence of Malice
1981
Shadows and Fog
1991
Still of the Night
1982
The Front
1976
The Proposition
1998
Oliver's Story
1978
Hanky Panky
1982
The Enemy Within
1994
Double Image
1986
Moonlight and Valentino
1995
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
1989
Forced March
1989
Sparkling Cyanide
1983
Before the Storm
1991
Independence Day
1983
Target
1985
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989
Brotherly Love
1985
Man on a Swing
1974
The Elephant King
2006
Too Far to Go
1979
The Rosary Murders
1987
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006
Hidden in America
1996
Letter to My Killer
1995
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985
Citizen Cohn
1992
Under Cover
1991
Hide in Plain Sight
1980
Don't Drink the Water
1994
Dracula's Widow
1988
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1994
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
2000
The Henderson Monster
1980
An American Story
1992
Saigon: Year of the Cat
1983
Doctor Franken
1980
Bridge to Silence
1989
Money, Power, Murder.
1989
Rollover
1981
When Will I Be Loved?
1990
The Betty Ford Story
1987
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999
Hostages
1992
A Special Friendship
1987
Enemies
1974
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
1990
Kansas
1995
Searching for Paradise
2002
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
1972
TV Shows with Josef Sommer
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Law & Order
1990
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
The West Wing
1999
Without a Trace
2002
Screen Two
1985
The Equalizer
1985
Great Performances
1971
Early Edition
1996
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
Providence
1999
Ally McBeal
1997
The Adams Chronicles
1976
Hothouse
1988
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
A Woman Named Jackie
1991
The Andros Targets
1977
Under Cover
1991
The Kennedys of Massachusetts
1990
The Scarlet Letter
1979
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
1999
Mourning Becomes Electra
1978