Josef Sommer
Born in Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany — Jun 26 1934
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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.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Patrick Rumsey
Law & Order
Defense Attorney Patrick Rumsey
The West Wing
Steve Gaines
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Spencer Durning
Without a Trace
Peter Ducek
Great Performances
Nikolai
Early Edition
John Dobbs
The Equalizer
Ernest Rasher
Providence
Thomas Wheelock
Ally McBeal
Henry Thompson
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Strange Days
Palmer Strickland
Dirty Harry
Rothko
The Family Man
Peter Lassiter
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Larry Butler
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Brig. Gen. Varnum
The Sum of All Fears
Senator Jessup
The Invasion
Dr. Henryk Belicec
Shaft
Curt Flemming
Hothouse
Dr. Sam Garrison
The Other Guys
District Attorney Radford (uncredited)
Witness
Schaeffer
Patch Adams
Dr. Eaton
The Andros Targets
Benson Fisher
Reds
State Department Official
Sophie's Choice
Narrator (voice)
Bulworth
Doctor (uncredited)
A Woman Named Jackie
Joseph Kennedy Sr.
D.A.R.Y.L.
Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
Malice
Atty. Lester Adams
The Chamber
Phelps Bowen
The Mighty Ducks
Mr. Ducksworth
Under Cover
Stewart Merriman
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
Chances Are
Judge Fenwick
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nobody's Fool
Clive Peoples Jr.
Stop-Loss
Senator Orton Worrell
Absence of Malice
McAdam
Mistrial
Nick Mirsky
The Front
Committee Chairman
The Kennedys of Massachusetts
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Stepford Wives
Ted Van Sant
Iceman
Whitman
Silkwood
Max Richter
Hanky Panky
Adrian Pruitt
The Enemy Within
Defence Secretary Charles Potter
Shadows and Fog
Priest
Enemies
Nikolai
The Next Best Thing
Richard Whittaker
The Rosary Murders
Lieutenant Koznicki
Man on a Swing
Pete Russell
Still of the Night
George Bynum
Hidden in America
Edward Millerton
Kansas
Joseph 'Joe' Farley
The Proposition
Dryer
Mourning Becomes Electra
Ezra Mannon
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Col. Morrow
Don't Drink the Water
Ambassador Magee
Hostages
Tom Sutherland
Valley Forge
Bloodhounds of Broadway
Waldo Winchester
The Betty Ford Story
President Gerald Ford
Moonlight and Valentino
Thomas Trager
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
Woodrow Wilson
An American Story
Henry Meade
Doctor Franken
Mr. Parker
The Execution of Raymond Graham
Jim Neal
Too Far to Go
Henry Mills
Forced March
Richard Kline
Target
Barney Taber
The Henderson Monster
Dr. Martin Grossman
Oliver's Story
Dr. Dienhart
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
Charles Estiman
Citizen Cohn
Albert Cohn
Rollover
Roy Lefcourt
When Will I Be Loved?
Martin Ransil
Sparkling Cyanide
George Barton
Brotherly Love
Mr. Rafferty
Saigon: Year of the Cat
Jack Ockham
Letter to My Killer
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Polonius
Money, Power, Murder.
Jack Finley
The Elephant King
Bill Hunt
Double Image
James Angleton
Independence Day
Sam Taylor
Before the Storm
Stewart Merriman
Under Cover
Stewart Merriman
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Pomeroy
Dracula's Widow
Lannon
Hide in Plain Sight
Jason R. Reid
A Special Friendship
General Winder
Bridge to Silence
Al Duffield
Searching for Paradise
Carl Greenslate
X-Men: The Last Stand
The President
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
Proctor