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Josef Sommer
Acting
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.
BODY OF WORK
Josef Sommer's Filmography
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The Other Guys
as District Attorney Radford (uncredited)
Stop-Loss
as Senator Orton Worrell
The Invasion
as Dr. Henryk Belicec
X-Men: The Last Stand
as The President
The Elephant King
as Bill Hunt
Searching for Paradise
as Carl Greenslate
The Sum of All Fears
as Senator Jessup
The Family Man
as Peter Lassiter
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
as Woodrow Wilson
Shaft
as Curt Flemming
The Next Best Thing
as Richard Whittaker
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
Patch Adams
as Dr. Eaton
Bulworth
as Doctor (uncredited)
The Proposition
as Dryer
Hidden in America
as Edward Millerton
Mistrial
as Nick Mirsky
The Chamber
as Phelps Bowen
Strange Days
as Palmer Strickland
Moonlight and Valentino
as Thomas Trager
Letter to My Killer
Kansas
as Joseph 'Joe' Farley
Nobody's Fool
as Clive Peoples Jr.
Don't Drink the Water
as Ambassador Magee
The Enemy Within
as Defence Secretary Charles Potter
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
as Col. Morrow
Malice
as Atty. Lester Adams
An American Story
as Henry Meade
The Mighty Ducks
as Mr. Ducksworth
Hostages
as Tom Sutherland
Citizen Cohn
as Albert Cohn
Shadows and Fog
as Priest
Before the Storm
as Stewart Merriman
Under Cover
as Stewart Merriman
When Will I Be Loved?
as Martin Ransil
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
as Polonius
Money, Power, Murder.
as Jack Finley
Bloodhounds of Broadway
as Waldo Winchester
Forced March
as Richard Kline
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
as Charles Estiman
Bridge to Silence
as Al Duffield
Chances Are
as Judge Fenwick
Dracula's Widow
as Lannon
The Rosary Murders
as Lieutenant Koznicki
A Special Friendship
as General Winder
The Betty Ford Story
as President Gerald Ford
Double Image
as James Angleton
The Execution of Raymond Graham
as Jim Neal
Target
as Barney Taber
D.A.R.Y.L.
as Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
Brotherly Love
as Mr. Rafferty
Witness
as Schaeffer
Iceman
as Whitman
Silkwood
as Max Richter
Saigon: Year of the Cat
as Jack Ockham
Sparkling Cyanide
as George Barton
Independence Day
as Sam Taylor
Sophie's Choice
as Narrator (voice)
Still of the Night
as George Bynum
Hanky Panky
as Adrian Pruitt
Reds
as State Department Official
Absence of Malice
as McAdam
Rollover
as Roy Lefcourt
The Henderson Monster
as Dr. Martin Grossman
Hide in Plain Sight
as Jason R. Reid
Doctor Franken
as Mr. Parker
Too Far to Go
as Henry Mills
Oliver's Story
as Dr. Dienhart
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Larry Butler
The Front
as Committee Chairman
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
as Pomeroy
Valley Forge
as Brig. Gen. Varnum
The Stepford Wives
as Ted Van Sant
Man on a Swing
as Pete Russell
Enemies
as Nikolai
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
as Proctor
Dirty Harry
as Rothko