Josef Sommer

Known for ActingBorn 1934-06-26 (age 91)Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope

Before the Storm

When Will I Be Loved?

A Special Friendship

A Woman Named Jackie

The West Wing

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Under Cover

The Kennedys of Massachusetts

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Bridge to Silence

Under Cover

Hothouse

Patch Adams

Without a Trace

Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys

Early Edition

Law & Order

Brotherly Love

Dirty Harry

The Adams Chronicles

Sophie's Choice

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Screen Two

The Equalizer

Strange Days

Witness

Nobody's Fool

The Family Man

Silkwood

The Andros Targets

The Front

Valley Forge

Reds

Providence

Shadows and Fog

Chances Are

Ally McBeal

The Mighty Ducks

Forced March

X-Men: The Last Stand

The Execution of Raymond Graham

Letter to My Killer

The Stepford Wives

The Other Guys

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Absence of Malice