🎭 Actor
Josef Sommer
🎂 Born 26 June 1934 (age 92)📍 Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
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Popularity Score
77
Acting Credits
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
Full Filmography(77 films)
YearTitleRating
1977Close Encounters of the Third Kind★ 7.42002The Sum of All Fears★ 6.42010The Other Guys★ 6.31971Dirty Harry★ 7.52000The Family Man★ 6.81995Strange Days★ 7.01998Patch Adams★ 7.32007The Invasion★ 6.02000Shaft★ 6.01985Witness★ 7.11982Sophie's Choice★ 7.31989Chances Are★ 6.61996The Chamber★ 6.01985D.A.R.Y.L.★ 6.42008Stop-Loss★ 6.11993Malice★ 6.31983Silkwood★ 6.91994Nobody's Fool★ 6.91975The Stepford Wives★ 6.71991Shadows and Fog★ 6.71992The Mighty Ducks★ 6.61981Absence of Malice★ 6.61981Reds★ 6.91998Bulworth★ 6.31984Iceman★ 6.21982Hanky Panky★ 5.31976The Front★ 7.02000The Next Best Thing★ 5.21982Still of the Night★ 5.71998The Proposition★ 6.01994The Enemy Within★ 5.81995Moonlight and Valentino★ 5.61983Sparkling Cyanide★ 5.91992Citizen Cohn★ 6.31981Rollover★ 5.21987The Rosary Murders★ 5.61996Mistrial★ 5.31985Target★ 5.91988Dracula's Widow★ 4.61975Valley Forge★ 7.01989Money, Power, Murder.★ 5.41974Man on a Swing★ 5.91978Oliver's Story★ 4.81989Bloodhounds of Broadway★ 5.71989Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman★ 6.51991Under Cover★ 8.01994Don't Drink the Water★ 5.61996Hidden in America★ 5.41979Too Far to Go★ 3.51985Brotherly Love★ 7.31983Independence Day★ 5.92000The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change★ 5.81992Hostages★ 6.11986Double Image★ 5.42006X-Men: The Last Stand★ 6.42006The Elephant King★ 5.91983Saigon: Year of the Cat★ 5.31980Hide in Plain Sight★ 5.71985The Execution of Raymond Graham★ 6.61980Doctor Franken★ 6.01995Letter to My Killer★ 6.51992An American Story★ 6.41995Kansas★ 5.51994Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker★ 6.31990When Will I Be Loved?★ 9.01989Forced March★ 6.61991Before the Storm★ 9.01989Bridge to Silence★ 7.71999The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer★ 4.71987The Betty Ford Story—1980The Henderson Monster★ 6.01974Enemies—2002Searching for Paradise★ 6.01976Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys★ 7.51990William Shakespeare's Hamlet—1987A Special Friendship★ 9.01972The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope★ 10.0