Josef Sommer

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.

Cast

Dirty Harry

Rothko

Chances Are

Judge Fenwick

Malice

Atty. Lester Adams

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Larry Butler

The Next Best Thing

Richard Whittaker

Patch Adams

Dr. Eaton

The Mighty Ducks

Mr. Ducksworth

Don't Drink the Water

Ambassador Magee

The Invasion

Dr. Henryk Belicec

Sparkling Cyanide

George Barton

Nobody's Fool

Clive Peoples Jr.

The Chamber

Phelps Bowen

Stop-Loss

Senator Orton Worrell

Witness

Chief Paul Schaeffer

The Elephant King

Bill Hunt

Silkwood

Max Richter

X-Men: The Last Stand

The President

D.A.R.Y.L.

Dr. Jeffrey Stewart

Double Image

James Angleton

Bulworth

Doctor (uncredited)

Rollover

Roy Lefcourt

Hide in Plain Sight

Jason R. Reid

Absence of Malice

McAdam

Bloodhounds of Broadway

Waldo Winchester

Bridge to Silence

Al Duffield

Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman

Charles Estiman

An American Story

Henry Meade

Dracula's Widow

Lannon

Too Far to Go

Henry Mills

The Execution of Raymond Graham

Jim Neal

The Front

Committee Chairman

Money, Power, Murder.

Jack Finley

Oliver's Story

Dr. Dienhart

The Henderson Monster

Dr. Martin Grossman

Man on a Swing

Pete Russell

Searching for Paradise

Carl Greenslate

Independence Day

Sam Taylor

Enemies

Nikolai

Forced March

Richard Kline

The Betty Ford Story

President Gerald Ford

Strange Days

Palmer Strickland

Shadows and Fog

Priest

When Will I Be Loved?

Martin Ransil

Still of the Night

George Bynum

Mistrial

Nick Mirsky

The Enemy Within

Defence Secretary Charles Potter

Under Cover

Stewart Merriman

Before the Storm

Stewart Merriman

Saigon: Year of the Cat

Jack Ockham

The Sum of All Fears

Senator Jessup

Hanky Panky

Adrian Pruitt

Brotherly Love

Mr. Rafferty

Hostages

Tom Sutherland

Iceman

Whitman

Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker

Col. Morrow

Kansas

Joseph 'Joe' Farley

The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope

Proctor

A Special Friendship

General Winder

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change

Woodrow Wilson

Letter to My Killer

Unknown

Valley Forge

Unknown

Shaft

Curt Flemming

Sophie's Choice

Narrator (voice)

Reds

State Department Official

Citizen Cohn

Albert Cohn

Doctor Franken

Mr. Parker

Moonlight and Valentino

Thomas Trager

The Family Man

Peter Lassiter

Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys

Pomeroy

The Stepford Wives

Ted Van Sant

Target

Barney Taber

The Rosary Murders

Lieutenant Koznicki

William Shakespeare's Hamlet

Polonius

Hidden in America

Edward Millerton

The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer

Unknown

The Other Guys

District Attorney Radford (uncredited)

The Proposition

Dryer