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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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, 1934-06-26

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1971	Dirty Harry	Rothko	74
2	1972	The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope	Proctor	0
3	1974	Enemies	Nikolai	0
4	1974	Man on a Swing	Pete Russell	58
5	1975	The Stepford Wives	Ted Van Sant	67
6	1975	Valley Forge		0
7	1976	Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys	Pomeroy	60
8	1976	The Front	Committee Chairman	70
9	1977	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Larry Butler	73
10	1978	Oliver's Story	Dr. Dienhart	48
11	1979	Too Far to Go	Henry Mills	10
12	1980	Doctor Franken	Mr. Parker	20
13	1980	Hide in Plain Sight	Jason R. Reid	53
14	1980	The Henderson Monster	Dr. Martin Grossman	40
15	1981	Rollover	Roy Lefcourt	51
16	1981	Absence of Malice	McAdam	66
17	1981	Reds	State Department Official	69
18	1982	Hanky Panky	Adrian Pruitt	53
19	1982	Still of the Night	George Bynum	57
20	1982	Sophie's Choice	Narrator (voice)	73
21	1983	Independence Day	Sam Taylor	55
22	1983	Sparkling Cyanide	George Barton	61
23	1983	Saigon: Year Of The Cat	Jack Ockham	46
24	1983	Silkwood	Max Richter	70
25	1984	Iceman	Whitman	61
26	1985	Witness	Chief Paul Schaeffer	71
27	1985	Brotherly Love	Mr. Rafferty	70
28	1985	D.A.R.Y.L.	Dr. Jeffrey Stewart	64
29	1985	Target	Barney Taber	59
30	1985	The Execution of Raymond Graham	Jim Neal	64
31	1986	Double Image	James Angleton	59
32	1987	The Betty Ford Story	President Gerald Ford	0
33	1987	A Special Friendship	General Winder	0
34	1987	The Rosary Murders	Lieutenant Koznicki	55
35	1988	Dracula's Widow	Lannon	44
36	1989	Chances Are	Judge Fenwick	66
37	1989	Bridge to Silence	Al Duffield	65
38	1989	Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman	Charles Estiman	65
39	1989	Bloodhounds of Broadway	Waldo Winchester	56
40	1989	Forced March	Richard Kline	65
41	1989	Money, Power, Murder.	Jack Finley	38
42	1990	William Shakespeare's Hamlet	Polonius	0
43	1990	When Will I Be Loved?	Martin Ransil	0
44	1991	Under Cover	Stewart Merriman	0
45	1991	Before the Storm	Stewart Merriman	0
46	1991	Shadows and Fog	Priest	67
47	1992	Citizen Cohn	Albert Cohn	63
48	1992	Hostages	Tom Sutherland	59
49	1992	The Mighty Ducks	Mr. Ducksworth	65
50	1992	An American Story	Henry Meade	58
51	1993	Malice	Atty. Lester Adams	63
52	1994	Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker	Col. Morrow	62
53	1994	The Enemy Within	Defence Secretary Charles Potter	57
54	1994	Don't Drink the Water	Ambassador Magee	55
55	1994	Nobody's Fool	Clive Peoples Jr.	69
56	1995	Kansas	Joseph 'Joe' Farley	50
57	1995	Letter to My Killer		60
58	1995	Moonlight and Valentino	Thomas Trager	56
59	1995	Strange Days	Palmer Strickland	70
60	1996	The Chamber	Phelps Bowen	60
61	1996	Mistrial	Nick Mirsky	50
62	1996	Hidden in America	Edward Millerton	51
63	1998	Bulworth	Doctor (uncredited)	63
64	1998	Patch Adams	Dr. Eaton	73
65	1999	The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer		42
66	2000	The Next Best Thing	Richard Whittaker	53
67	2000	Shaft	Curt Flemming	60
68	2000	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change	Woodrow Wilson	57
69	2000	The Family Man	Peter Lassiter	68
70	2002	The Sum of All Fears	Senator Jessup	64
71	2002	Searching for Paradise	Carl Greenslate	40
72	2006	The Elephant King	Bill Hunt	59
73	2006	X-Men: The Last Stand	The President	64
74	2007	The Invasion	Dr. Henryk Belicec	60
75	2008	Stop-Loss	Senator Orton Worrell	61
76	2010	The Other Guys	District Attorney Radford (uncredited)	63

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Brig. Gen. Varnum	86
2	1971	Great Performances	Nikolai	53
3	1971	Great Performances	Polonius	53
4	1977	The Andros Targets	Benson Fisher	50
5	1978	Mourning Becomes Electra	Ezra Mannon	45
6	1979	The Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne	47
7	1983	Scarecrow and Mrs. King		63
8	1985	The Equalizer	Ernest Rasher	72
9	1988	Hothouse	Dr. Sam Garrison	50
10	1990	The Kennedys of Massachusetts	Franklin D. Roosevelt	72
11	1990	Law & Order	Defense Attorney Patrick Rumsey	74
12	1990	Law & Order	Judge Lawrence Hellman	74
13	1991	Under Cover	Stewart Merriman	60
14	1991	A Woman Named Jackie	Joseph Kennedy Sr.	92
15	1996	Early Edition	John Dobbs	73
16	1997	Ally McBeal	Henry Thompson	66
17	1999	Providence	Thomas Wheelock	65
18	1999	The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer		47
19	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Patrick Rumsey	79
20	1999	The West Wing	Steve Gaines	83
21	2001	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Spencer Durning	76
22	2002	Without a Trace	Peter Ducek	72