Josef Sommer
77 movies · 23 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jun 26, 1934 (age 92)
- Place of birth
- Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
- Also known as
- M. Josef Sommer · Josef Somer · جوزف سومر
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.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 6.4 X-Men: The Last Stand
2006 · Film
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★ 7.4 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 · Film
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★ 6.3 The Other Guys
2010 · Film
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★ 8.0 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · TV
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★ 7.3 Patch Adams
1998 · Film
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★ 7.5 Dirty Harry
1971 · Film
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★ 6.8 The Family Man
2000 · Film
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★ 6.4 The Sum of All Fears
2002 · Film
Josef Sommer: movies and TV shows
Acting (100)
- 2010 The Other Guys
as District Attorney Radford (uncredited)
- 2008 Stop-Loss
as Senator Orton Worrell
- 2007 The Invasion
as Dr. Henryk Belicec
- 2006 X-Men: The Last Stand
as The President
- 2006 The Elephant King
as Bill Hunt
- 2002
- 2002 Searching for Paradise
as Carl Greenslate
- 2002 The Sum of All Fears
as Senator Jessup
- 2001
- 2000 The Family Man
as Peter Lassiter
- 2000 The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
as Woodrow Wilson
- 2000 Shaft
as Curt Flemming
- 2000 The Next Best Thing
as Richard Whittaker
- 1999
- 1999
- 1999
- 1999
- 1999
- 1998 Patch Adams
as Dr. Eaton
- 1998 Bulworth
as Doctor (uncredited)
- 1998 The Proposition
as Dryer
- 1997
- 1996 Hidden in America
as Edward Millerton
- 1996 Mistrial
as Nick Mirsky
- 1996 The Chamber
as Phelps Bowen
- 1996
- 1995 Strange Days
as Palmer Strickland
- 1995 Moonlight and Valentino
as Thomas Trager
- 1995
- 1995 Kansas
as Joseph 'Joe' Farley
- 1994 Nobody's Fool
as Clive Peoples Jr.
- 1994 Don't Drink the Water
as Ambassador Magee
- 1994 The Enemy Within
as Defence Secretary Charles Potter
- 1994
- 1993 Malice
as Atty. Lester Adams
- 1992 An American Story
as Henry Meade
- 1992 The Mighty Ducks
as Mr. Ducksworth
- 1992 Hostages
as Tom Sutherland
- 1992 Citizen Cohn
as Albert Cohn
- 1991 Shadows and Fog
as Priest
- 1991
- 1991 Before the Storm
as Stewart Merriman
- 1991
- 1991 Under Cover
as Stewart Merriman
- 1990 When Will I Be Loved?
as Martin Ransil
- 1990 William Shakespeare's Hamlet
as Polonius
- 1990
- 1990
- 1989 Money, Power, Murder.
as Jack Finley
- 1989 Bloodhounds of Broadway
as Waldo Winchester
- 1989 Forced March
as Richard Kline
- 1989 Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
as Charles Estiman
- 1989 Bridge to Silence
as Al Duffield
- 1989 Chances Are
as Judge Fenwick
- 1988 Dracula's Widow
as Lannon
- 1988
- 1987 The Rosary Murders
as Lieutenant Koznicki
- 1987 A Special Friendship
as General Winder
- 1987 The Betty Ford Story
as President Gerald Ford
- 1986 Double Image
as James Angleton
- 1985 The Execution of Raymond Graham
as Jim Neal
- 1985 Target
as Barney Taber
- 1985
- 1985 D.A.R.Y.L.
as Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
- 1985 Brotherly Love
as Mr. Rafferty
- 1985 Witness
as Schaeffer
- 1985
- 1984 Iceman
as Whitman
- 1983 Silkwood
as Max Richter
- 1983 Saigon: Year of the Cat
as Jack Ockham
- 1983 Sparkling Cyanide
as George Barton
- 1983
- 1983 Independence Day
as Sam Taylor
- 1982 Sophie's Choice
as Narrator (voice)
- 1982 Still of the Night
as George Bynum
- 1982 Hanky Panky
as Adrian Pruitt
- 1982
- 1981 Reds
as State Department Official
- 1981 Absence of Malice
as McAdam
- 1981 Rollover
as Roy Lefcourt
- 1980 The Henderson Monster
as Dr. Martin Grossman
- 1980 Hide in Plain Sight
as Jason R. Reid
- 1980 Doctor Franken
as Mr. Parker
- 1979 Too Far to Go
as Henry Mills
- 1979
- 1978 Oliver's Story
as Dr. Dienhart
- 1978
- 1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Larry Butler
- 1977
- 1976 The Front
as Committee Chairman
- 1976 Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
as Pomeroy
- 1976
- 1975 Valley Forge
as Brig. Gen. Varnum
- 1975 The Stepford Wives
as Ted Van Sant
- 1974 Man on a Swing
as Pete Russell
- 1974 Enemies
as Nikolai
- 1972
- 1971 Dirty Harry
as Rothko
- 1971
- 1951