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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 26, 1934
Place of Birth
Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Also Known As
- M. Josef Sommer
- Josef Somer
- جوزف سومر
Josef Sommer
1.4 Popularity
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.
Known For
6.3
District Attorney Radford (uncredited)
The Other Guys
2010
6.1
Senator Orton Worrell
Stop-Loss
2008
6.0
Dr. Henryk Belicec
The Invasion
2007
6.4
The President
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006
5.6
Bill Hunt
The Elephant King
2006
7.2
Peter Ducek
Without a Trace
2002
4.0
Carl Greenslate
Searching for Paradise
2002
6.4
Senator Jessup
The Sum of All Fears
2002
7.6
Spencer Durning
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
6.8
Peter Lassiter
The Family Man
2000
Credits
The Other Guys
as District Attorney Radford (uncredited)
2010
6.3
Stop-Loss
as Senator Orton Worrell
2008
6.1
The Invasion
as Dr. Henryk Belicec
2007
6.0
X-Men: The Last Stand
as The President
2006
6.4
The Elephant King
as Bill Hunt
2006
5.6
Without a Trace
as Peter Ducek
2002
7.2
Searching for Paradise
as Carl Greenslate
2002
4.0
The Sum of All Fears
as Senator Jessup
2002
6.4
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Spencer Durning
2001
7.6
The Family Man
as Peter Lassiter
2000
6.8
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
as Woodrow Wilson
2000
5.8
Shaft
as Curt Flemming
2000
6.0
The Next Best Thing
as Richard Whittaker
2000
5.3
The West Wing
as Steve Gaines
1999
8.2
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Patrick Rumsey
1999
7.9
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
1999
4.7
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999
4.2
Providence
as Thomas Wheelock
1999
6.5
Patch Adams
as Dr. Eaton
1998
7.3
Bulworth
as Doctor (uncredited)
1998
6.3
The Proposition
as Dryer
1998
6.1
Ally McBeal
as Henry Thompson
1997
6.6
Hidden in America
as Edward Millerton
1996
5.1
Mistrial
as Nick Mirsky
1996
5.1
The Chamber
as Phelps Bowen
1996
6.0
Early Edition
as John Dobbs
1996
7.3
Strange Days
as Palmer Strickland
1995
7.0
Moonlight and Valentino
as Thomas Trager
1995
5.5
Letter to My Killer
1995
6.0
Kansas
as Joseph 'Joe' Farley
1995
5.0
Nobody's Fool
as Clive Peoples Jr.
1994
6.8
Don't Drink the Water
as Ambassador Magee
1994
5.5
The Enemy Within
as Defence Secretary Charles Potter
1994
5.7
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
as Col. Morrow
1994
6.2
Malice
as Atty. Lester Adams
1993
6.3
An American Story
as Henry Meade
1992
5.8
The Mighty Ducks
as Mr. Ducksworth
1992
6.6
Hostages
as Tom Sutherland
1992
5.9
Citizen Cohn
as Albert Cohn
1992
6.0
Shadows and Fog
as Priest
1991
6.7
A Woman Named Jackie
as Joseph Kennedy Sr.
1991
9.2
Before the Storm
as Stewart Merriman
1991
0.0
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Under Cover
as Stewart Merriman
1991
6.0
Under Cover
as Stewart Merriman
1991
0.0
When Will I Be Loved?
as Martin Ransil
1990
0.0
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
as Polonius
1990
0.0
Law & Order
as Defense Attorney Patrick Rumsey
1990
7.4
Law & Order
as Judge Lawrence Hellman
1990
7.4
The Kennedys of Massachusetts
as Franklin D. Roosevelt
1990
7.2
Money, Power, Murder.
as Jack Finley
1989
3.8
Bloodhounds of Broadway
as Waldo Winchester
1989
5.6
Forced March
as Richard Kline
1989
6.5
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
as Charles Estiman
1989
6.5
Bridge to Silence
as Al Duffield
1989
6.5
Chances Are
as Judge Fenwick
1989
6.6
Dracula's Widow
as Lannon
1988
4.3
Hothouse
as Dr. Sam Garrison
1988
5.0
The Rosary Murders
as Lieutenant Koznicki
1987
5.5
A Special Friendship
as General Winder
1987
0.0
The Betty Ford Story
as President Gerald Ford
1987
0.0
Double Image
as James Angleton
1986
5.9
The Execution of Raymond Graham
as Jim Neal
1985
6.4
Target
as Barney Taber
1985
5.9
The Equalizer
as Ernest Rasher
1985
7.1
D.A.R.Y.L.
as Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
1985
6.4
Brotherly Love
as Mr. Rafferty
1985
7.0
Witness
as Chief Paul Schaeffer
1985
7.1
Iceman
as Whitman
1984
6.2
Silkwood
as Max Richter
1983
6.9
Saigon: Year of the Cat
as Jack Ockham
1983
4.6
Sparkling Cyanide
as George Barton
1983
5.8
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
6.4
Independence Day
as Sam Taylor
1983
5.5
Sophie's Choice
as Narrator (voice)
1982
7.3
Still of the Night
as George Bynum
1982
5.7
Hanky Panky
as Adrian Pruitt
1982
5.3
Reds
as State Department Official
1981
6.9
Absence of Malice
as McAdam
1981
6.6
Rollover
as Roy Lefcourt
1981
5.1
The Henderson Monster
as Dr. Martin Grossman
1980
4.0
Hide in Plain Sight
as Jason R. Reid
1980
5.3
Doctor Franken
as Mr. Parker
1980
2.0
Too Far to Go
as Henry Mills
1979
2.0
The Scarlet Letter
as Nathaniel Hawthorne
1979
4.1
Oliver's Story
as Dr. Dienhart
1978
4.6
Mourning Becomes Electra
as Ezra Mannon
1978
3.3
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Larry Butler
1977
7.4
The Andros Targets
as Benson Fisher
1977
5.0
The Front
as Committee Chairman
1976
7.0
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
as Pomeroy
1976
6.0
Valley Forge
1975
0.0
The Stepford Wives
as Ted Van Sant
1975
6.7
Man on a Swing
as Pete Russell
1974
5.8
Enemies
as Nikolai
1974
0.0
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
as Proctor
1972
0.0
Dirty Harry
as Rothko
1971
7.4
Great Performances
as Nikolai
1971
5.8
Great Performances
as Polonius
1971
5.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Brig. Gen. Varnum
1951
8.6