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Josef Sommer
ActingBORN: 1934-06-26Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
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.
Top Filmography
6.4
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006 // MOVIE
7.4
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 // MOVIE
6.3
The Other Guys
2010 // MOVIE
7.9
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 // TV
7.3
Patch Adams
1998 // MOVIE
7.4
Dirty Harry
1971 // MOVIE
6.8
The Family Man
2000 // MOVIE
6.4
The Sum of All Fears
2002 // MOVIE
7.1
Witness
1985 // MOVIE
6.0
The Invasion
2007 // MOVIE
7.0
Strange Days
1995 // MOVIE
6.0
Shaft
2000 // MOVIE
6.6
The Mighty Ducks
1992 // MOVIE
7.3
Sophie's Choice
1982 // MOVIE
7.3
Law & Order
1990 // TV