Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
6/26/1934
Place of Birth
Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Also Known As
M. Josef SommerJosef Somerجوزف سومر
Josef Sommer
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
Reds
as State Department Official
The Family Man
as Peter Lassiter
Shaft
as Curt Flemming
The Other Guys
as District Attorney Radford (uncredited)
Witness
as Chief Paul Schaeffer
Forced March
as Richard Kline
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Larry Butler
Target
as Barney Taber
Malice
as Atty. Lester Adams
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
as Col. Morrow
The Chamber
as Phelps Bowen
The Sum of All Fears
as Senator Jessup
Patch Adams
as Dr. Eaton
The Invasion
as Dr. Henryk Belicec
Dirty Harry
as Rothko
Valley Forge
Unknown Role
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
as Charles Estiman
The Proposition
as Dryer
Kansas
as Joseph 'Joe' Farley
Rollover
as Roy Lefcourt