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
Witness
as Chief Paul Schaeffer
Shaft
as Curt Flemming
Patch Adams
as Dr. Eaton
The Family Man
as Peter Lassiter
The Sum of All Fears
as Senator Jessup
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Larry Butler
The Chamber
as Phelps Bowen
The Other Guys
as District Attorney Radford (uncredited)
The Proposition
as Dryer
Malice
as Atty. Lester Adams
The Front
as Committee Chairman
Silkwood
as Max Richter
Forced March
as Richard Kline
Sparkling Cyanide
as George Barton
Citizen Cohn
as Albert Cohn
Rollover
as Roy Lefcourt
Dirty Harry
as Rothko
Mistrial
as Nick Mirsky
The Next Best Thing
as Richard Whittaker
Shadows and Fog
as Priest