Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 26, 1934 (age 92)
Place of Birth
Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Also Known As
- M. Josef Sommer
- Josef Somer
- جوزف 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 - Movies
Dirty Harry
as Rothko
The Other Guys
as District Attorney Radford (uncredited)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Larry Butler
The Family Man
as Peter Lassiter
Strange Days
as Palmer Strickland
Shaft
as Curt Flemming
The Sum of All Fears
as Senator Jessup
Witness
as Schaeffer
The Invasion
as Dr. Henryk Belicec
Patch Adams
as Dr. Eaton
Known For - TV Shows
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Patrick Rumsey
Law & Order
as Defense Attorney Patrick Rumsey
Law & Order
as Judge Lawrence Hellman
The West Wing
as Steve Gaines
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Spencer Durning
Without a Trace
as Peter Ducek
Great Performances
as Nikolai
Great Performances
as Polonius
Early Edition
as John Dobbs
Providence
as Thomas Wheelock