Personal info
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 6/26/1934 (age 92)
- Birthplace
- Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
- Gender
- Male
- Also known as
- M. Josef Sommer, Josef Somer, جوزف سومر
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.
12 titles
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006
The President
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
Larry Butler
The Other Guys
2010
District Attorney Radford (uncredited)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999TV
Patrick Rumsey
Patch Adams
1998
Dr. Eaton
Dirty Harry
1971
Rothko
The Family Man
2000
Peter Lassiter
The Sum of All Fears
2002
Senator Jessup
Witness
1985
Schaeffer
The Invasion
2007
Dr. Henryk Belicec
Strange Days
1995
Palmer Strickland
Shaft
2000
Curt Flemming
