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Josef Sommerborn 1934

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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.

Credits

The Other Guys

2010

Action • Comedy • Crime

as District Attorney Radford (uncredited)

6.3(4,282)

7.6

Stop-Loss

2008

Drama • War

as Senator Orton Worrell

6.1(255)

1.6

The Invasion

2007

Horror • Mystery • Science Fiction • Thriller

as Dr. Henryk Belicec

6(1,552)

4.8

X-Men: The Last Stand

2006

Action • Adventure • Science Fiction • Thriller

as The President

6.4(9,869)

0.4

The Elephant King

2006

Drama • Romance

as Bill Hunt

5.9(15)

0.4

Searching for Paradise

2002

Drama

as Carl Greenslate

4(1)

0.3

The Sum of All Fears

2002

Action • Drama • Thriller

as Senator Jessup

6.4(1,776)

3.4

The Family Man

2000

Comedy • Drama • Fantasy • Romance

as Peter Lassiter

6.8(2,029)

4.1

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change

2000

Action • Adventure • Drama • TV Movie

as Woodrow Wilson

5.7(13)

0.3

Shaft

2000

Action • Adventure • Crime • Thriller

as Curt Flemming

6(1,320)

5.2

The Next Best Thing

2000

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Richard Whittaker

5.3(190)

The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer

1999

Drama • TV Movie • Thriller

4.8(8)

0.4

Patch Adams

1998

Comedy • Drama

as Dr. Eaton

7.3(3,272)

Bulworth

1998

Comedy • Crime • Drama • Romance • Thriller

as Doctor (uncredited)

6.3(252)

1.1

Hidden in America

1996

Drama • TV Movie

as Edward Millerton

5.4(8)

0.5

Mistrial

1996

Action • Drama • TV Movie • Thriller

as Nick Mirsky

5(20)

0.7

The Chamber

1996

Crime • Drama

as Phelps Bowen

6(257)

1.6

Strange Days

1995

Crime • Drama • Science Fiction • Thriller

as Palmer Strickland

7(1,392)

2.8

Moonlight and Valentino

1995

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Thomas Trager

5.6(76)

0.6

Letter to My Killer

1995

TV Movie • Thriller

6(1)

0.2

Kansas

1995

Drama • TV Movie

as Joseph 'Joe' Farley

5(3)

0.3

Nobody's Fool

1994

Comedy • Drama

as Clive Peoples Jr.

6.9(314)

1.2

Don't Drink the Water

1994

Comedy • TV Movie

as Ambassador Magee

5.5(82)

0.4

The Enemy Within

1994

Drama • TV Movie • Thriller

as Defence Secretary Charles Potter

5.7(38)

0.8

Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker

1994

Drama • TV Movie • Thriller

as Col. Morrow

6.2(13)

0.3

Malice

1993

Thriller

as Atty. Lester Adams

6.3(472)

1.9

An American Story

1992

Drama • TV Movie

as Henry Meade

5.8(6)

0.4

The Mighty Ducks

1992

Action • Comedy • Drama • Family

as Mr. Ducksworth

6.5(909)

1.8

Hostages

1992

Drama • TV Movie

as Tom Sutherland

5.9(9)

0.4

Citizen Cohn

1992

Drama • History • TV Movie

as Albert Cohn

6.3(22)

0.5

Shadows and Fog

1991

Comedy • Crime • Mystery

as Priest

6.7(373)

1.1

Before the Storm

1991

Drama • TV Movie • War

as Stewart Merriman

0(0)

0.2

Under Cover

1991

Drama • TV Movie • Thriller

as Stewart Merriman

0(0)

0.2

When Will I Be Loved?

1990

Drama • TV Movie

as Martin Ransil

0(0)

0.2

William Shakespeare's Hamlet

1990

as Polonius

0(0)

0.2

Money, Power, Murder.

1989

Mystery • TV Movie

as Jack Finley

3.8(3)

0.2

Bloodhounds of Broadway

1989

Comedy • Drama • Music • Romance

as Waldo Winchester

5.6(24)

0.6

Forced March

1989

Drama

as Richard Kline

6.5(4)

0.2

Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman

1989

Action • Science Fiction • TV Movie

as Charles Estiman

6.5(47)

0.8

Bridge to Silence

1989

Drama • Romance • TV Movie

as Al Duffield

6.5(2)

0.2

Chances Are

1989

Comedy • Fantasy • Romance

as Judge Fenwick

6.6(271)

1.9

Dracula's Widow

1988

Horror • Thriller

as Lannon

4.4(19)

0.3

The Rosary Murders

1987

Crime • Horror • Mystery • Thriller

as Lieutenant Koznicki

5.5(32)

0.5

A Special Friendship

1987

Drama • TV Movie

as General Winder

0(0)

0.2

The Betty Ford Story

1987

Drama • TV Movie

as President Gerald Ford

0(0)

0.2

Double Image

1986

Action • Drama • TV Movie • Thriller

as James Angleton

5.7(6)

0.2

The Execution of Raymond Graham

1985

Crime • Drama • TV Movie

as Jim Neal

6.4(9)

0.3

Target

1985

Action • Thriller

as Barney Taber

5.9(107)

0.8

D.A.R.Y.L.

1985

Action • Family • Science Fiction

as Dr. Jeffrey Stewart

6.4(339)

2.4

Brotherly Love

1985

Drama • TV Movie • Thriller

as Mr. Rafferty

7(2)

0.2

Witness

1985

Crime • Drama • Romance • Thriller

as Chief Paul Schaeffer

7.1(1,735)

2.9

Iceman

1984

Science Fiction

as Whitman

6.1(127)

1.1

Silkwood

1983

Drama • Thriller

as Max Richter

6.9(327)

1.2

Saigon: Year Of The Cat

1983

Drama • Romance • TV Movie • War

as Jack Ockham

4.6(5)

0.4

Sparkling Cyanide

1983

Crime • Mystery • TV Movie • Thriller

as George Barton

6.1(9)

0.6

Independence Day

1983

Drama • Romance

as Sam Taylor

5.5(10)

0.5

Sophie's Choice

1982

Drama • Romance • War

as Narrator (voice)

7.3(873)

2.3

Still of the Night

1982

Crime • Drama • Horror • Thriller

as George Bynum

5.7(138)

Hanky Panky

1982

Action • Comedy • Crime • Mystery

as Adrian Pruitt

5.3(62)

Reds

1981

Drama • History • Romance

as State Department Official

6.9(339)

1.5

Absence of Malice

1981

Drama • Romance

as McAdam

6.6(224)

1.1

Rollover

1981

Drama • Mystery • Romance • Thriller

as Roy Lefcourt

5.1(26)

0.6

The Henderson Monster

1980

Drama • Horror • TV Movie

as Dr. Martin Grossman

4(1)

0.3

Hide in Plain Sight

1980

Drama

as Jason R. Reid

5.3(16)

0.5

Doctor Franken

1980

Drama • Horror • Science Fiction • TV Movie

as Mr. Parker

2(1)

0.2

Too Far to Go

1979

Drama • TV Movie

as Henry Mills

1(1)

0.2

Oliver's Story

1978

Drama • Romance

as Dr. Dienhart

4.8(26)

0.8

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1977

Drama • Science Fiction

as Larry Butler

7.3(4,333)

5.2

The Front

1976

Comedy • Drama

as Committee Chairman

7(171)

0.8

Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys

1976

Drama • History

as Pomeroy

6(1)

0.3

Valley Forge

1975

Drama • History • TV Movie • War

0(0)

0.3

The Stepford Wives

1975

Horror • Mystery • Science Fiction • Thriller

as Ted Van Sant

6.7(327)

1.1

Man on a Swing

1974

Crime • Mystery • Thriller

as Pete Russell

5.8(26)

0.3

Enemies

1974

Drama • TV Movie

as Nikolai

0(0)

0.4

The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope

1972

Drama

as Proctor

0(0)

0.2

Dirty Harry

1971

Action • Crime • Thriller

as Rothko

7.4(2,535)

5.9