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Josef Sommer

Born: 1934-06-26

From: Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

About: 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.


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Dirty Harry
Rothko
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Chances Are
Judge Fenwick
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Malice
Atty. Lester Adams
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Larry Butler
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The Next Best Thing
Richard Whittaker
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Patch Adams
Dr. Eaton
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The Mighty Ducks
Mr. Ducksworth
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Don't Drink the Water
Ambassador Magee
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The Invasion
Dr. Henryk Belicec
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Sparkling Cyanide
George Barton
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Nobody's Fool
Clive Peoples Jr.
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The Chamber
Phelps Bowen
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Stop-Loss
Senator Orton Worrell
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Witness
Chief Paul Schaeffer
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The Elephant King
Bill Hunt
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Silkwood
Max Richter
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X-Men: The Last Stand
The President
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D.A.R.Y.L.
Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
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Double Image
James Angleton
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Bulworth
Doctor (uncredited)
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Rollover
Roy Lefcourt
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Hide in Plain Sight
Jason R. Reid
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Absence of Malice
McAdam
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Bloodhounds of Broadway
Waldo Winchester
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Bridge to Silence
Al Duffield
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Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
Charles Estiman
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An American Story
Henry Meade
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Dracula's Widow
Lannon
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Too Far to Go
Henry Mills
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The Execution of Raymond Graham
Jim Neal
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The Front
Committee Chairman
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Money, Power, Murder.
Jack Finley
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Oliver's Story
Dr. Dienhart
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The Henderson Monster
Dr. Martin Grossman
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Man on a Swing
Pete Russell
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Searching for Paradise
Carl Greenslate
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Independence Day
Sam Taylor
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Enemies
Nikolai
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Forced March
Richard Kline
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The Betty Ford Story
President Gerald Ford
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Strange Days
Palmer Strickland
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Shadows and Fog
Priest
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When Will I Be Loved?
Martin Ransil
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Still of the Night
George Bynum
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Mistrial
Nick Mirsky
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The Enemy Within
Defence Secretary Charles Potter
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Under Cover
Stewart Merriman
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Before the Storm
Stewart Merriman
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Saigon: Year of the Cat
Jack Ockham
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The Sum of All Fears
Senator Jessup
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Hanky Panky
Adrian Pruitt
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Brotherly Love
Mr. Rafferty
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Hostages
Tom Sutherland
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Iceman
Whitman
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Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Col. Morrow
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Kansas
Joseph 'Joe' Farley
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The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
Proctor
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A Special Friendship
General Winder
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
Woodrow Wilson
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Letter to My Killer
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Valley Forge
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Shaft
Curt Flemming
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Sophie's Choice
Narrator (voice)
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Reds
State Department Official
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Citizen Cohn
Albert Cohn
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Doctor Franken
Mr. Parker
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Moonlight and Valentino
Thomas Trager
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The Family Man
Peter Lassiter
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Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Pomeroy
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The Stepford Wives
Ted Van Sant
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Target
Barney Taber
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The Rosary Murders
Lieutenant Koznicki
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William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Polonius
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Hidden in America
Edward Millerton
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The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
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The Other Guys
District Attorney Radford (uncredited)
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The Proposition
Dryer
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