Josef Sommer

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.

Josef Sommer Movies

Discover the best Josef Sommer movies. Explore the complete filmography, including top-rated classics, newest releases, and highest-grossing films starring Josef Sommer ranked by year and score.

The Invasion (2007)

Horror Mystery Science Fiction

A Washington D.C. psychiatrist starts noticing something deeply wrong with the people around her. Colleagues, neighbors, strangers on the street all seem hollowed out, emptied of feeling. The cause traces...

Score 6.0

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

Action Adventure Science Fiction

A pharmaceutical company announces it has developed a serum capable of permanently eliminating the mutant gene, and the fallout splits both sides of the conflict wide open. For some mutants,...

Score 6.4

Strange Days (1995)

Crime Drama Science Fiction

Los Angeles, New Year's Eve 1999, and the city is coiled tight with millennial dread. Lenny Nero, a former cop now peddling black-market memory recordings on the street, gets his...

Score 7.0

The Mighty Ducks (1992)

Action Comedy Drama

Gordon Bombay is a hotshot attorney whose drunk driving arrest lands him an unwanted assignment coaching a ragtag youth hockey team. The problem is that Gordon has complicated history with...

Score 6.6

Iceman (1984)

Science Fiction

When Arctic researchers thaw a prehistoric man perfectly preserved for 40,000 years, he becomes the subject of a fierce scientific tug-of-war. Anthropologist Dr. Stanley Shephard sees a living bridge to...

Score 6.2

Sophie’s Choice (1982)

Drama Romance War

A young Southern writer arrives in postwar Brooklyn dreaming of literary glory, and instead finds himself drawn into the orbit of two magnetic, self-destructing people. Sophie, a Polish immigrant carrying...

Score 7.3

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Drama Science Fiction

Roy Neary is an ordinary utility worker in Indiana when a nighttime brush with strange lights in the sky rewires something deep inside him. Consumed by visions he cannot explain...

Score 7.3

Dirty Harry (1971)

Action Crime Thriller

San Francisco is being held hostage by a sniper who calls himself Scorpio, and the city's brass hands the case to the one detective nobody else wants to work with....

Score 7.4

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the highest-rated movies starring Josef Sommer? +

According to aggregate user scores, the absolute best titles starring Josef Sommer are The Invasion, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Strange Days.

How many movies and TV shows has Josef Sommer starred in? +

Our database currently features a comprehensive filmography of 8 titles starring Josef Sommer, ranging from their earliest roles to the newest releases.

Are the movies starring Josef Sommer worth watching? +

Yes! The overall filmography starring Josef Sommer maintains a strong average user rating of 6.8 out of 10 across all tracked titles.