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.
Malice
as Atty. Lester AdamsA tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants,...
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Silkwood
as Max RichterThe story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was...
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When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous...
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Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery...
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Patch Adams
as Dr. EatonThe true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best...
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Strange Days
as Palmer StricklandFormer policeman Lenny Nero has moved into a more lucrative trade: the illegal sale of virtual...
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Shaft
as Curt FlemmingNew York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying....
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Witness
as Chief Paul SchaefferA sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia...
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After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area...
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Chances Are
as Judge FenwickLouie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed...
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The Chamber
as Phelps BowenIdealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist...
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Reds
as State Department OfficialAn account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared...
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The Invasion
as Dr. Henryk BelicecWashington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two...
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The Sum of All Fears
as Senator JessupWhen the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds...
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Target
as Barney TaberA Texan with a secret past searches Europe with his son after the KGB kidnaps his wife.
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The Front
as Committee ChairmanA cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the...
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Sophie's Choice
as Narrator (voice)Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he...
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D.A.R.Y.L.
as Dr. Jeffrey StewartDaryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and...
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Shadows and Fog
as PriestWith a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the...
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Nobody's Fool
as Clive Peoples Jr.Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's...
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Hanky Panky
as Adrian PruittNaïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious...
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The Stepford Wives
as Ted Van SantJoanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but...
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Iceman
as WhitmanA team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to...
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Mistrial
as Nick MirskyWhen a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of...
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The Next Best Thing
as Richard WhittakerA comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert -...
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Still of the Night
as George BynumWhen one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the...
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Stop-Loss
as Senator Orton WorrellA veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned...
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Bulworth
as Doctor (uncredited)A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the...
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The Mighty Ducks
as Mr. DucksworthAfter reckless young lawyer Gordon Bombay gets arrested for drunk driving, he must coach a kids...
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The Enemy Within
as Defence Secretary Charles PotterA officer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff uncovers a planned military coup of the U.S. government...
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Rollover
as Roy LefcourtAn Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and...
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Moonlight and Valentino
as Thomas TragerA young widow still grieving over the death of her husband finds herself being comforted by a...
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Man on a Swing
as Pete RussellA small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic....
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Absence of Malice
as McAdamMegan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected...
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Bloodhounds of Broadway
as Waldo WinchesterThis musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels...
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Double Image
as James AngletonThis film tells the true-life story of Yuri Nosenko, a top Soviet KGB agent who defected to the...
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Hide in Plain Sight
as Jason R. ReidTrue story of a man in search of his children after his ex-wife enters the Witness Protection...
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Don't Drink the Water
as Ambassador MageeSomewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an...
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An American Story
as Henry MeadeWorld War II has ended and many soldiers return to their houses and families. But three of them...
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The Rosary Murders
as Lieutenant KoznickiA priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns...
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Valley Forge
as uncreditedGeorge Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the...
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Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
as Charles EstimanThe Bionic Woman and the Six-Million-Dollar Man reunite--with a few younger bionic...
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Citizen Cohn
as Albert CohnAs lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from...
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Hidden in America
as Edward MillertonStory of a man whose pride in being the head of his family won't let him accept help from his...
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The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
as uncreditedAn account of early 1970s social activist Ira Einhorn, who allegedly murdered his girlfriend and...
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Oliver's Story
as Dr. DienhartOliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries...
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Dracula's Widow
as LannonDracula's wife, Vanessa, comes back to life and attacks Raymond who has a waxworks museum, where...
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Brotherly Love
as Mr. RaffertyA businessman is stalked by his murderous twin brother, who has just been released from a mental...
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Money, Power, Murder.
as Jack FinleyPeter Finley is a cable-TV newsman who is led into a network of sin and conspiracy when he has...
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Doctor Franken
as Mr. ParkerThis variation of the Frankenstein legend, set in a brownstone in present-day Manhattan, has...
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Independence Day
as Sam TaylorMary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a...
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Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
as Col. MorrowThe story of Johnson Whittaker, one of the first African-American cadets admitted to West Point....
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Sparkling Cyanide
as George BartonOne year ago on November 2, seven people sat down to dinner at the Luxembourg. One of them,...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
as Woodrow WilsonIn the nineteenth film in the series, in May 1919, Indy is working as a translator at the...
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Kansas
as Joseph 'Joe' FarleyWhen a single mother and high-powered Chicago ad executive returns to her home town in Kansas to...
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Hostages
as Tom SutherlandTrue account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the...
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The Execution of Raymond Graham
as Jim NealA young man, convicted of the murder of a clerk, who has been on death row for five years and...
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When Will I Be Loved?
as Martin RansilThree disillusioned wives who are contemplating divorce compare notes on their stormy marriages.
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Enemies
as NikolaiIn a sun-dappled garden in provincial Russia in 1905, some factory owners and their wives...
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The Henderson Monster
as Dr. Martin GrossmanA small town becomes gripped by an ethical debate when the community discovers a moody,...
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The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
as uncreditedA bizarre series of events focused on young women in the village of Salem causes paranoia in the...
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The Elephant King
as Bill HuntThe story of two brothers who lead totally different lives. Jake Hunt enjoys life to the fullest...
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William Shakespeare's Hamlet
as PoloniusA Danish prince and university student avenges his father's murder by his uncle, who stole the...
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Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
as PomeroyIn 1930s Alabama, nine young black men are accused of raping two white women. The judge in the...
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X-Men: The Last Stand
as The PresidentWhen a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor...
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Searching for Paradise
as Carl GreenslateA young woman, coping with the death of her father, embarks on a quest to meet a Hollywood star...
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Too Far to Go
as Henry MillsLove and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into...
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Forced March
as Richard KlineBen Kline is an American television star and a bankable name, who is cast to portray the...
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A Special Friendship
as General WinderDuring the American Civil War, two women, a wealthy white woman and a freed black slave, join...
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Bridge to Silence
as Al DuffieldA hearing impaired woman suffers a mental breakdown when a drunk-driving accident kills her...
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Letter to My Killer
as uncreditedA letter is found by a demolition worker that reveals a cover up and a murder that is over 30...
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The Betty Ford Story
as President Gerald FordThis biographical film was based on the book The Times of My Life written by Chris Chase and...
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Patrick RumseyIn the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In...
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The West Wing
as Steve GainesThe West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells...
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Spencer DurningThe third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its...
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Without a Trace
as Peter DucekThe series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.
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Law & Order
as Defense Attorney Patrick RumseyIn cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing...
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Law & Order
as Judge Lawrence HellmanIn cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing...
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Scarecrow and Mrs. King
as uncreditedScarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May...
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Providence
as Thomas WheelockProvidence is an American television drama series.
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Great Performances
as NikolaiThe best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse...
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Great Performances
as PoloniusThe best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones
as Woodrow WilsonThe boyhood adventures of the greatest action hero of all time: Indiana Jones. Young Indy...
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The Equalizer
as uncreditedRobert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private...
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Early Edition
as uncreditedGary Hobson thinks he may even be losing his mind when tomorrow's newspaper mysteriously arrives...
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The Andros Targets
as Benson FisherJames Sutorious star as Mike Andros, a newspaper investigative reporter who seeks out corruption...
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Brig. Gen. VarnumHallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...
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Ally McBeal
as uncreditedAlly McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and...
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A Woman Named Jackie
as Joseph Kennedy Sr.This biographical miniseries, based on the best seller by C. David Heymann, starts when Jackie...
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The Kennedys of Massachusetts
as Franklin D. RooseveltThe Kennedys of Massachusetts is a 1990 TV miniseries that aired on ABC. Focusing mainly on the...
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Mourning Becomes Electra
as Ezra MannonIn a Greek tragedy updated to the 1860s, young New Englanders exact vengeance after the murder...
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The Scarlet Letter
as Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet Letter is a 1979 miniseries based on the novel of the same name that aired on WGBH...
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The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
as uncreditedBased on true events, The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer tells the shocking story of Ira Einhorn, a...
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