Place of Birth:
Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Date of Birth:
6/26/1934
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.
Dirty Harry
Chances Are
Malice
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Next Best Thing
Patch Adams
The Mighty Ducks
Don't Drink the Water
The Invasion
Sparkling Cyanide
Nobody's Fool
The Chamber
Stop-Loss
Witness
The Elephant King
Silkwood
X-Men: The Last Stand
D.A.R.Y.L.
Double Image
Bulworth
Rollover
Hide in Plain Sight
Absence of Malice
Bloodhounds of Broadway
Bridge to Silence
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
An American Story
Dracula's Widow
Too Far to Go
The Execution of Raymond Graham
The Front
Money, Power, Murder.
Oliver's Story
The Henderson Monster
Man on a Swing
Searching for Paradise
Independence Day
Enemies
Forced March
The Betty Ford Story
Strange Days
Shadows and Fog
When Will I Be Loved?
Still of the Night
Mistrial
The Enemy Within
Under Cover
Before the Storm
Saigon: Year Of The Cat
The Sum of All Fears
Hanky Panky
Brotherly Love
Hostages
Iceman
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Kansas
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
A Special Friendship
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
Letter to My Killer
Valley Forge
Shaft
Sophie's Choice
Reds
Citizen Cohn
Doctor Franken
Moonlight and Valentino
The Family Man
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
The Stepford Wives
Target
The Rosary Murders
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Hidden in America
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
The Other Guys