2010Nominee
Best Performance
The Other Guys
Josef Sommer
Actor
Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
June 26, 1934
Biography
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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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1977Nominee
Best Performance
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
2007Nominee
Best Performance
The Invasion
Career Highlights
2002Highlight
Best Performance
The Sum of All Fears
2000Highlight
Best Performance
The Family Man
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The Other Guys
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Invasion