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Josef Sommer
Born 26 June 1934 92 years old Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany Who else is 92? → TMDB ↗
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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The numbers
17age in their first credit on record (1951)
59years on screen and counting
7credits in 1985, their busiest year
101dated credits on record
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Movie credits
Age: 76 The Other Guys
2010as District Attorney Radford (uncredited)
Age: 73 Stop-Loss
2008as Senator Orton Worrell
Age: 73 The Invasion
2007as Dr. Henryk Belicec
Age: 71 X-Men: The Last Stand
2006as The President
Age: 71 The Elephant King
2006as Bill Hunt
Age: 67 Searching for Paradise
2002as Carl Greenslate
Age: 67 The Sum of All Fears
2002as Senator Jessup
Age: 66 The Family Man
2000as Peter Lassiter
Age: 66 The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
2000as Woodrow Wilson
Age: 65 Shaft
2000as Curt Flemming
Age: 65 The Next Best Thing
2000as Richard Whittaker
Age: 64 The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999
Age: 64 Patch Adams
1998as Dr. Eaton
Age: 63 Bulworth
1998as Doctor (uncredited)
Age: 63 The Proposition
1998as Dryer
Age: 62 Hidden in America
1996as Edward Millerton
Age: 62 Mistrial
1996as Nick Mirsky
Age: 62 The Chamber
1996as Phelps Bowen
Age: 61 Strange Days
1995as Palmer Strickland
Age: 61 Moonlight and Valentino
1995as Thomas Trager
Age: 61 Letter to My Killer
1995
Age: 61 Kansas
1995as Joseph 'Joe' Farley
Age: 60 Nobody's Fool
1994as Clive Peoples Jr.
Age: 60 Don't Drink the Water
1994as Ambassador Magee
Age: 60 The Enemy Within
1994as Defence Secretary Charles Potter
Age: 59 Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1994as Col. Morrow
Age: 59 Malice
1993as Atty. Lester Adams
Age: 58 An American Story
1992as Henry Meade
Age: 58 The Mighty Ducks
1992as Mr. Ducksworth
Age: 58 Hostages
1992as Tom Sutherland
Age: 58 Citizen Cohn
1992as Albert Cohn
Age: 57 Shadows and Fog
1991as Priest
Age: 57 Before the Storm
1991as Stewart Merriman
Age: 56 Under Cover
1991as Stewart Merriman
Age: 56 When Will I Be Loved?
1990as Martin Ransil
Age: 56 William Shakespeare's Hamlet
1990as Polonius
Age: 55 Money, Power, Murder.
1989as Jack Finley
Age: 55 Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989as Waldo Winchester
Age: 55 Forced March
1989as Richard Kline
Age: 54 Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
1989as Charles Estiman
Age: 54 Bridge to Silence
1989as Al Duffield
Age: 54 Chances Are
1989as Judge Fenwick
Age: 54 Dracula's Widow
1988as Lannon
Age: 53 The Rosary Murders
1987as Lieutenant Koznicki
Age: 52 A Special Friendship
1987as General Winder
Age: 52 The Betty Ford Story
1987as President Gerald Ford
Age: 51 Double Image
1986as James Angleton
Age: 51 The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985as Jim Neal
Age: 51 Target
1985as Barney Taber
Age: 50 D.A.R.Y.L.
1985as Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
Age: 50 Brotherly Love
1985as Mr. Rafferty
Age: 50 Witness
1985as Schaeffer
Age: 49 Iceman
1984as Whitman
Age: 49 Silkwood
1983as Max Richter
Age: 49 Saigon: Year of the Cat
1983as Jack Ockham
Age: 49 Sparkling Cyanide
1983as George Barton
Age: 48 Independence Day
1983as Sam Taylor
Age: 48 Sophie's Choice
1982as Narrator (voice)
Age: 48 Still of the Night
1982as George Bynum
Age: 47 Hanky Panky
1982as Adrian Pruitt
Age: 47 Reds
1981as State Department Official
Age: 47 Absence of Malice
1981as McAdam
Age: 47 Rollover
1981as Roy Lefcourt
Age: 45 The Henderson Monster
1980as Dr. Martin Grossman
Age: 45 Hide in Plain Sight
1980as Jason R. Reid
Age: 45 Doctor Franken
1980as Mr. Parker
Age: 44 Too Far to Go
1979as Henry Mills
Age: 44 Oliver's Story
1978as Dr. Dienhart
Age: 43 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977as Larry Butler
Age: 42 The Front
1976as Committee Chairman
Age: 41 Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976as Pomeroy
Age: 41 Valley Forge
1975as Brig. Gen. Varnum
Age: 40 The Stepford Wives
1975as Ted Van Sant
Age: 39 Man on a Swing
1974as Pete Russell
Age: 39 Enemies
1974as Nikolai
Age: 37 The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
1972as Proctor
Age: 37 Dirty Harry
1971as Rothko
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TV credits
Age: 68 Without a Trace
2002as Peter Ducek
Age: 67 Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001as Spencer Durning
Age: 65 The West Wing
1999as Steve Gaines
Age: 65 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999as Patrick Rumsey
Age: 64 The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
1999
Age: 64 Providence
1999as Thomas Wheelock
Age: 63 Ally McBeal
1997as Henry Thompson
Age: 62 Early Edition
1996as John Dobbs
Age: 57 A Woman Named Jackie
1991as Joseph Kennedy Sr.
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Age: 56 Under Cover
1991as Stewart Merriman
Age: 56 Law & Order
1990as Defense Attorney Patrick Rumsey
Age: 56 Law & Order
1990as Judge Lawrence Hellman
Age: 55 The Kennedys of Massachusetts
1990as Franklin D. Roosevelt
Age: 54 Hothouse
1988as Dr. Sam Garrison
Age: 51 The Equalizer
1985as Ernest Rasher
Age: 50 Screen Two
1985as James Angleton
Age: 49 Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
Age: 44 The Scarlet Letter
1979as Nathaniel Hawthorne
Age: 44 Mourning Becomes Electra
1978as Ezra Mannon
Age: 42 The Andros Targets
1977as Benson Fisher
Age: 41 The Adams Chronicles
1976as Charles Lee
Age: 36 Great Performances
1971as Nikolai
Age: 36 Great Performances
1971as Polonius
Age: 17 Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951as Brig. Gen. Varnum