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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.

The Other Guys
as District Attorney Radford (uncredited)

Stop-Loss
as Senator Orton Worrell

The Invasion
as Dr. Henryk Belicec

X-Men: The Last Stand
as The President

The Elephant King
as Bill Hunt

Without a Trace
as Peter Ducek

Searching for Paradise
as Carl Greenslate

The Sum of All Fears
as Senator Jessup

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Spencer Durning

The Family Man
as Peter Lassiter

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
as Woodrow Wilson

Shaft
as Curt Flemming

The Next Best Thing
as Richard Whittaker

The West Wing
as Steve Gaines

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Patrick Rumsey

The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer

The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer

Providence
as Thomas Wheelock

Patch Adams
as Dr. Eaton

Bulworth
as Doctor (uncredited)

The Proposition
as Dryer

Ally McBeal
as Henry Thompson

Hidden in America
as Edward Millerton

Mistrial
as Nick Mirsky

The Chamber
as Phelps Bowen

Early Edition
as John Dobbs

Strange Days
as Palmer Strickland

Moonlight and Valentino
as Thomas Trager

Letter to My Killer

Kansas
as Joseph 'Joe' Farley

Nobody's Fool
as Clive Peoples Jr.

Don't Drink the Water
as Ambassador Magee

The Enemy Within
as Defence Secretary Charles Potter

Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
as Col. Morrow

Malice
as Atty. Lester Adams

An American Story
as Henry Meade

The Mighty Ducks
as Mr. Ducksworth

Hostages
as Tom Sutherland

Citizen Cohn
as Albert Cohn

Shadows and Fog
as Priest

A Woman Named Jackie
as Joseph Kennedy Sr.

Before the Storm
as Stewart Merriman
Under Cover
as Stewart Merriman

Under Cover
as Stewart Merriman

When Will I Be Loved?
as Martin Ransil

William Shakespeare's Hamlet
as Polonius

Law & Order
as Defense Attorney Patrick Rumsey

The Kennedys of Massachusetts
as Franklin D. Roosevelt

Money, Power, Murder.
as Jack Finley

Bloodhounds of Broadway
as Waldo Winchester

Forced March
as Richard Kline

Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
as Charles Estiman

Bridge to Silence
as Al Duffield

Chances Are
as Judge Fenwick

Dracula's Widow
as Lannon

Hothouse
as Dr. Sam Garrison

The Rosary Murders
as Lieutenant Koznicki

A Special Friendship
as General Winder

The Betty Ford Story
as President Gerald Ford

Double Image
as James Angleton