Martin Sheen
Biography
Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez (born August 3, 1940), known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor. He first became known for his roles in the films The Subject Was Roses (1968) and Badlands (1973), and later achieved wide recognition for his leading role as Captain Benjamin Willard in Apocalypse Now (1979), as U.S. President Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Wing (1999–2006), and as Robert Hanson in the Netflix television series Grace and Frankie (2015–2022). In film, Sheen has won the Best Actor award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival for his performance as Kit Carruthers in Badlands. Sheen's portrayal of Capt. Willard in Apocalypse Now earned a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor. Sheen has worked with a wide variety of film directors, including Richard Attenborough, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Oliver Stone. Sheen received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1989. In television, Sheen has won a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild awards for playing the role of President Josiah Bartlet in The West Wing, and an Emmy for guest starring in the sitcom Murphy Brown. In 2012, he portrayed Uncle Ben in The Amazing Spider-Man directed by Marc Webb. Born and raised in the United States by a Spanish father and an Irish mother, he adopted the stage name Martin Sheen to help him gain acting parts. He is the father of four children, all of whom are actors. Sheen has directed one film, Cadence (1990), in which he appears alongside his sons Charlie and Ramón. He has narrated, produced, and directed documentary television, earning two Daytime Emmy awards in the 1980s, and has been active in liberal politics. Description above from the Wikipedia article Martin Sheen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors can be found on Wikipedia.
Known For
Captain Benjamin Willard
Apocalypse Now
Frank Magenta
Touch and Die
Queenan
The Departed
Roger Strong
Catch Me If You Can
Aurora Skipper
Hostile Waters
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
Vince Walker
Gandhi
Bill Peterson
No Code of Conduct
Kit Carruthers
Badlands
Jason Wynn
Spawn
Gen. Robert E. Lee
Gettysburg
Carl Fox
Wall Street
Jack Stevens
Bobby
Self
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Alex Holbeck
Enigma
Soul Hunter
Babylon 5: The River of Souls
George Morgan
Bordertown
Coach Duke Goulding
O
Greg Stillson
The Dead Zone
Leonard Hatch
Sweet Hostage
Sir
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
Guard
Free Money
E.G. Sonderling
Talk to Me
Mitch Snyder
Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story
Captain Hollister
Firestarter
Narrator
Benedict Arnold: Hero Betrayed
Robby Navarro
The Cassandra Crossing
Warren Lasky
The Final Countdown
Cal Jamison
The Believers
Self
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Donald, Burke's Father-in-Law
Love Happens
Narrator
Stockpile: The New Nuclear Menace
A.J. MacInerney
The American President
Self
A Conversation with Martin Sheen
Self
Tell Them Who You Are
Narrator (voice)
Who Killed the Electric Car?
MSgt. Otis V. McKinney
Cadence
Lester Baumgartner
Pickup on 101
Self
I Love Liberty
Del
Siesta
Townsend
Roswell
Father Kinsella
The Catholics
Narrator (voice)
Mexico
Self
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
Narrator (voice)
Straight Up: Helicopters in Action
Self
50 Films to See Before You Die
Michael's Father
A Letter from Death Row
General James Roberts
Storm
Dr. Frank Irwin
Gloves of Stone
Raymond Burke
Echelon Conspiracy
Artie Connors
The Incident
Millstone
Lost & Found
Self - Narrator
Secrets of the Titanic
Fallen Soldier / JC Super Star / Man in Black
Man in the Mirror
Grandpa Sparta
A Texas Funeral
Gen. Haworth
Grey Knight
Self - Narrator
Confessions Of An Innocent Man
Herbert J. Stern
Judgment in Berlin
Self - Narrator
The End of Poverty?
Frank Hallet
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Artaban
The Fourth Wise Man
Dante D'Enzo
Imagine That
Timothy Drew
Pursuit
Michael McCord
The California Kid
Lt. Brock
Hear No Evil
Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
Dan Walker
Born Wild
Narrator (voice)
Shadrach
Tom Highland
The Double
John Dillinger
Dillinger and Capone
Paul Andrews
Beyond the Stars
Ashby Gatrell
No Drums, No Bugles
Tom
The Way
Voice of Marcos
The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy
The Missiles of October
Eddie Slovik
The Execution of Private Slovik
Fr. Daniel Barry
Stella Days
Bob Collier
The War at Home
Narrator (voice)
Holes in Heaven
Anthony Wayne
The Maid
Frank Petersen
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Maj. Holliford
Rage
Uncle Ben (uncredited)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Narrator (voice)
James Dean: Forever Young
Narrator
Death By China
Stephen Booker
Loophole
Charlie
Da
Captain Swaggert
When the Bough Breaks
Gary McCain
That Certain Summer
Narrator
Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White
Self
Miller's Tale
Pike
Eagle's Wing
Ken Lynd
Consenting Adult
John Hyde
Cold Front
Tom Daley
That Championship Season
Dalton Trumbo
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
Narrator
Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster
Self Narrator
Downwind
Timmy Cleary
The Subject Was Roses
Narrator
In the Name of the People
Narrator
An Act of Conscience
Gordon
Mongo's Back in Town
Jesse James Montgomery
Boca
Jack
Forget Me Never
Robert Beckwith
Man, Woman and Child
Frank Caldwell
In the Custody of Strangers
Padre Juilliard
Trash
Dr. Alexander Brown - Present
Nightbreaker
Self
9/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks Up
Nick Oresko
Then Came Bronson
Jeff Snyder
Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys
Self
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Jackson Baines Hardin / Ole Devil
Trigger Fast
J.W. Garrison
D.R.E.A.M. Team
Franz Jagerstätter (voice)
Franz Jagerstätter: A Man of Conscience
Vincent
Letters from Three Lovers
John Thatcher
Message to My Daughter
Voice
Vietnam: American Holocaust
Self (archive footage)
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Jackson Baines Hardin (Ole Devil)
Guns of Honor
Eddie Zigo
Out of the Darkness
Narrator
Eyewitness: Dinosaur
Charlie Hyatt
The Guardian
Self
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
Tom Nickerson
The Whale
Alex Carmody
A State of Emergency
Father Jozo Zovko
Gospa, The Miracle of Medjugorje
Uncle Ben
The Amazing Spider-Man
James Marion Hunt
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
Francis Labeck
Fortunes of War
Self
Pirate for the Sea
Dr. Jeffrey Miller
Beverly Hills Brats
Warren Anderson
A Prayer for Rain
Captain Williams
The Andersonville Trial
Judge Samuel Salus II
In the King of Prussia
Gil Robbins
The Break
Taxi Driver
Taxi!!
Kilroy
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
Narrator
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Sigurd Moulton
A Stranger in the Kingdom
Ask Me Anything
Homeless Joe
Original Intent
Self
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
Alexander William Holmes
The Last Survivors
Narrator (voice)
The Real Thing
Self (archive footage)
Robert De Niro, l'arme du silence
Narrator
The Kennedy Detail
Noah Dietrich
Rules Don't Apply
Henry Northcutt
Voyage of Terror
Narrator
Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
Self
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
Dr. Austin Raybourne
Lost & Found in Cleveland
Narrator
Enemies of War
The Stranger
Gunfighter
Narrator
Brothers on the Line
Self
Walking After Midnight
Frank Minis Johnson (uncredited)
Selma
Graytak
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
Captain Daniel Richards
Badge of Honor
Narrator
Sharkwise
Asst. Dist. Atty. Pete Maresca
One of Her Own
Narrator
National Geographic: Inside the Vatican
Self
Pat Neal Is Back
Edward Miles Layton
The Price of a Life
Narrator
Eyewitness DVD: Weather
Narrator (voice)
Unity
Peter Maurin
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
Narrator (voice)
Jerzy Popieluszko: Messenger of the Truth
Jules Worthman
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann
Frank Kenley
News at Eleven
William F.(Ike) Eisenbraun
The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
JFK
Grandfather Alden (voice)
The Boxcar Children
Father Frank
Ninth Street
Tony Parrish
A Prowler in the Heart
Kelly
Hits!
Sarge
The Elevator
President
Medusa's Child
Montserrat
Martin Sheen
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Narrator (voice)
Broken Rainbow
Self (archive footage)
The Nomi Song
Matthew Cuthbert
Anne of Green Gables
1st Lt. Dobbs
Catch-22
Father Douglas
The Vessel
Narrator
Dreamland: Mark Twain's Journey to Jerusalem
Chain Letter Voice (voice) (uncredited)
The Water Engine
Narrator (voice)
The Twelve Apostles
Harlan Garrison
Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On
Presenter
Vigilantes INC. - America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen
Theodore Olson
8
Arthur Square (voice)
Flatland
Colonel Gilbert Milfoil
Project: ALF
Harold Hohne
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Narrator
They Killed Sister Dorothy
Luther Sykes
The Legend of Earl Durand
Man in Park
Marked for Murder
Narrator
Amazonia
Narrator
National Geographic: Last Voyage of the Lusitania
Capt. Benjamin L. Willard (uncredited)
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Narrator
Braving Alaska
Narrator (voice)
Braving Alaska
Matthew Cuthbert
Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars
Matthew Cuthbert
Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew
Narrator
Centralia Fire
Oral Roberts
Come Sunday
Jerusalemski sindrom
Father Philan
Choices of the Heart
Self
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
Self
The Making of 'Spawn'
James Alden (voice)
The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island
Narrator
Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle
Narrator (voice)
Bringing Down a Dictator
Frederik
Milost mora
Back to the Lane
Self
Promises to Keep
Deputy Wilson
Crime Club
Self
Absence of Malick
Lyle Mollencamp
Shattered Spirits
Self- Narrator (voice)
White House Revealed
Narrator
On Great White Wings: The Wright Brothers and the Race for Flight
Self
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
Doc Hall
12 Mighty Orphans
Ralph
The Devil Has a Name
Self
Making Badlands
Narrator
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
Narrator
Native Sons: Palestinians In Exile
Ira Everett
The Darklings
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Marlon Brando, un acteur nommé désir
Self
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Narrator (voice)
Alive: 20 Years Later
The Judge
Dead Presidents
Self - Actor
Salinger
Self
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
Bench
John Austin
Princess of the Row
Alan (voice)
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Narrator
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
J. Edgar Hoover
Judas and the Black Messiah
Self
Can Art Stop a Bullet: William Kelly's Big Picture
President Josiah Bartlet
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited)
Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma
Grifasi
The Time Shifters
Father Andrew Kanvesky
Sacred Cargo
Dep. Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach
The Commission
Richard Conley
Another Time, Another Place
Hanlon
Monument Ave.
Narrator
The Rites Of Mu
Bluff Jackson
When the Line Goes Through
Self
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
Self
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
Self
The Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous
Self (archive footage)
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Self
The Politics of the Dead Zone
Narrator (voice)
Croatia: Land of 1,100 Islands & 101 Dalmatians
Self - Narrator
Cinema Combat: Hollywood Goes to War
self
Crossing the Line
Narrator(voice)
Halfway Home
Narrator (voice)
Eyewitness: Monster
Narrator
The Making of Eyewitness
Narrator
Father G and the Homeboys
Van Guinness
Gun
Narrator (voice)
Hidden in Plain Sight
Narrator
23 Seconds to Eternity
Jason Wynn
Spawn The Director's Cut
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
265
Gender
Male
Birthday
1940-08-03
Place of Birth
Dayton, Ohio, USA
Also Known As
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