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
| Birth Location | Dayton, Ohio, USA |
|---|---|
| Born | 1940-08-03 |
Movies
Robert De Niro: Hiding in the Spotlight
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Downwind
as Self Narrator
2023
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Benedict Arnold: Hero Betrayed
as Narrator
2021
12 Mighty Orphans
as Doc Hall
2021
Judas and the Black Messiah
as J. Edgar Hoover
2021
The Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous
as Himself
2020
2020
Princess of the Row
as John Austin
2020
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
as President Josiah Bartlet
2020
The Devil Has a Name
as Ralph
2019
2019
The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island
as James Alden (voice)
2018
Come Sunday
as Oral Roberts
2018
Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle
as Narrator
2017
Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew
as Matthew Cuthbert
2017
Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars
as Matthew Cuthbert
2017
Rules Don't Apply
as Noah Dietrich
2016
The Vessel
as Father Douglas
2016
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
as Martin Sheen
2016
2016
Anne of Green Gables
as Matthew Cuthbert
2016
Badge of Honor
as Captain Daniel Richards
2015
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
as Himself
2015
Unity
as Narrator (voice)
2015
Selma
as Frank Minis Johnson (uncredited)
2014
A Prayer for Rain
as Warren Anderson
2014
Trash
as Padre Juilliard
2014
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2014
The Boxcar Children
as Grandfather Alden (voice)
2014
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
as Himself
2014
2014
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
as Uncle Ben (uncredited)
2014
The Whale
as Tom Nickerson
2013
2013
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
as Narrator
2013
Jerzy Popieluszko: Messenger of the Truth
as Narrator (voice)
2013
Salinger
as Self - Actor
2013
Making 'Badlands'
as Self
2013
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
as Self
2013
2012
Death By China
as Narrator
2012
The Amazing Spider-Man
as Uncle Ben
2012
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
as Frank Petersen
2012
Stella Days
as Fr. Daniel Barry
2012
Brothers on the Line
as Narrator
2012
8
as Theodore B. Olson
2012
The Double
as Tom Highland
2011
Wrinkles
as (voice)
2011
Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White
as Narrator
2011
9/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks Up
as Himself
2011
Sharkwise
as Narrator
2011
Miller's Tale
as Self
2011
The Kennedy Detail
as Narrator
2010
The Way
as Tom
2010
A Conversation with Martin Sheen
as Self
2010
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
as Self (archive footage)
2010
Gloves of Stone
as Dr. Frank Irwin
2009
Love Happens
as Donald, Burke's Father-in-Law
2009
Imagine That
as Dante D'Enzo
2009
Franz Jagerstätter: A Man of Conscience
as Franz Jagerstätter (voice)
2009
Echelon Conspiracy
as Raymond Burke
2009
White House Revealed
as Self- Narrator (voice)
2009
Man in the Mirror
as Fallen Soldier / JC Super Star / Man in Black
2008
Vietnam: American Holocaust
as Voice
2008
2008
Pirate for the Sea
as Himself
2008
The Garden
as Self
2008
The End of Poverty?
as narrator
2008
They Killed Sister Dorothy
as Narrator
2008
2008
Eyewitness DVD: Weather
as Narrator
2007
Talk to Me
as E.G. Sonderling
2007
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
as Narrator
2007
Bordertown
as George Morgan
2007
Flatland
as Arthur Square (voice)
2007
Confessions Of An Innocent Man
as Himself - Narrator
2007
The Departed
as Capt. Oliver Charles Queenan
2006
The Politics of the Dead Zone
as Self
2006
Bobby
as Jack Stevens
2006
Who Killed the Electric Car?
as Narrator (voice)
2006
50 Films to See Before You Die
as Self
2006
James Dean: Forever Young
as Narrator (voice)
2005
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
as Self
2004
2004
Tell Them Who You Are
as Self
2004
The Commission
as Dep. Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach
2003
Mercy of the Sea
as Frederik
2003
Absence of Malick
as Self
2003
Catch Me If You Can
as Roger Strong
2002
Straight Up: Helicopters in Action
as Narrator (voice)
2002
2002
Bringing Down a Dictator
as Narrator (voice)
2002
National Geographic: Inside the Vatican
as Narrator
2001
Stockpile: The New Nuclear Menace
as Narrator
2001
Enemies of War
as Narrator
2001
O
as Coach Duke Goulding
2001
2000
The Twelve Apostles
as Narrator (voice)
1999
A Stranger in the Kingdom
as Sigurd Moulton
1999
The Time Shifters
as Grifasi
1999
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
as Self
1999
Forget Me Never
as Jack
1999
D.R.E.A.M. Team
as J.W. Garrison
1999
Storm
as General James Roberts
1999
Lost & Found
as Millstone
1999
No Code of Conduct
as Bill Peterson
1999
Gunfighter
as The Stranger
1999
The Darklings
as Ira Everett
1999
Ninth Street
as Father Frank
1999
A Texas Funeral
as Grandpa Sparta
1999
Babylon 5: The River of Souls
as Soul Hunter
1998
Free Money
as Guard
1998
A Letter from Death Row
as Michael's Father
1998
Monument Ave.
as Hanlon
1998
Shadrach
as Narrator (voice)
1998
The Elevator
as Sarge
1998
Voyage of Terror
as Henry Northcutt
1998
Holes in Heaven
as Narrator (voice)
1998
Medusa's Child
as President
1997
Hostile Waters
as Aurora Skipper
1997
Spawn
as Jason Wynn
1997
The Making of 'Spawn'
as Himself
1997
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
as Sir
1997
An Act of Conscience
as Narrator
1997
Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster
as Narrator
1997
The War at Home
as Bob Collier
1996
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
as Peter Maurin
1996
Sacred Cargo
as Father Andrew Kanvesky
1996
Mexico
as Narrator (voice)
1996
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
as Dalton Trumbo
1996
Project: ALF
as Colonel Gilbert Milfoil
1996
The American President
as A.J. MacInerney
1995
Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys
as Jeff Snyder
1995
Virgin Mary
as Father Jozo Zovko
1995
Dead Presidents
as The Judge
1995
The Break
as Gil Robbins
1995
Dillinger and Capone
as John Dillinger
1995
Born Wild
as Dan Walker
1995
One Hundred and One Nights
as Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited)
1995
The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas
as Voice of Marcos
1995
1994
Fortunes of War
as Francis Labeck
1994
Hits!
as Kelly
1994
Guns of Honor
as Jackson Baines Hardin (Ole Devil)
1994
Boca
as Jesse James Montgomery
1994
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
as Self
1994
Roswell
as Townsend
1994
Trigger Fast
as Jackson Baines Hardin / Ole Devil
1994
One of Her Own
as Asst. Dist. Atty. Pete Maresca
1994
When the Bough Breaks
as Captain Swaggert
1994
1994
Eyewitness: Dinosaur
as Narrator
1994
Alive: 20 Years Later
as Narrator (voice)
1993
Gettysburg
as Gen. Robert E. Lee
1993
The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story
as William F.(Ike) Eisenbraun
1993
Hot Shots! Part Deux
as Capt. Benjamin L. Willard (uncredited)
1993
Hear No Evil
as Lt. Brock
1993
Grey Knight
as Gen. Haworth
1993
Braving Alaska
as Narrator (voice)
1993
Braving Alaska
as Narrator
1993
Original Intent
as Homeless Joe
1992
JFK
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1991
1991
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
as Harold Hohne
1991
The Maid
as Anthony Wayne
1991
The Rites Of Mu
as Narrator
1991
Touch and Die
as Frank Magenta
1991
Cadence
as MSgt. Otis V. McKinney
1990
Cold Front
as John Hyde
1990
Another Time, Another Place
as Richard Conley
1989
Beverly Hills Brats
as Dr. Jeffrey Miller
1989
Nightbreaker
as Dr. Alexander Brown - Present
1989
Marked for Murder
as Man in Park
1989
Beyond the Stars
as Paul Andrews
1989
Judgment in Berlin
as Herbert J. Stern
1988
Da
as Charlie
1988
Promises to Keep
as Himself
1988
Walking After Midnight
as Self
1988
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
as Narrator
1987
Wall Street
as Carl Fox
1987
Siesta
as Del
1987
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
as Alan (voice)
1987
The Believers
as Cal Jamison
1987
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
as James Marion Hunt
1987
A State of Emergency
as Alex Carmody
1986
Secrets of the Titanic
as Himself (Narrator)
1986
Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story
as Mitch Snyder
1986
News at Eleven
as Frank Kenley
1986
Shattered Spirits
as Lyle Mollencamp
1986
Out of the Darkness
as Eddie Zigo
1985
The Fourth Wise Man
as Artaban
1985
Native Sons: Palestinians In Exile
as Narrator
1985
In the Name of the People
as Narrator
1985
Consenting Adult
as Ken Lynd
1985
The Real Thing
as Narrator (voice)
1985
The Guardian
as Charlie Hyatt
1984
Firestarter
as Captain Hollister
1984
Choices of the Heart
as Father Philan
1983
The Dead Zone
as Greg Stillson
1983
Man, Woman and Child
as Robert Beckwith
1983
In the King of Prussia
as Judge Samuel Salus II
1983
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
as Self
1983
That Championship Season
as Tom Daley
1982
Gandhi
as Vince Walker
1982
Enigma
as Alex Holbeck
1982
Centralia Fire
as Narrator
1982
In the Custody of Strangers
as Frank Caldwell
1982
I Love Liberty
as Self
1982
Loophole
as Stephen Booker
1981
The Final Countdown
as Warren Lasky
1980
Apocalypse Now
as Captain Benjamin Willard
1979
Eagle's Wing
as Pike
1979
Taxi!!
as Taxi Driver
1978
1977
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
as Frank Hallet
1976
The Cassandra Crossing
as Robby Navarro
1976
Sweet Hostage
as Leonard Hatch
1975
The Last Survivors
as Alexander William Holmes
1975
The Missiles of October
as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy
1974
The Legend of Earl Durand
as Luther Sykes
1974
The California Kid
as Michael McCord
1974
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
as Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
1974
The Execution of Private Slovik
as Eddie Slovik
1974
Badlands
as Kit Carruthers
1974
Message to My Daughter
as John Thatcher
1973
The Catholics
as Father Kinsella
1973
Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On
as Harlan Garrison
1973
Letters from Three Lovers
as Vincent
1973
A Prowler in the Heart
as Tony Parrish
1973
Crime Club
as Deputy Wilson
1973
Pursuit
as Timothy Drew
1972
Rage
as Maj. Holliford
1972
That Certain Summer
as Gary McCain
1972
Pickup on 101
as Lester Baumgartner
1972
No Drums, No Bugles
as Ashby Gatrell
1972
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
as Graytak
1972
Mongo's Back in Town
as Gordon
1971
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann
as Jules Worthman
1971
1971
Catch-22
as 1st Lt. Dobbs
1970
The Andersonville Trial
as Captain Williams
1970
Then Came Bronson
as Nick Oresko
1969
The Subject Was Roses
as Timmy Cleary
1968
Pat Neal Is Back
as Himself
1968
The Incident
as Artie Connors
1967
The Price of a Life
as Edward Miles Layton
1967
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
as Kilroy
1966
The Inner Panic
as Mickey
1962
Lost & Found in Cleveland
as Dr. Austin Raybourne
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Movies
Vigilante
Executive Producer
2023
The Map to Paradise
Producer
2019
Cadence
Writer
1990
Cadence
Director
1990
Nightbreaker
Executive Producer
1989
