Martin Sheen
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1940-08-03 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
Dayton, Ohio, USA
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
Acting
(2024)
Lost & Found in Cleveland
as Dr. Austin Raybourne
(2024)
(2023)
Robert De Niro: Hiding in the Spotlight
as Self (archive footage)
(2023)
Downwind
as Self Narrator
(2023)
23 Seconds to Eternity
as Narrator
(2022)
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
as Self (archive footage)
(2021)
Judas and the Black Messiah
as J. Edgar Hoover
(2021)
12 Mighty Orphans
as Doc Hall
(2021)
Benedict Arnold: Hero Betrayed
as Narrator
(2020)
Princess of the Row
as John Austin
(2020)
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
as President Josiah Bartlet
(2020)
(2020)
(2019)
The Devil Has a Name
as Ralph
(2019)
(2018)
Come Sunday
as Oral Roberts
(2018)
The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island
as James Alden (voice)
(2017)
Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars
as Matthew Cuthbert
(2017)
Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew
as Matthew Cuthbert
(2017)
Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle
as Narrator
(2017)
Dreamland: Mark Twain's Journey to Jerusalem
as Narrator
(2016)
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
as Martin Sheen
(2016)
Rules Don't Apply
as Noah Dietrich
(2016)
Anne of Green Gables
as Matthew Cuthbert
(2016)
The Vessel
as Father Douglas
(2016)
(2015)
Unity
as Narrator (voice)
(2015)
Badge of Honor
as Captain Daniel Richards
(2015)
(2014)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
as Uncle Ben (uncredited)
(2014)
Selma
as Frank Minis Johnson (uncredited)
(2014)
Trash
as Padre Juilliard
(2014)
(2014)
The Boxcar Children
as Grandfather Alden (voice)
(2014)
A Prayer for Rain
as Warren Anderson
(2014)
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
(2014)
(2013)
Salinger
as Self - Actor
(2013)
Amazonia
as Narrator
(2013)
The Whale
as Tom Nickerson
(2013)
(2013)
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
as Narrator
(2013)
Making Badlands
as Self
(2013)
Jerzy Popieluszko: Messenger of the Truth
as Narrator (voice)
(2013)
Defending Gideon
as Narrator
(2012)
The Amazing Spider-Man
as Uncle Ben
(2012)
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
as Frank Petersen
(2012)
8
as Theodore Olson
(2012)
(2012)
Stella Days
as Fr. Daniel Barry
(2012)
Death By China
as Narrator
(2012)
Brothers on the Line
as Narrator
(2011)
The Double
as Tom Highland
(2011)
Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White
as Narrator
(2011)
Miller's Tale
as Self
(2011)
Halfway Home
as Narrator(voice)
(2011)
(2011)
Sharkwise
as Narrator
(2010)
The Way
as Tom
(2010)
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
as Self (archive footage)
(2010)
The Kennedy Detail
as Narrator
(2010)
(2009)
Love Happens
as Donald, Burke's Father-in-Law
(2009)
Imagine That
as Dante D'Enzo
(2009)
Echelon Conspiracy
as Raymond Burke
(2009)
Gloves of Stone
as Dr. Frank Irwin
(2009)
White House Revealed
as Self- Narrator (voice)
(2009)
Franz Jagerstätter: A Man of Conscience
as Franz Jagerstätter (voice)
(2008)
(2008)
The End of Poverty?
as Self - Narrator
(2008)
(2008)
Pirate for the Sea
as Self
(2008)
Man in the Mirror
as Fallen Soldier / JC Super Star / Man in Black
(2008)
They Killed Sister Dorothy
as Narrator
(2008)
Vietnam: American Holocaust
as Voice
(2007)
Bordertown
as George Morgan
(2007)
Talk to Me
as E.G. Sonderling
(2007)
Flatland
as Arthur Square (voice)
(2007)
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
as Narrator
(2007)
Confessions Of An Innocent Man
as Self - Narrator
(2007)
Eyewitness DVD: Weather
as Narrator
(2007)
Father G and the Homeboys
as Narrator
(2006)
The Departed
as Queenan
(2006)
Bobby
as Jack Stevens
(2006)
Who Killed the Electric Car?
as Narrator (voice)
(2006)
(2006)
(2005)
James Dean: Forever Young
as Narrator (voice)
(2004)
(2004)
The Nomi Song
as Self (archive footage)
(2004)
Tell Them Who You Are
as Self
(2004)
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
as Self
(2003)
The Commission
as Dep. Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach
(2003)
Hidden in Plain Sight
as Narrator (voice)
(2003)
Mercy of the Sea
as Frederik
(2003)
Absence of Malick
as Self
(2002)
Catch Me If You Can
as Roger Strong
(2002)
(2002)
Straight Up: Helicopters in Action
as Narrator (voice)
(2002)
Bringing Down a Dictator
as Narrator (voice)
(2001)
O
as Coach Duke Goulding
(2001)
National Geographic: Inside the Vatican
as Narrator
(2001)
Enemies of War
as Narrator
(2001)
Stockpile: The New Nuclear Menace
as Narrator
(2000)
(1999)
Lost & Found
as Millstone
(1999)
The Time Shifters
as Grifasi
(1999)
No Code of Conduct
as Bill Peterson
(1999)
(1999)
The Twelve Apostles
as Narrator (voice)
(1999)
Storm
as General James Roberts
(1999)
A Stranger in the Kingdom
as Sigurd Moulton
(1999)
Forget Me Never
as Jack
(1999)
A Texas Funeral
as Grandpa Sparta
(1999)
D.R.E.A.M. Team
as J.W. Garrison
(1999)
The Darklings
as Ira Everett
(1999)
Gunfighter
as The Stranger
(1999)
Ninth Street
as Father Frank
(1999)
Crossing the Line
as self
(1998)
Free Money
as Guard
(1998)
Babylon 5: The River of Souls
as Soul Hunter
(1998)
Shadrach
as Narrator (voice)
(1998)
The Elevator
as Sarge
(1998)
A Letter from Death Row
as Michael's Father
(1998)
Voyage of Terror
as Henry Northcutt
(1998)
Monument Ave.
as Hanlon
(1998)
Holes in Heaven
as Narrator (voice)
(1998)
Cinema Combat: Hollywood Goes to War
as Self - Narrator
(1997)
Spawn
as Jason Wynn
(1997)
Hostile Waters
as Aurora Skipper
(1997)
(1997)
Gun
as Van Guinness
(1997)
Spawn The Director's Cut
as Jason Wynn
(1997)
Medusa's Child
as President
(1997)
The Making of 'Spawn'
as Self
(1997)
An Act of Conscience
as Narrator
(1997)
Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster
as Narrator
(1997)
Eyewitness: Monster
as Narrator (voice)
(1997)
Croatia: Land of 1,100 Islands & 101 Dalmatians
as Narrator (voice)
(1996)
Sacred Cargo
as Father Andrew Kanvesky
(1996)
Project: ALF
as Colonel Gilbert Milfoil
(1996)
The War at Home
as Bob Collier
(1996)
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
as Peter Maurin
(1996)
Mexico
as Narrator (voice)
(1996)
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
as Dalton Trumbo
(1995)
The American President
as A.J. MacInerney
(1995)
Dead Presidents
as The Judge
(1995)
Dillinger and Capone
as John Dillinger
(1995)
One Hundred and One Nights
as Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited)
(1995)
Virgin Mary
as Father Jozo Zovko
(1995)
Born Wild
as Dan Walker
(1995)
The Break
as Gil Robbins
(1995)
Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys
as Jeff Snyder
(1995)
The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas
as Voice of Marcos
(1995)
The Making of Eyewitness
as Narrator
(1994)
Roswell
as Townsend
(1994)
When the Bough Breaks
as Captain Swaggert
(1994)
Boca
as Jesse James Montgomery
(1994)
One of Her Own
as Asst. Dist. Atty. Pete Maresca
(1994)
Hits!
as Kelly
(1994)
Fortunes of War
as Francis Labeck
(1994)
(1994)
Trigger Fast
as Jackson Baines Hardin / Ole Devil
(1994)
Guns of Honor
as Jackson Baines Hardin (Ole Devil)
(1994)
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
as Self
(1994)
(1994)
Eyewitness: Dinosaur
as Narrator
(1993)
Hot Shots! Part Deux
as Capt. Benjamin L. Willard (uncredited)
(1993)
Gettysburg
as Gen. Robert E. Lee
(1993)
Hear No Evil
as Lt. Brock
(1993)
Grey Knight
as Gen. Haworth
(1993)
(1993)
The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story
as William F.(Ike) Eisenbraun
(1993)
Alive: 20 Years Later
as Narrator (voice)
(1993)
Braving Alaska
as Narrator
(1993)
Braving Alaska
as Narrator (voice)
(1992)
The Water Engine
as Chain Letter Voice (voice) (uncredited)
(1992)
Original Intent
as Homeless Joe
(1991)
JFK
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
(1991)
(1991)
The Maid
as Anthony Wayne
(1991)
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
as Harold Hohne
(1991)
Touch and Die
as Frank Magenta
(1991)
The Rites Of Mu
as Narrator
(1990)
Cadence
as MSgt. Otis V. McKinney
(1990)
Cold Front
as John Hyde
(1989)
Beyond the Stars
as Paul Andrews
(1989)
Marked for Murder
as Man in Park
(1989)
Beverly Hills Brats
as Dr. Jeffrey Miller
(1989)
Nightbreaker
as Dr. Alexander Brown - Present
(1989)
Another Time, Another Place
as Richard Conley
(1988)
Judgment in Berlin
as Herbert J. Stern
(1988)
Da
as Charlie
(1988)
Walking After Midnight
as Self
(1988)
Promises to Keep
as Self
(1987)
Wall Street
as Carl Fox
(1987)
The Believers
as Cal Jamison
(1987)
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
as Alan (voice)
(1987)
Siesta
as Del
(1987)
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
as James Marion Hunt
(1987)
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
as Narrator
(1986)
Shattered Spirits
as Lyle Mollencamp
(1986)
Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story
as Mitch Snyder
(1986)
A State of Emergency
as Alex Carmody
(1986)
Secrets of the Titanic
as Self - Narrator
(1986)
News at Eleven
as Frank Kenley
(1985)
The Fourth Wise Man
as Artaban
(1985)
Out of the Darkness
as Eddie Zigo
(1985)
Broken Rainbow
as Narrator (voice)
(1985)
Consenting Adult
as Ken Lynd
(1985)
Native Sons: Palestinians In Exile
as Narrator
(1985)
In the Name of the People
as Narrator
(1985)
The Real Thing
as Narrator (voice)
(1984)
Firestarter
as Captain Hollister
(1984)
The Guardian
as Charlie Hyatt
(1983)
The Dead Zone
as Greg Stillson
(1983)
Man, Woman and Child
as Robert Beckwith
(1983)
Choices of the Heart
as Father Philan
(1983)
(1983)
In the King of Prussia
as Judge Samuel Salus II
(1982)
Gandhi
as Vince Walker
(1982)
Enigma
as Alex Holbeck
(1982)
I Love Liberty
as Self
(1982)
In the Custody of Strangers
as Frank Caldwell
(1982)
That Championship Season
as Tom Daley
(1982)
Centralia Fire
as Narrator
(1981)
Loophole
as Stephen Booker
(1980)
The Final Countdown
as Warren Lasky
(1979)
Apocalypse Now
as Captain Benjamin Willard
(1979)
Eagle's Wing
as Pike
(1978)
Taxi!!
as Taxi Driver
(1977)
(1976)
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
as Frank Hallet
(1976)
The Cassandra Crossing
as Robby Navarro
(1975)
The Last Survivors
as Alexander William Holmes
(1975)
Sweet Hostage
as Leonard Hatch
(1974)
Badlands
as Kit Carruthers
(1974)
The California Kid
as Michael McCord
(1974)
The Missiles of October
as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy
(1974)
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
as Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
(1974)
The Execution of Private Slovik
as Eddie Slovik
(1974)
The Legend of Earl Durand
as Luther Sykes
(1973)
The Catholics
as Father Kinsella
(1973)
Letters from Three Lovers
as Vincent
(1973)
Message to My Daughter
as John Thatcher
(1973)
Crime Club
as Deputy Wilson
(1973)
Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On
as Harlan Garrison
(1973)
A Prowler in the Heart
as Tony Parrish
(1972)
Rage
as Maj. Holliford
(1972)
Pursuit
as Timothy Drew
(1972)
That Certain Summer
as Gary McCain
(1972)
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
as Graytak
(1972)
When the Line Goes Through
as Bluff Jackson
(1972)
Pickup on 101
as Lester Baumgartner
(1972)
No Drums, No Bugles
as Ashby Gatrell
(1971)
(1971)
Mongo's Back in Town
as Gordon
(1971)
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann
as Jules Worthman
(1970)
Catch-22
as 1st Lt. Dobbs
(1970)
The Andersonville Trial
as Captain Williams
(1969)
Then Came Bronson
as Nick Oresko
(1968)
The Subject Was Roses
as Timmy Cleary
(1968)
Pat Neal Is Back
as Self
(1967)
The Incident
as Artie Connors
(1967)
The Price of a Life
as Edward Miles Layton
(1966)
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
as Kilroy
Crew
(2024)
Vigilantes INC. - America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen
Executive Producer
(2023)
Vigilante
Executive Producer
(2019)
The Map to Paradise
Producer
(1990)
Cadence
Director, Writer
(1989)
Nightbreaker
Executive Producer