Martin Sheen

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1940-08-03 (85 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 port...

Acting

1979

Apocalypse Now

as Captain Benjamin Willard

1991

Touch and Die

as Frank Magenta

2006

The Departed

as Queenan

2002

Catch Me If You Can

as Roger Strong

1997

Hostile Waters

as Aurora Skipper

1982

Gandhi

as Vince Walker

1999

No Code of Conduct

as Bill Peterson

1974

Badlands

as Kit Carruthers

1997

Spawn

as Jason Wynn

1993

Gettysburg

as Gen. Robert E. Lee

1987

Wall Street

as Carl Fox

2006

Bobby

as Jack Stevens

1982

Enigma

as Alex Holbeck

2007

Bordertown

as George Morgan

2001

O

as Coach Duke Goulding

1983

The Dead Zone

as Greg Stillson

1975

Sweet Hostage

as Leonard Hatch

1998

Free Money

as Guard

2007

Talk to Me

as E.G. Sonderling

1984

Firestarter

as Captain Hollister

1976

The Cassandra Crossing

as Robby Navarro

1980

The Final Countdown

as Warren Lasky

1987

The Believers

as Cal Jamison

2009

Love Happens

as Donald, Burke's Father-in-Law

1995

The American President

as A.J. MacInerney

2006

Who Killed the Electric Car?

as Narrator (voice)

1990

Cadence

as MSgt. Otis V. McKinney

1972

Pickup on 101

as Lester Baumgartner

1982

1987

Siesta

as Del

1994

Roswell

as Townsend

1973

The Catholics

as Father Kinsella

1996

Mexico

as Narrator (voice)

2002

1998

A Letter from Death Row

as Michael's Father

1999

Storm

as General James Roberts

2009

Gloves of Stone

as Dr. Frank Irwin

2009

Echelon Conspiracy

as Raymond Burke

1967

The Incident

as Artie Connors

1999

Lost & Found

as Millstone

1986

Secrets of the Titanic

as Self - Narrator

2008

Man in the Mirror

as Fallen Soldier / JC Super Star / Man in Black

1999

A Texas Funeral

as Grandpa Sparta

1993

Grey Knight

as Gen. Haworth

2007

1988

Judgment in Berlin

as Herbert J. Stern

2008

The End of Poverty?

as Self - Narrator

1985

2009

Imagine That

as Dante D'Enzo

1972

Pursuit

as Timothy Drew

1974

The California Kid

as Michael McCord

1993

Hear No Evil

as Lt. Brock

1974

The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd

as Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd

1995

Born Wild

as Dan Walker

1998

Shadrach

as Narrator (voice)

2011

The Double

as Tom Highland

1995

Dillinger and Capone

as John Dillinger

1989

Beyond the Stars

as Paul Andrews

1972

No Drums, No Bugles

as Ashby Gatrell

2010

The Way

as Tom

1974

The Missiles of October

as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy

2012

Stella Days

as Fr. Daniel Barry

1996

The War at Home

as Bob Collier

1998

Holes in Heaven

as Narrator (voice)

1991

The Maid

as Anthony Wayne

1972

Rage

as Maj. Holliford

2014

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

as Uncle Ben (uncredited)

2005

James Dean: Forever Young

as Narrator (voice)

2012

Death By China

as Narrator

1981

Loophole

as Stephen Booker

1988

Da

as Charlie

1994

When the Bough Breaks

as Captain Swaggert

1972

That Certain Summer

as Gary McCain

2011

1979

1985

Consenting Adult

as Ken Lynd

1989

Cold Front

as John Hyde

1982

1996

2023

Downwind

as Self Narrator

1968

The Subject Was Roses

as Timmy Cleary

1997

1994

Boca

as Jesse James Montgomery

1999

1983

Man, Woman and Child

as Robert Beckwith

1982

2014

Trash

as Padre Juilliard

1989

Nightbreaker

as Dr. Alexander Brown - Present

1969

Then Came Bronson

as Nick Oresko

1994

Trigger Fast

as Jackson Baines Hardin / Ole Devil

1999

D.R.E.A.M. Team

as J.W. Garrison

2009

Franz Jagerstätter: A Man of Conscience

as Franz Jagerstätter (voice)

1973

Message to My Daughter

as John Thatcher

2022

1994

Guns of Honor

as Jackson Baines Hardin (Ole Devil)

1994

Eyewitness: Dinosaur

as Narrator (voice)

1985

Out of the Darkness

as Eddie Zigo

1984

The Guardian

as Charlie Hyatt

2013

The Whale

as Tom Nickerson

1986

A State of Emergency

as Alex Carmody

1995

Virgin Mary

as Father Jozo Zovko

2012

1994

Fortunes of War

as Francis Labeck

1989

Beverly Hills Brats

as Dr. Jeffrey Miller

2014

A Prayer for Rain

as Warren Anderson

1970

The Andersonville Trial

as Captain Williams

1983

In the King of Prussia

as Judge Samuel Salus II

1995

The Break

as Gil Robbins

1978

Taxi!!

as Taxi Driver

1999

A Stranger in the Kingdom

as Sigurd Moulton

1992

Original Intent

as Homeless Joe

1975

The Last Survivors

as Alexander William Holmes

1985

The Real Thing

as Narrator (voice)

2023

2010

2016

Rules Don't Apply

as Noah Dietrich

1998

Voyage of Terror

as Henry Northcutt

2024

Lost & Found in Cleveland

as Dr. Austin Raybourne

2001

Enemies of War

as Narrator

1999

Gunfighter

as The Stranger

2012

2014

Selma

as Frank Minis Johnson (uncredited)

2015

Badge of Honor

as Captain Daniel Richards

2011

Sharkwise

as Narrator

1994

One of Her Own

as Asst. Dist. Atty. Pete Maresca

1968

1967

The Price of a Life

as Edward Miles Layton

2015

Unity

as Narrator (voice)

1971

Goodbye, Raggedy Ann

as Jules Worthman

1986

News at Eleven

as Frank Kenley

1993

The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story

as William F.(Ike) Eisenbraun

1991

JFK

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

2014

The Boxcar Children

as Grandfather Alden (voice)

1999

Ninth Street

as Father Frank

1973

A Prowler in the Heart

as Tony Parrish

1994

Hits!

as Kelly

1998

The Elevator

as Sarge

1997

Medusa's Child

as President

1985

Broken Rainbow

as Narrator (voice)

2004

The Nomi Song

as Self (archive footage)

2016

Anne of Green Gables

as Matthew Cuthbert

1970

Catch-22

as 1st Lt. Dobbs

2016

The Vessel

as Father Douglas

1992

The Water Engine

as Chain Letter Voice (voice) (uncredited)

1999

The Twelve Apostles

as Narrator (voice)

1973

2012

8

as Theodore Olson

2007

Flatland

as Arthur Square (voice)

1996

Project: ALF

as Colonel Gilbert Milfoil

1991

1974

1989

Marked for Murder

as Man in Park

2013

Amazonia

as Narrator

1993

Hot Shots! Part Deux

as Capt. Benjamin L. Willard (uncredited)

1993

Braving Alaska

as Narrator

1993

Braving Alaska

as Narrator (voice)

2017

1982

Centralia Fire

as Narrator

2018

Come Sunday

as Oral Roberts

1983

Choices of the Heart

as Father Philan

2018

2002

Bringing Down a Dictator

as Narrator (voice)

2003

Mercy of the Sea

as Frederik

1988

1973

Crime Club

as Deputy Wilson

1986

Shattered Spirits

as Lyle Mollencamp

2009

White House Revealed

as Self- Narrator (voice)

2021

2013

1999

The Darklings

as Ira Everett

2014

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

1993

Alive: 20 Years Later

as Narrator (voice)

1995

Dead Presidents

as The Judge

2013

Salinger

as Self - Actor

2019

2020

Princess of the Row

as John Austin

2021

Judas and the Black Messiah

as J. Edgar Hoover

1995

One Hundred and One Nights

as Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited)

1999

1996

Sacred Cargo

as Father Andrew Kanvesky

2003

The Commission

as Dep. Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach

1989

1998

Monument Ave.

as Hanlon

1991

The Rites Of Mu

as Narrator

1972

2011

Halfway Home

as Narrator(voice)

1997

Eyewitness: Monster

as Narrator (voice)

1997

Gun

as Van Guinness

2003

Hidden in Plain Sight

as Narrator (voice)

2023

2013

Defending Gideon

as Narrator

2024

The Little Pageant That Could

as Self (archive footage)

1994

Eyewitness: Shark

as Narrator (voice)

Production

1990

Cadence

as Director

1990

Cadence

as Writer

2023

Vigilante

as Executive Producer

1989

Nightbreaker

as Executive Producer

2019

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