Martin Sheen
Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez (born August 3, 1940), better known by his stage name Martin Sheen, is a film actor best known for his performances in the films Badlands (1973) and Apocalypse Now (1979), and in the television series The West Wing from 1999 to 2006. In film he has won the Best Actor award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival for his performance as Kit Carruthers in Badlands. His 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, such as Richard Attenborough, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Oliver Stone. He has had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame since 1989. In television he has won both a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild awards for playing the lead role of President Bartlet in The West Wing, and an Emmy for guest acting in the sitcom Murphy Brown. Born and raised in the United States to immigrant parents, a first-generation Irish mother, Mary-Anne Phelan from Borrisokane in County Tipperary and a Galician father, Francisco Estévez from Vigo in Galicia (Spain), he adopted the stage name Martin Sheen to help him gain acting parts. He is the father of actors Emilio Estevez, Ramón Estevez, Carlos Irwin Estevez (Charlie Sheen), and Renée Estevez. His younger brother Joe Estevez is also an actor. Although known as an actor, he has also directed one film, Cadence (1990), appearing alongside sons Charlie and Ramon. He has also narrated, produced and directed in documentary television, earning two Daytime Emmy awards in the 1980s. In addition to film and television, Sheen has also become notable for his activism 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.
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- Born:
- Aug 3, 1940 In Dayton, Ohio, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 229
- First Appeared:
- In the series The Edge of Night 1956-04-02
- Latest Project:
- Series aka Charlie Sheen 2025-09-10
Known For
Filmography
| Series | aka Charlie Sheen | Self (archive footage) | 2025-09-10 |
| Movie | The Little Pageant That Could | Self (archive footage) | 2024-06-13 |
| Movie | Downwind | Self Narrator | 2023-01-20 |
| Movie | Robert De Niro: Hiding in the Spotlight | Self (archive footage) | 2023-08-14 |
| Movie | Becoming Al Pacino | Self (archive footage) | 2022-02-06 |
| Movie | Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home | Self (archive footage) | 2022-05-03 |
| Movie | Judas and the Black Messiah | J. Edgar Hoover | 2021-02-12 |
| Movie | 12 Mighty Orphans | Doc Hall | 2021-06-18 |
| Movie | A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote | President Josiah Bartlet | 2020-10-15 |
| Movie | Princess of the Row | John Austin | 2020-11-27 |
| Movie | The Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous | Self | 2020-12-06 |
| Movie | Bench | 2019-01-30 | |
| Movie | The Devil Has a Name | Ralph | 2019-08-04 |
| Movie | The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island | James Alden (voice) | 2018-05-08 |
| Movie | Come Sunday | Oral Roberts | 2018-01-21 |
| Series | Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing Evidence | Narrator (voice) | 2017-01-15 |
| Movie | Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew | Matthew Cuthbert | 2017-07-01 |
| Movie | Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars | Matthew Cuthbert | 2017-02-20 |
| Movie | Anne of Green Gables | Matthew Cuthbert | 2016-02-15 |
| Movie | Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping | Martin Sheen | 2016-06-03 |
| Movie | Rules Don't Apply | Noah Dietrich | 2016-11-23 |
| Movie | The Vessel | Father Douglas | 2016-09-15 |
| Series | Grace and Frankie | Robert Hanson | 2015-05-08 |
| Movie | Ooops! Noah Is Gone... | Lion (voice, US version) | 2015-03-26 |
| Movie | Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy | Self | 2015-10-10 |
| Movie | Unity | Narrator (voice) | 2015-08-12 |
| Movie | Badge of Honor | Captain Daniel Richards | 2015-10-19 |
| Movie | Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey | Self | 2014-06-15 |
| Movie | Ask Me Anything | 2014-04-19 | |
| Movie | The Boxcar Children | Grandfather Alden (voice) | 2014-08-05 |
| Movie | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | Uncle Ben (uncredited) | 2014-04-16 |
| Movie | A Prayer for Rain | Warren Anderson | 2014-12-05 |
| Movie | Selma | Frank Minis Johnson (uncredited) | 2014-12-25 |
| Movie | Trash | Padre Juilliard | 2014-10-09 |
| Movie | Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2014-09-20 |
| Movie | Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot | Self | 2013-01-15 |
| Movie | Salinger | Self - Actor | 2013-09-06 |
| Movie | Amazonia | Narrator | 2013-11-26 |
| Movie | The Whale | Tom Nickerson | 2013-12-22 |
| Movie | Stella Days | Fr. Daniel Barry | 2012-03-09 |
| Movie | Seeking a Friend for the End of the World | Frank Petersen | 2012-06-22 |
| Movie | The Amazing Spider-Man | Uncle Ben | 2012-06-23 |
| Movie | 9/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks Up | Self | 2011-06-10 |
| Movie | Miller's Tale | Self | 2011-03-05 |
| Movie | Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White | Narrator | 2011-09-15 |
| Movie | Wrinkles | (voice) | 2011-09-19 |
| Movie | The Double | Tom Highland | 2011-10-27 |
| Movie | Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Self (archive footage) | 2010-05-04 |
| Movie | The Way | Tom | 2010-09-10 |
| Movie | The Kennedy Detail | Narrator | 2010-12-02 |
| Movie | White House Revealed | Self- Narrator (voice) | 2009-02-16 |
| Movie | Echelon Conspiracy | Raymond Burke | 2009-02-27 |
| Movie | Gloves of Stone | Dr. Frank Irwin | 2009-10-08 |
| Movie | Imagine That | Dante D'Enzo | 2009-06-19 |
| Movie | Love Happens | Donald, Burke's Father-in-Law | 2009-09-18 |
| Movie | The End of Poverty? | Self - Narrator | 2008-05-19 |
| Movie | Notes on an American Film Director at Work | Self | 2008-01-01 |
| Movie | Pirate for the Sea | Self | 2008-08-30 |
| Movie | The Garden | Self | 2008-08-17 |
| Movie | Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary | Self | 2008-10-25 |
| Movie | Flatland | Arthur Square (voice) | 2007-01-14 |
| Movie | Bordertown | George Morgan | 2007-02-22 |
| Movie | Talk to Me | E.G. Sonderling | 2007-07-13 |
| Movie | 50 Films to See Before You Die | Self | 2006-07-22 |
| Movie | Who Killed the Electric Car? | Narrator (voice) | 2006-08-04 |
| Movie | The Departed | Queenan | 2006-10-04 |
| Movie | Bobby | Jack Stevens | 2006-09-05 |
| Movie | The Politics of the Dead Zone | Self | 2006-09-26 |
| Movie | James Dean: Forever Young | Narrator (voice) | 2005-05-20 |
| Movie | Tell Them Who You Are | Self | 2004-09-06 |
| Movie | Jerusalem Syndrome | 2004-09-09 | |
| Movie | The Nomi Song | Self (archive footage) | 2004-10-14 |
| Movie | Mercy of the Sea | Frederik | 2003-07-22 |
| Movie | The Commission | Dep. Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach | 2003-11-07 |
| Movie | Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick | Self | 2002-09-01 |
| Movie | Catch Me If You Can | Roger Strong | 2002-12-16 |
| Movie | O | Coach Duke Goulding | 2001-08-31 |
| Movie | No Code of Conduct | Bill Peterson | 1999-03-19 |
| Movie | Gunfighter | The Stranger | 1999-03-15 |
| Movie | Lost & Found | Millstone | 1999-04-23 |
| Movie | A Texas Funeral | Grandpa Sparta | 1999-01-01 |
| Movie | Storm | General James Roberts | 1999-09-11 |
| Movie | Ninth Street | Father Frank | 1999-01-10 |
| Movie | The Darklings | Ira Everett | 1999-02-14 |
| Series | Chicken Soup for the Soul | 1999-08-24 | |
| Movie | The Twelve Apostles | Narrator (voice) | 1999-12-01 |
| Series | The West Wing | Josiah Bartlet | 1999-09-22 |
| Movie | A Stranger in the Kingdom | Sigurd Moulton | 1999-11-23 |
| Movie | The Time Shifters | Grifasi | 1999-10-17 |
| Movie | D.R.E.A.M. Team | J.W. Garrison | 1999-09-25 |
| Movie | Forget Me Never | Jack | 1999-10-03 |
| Movie | In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story | Self | 1999-10-07 |
| Movie | Shadrach | Narrator (voice) | 1998-09-23 |
| Movie | The Elevator | Sarge | 1998-04-01 |
| Movie | Monument Ave. | Hanlon | 1998-09-25 |
| Movie | Voyage of Terror | Henry Northcutt | 1998-01-02 |
| Movie | A Letter from Death Row | Michael's Father | 1998-11-17 |
| Movie | Babylon 5: The River of Souls | Soul Hunter | 1998-12-20 |
| Movie | Free Money | Guard | 1998-12-03 |
| Movie | Truth or Consequences, N.M. | Sir | 1997-05-02 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Spawn' | Self | 1997-07-15 |
| Series | Gun | Van Guinness | 1997-04-12 |
| Movie | Spawn | Jason Wynn | 1997-07-31 |
| Movie | Medusa's Child | President | 1997-11-16 |
| Movie | Hostile Waters | Aurora Skipper | 1997-10-18 |
| Movie | Mexico | Narrator (voice) | 1996-03-09 |
| Movie | Project: ALF | Colonel Gilbert Milfoil | 1996-02-17 |
| Movie | Sacred Cargo | Father Andrew Kanvesky | 1996-08-13 |
| Movie | Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story | Peter Maurin | 1996-09-27 |
| Movie | The War at Home | Bob Collier | 1996-11-20 |
| Movie | Born Wild | Dan Walker | 1995-09-01 |
| Movie | One Hundred and One Nights | Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited) | 1995-01-25 |
| Movie | Dillinger and Capone | John Dillinger | 1995-06-20 |
| Movie | The Break | Gil Robbins | 1995-09-01 |
| Movie | Dead Presidents | The Judge | 1995-09-29 |
| Movie | Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys | Jeff Snyder | 1995-11-07 |
| Movie | The American President | A.J. MacInerney | 1995-11-17 |
| Movie | Virgin Mary | Father Jozo Zovko | 1995-10-12 |
| Movie | Trigger Fast | Jackson Baines Hardin / Ole Devil | 1994-07-06 |
| Movie | One of Her Own | Asst. Dist. Atty. Pete Maresca | 1994-05-16 |
| Movie | When the Bough Breaks | Captain Swaggert | 1994-05-07 |
| Movie | Roswell | Townsend | 1994-07-31 |
| Movie | Boca | Jesse James Montgomery | 1994-09-16 |
| Movie | Fortunes of War | Francis Labeck | 1994-12-07 |
| Movie | Hits! | Kelly | 1994-11-29 |
| Movie | Guns of Honor | Jackson Baines Hardin (Ole Devil) | 1994-10-27 |
| Movie | Grey Knight | Gen. Haworth | 1993-03-07 |
| Series | Alex Haley's Queen | James Jackson Sr. | 1993-02-14 |
| Movie | Hear No Evil | Lt. Brock | 1993-03-26 |
| Movie | Hot Shots! Part Deux | Capt. Benjamin L. Willard (uncredited) | 1993-05-21 |
| Movie | Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology | 1993-05-20 | |
| Movie | The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story | William F.(Ike) Eisenbraun | 1993-06-28 |
| Movie | Gettysburg | Gen. Robert E. Lee | 1993-10-08 |
| Movie | Original Intent | Homeless Joe | 1992-05-13 |
| Movie | The Water Engine | Chain Letter Voice (voice) (uncredited) | 1992-08-24 |
| Movie | The Maid | Anthony Wayne | 1991-08-02 |
| Movie | Touch and Die | Frank Magenta | 1991-01-01 |
| Movie | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Self | 1991-11-27 |
| Movie | Guilty Until Proven Innocent | Harold Hohne | 1991-09-22 |
| Movie | JFK | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1991-12-20 |
| Series | Captain Planet and the Planeteers | 1990-09-15 | |
| Movie | Cadence | MSgt. Otis V. McKinney | 1990-11-16 |
| Movie | Marked for Murder | Man in Park | 1989-01-01 |
| Movie | Nightbreaker | Dr. Alexander Brown - Present | 1989-03-08 |
| Movie | Beverly Hills Brats | Dr. Jeffrey Miller | 1989-10-06 |
| Movie | Beyond the Stars | Paul Andrews | 1989-03-31 |
| Movie | Cold Front | John Hyde | 1989-09-29 |
| Movie | Walking After Midnight | Self | 1988-01-01 |
| Movie | Da | Charlie | 1988-04-29 |
| Movie | Judgment in Berlin | Herbert J. Stern | 1988-05-06 |
| Movie | The Believers | Cal Jamison | 1987-06-09 |
| Movie | Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 | James Marion Hunt | 1987-05-16 |
| Movie | Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam | Alan (voice) | 1987-10-01 |
| Movie | Wall Street | Carl Fox | 1987-12-10 |
| Movie | Siesta | Del | 1987-11-11 |
| Movie | The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun | Narrator | 1987-12-30 |
| Movie | News at Eleven | Frank Kenley | 1986-04-02 |
| Movie | Shattered Spirits | Lyle Mollencamp | 1986-01-06 |
| Movie | Secrets of the Titanic | Self - Narrator | 1986-08-07 |
| Movie | Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story | Mitch Snyder | 1986-05-19 |
| Movie | A State of Emergency | Alex Carmody | 1986-11-01 |
| Movie | The Fourth Wise Man | Artaban | 1985-03-30 |
| Movie | Consenting Adult | Ken Lynd | 1985-02-04 |
| Series | The Atlanta Child Murders | Chet Dettlinger | 1985-02-10 |
| Series | Spaceflight | 1985-05-08 | |
| Movie | Out of the Darkness | Eddie Zigo | 1985-10-12 |
| Series | CBS Schoolbreak Special | Joe Sanders | 1984-01-24 |
| Movie | Firestarter | Captain Hollister | 1984-05-11 |
| Movie | The Guardian | Charlie Hyatt | 1984-10-20 |
| Movie | Man, Woman and Child | Robert Beckwith | 1983-04-01 |
| Movie | In the King of Prussia | Judge Samuel Salus II | 1983-02-13 |
| Movie | The Dead Zone | Greg Stillson | 1983-10-21 |
| Series | Kennedy | John F. Kennedy | 1983-11-20 |
| Movie | Choices of the Heart | Father Philan | 1983-12-05 |
| Movie | Enigma | Alex Holbeck | 1982-10-15 |
| Movie | In the Custody of Strangers | Frank Caldwell | 1982-05-26 |
| Movie | Gandhi | Vince Walker | 1982-12-01 |
| Movie | That Championship Season | Tom Daley | 1982-12-09 |
| Movie | Loophole | Stephen Booker | 1981-06-25 |
| Movie | The Final Countdown | Warren Lasky | 1980-01-31 |
| Movie | Apocalypse Now | Captain Benjamin Willard | 1979-05-19 |
| Series | Blind Ambition | John Dean | 1979-05-20 |
| Movie | Eagle's Wing | Pike | 1979-07-26 |
| Movie | Taxi!! | Taxi Driver | 1978-02-02 |
| Movie | Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary | Self | 1977-11-25 |
| Movie | The Cassandra Crossing | Robby Navarro | 1976-12-18 |
| Movie | The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane | Frank Hallet | 1976-12-25 |
| Movie | The Last Survivors | Alexander William Holmes | 1975-03-04 |
| Movie | Sweet Hostage | Leonard Hatch | 1975-10-10 |
| Movie | The Execution of Private Slovik | Eddie Slovik | 1974-03-13 |
| Movie | Badlands | Kit Carruthers | 1974-01-05 |
| Movie | The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd | Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd | 1974-05-07 |
| Movie | The Legend of Earl Durand | Luther Sykes | 1974-10-08 |
| Movie | The California Kid | Michael McCord | 1974-09-25 |
| Movie | The Missiles of October | Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy | 1974-12-18 |
| Movie | Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On | Harlan Garrison | 1973-03-11 |
| Series | Love Story (US) | Frank Randolph | 1973-10-03 |
| Movie | Crime Club | Deputy Wilson | 1973-03-06 |
| Movie | Letters from Three Lovers | Vincent | 1973-10-03 |
| Movie | Message to My Daughter | John Thatcher | 1973-12-12 |
| Movie | The Catholics | Father Kinsella | 1973-11-29 |
| Movie | No Drums, No Bugles | Ashby Gatrell | 1972-02-23 |
| Movie | Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol | Graytak | 1972-01-30 |
| Movie | When the Line Goes Through | Bluff Jackson | 1972-09-24 |
| Movie | Pickup on 101 | Lester Baumgartner | 1972-05-01 |
| Movie | Pursuit | Timothy Drew | 1972-12-12 |
| Movie | Rage | Maj. Holliford | 1972-11-22 |
| Movie | That Certain Summer | Gary McCain | 1972-11-01 |
| Movie | Montserrat | 1971-03-02 | |
| Series | Sarge | Dan | 1971-09-21 |
| Movie | Goodbye, Raggedy Ann | Jules Worthman | 1971-10-22 |
| Movie | Mongo's Back in Town | Gordon | 1971-12-10 |
| Movie | The Andersonville Trial | Captain Williams | 1970-05-17 |
| Movie | Catch-22 | 1st Lt. Dobbs | 1970-06-24 |
| Series | The Young Lawyers | Reverend Jimmy Haines | 1970-09-21 |
| Series | Matt Lincoln | Charles | 1970-09-24 |
| Movie | Then Came Bronson | Nick Oresko | 1969-03-24 |
| Movie | Pat Neal Is Back | Self | 1968-04-07 |
| Movie | The Subject Was Roses | Timmy Cleary | 1968-10-13 |
| Series | N.Y.P.D. | Fred Janney | 1967-09-05 |
| Movie | The Incident | Artie Connors | 1967-11-05 |
| Series | Hawk | Peter Janus | 1966-09-08 |
| Movie | Ten Blocks on the Camino Real | Kilroy | 1966-10-07 |
| Series | For the People | Louis Cahane | 1965-01-31 |
| Series | The Nurses | Carl | 1965-09-27 |
| Series | The Nurses | Carl | 1962-09-27 |
| Series | Insight | Bobo | 1960-10-02 |
| Series | Police Surgeon | Ben Grover | 1960-09-10 |
| Series | The Edge of Night | Roy Sanders | 1956-04-02 |