Martin Sheen
Acting
Born: August 3, 1940 (age 86) · Dayton, Ohio, USA
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
The Amazing Spider-Man
2012
Catch Me If You Can
2002
The Departed
2006
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014
The Simpsons
1989
Apocalypse Now
1979
Two and a Half Men
2003
Gandhi
1982
JFK
1991
Selma
2014
Wall Street
1987
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
2012
Photos (8)
Movies (210)
The Amazing Spider-Man
Uncle Ben
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Uncle Ben (uncredited)
Apocalypse Now
Captain Benjamin Willard
The Departed
Queenan
Catch Me If You Can
Roger Strong
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Capt. Benjamin L. Willard (uncredited)
JFK
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Wall Street
Carl Fox
The Dead Zone
Greg Stillson
Judas and the Black Messiah
J. Edgar Hoover
Gandhi
Vince Walker
Spawn
Jason Wynn
The American President
A.J. MacInerney
Touch and Die
Frank Magenta
Badlands
Kit Carruthers
Trash
Padre Juilliard
The Cassandra Crossing
Robby Navarro
The Final Countdown
Warren Lasky
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Martin Sheen
Imagine That
Dante D'Enzo
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Frank Petersen
Dead Presidents
The Judge
Catch-22
1st Lt. Dobbs
The Way
Tom
The Double
Tom Highland
Gettysburg
Gen. Robert E. Lee
Echelon Conspiracy
Raymond Burke
Selma
Frank Minis Johnson (uncredited)
Firestarter
Captain Hollister
12 Mighty Orphans
Doc Hall
Rules Don't Apply
Noah Dietrich
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Frank Hallet
Love Happens
Donald, Burke's Father-in-Law
Princess of the Row
John Austin
Bordertown
George Morgan
The Believers
Cal Jamison
Amazonia
Narrator
Anne of Green Gables
Matthew Cuthbert
Bobby
Jack Stevens
Project: ALF
Colonel Gilbert Milfoil
Ask Me Anything
2014
Flatland
Arthur Square (voice)
Cadence
MSgt. Otis V. McKinney
Babylon 5: The River of Souls
Soul Hunter
Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle
Narrator
Come Sunday
Oral Roberts
O
Coach Duke Goulding
The Incident
Artie Connors
The California Kid
Michael McCord
Talk to Me
E.G. Sonderling
One Hundred and One Nights
Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited)
Free Money
Guard
The Devil Has a Name
Ralph
The Maid
Anthony Wayne
Gloves of Stone
Dr. Frank Irwin
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
Sir
Loophole
Stephen Booker
Hear No Evil
Lt. Brock
Lost & Found
Millstone
Unity
Narrator (voice)
Hostile Waters
Aurora Skipper
Eagle's Wing
Pike
Taxi!!
Taxi Driver
Roswell
Townsend
When the Bough Breaks
Captain Swaggert
No Code of Conduct
Bill Peterson
Nightbreaker
Dr. Alexander Brown - Present
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Alan (voice)
The Fourth Wise Man
Artaban
Dillinger and Capone
John Dillinger
Beverly Hills Brats
Dr. Jeffrey Miller
Original Intent
Homeless Joe
The Missiles of October
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy
Shadrach
Narrator (voice)
The Time Shifters
Grifasi
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
Josiah Bartlet
Enigma
Alex Holbeck
Grey Knight
Gen. Haworth
Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars
Matthew Cuthbert
The Vessel
Father Douglas
The Water Engine
Chain Letter Voice (voice) (uncredited)
Voyage of Terror
Henry Northcutt
The War at Home
Bob Collier
Jerusalem Syndrome
2004
Consenting Adult
Ken Lynd
A Prowler in the Heart
Tony Parrish
That Championship Season
Tom Daley
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
Peter Maurin
Boca
Jesse James Montgomery
Da
Charlie
Badge of Honor
Captain Daniel Richards
The Boxcar Children
Grandfather Alden (voice)
Beyond the Stars
Paul Andrews
One of Her Own
Asst. Dist. Atty. Pete Maresca
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Harold Hohne
News at Eleven
Frank Kenley
Medusa's Child
President
Fortunes of War
Francis Labeck
D.R.E.A.M. Team
J.W. Garrison
The Guardian
Charlie Hyatt
The Whale
Tom Nickerson
Siesta
Del
Judgment in Berlin
Herbert J. Stern
Man, Woman and Child
Robert Beckwith
Monument Ave.
Hanlon
Defending Gideon
Narrator
Gunfighter
The Stranger
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
Narrator
Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew
Matthew Cuthbert
8
Theodore Olson
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
Narrator
The Andersonville Trial
Captain Williams
That Certain Summer
Gary McCain
Lost & Found in Cleveland
Dr. Austin Raybourne
The Execution of Private Slovik
Eddie Slovik
Born Wild
Dan Walker
A Texas Funeral
Grandpa Sparta
The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island
James Alden (voice)
Crime Club
Deputy Wilson
Rage
Maj. Holliford
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann
Jules Worthman
The Catholics
Father Kinsella
Forget Me Never
Jack
The Legend of Earl Durand
Luther Sykes
Halfway Home
Narrator(voice)
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
Man in the Mirror
Fallen Soldier / JC Super Star / Man in Black
The Break
Gil Robbins
Virgin Mary
Father Jozo Zovko
The Darklings
Ira Everett
Guns of Honor
Jackson Baines Hardin (Ole Devil)
The Elevator
Sarge
Shattered Spirits
Lyle Mollencamp
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
1993
The Subject Was Roses
Timmy Cleary
Sweet Hostage
Leonard Hatch
Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story
Mitch Snyder
Sacred Cargo
Father Andrew Kanvesky
Stella Days
Fr. Daniel Barry
Storm
General James Roberts
Pursuit
Timothy Drew
A Prayer for Rain
Warren Anderson
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
Graytak
Trigger Fast
Jackson Baines Hardin / Ole Devil
23 Seconds to Eternity
Narrator
An Act of Conscience
Narrator
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
Dalton Trumbo
Cold Front
John Hyde
Alive: 20 Years Later
Narrator (voice)
Out of the Darkness
Eddie Zigo
Vigilantes INC. - America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen
Presenter
Pickup on 101
Lester Baumgartner
The Last Survivors
Alexander William Holmes
National Geographic: Last Voyage of the Lusitania
Narrator
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Narrator
Letters from Three Lovers
Vincent
The Commission
Dep. Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach
Marked for Murder
Man in Park
Death By China
Narrator
Benedict Arnold: Hero Betrayed
Narrator
Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys
Jeff Snyder
In the Custody of Strangers
Frank Caldwell
Then Came Bronson
Nick Oresko
In the King of Prussia
Judge Samuel Salus II
Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White
Narrator
Broken Rainbow
Narrator (voice)
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
James Marion Hunt
Message to My Daughter
John Thatcher
A Letter from Death Row
Michael's Father
A State of Emergency
Alex Carmody
Eyewitness: Dinosaur
Narrator (voice)
Mongo's Back in Town
Gordon
The Rites Of Mu
Narrator
James Dean: Forever Young
Narrator (voice)
Braving Alaska
Narrator
Braving Alaska
Narrator (voice)
The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story
William F.(Ike) Eisenbraun
Jerzy Popieluszko: Messenger of the Truth
Narrator (voice)
National Geographic: Inside the Vatican
Narrator
The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas
Voice of Marcos
Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On
Harlan Garrison
The Price of a Life
Edward Miles Layton
Hits!
Kelly
Vietnam: American Holocaust
Voice
Montserrat
1971
No Drums, No Bugles
Ashby Gatrell
Eyewitness: Monster
Narrator (voice)
Mexico
Narrator (voice)
Another Time, Another Place
Richard Conley
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
Kilroy
Franz Jagerstätter: A Man of Conscience
Franz Jagerstätter (voice)
Straight Up: Helicopters in Action
Narrator (voice)
Native Sons: Palestinians In Exile
Narrator
They Killed Sister Dorothy
Narrator
Bringing Down a Dictator
Narrator (voice)
Sharkwise
Narrator
Eyewitness: Shark
Narrator (voice)
Dreamland: Mark Twain's Journey to Jerusalem
Narrator
The Twelve Apostles
Narrator (voice)
American Martyr: The Stanley Rother Story
Narrator
Holes in Heaven? H.A.A.R.P. & Advances In Tesla Technology
Narrator (voice)
When the Line Goes Through
Bluff Jackson
Brothers on the Line
Narrator
Hidden in Plain Sight
Narrator (voice)
On Great White Wings: The Wright Brothers and the Race for Flight
Narrator
A Stranger in the Kingdom
Sigurd Moulton
In the Name of the People
Narrator
Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster
Narrator
Eyewitness DVD: Weather
Narrator
The Kennedy Detail
Narrator
TV Shows (70)
The Simpsons
Real Seymour Skinner (voice) · 1 eps
The West Wing
Josiah Bartlet · 154 eps
Two and a Half Men
Harvey · 1 eps
Columbo
Karl Lessing · 1 eps
The Jennifer Hudson Show
1 eps
Ironside
Johnny · 1 eps
Hawaii Five-O
Eddie Calhao · 1 eps
Hawaii Five-O
Arthur Dixon · 1 eps
Mannix
1 eps
Nature
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
Love, American Style
Dr. Art Parmel · 1 eps
Spin City
Ray Harris / Ray Crawford · 1 eps
Mission: Impossible
Lieutenant Albert Brocke · 1 eps
Grace and Frankie
Robert Hanson · 94 eps
Tales from the Crypt
Kraygen / Thomas Miller / Zorbin the Magnificent · 1 eps
Cannon
3 eps
The Streets of San Francisco
1 eps
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Paul Dano · 1 eps
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Father Kinsella · 1 eps
Route 66
1 eps
Anger Management
Martin Goodson · 19 eps
The F.B.I.
Norman Gretzler · 1 eps
The F.B.I.
Perry Victor · 1 eps
The F.B.I.
Neil Harland · 1 eps
The F.B.I.
Steve Chandler · 1 eps
The Outer Limits
Pvt. Arthur Dix · 1 eps
Naked City
Phillip Kosnik · 1 eps
Naked City
Nick (uncredited) · 1 eps
Naked City
Counterman · 1 eps
Wild Cards
Jonathan Ashford · 1 eps
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Sly Sludge (voice) · 11 eps
The Defenders
Arnold McCabe · 1 eps
The Defenders
Dino Locatelli · 1 eps
The Defenders
Joey Americus · 1 eps
The Defenders
Adam Novins · 1 eps
Medical Center
Glen · 1 eps
The Rookies
1 eps
NET Playhouse
Kilroy · 1 eps
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Narrator (voice) · 4 eps
Lancer
1 eps
Flipper
Phil Adams · 1 eps
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Radio Host · 1 eps
The Mod Squad
Danny Morgan · 1 eps
Arrest and Trial
Dale Beatty · 1 eps
Ghost Story
Frank · 1 eps
The Nurses
Saunders · 98 eps
The Nurses
Carl · 98 eps
Dan August
Norman Sayles · 1 eps
Total Recall 2070
1 eps
Gun
Van · 1 eps
The American Experiment
George Washington · 5 eps
Toma
Eddie Siatti · 1 eps
Alex Haley's Queen
James Jackson Sr. · 3 eps
Söndagsparty med Filip & Fredrik
1 eps
For the People
Louis Cahane · 13 eps
Eyewitness
Narrator · 27 eps
The Edge of Night
Roy Sanders · 306 eps
The Atlanta Child Murders
Chet Dettlinger · 2 eps
Hawk
Peter Janus · 17 eps
American Dynasties: The Kennedys
Narrator (voice) · 6 eps
Kennedy
John F. Kennedy · 3 eps
Blind Ambition
John Dean · 4 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Taxi Driver · 1 eps
Police Surgeon
Ben Grover · 12 eps
The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color
Narrator · 4 eps
The Young Lawyers
Reverend Jimmy Haines · 24 eps
Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing Evidence
Narrator (voice) · 6 eps
10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
1 eps
A Matter of Justice
2 eps
The Missiles of October
Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy · 2 eps
Self / Appearances (63)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Graham Norton Show
Self · 1 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host · 1 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self (uncredited) · 1 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self · 1 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee · 2 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee / Presenter · 1 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Winner · 1 eps
The Mike Douglas Show
Self · 1 eps
The Colbert Report
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The View
Self · 2 eps
The View
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Self · 1 eps
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest · 4 eps
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self - Guest · 4 eps
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self · 1 eps
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self - Guest · 2 eps
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Self · 1 eps
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self · 1 eps
The Meaning of Life
Self · 1 eps
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
aka Charlie Sheen
Self (archive footage) · 2 eps
Celebrity Poker Showdown
Self · 1 eps
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Self
E! True Hollywood Story
Self · 2 eps
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Self - Narrator (voice)
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
Self
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Self
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Salinger
Self - Actor
Inside the Actors Studio
Self · 1 eps
50 Films to See Before You Die
Self
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
Self
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Self
I Love Liberty
Self
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
Self
The Little Pageant That Could
Self (archive footage)
The King and I: Recording a Hollywood Dream
Self / The Kralahome (voice)
Downwind
Self Narrator
Walking After Midnight
Self
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
Self
Tell Them Who You Are
Self
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
Self
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Self
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
Self
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
Self
Absence of Malick
Self
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
Self
Miller's Tale
Self
White House Revealed
Self- Narrator (voice)
The Nomi Song
Self (archive footage)
Winning New Hampshire
Self
Pirate for the Sea
Self
Secrets of the Titanic
Self - Narrator
The End of Poverty?
Self - Narrator
Confessions Of An Innocent Man
Self - Narrator
Can Art Stop a Bullet: William Kelly's Big Picture
Self
Making Badlands
Self
Promises to Keep
Self
The Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous
Self
Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story
Self
A Conversation with Martin Sheen
Self
The Friday Night Project
Self - Host · 1 eps
