Martin Sheen
Known for Acting · 346 credits
- Born
- 1940-08-03 (age 85)
- Place of birth
- Dayton, Ohio, USA
- Also known as
- Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez · Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez Phelan
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
TV Shows (82)
The Simpsons
1989
as Real Seymour Skinner (voice)
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
Two and a Half Men
2003
as Harvey
Columbo
1971
as Karl Lessing
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host / Self (uncredited)
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
The Colbert Report
2005
The West Wing
1999
as Josiah Bartlet
The View
1997
as Self / Self - Guest
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self / Self - Nominee / Self - Nominee / Presenter / Self - Winner
Mannix
1967
Ironside
1967
as Johnny
Hawaii Five-O
1968
as Eddie Calhao / Arthur Dixon
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
as Self
Love, American Style
1969
as Dr. Art Parmel
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self - Guest
Mission: Impossible
1966
as Lieutenant Albert Brocke
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
Nature
1982
as Narrator (voice)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Spin City
1996
as Ray Harris / Ray Crawford
Naked City
1958
as Phillip Kosnik / Nick (uncredited) / Counterman
Cannon
1971
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
2007
as Self
The F.B.I.
1965
as Norman Gretzler / Perry Victor / Neil Harland / Steve Chandler
Grace and Frankie
2015
as Robert Hanson
Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Kraygen / Thomas Miller / Zorbin the Magnificent
Medical Center
1969
as Glen
Route 66
1960
The Defenders
1961
as Arnold McCabe / Dino Locatelli / Joey Americus / Adam Novins
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
as Paul Dano
Anger Management
2012
as Martin Goodson
The Rookies
1972
The Outer Limits
1963
as Pvt. Arthur Dix
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
1990
as Sly Sludge (voice)
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Wild Cards
2024
as Jonathan Ashford
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
as Father Kinsella
The Mod Squad
1968
as Danny Morgan
Lancer
1968
Flipper
1964
as Phil Adams
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
2006
as Radio Host
Arrest and Trial
1963
as Dale Beatty
Ghost Story
1972
as Frank
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006
as Narrator (voice)
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010
as Self
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
as Self - Guest
Toma
1973
as Eddie Siatti
The Nurses
1962
as Saunders / Carl
Total Recall 2070
1999
Dan August
1970
as Norman Sayles
Gun
1997
as Van Guinness
Alex Haley's Queen
1993
as James Jackson Sr.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Taxi Driver
Celebrity Poker Showdown
2003
as Self
Hawk
1966
as Peter Janus
Blind Ambition
1979
as John Dean
The Edge of Night
1956
as Roy Sanders
The Atlanta Child Murders
1985
as Chet Dettlinger
Movies (264)
The Amazing Spider-Man
2012
as Uncle Ben
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014
as Uncle Ben (uncredited)
Catch Me If You Can
2002
as Roger Strong
Apocalypse Now
1979
as Captain Benjamin Willard
The Departed
2006
as Queenan
Hot Shots! Part Deux
1993
as Capt. Benjamin L. Willard (uncredited)
Gandhi
1982
as Vince Walker
Spawn
1997
as Jason Wynn
JFK
1991
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Catch-22
1970
as 1st Lt. Dobbs
Dead Presidents
1995
as The Judge
The Way
2010
as Tom
Trash
2014
as Padre Juilliard
Wall Street
1987
as Carl Fox
Echelon Conspiracy
2009
as Raymond Burke
Gettysburg
1993
as Gen. Robert E. Lee
Badlands
1974
as Kit Carruthers
The Final Countdown
1980
as Warren Lasky
Unity
2015
as Narrator (voice)
The Dead Zone
1983
as Greg Stillson
The American President
1995
as A.J. MacInerney
Firestarter
1984
as Captain Hollister
O
2001
as Coach Duke Goulding
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
2016
as Martin Sheen
The Cassandra Crossing
1976
as Robby Navarro
Bobby
2006
as Jack Stevens
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
1976
as Frank Hallet
Selma
2014
as Frank Minis Johnson (uncredited)
Judas and the Black Messiah
2021
as J. Edgar Hoover
The Water Engine
1992
as Chain Letter Voice (voice) (uncredited)
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
2012
as Frank Petersen
Cadence
1990
as MSgt. Otis V. McKinney
Imagine That
2009
as Dante D'Enzo
Lost & Found
1999
as Millstone
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
1997
as Sir
Salinger
2013
as Self - Actor
Love Happens
2009
as Donald, Burke's Father-in-Law
Ask Me Anything
2014
Dillinger and Capone
1995
as John Dillinger
Original Intent
1992
as Homeless Joe
Enigma
1982
as Alex Holbeck
The Double
2011
as Tom Highland
Bordertown
2007
as George Morgan
Rules Don't Apply
2016
as Noah Dietrich
Hostile Waters
1997
as Aurora Skipper
The Incident
1967
as Artie Connors
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991
as Self
Sweet Hostage
1975
as Leonard Hatch
The Believers
1987
as Cal Jamison
12 Mighty Orphans
2021
as Doc Hall
Roswell
1994
as Townsend
The Break
1995
as Gil Robbins
Free Money
1998
as Guard
The Maid
1991
as Anthony Wayne
One Hundred and One Nights
1995
as Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited)
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
2008
as Self
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
2020
as Josiah Bartlet
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
2012
as Self
Project: ALF
1996
as Colonel Gilbert Milfoil
Rage
1972
as Maj. Holliford
The Vessel
2016
as Father Douglas
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
as Self
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
2008
as Self
The Devil Has a Name
2019
as Ralph
The Time Shifters
1999
as Grifasi
Hear No Evil
1993
as Lt. Brock
Talk to Me
2007
as E.G. Sonderling
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1987
as Alan (voice)
No Code of Conduct
1999
as Bill Peterson
Storm
1999
as General James Roberts
Anne of Green Gables
2016
as Matthew Cuthbert
The Commission
2003
as Dep. Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach
Born Wild
1995
as Dan Walker
Babylon 5: The River of Souls
1998
as Soul Hunter
Stella Days
2012
as Fr. Daniel Barry
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
1993
Grey Knight
1993
as Gen. Haworth
Hits!
1994
as Kelly
Flatland
2007
as Arthur Square (voice)
Nightbreaker
1989
as Dr. Alexander Brown - Present
Come Sunday
2018
as Oral Roberts
The Nomi Song
2004
as Self (archive footage)
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
1987
as Narrator
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
1996
as Peter Maurin
The Fourth Wise Man
1985
as Artaban
One of Her Own
1994
as Asst. Dist. Atty. Pete Maresca
Out of the Darkness
1985
as Eddie Zigo
The War at Home
1996
as Bob Collier
8
2012
as Theodore Olson
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002
as Self
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
1987
as James Marion Hunt
Judgment in Berlin
1988
as Herbert J. Stern
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
2015
as Self
Fortunes of War
1994
as Francis Labeck
Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew
2017
as Matthew Cuthbert
Gloves of Stone
2009
as Dr. Frank Irwin
D.R.E.A.M. Team
1999
as J.W. Garrison
Beyond the Stars
1989
as Paul Andrews
Who Killed the Electric Car?
2006
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Legend of Earl Durand
1974
as Luther Sykes
The Catholics
1973
as Father Kinsella
The Missiles of October
1974
as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy
The California Kid
1974
as Michael McCord
Loophole
1981
as Stephen Booker
Pursuit
1972
as Timothy Drew
Siesta
1987
as Del
Downwind
2023
as Self Narrator
Shattered Spirits
1986
as Lyle Mollencamp
Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle
2017
as Narrator
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
2013
as Self
The Boxcar Children
2014
as Grandfather Alden (voice)
Eagle's Wing
1979
as Pike
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann
1971
as Jules Worthman
Princess of the Row
2020
as John Austin
Monument Ave.
1998
as Hanlon
Pickup on 101
1972
as Lester Baumgartner
The Darklings
1999
as Ira Everett
I Love Liberty
1982
as Self
When the Bough Breaks
1994
as Captain Swaggert
About Martin Sheen
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 S… With 346 credits spanning from 1944 to 2025, Martin Sheen has appeared in 264 films and 82 TV shows.
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Most Popular Martin Sheen Movies
- The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) — as Uncle Ben
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) — as Uncle Ben (uncredited)
- Catch Me If You Can (2002) — as Roger Strong
- Apocalypse Now (1979) — as Captain Benjamin Willard
- The Departed (2006) — as Queenan
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