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 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 Simpsons
Real Seymour Skinner (voice)
Two and a Half Men
Harvey
Columbo
Karl Lessing
The West Wing
Josiah Bartlet
Hawaii Five-O
Eddie Calhao
Hawaii Five-O
Arthur Dixon
Ironside
Johnny
Golden Globe Awards
Self
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee / Presenter
Mannix
Mission: Impossible
Lieutenant Albert Brocke
Nature
Narrator (voice)
Love, American Style
Dr. Art Parmel
Naked City
Phillip Kosnik
Naked City
Nick (uncredited)
Naked City
Counterman
Spin City
Ray Harris / Ray Crawford
Cannon
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Self
The Amazing Spider-Man
Uncle Ben
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Uncle Ben (uncredited)
Route 66
Tales from the Crypt
Kraygen / Thomas Miller / Zorbin the Magnificent
Anger Management
Martin Goodson
Grace and Frankie
Robert Hanson
Catch Me If You Can
Roger Strong
The Departed
Queenan
The F.B.I.
Norman Gretzler
The F.B.I.
Perry Victor
The F.B.I.
Neil Harland
The F.B.I.
Steve Chandler
The Defenders
Arnold McCabe
The Defenders
Dino Locatelli
The Defenders
Joey Americus
The Defenders
Adam Novins
Medical Center
Glen
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Paul Dano
The Rookies
The Outer Limits
Pvt. Arthur Dix
The Streets of San Francisco
Wild Cards
Jonathan Ashford
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Sly Sludge (voice)
JFK
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Apocalypse Now
Captain Benjamin Willard
aka Charlie Sheen
Self (archive footage)
Flipper
Phil Adams
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Frank Petersen
Wall Street
Carl Fox
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
Self
Arrest and Trial
Dale Beatty
The Mod Squad
Danny Morgan
Trigger Fast
Jackson Baines Hardin / Ole Devil
Ghost Story
Frank
Lancer
Selma
Frank Minis Johnson (uncredited)
Beyond the Stars
Paul Andrews
Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster
Narrator
Babylon 5: The River of Souls
Soul Hunter
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self
Bobby
Jack Stevens
Echelon Conspiracy
Raymond Burke
Bordertown
George Morgan
Enigma
Alex Holbeck
The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story
William F.(Ike) Eisenbraun
Rules Don't Apply
Noah Dietrich
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Radio Host
The Water Engine
Chain Letter Voice (voice) (uncredited)
The Nurses
Saunders
The Nurses
Carl
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Capt. Benjamin L. Willard (uncredited)
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
Peter Maurin
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Self
Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew
Matthew Cuthbert
Gandhi
Vince Walker
Spawn
Jason Wynn
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Harold Hohne
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
Narrator
The Believers
Cal Jamison
Firestarter
Captain Hollister
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Narrator (voice)
Gettysburg
Gen. Robert E. Lee
Anne of Green Gables
Matthew Cuthbert
I Love Liberty
Self
The Way
Tom
Unity
Narrator (voice)
Badlands
Kit Carruthers
That Certain Summer
Gary McCain
Dan August
Norman Sayles
LateLine
Talk to Me
E.G. Sonderling
The Missiles of October
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
Self
The Darklings
Ira Everett
Forget Me Never
Jack
The Double
Tom Highland
Sweet Hostage
Leonard Hatch
Total Recall 2070
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
Self
A Prayer for Rain
Warren Anderson
The Devil Has a Name
Ralph
Catch-22
1st Lt. Dobbs
The Last Survivors
Alexander William Holmes
The Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous
Self
The Whale
Tom Nickerson
The American President
A.J. MacInerney
Rage
Maj. Holliford
The Time Shifters
Grifasi
The Dead Zone
Greg Stillson
Trash
Padre Juilliard
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Alan (voice)
Project: ALF
Colonel Gilbert Milfoil
Lost & Found
Millstone
The Cassandra Crossing
Robby Navarro
Badge of Honor
Captain Daniel Richards
Grey Knight
Gen. Haworth
A Texas Funeral
Grandpa Sparta
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Martin Sheen
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann
Jules Worthman
The Incident
Artie Connors
Alex Haley's Queen
James Jackson Sr.
Monument Ave.
Hanlon
The Kennedy Detail
Narrator
Siesta
Del
The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas
Voice of Marcos
Mercy of the Sea
Frederik
White House Revealed
Self- Narrator (voice)
Amazonia
Narrator
The War at Home
Bob Collier
O
Coach Duke Goulding
The Final Countdown
Warren Lasky
Voyage of Terror
Henry Northcutt
Cadence
MSgt. Otis V. McKinney
Judgment in Berlin
Herbert J. Stern
The End of Poverty?
Self - Narrator
Love Happens
Donald, Burke's Father-in-Law
Medusa's Child
President
Message to My Daughter
John Thatcher
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
Dalton Trumbo
Straight Up: Helicopters in Action
Narrator (voice)
The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island
James Alden (voice)
Cold Front
John Hyde
The Commission
Dep. Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach
The Execution of Private Slovik
Eddie Slovik
Touch and Die
Frank Magenta
Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys
Jeff Snyder
Choices of the Heart
Father Philan
The Atlanta Child Murders
Chet Dettlinger
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Self
Judas and the Black Messiah
J. Edgar Hoover
Toma
Eddie Siatti
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
Loophole
Stephen Booker
The Elevator
Sarge
Storm
General James Roberts
Mexico
Narrator (voice)
A Prowler in the Heart
Tony Parrish
12 Mighty Orphans
Doc Hall
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
Self
Hostile Waters
Aurora Skipper
The Politics of the Dead Zone
Self
Pickup on 101
Lester Baumgartner
Pursuit
Timothy Drew
Roswell
Townsend
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
Sir
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Taxi Driver
Nightbreaker
Dr. Alexander Brown - Present
Out of the Darkness
Eddie Zigo
The Guardian
Charlie Hyatt
Imagine That
Dante D'Enzo
The Twelve Apostles
Narrator (voice)
Come Sunday
Oral Roberts
Stella Days
Fr. Daniel Barry
Virgin Mary
Father Jozo Zovko
Born Wild
Dan Walker
Free Money
Guard
D.R.E.A.M. Team
J.W. Garrison
When the Bough Breaks
Captain Swaggert
Original Intent
Homeless Joe
Broken Rainbow
Narrator (voice)
Lost & Found in Cleveland
Dr. Austin Raybourne
Beverly Hills Brats
Dr. Jeffrey Miller
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Frank Hallet
The Break
Gil Robbins
The Fourth Wise Man
Artaban
Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars
Matthew Cuthbert
Walking After Midnight
Self
Gun
Van Guinness
Gloves of Stone
Dr. Frank Irwin
Blind Ambition
John Dean
23 Seconds to Eternity
Narrator
No Code of Conduct
Bill Peterson
Benedict Arnold: Hero Betrayed
Narrator
The California Kid
Michael McCord
Ask Me Anything
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Narrator
The Edge of Night
Roy Sanders
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Narrator (voice)
Ninth Street
Father Frank
Montserrat
Eagle's Wing
Pike
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
Self
Taxi!!
Taxi Driver
An Act of Conscience
Narrator
Shadrach
Narrator (voice)
Chicken Soup for the Soul
Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
9/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks Up
Self
Hawk
Peter Janus
Dead Presidents
The Judge
The Catholics
Father Kinsella
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
Narrator
Flatland
Arthur Square (voice)
Tell Them Who You Are
Self
Winning New Hampshire
Self
The Andersonville Trial
Captain Williams
Eyewitness
Narrator
Enemies of War
Narrator
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
President Josiah Bartlet
Sacred Cargo
Father Andrew Kanvesky
Söndagsparty med Filip & Fredrik
Then Came Bronson
Nick Oresko
E! True Hollywood Story
Matt Lincoln
Charles
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
Self
In the King of Prussia
Judge Samuel Salus II
For the People
Louis Cahane
Letters from Three Lovers
Vincent
Hear No Evil
Lt. Brock
Princess of the Row
John Austin
Love Story (US)
Frank Randolph
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
Kilroy
Dillinger and Capone
John Dillinger
A Stranger in the Kingdom
Sigurd Moulton
The Young Lawyers
Reverend Jimmy Haines
One Hundred and One Nights
Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited)
Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing Evidence
Narrator (voice)
Jerusalem Syndrome
The Legend of Earl Durand
Luther Sykes
One of Her Own
Asst. Dist. Atty. Pete Maresca
Secrets of the Titanic
Self - Narrator
Croatia: Land of 1,100 Islands & 101 Dalmatians
Narrator (voice)
A Matter of Justice
News at Eleven
Frank Kenley
Police Surgeon
Ben Grover
Crossing the Line
self
The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color
Narrator
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Self - Actor (archive footage)
The Boxcar Children
Grandfather Alden (voice)
James Dean: Forever Young
Narrator (voice)
The Missiles of October
Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy
Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On
Harlan Garrison
Da
Charlie
Crime Club
Deputy Wilson
A Letter from Death Row
Michael's Father
Cinema Combat: Hollywood Goes to War
Self - Narrator
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
Graytak
American Dynasties: The Kennedys
Narrator (voice)
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
James Marion Hunt
In the Custody of Strangers
Frank Caldwell
Spaceflight
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Self
8
Theodore Olson
Promises to Keep
Self
50 Films to See Before You Die
Self
Salinger
Self - Actor
The Maid
Anthony Wayne
The Subject Was Roses
Timmy Cleary
Man in the Mirror
Fallen Soldier / JC Super Star / Man in Black
Shattered Spirits
Lyle Mollencamp
Man, Woman and Child
Robert Beckwith
Fortunes of War
Francis Labeck
The Making of 'Spawn'
Self
The Nomi Song
Self (archive footage)
Miller's Tale
Self
Pat Neal Is Back
Self
Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story
Mitch Snyder
Consenting Adult
Ken Lynd
Downwind
Self Narrator
Boca
Jesse James Montgomery
National Geographic: Inside the Vatican
Narrator
Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
Narrator
Alive: 20 Years Later
Narrator (voice)
Hidden in Plain Sight
Narrator (voice)
Absence of Malick
Self
Pirate for the Sea
Self
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
Self
Eyewitness: Dinosaur
Narrator (voice)
Can Art Stop a Bullet: William Kelly's Big Picture
Self
Gunfighter
The Stranger
The Vessel
Father Douglas
Death By China
Narrator
That Championship Season
Tom Daley
In the Name of the People
Narrator
Bench
Bringing Down a Dictator
Narrator (voice)
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
Self
Mongo's Back in Town
Gordon
Stockpile: The New Nuclear Menace
Narrator
Hits!
Kelly
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
Halfway Home
Narrator(voice)
Gun
Van Guinness
Marked for Murder
Man in Park
Vietnam: American Holocaust
Voice
On Great White Wings: The Wright Brothers and the Race for Flight
Narrator
The Price of a Life
Edward Miles Layton
When the Line Goes Through
Bluff Jackson
The Little Pageant That Could
Self (archive footage)
Eyewitness DVD: Weather
Narrator
National Geographic: Last Voyage of the Lusitania
Narrator
Sharkwise
Narrator
Dreamland: Mark Twain's Journey to Jerusalem
Narrator
Jerzy Popieluszko: Messenger of the Truth
Narrator (voice)
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Self
Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle
Narrator
The Real Thing
Narrator (voice)
Defending Gideon
Narrator
They Killed Sister Dorothy
Narrator
Another Time, Another Place
Richard Conley
The Making of Eyewitness
Narrator
A State of Emergency
Alex Carmody
The Friday Night Project
Self - Host
Back to the Lane
Vigilantes INC. - America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen
Presenter
Native Sons: Palestinians In Exile
Narrator
Brothers on the Line
Narrator
Eyewitness: Monster
Narrator (voice)
Father G and the Homeboys
Narrator
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
Self
Guns of Honor
Jackson Baines Hardin (Ole Devil)
Braving Alaska
Narrator
Braving Alaska
Narrator (voice)
No Drums, No Bugles
Ashby Gatrell
Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White
Narrator
A Conversation with Martin Sheen
Self
Holes in Heaven? H.A.A.R.P. & Advances In Tesla Technology
Narrator (voice)
Confessions Of An Innocent Man
Self - Narrator
Centralia Fire
Narrator
The Rites Of Mu
Narrator
Franz Jagerstätter: A Man of Conscience
Franz Jagerstätter (voice)
Eyewitness: Shark
Narrator (voice)
Making Badlands
Self
The Graham Norton Show
Self
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
The Jennifer Hudson Show
The Colbert Report
The One Show
Self
The View
Self
The View
Self - Guest
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest
Celebrity Poker Showdown
Self
10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
Inside the Actors Studio
Self