Martin Sheen
Acting • Born 1940-08-03
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.
Filmography
358 credits
Apocalypse Now
Movie • 1979
Captain Benjamin Willard
Touch and Die
Movie • 1991
Frank Magenta
The Departed
Movie • 2006
Queenan
Catch Me If You Can
Movie • 2002
Roger Strong
Hostile Waters
Movie • 1997
Aurora Skipper
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
Movie • 1993
Gandhi
Movie • 1982
Vince Walker
No Code of Conduct
Movie • 1999
Bill Peterson
Badlands
Movie • 1974
Kit Carruthers
Spawn
Movie • 1997
Jason Wynn
Gettysburg
Movie • 1993
Gen. Robert E. Lee
Wall Street
Movie • 1987
Carl Fox
Bobby
Movie • 2006
Jack Stevens
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Movie • 1991
Self
Enigma
Movie • 1982
Alex Holbeck
Babylon 5: The River of Souls
Movie • 1998
Soul Hunter
Bordertown
Movie • 2007
George Morgan
O
Movie • 2001
Coach Duke Goulding
The Dead Zone
Movie • 1983
Greg Stillson
Sweet Hostage
Movie • 1975
Leonard Hatch
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
Movie • 1997
Sir
Free Money
Movie • 1998
Guard
Talk to Me
Movie • 2007
E.G. Sonderling
Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story
Movie • 1986
Mitch Snyder
Firestarter
Movie • 1984
Captain Hollister
Benedict Arnold: Hero Betrayed
Movie • 2021
Narrator
The Cassandra Crossing
Movie • 1976
Robby Navarro
The Final Countdown
Movie • 1980
Warren Lasky
The Believers
Movie • 1987
Cal Jamison
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Movie • 2004
Self
Love Happens
Movie • 2009
Donald, Burke's Father-in-Law
Stockpile: The New Nuclear Menace
Movie • 2001
Narrator
The American President
Movie • 1995
A.J. MacInerney
A Conversation with Martin Sheen
Movie • 2010
Self
Tell Them Who You Are
Movie • 2004
Self
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Movie • 2006
Self - Narrator (voice)
Cadence
Movie • 1990
MSgt. Otis V. McKinney
Pickup on 101
Movie • 1972
Lester Baumgartner
I Love Liberty
Movie • 1982
Self
Siesta
Movie • 1987
Del
Roswell
Movie • 1994
Townsend
The Catholics
Movie • 1973
Father Kinsella
Mexico
Movie • 1996
Narrator (voice)
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
Movie • 1999
Self
Straight Up: Helicopters in Action
Movie • 2002
Narrator (voice)
50 Films to See Before You Die
Movie • 2006
Self
A Letter from Death Row
Movie • 1998
Michael's Father
Storm
Movie • 1999
General James Roberts
Gloves of Stone
Movie • 2009
Dr. Frank Irwin
Echelon Conspiracy
Movie • 2009
Raymond Burke
The Incident
Movie • 1967
Artie Connors
Lost & Found
Movie • 1999
Millstone
Secrets of the Titanic
Movie • 1986
Self - Narrator
Man in the Mirror
Movie • 2008
Fallen Soldier / JC Super Star / Man in Black
A Texas Funeral
Movie • 1999
Grandpa Sparta
Grey Knight
Movie • 1993
Gen. Haworth
Confessions Of An Innocent Man
Movie • 2007
Self - Narrator
Judgment in Berlin
Movie • 1988
Herbert J. Stern
The End of Poverty?
Movie • 2008
Self - Narrator
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Movie • 1976
Frank Hallet
The Fourth Wise Man
Movie • 1985
Artaban
Imagine That
Movie • 2009
Dante D'Enzo
Pursuit
Movie • 1972
Timothy Drew
The California Kid
Movie • 1974
Michael McCord
Hear No Evil
Movie • 1993
Lt. Brock
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
Movie • 1974
Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
Born Wild
Movie • 1995
Dan Walker
Shadrach
Movie • 1998
Narrator (voice)
The Double
Movie • 2011
Tom Highland
Dillinger and Capone
Movie • 1995
John Dillinger
Beyond the Stars
Movie • 1989
Paul Andrews
No Drums, No Bugles
Movie • 1972
Ashby Gatrell
The Way
Movie • 2010
Tom
The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas
Movie • 1995
Voice of Marcos
The Missiles of October
Movie • 1974
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy
The Execution of Private Slovik
Movie • 1974
Eddie Slovik
Stella Days
Movie • 2012
Fr. Daniel Barry
The War at Home
Movie • 1996
Bob Collier
Holes in Heaven? H.A.A.R.P. & Advances In Tesla Technology
Movie • 1998
Narrator (voice)
The Maid
Movie • 1991
Anthony Wayne
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Movie • 2012
Frank Petersen
Rage
Movie • 1972
Maj. Holliford
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Movie • 2014
Uncle Ben (uncredited)
James Dean: Forever Young
Movie • 2005
Narrator (voice)
Death By China
Movie • 2012
Narrator
Loophole
Movie • 1981
Stephen Booker
Da
Movie • 1988
Charlie
When the Bough Breaks
Movie • 1994
Captain Swaggert
That Certain Summer
Movie • 1972
Gary McCain
Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White
Movie • 2011
Narrator
Miller's Tale
Movie • 2011
Self
Eagle's Wing
Movie • 1979
Pike
Consenting Adult
Movie • 1985
Ken Lynd
Cold Front
Movie • 1989
John Hyde
That Championship Season
Movie • 1982
Tom Daley
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
Movie • 1996
Dalton Trumbo
Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster
Movie • 1997
Narrator
Downwind
Movie • 2023
Self Narrator
The Subject Was Roses
Movie • 1968
Timmy Cleary
In the Name of the People
Movie • 1985
Narrator
An Act of Conscience
Movie • 1997
Narrator
Mongo's Back in Town
Movie • 1971
Gordon
Boca
Movie • 1994
Jesse James Montgomery
Forget Me Never
Movie • 1999
Jack
Man, Woman and Child
Movie • 1983
Robert Beckwith
In the Custody of Strangers
Movie • 1982
Frank Caldwell
Trash
Movie • 2014
Padre Juilliard
Nightbreaker
Movie • 1989
Dr. Alexander Brown - Present
9/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks Up
Movie • 2011
Self
Then Came Bronson
Movie • 1969
Nick Oresko
Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys
Movie • 1995
Jeff Snyder
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Movie • 2002
Self
Trigger Fast
Movie • 1994
Jackson Baines Hardin / Ole Devil
D.R.E.A.M. Team
Movie • 1999
J.W. Garrison
Franz Jagerstätter: A Man of Conscience
Movie • 2009
Franz Jagerstätter (voice)
Letters from Three Lovers
Movie • 1973
Vincent
Message to My Daughter
Movie • 1973
John Thatcher
Vietnam: American Holocaust
Movie • 2008
Voice
Guns of Honor
Movie • 1994
Jackson Baines Hardin (Ole Devil)
Out of the Darkness
Movie • 1985
Eddie Zigo
Eyewitness: Dinosaur
Movie • 1994
Narrator (voice)
The Guardian
Movie • 1984
Charlie Hyatt
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
Movie • 2013
Self
The Whale
Movie • 2013
Tom Nickerson
A State of Emergency
Movie • 1986
Alex Carmody
Virgin Mary
Movie • 1995
Father Jozo Zovko
The Amazing Spider-Man
Movie • 2012
Uncle Ben
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
Movie • 1987
James Marion Hunt
Fortunes of War
Movie • 1994
Francis Labeck
Pirate for the Sea
Movie • 2008
Self
Beverly Hills Brats
Movie • 1989
Dr. Jeffrey Miller
A Prayer for Rain
Movie • 2014
Warren Anderson
The Andersonville Trial
Movie • 1970
Captain Williams
In the King of Prussia
Movie • 1983
Judge Samuel Salus II
The Break
Movie • 1995
Gil Robbins
Taxi!!
Movie • 1978
Taxi Driver
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
Movie • 1966
Kilroy
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Movie • 2013
Narrator
A Stranger in the Kingdom
Movie • 1999
Sigurd Moulton
Ask Me Anything
Movie • 2014
Original Intent
Movie • 1992
Homeless Joe
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
Movie • 2014
Self
The Last Survivors
Movie • 1975
Alexander William Holmes
The Real Thing
Movie • 1985
Narrator (voice)
The Kennedy Detail
Movie • 2010
Narrator
Rules Don't Apply
Movie • 2016
Noah Dietrich
Voyage of Terror
Movie • 1998
Henry Northcutt
Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
Movie • 1994
Narrator
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
Movie • 1977
Self
Lost & Found in Cleveland
Movie • 2025
Dr. Austin Raybourne
Enemies of War
Movie • 2001
Narrator
Gunfighter
Movie • 1999
The Stranger
Brothers on the Line
Movie • 2012
Narrator
Walking After Midnight
Movie • 1988
Self
Selma
Movie • 2014
Frank Minis Johnson (uncredited)
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
Movie • 1972
Graytak
Badge of Honor
Movie • 2015
Captain Daniel Richards
Sharkwise
Movie • 2011
Narrator
One of Her Own
Movie • 1994
Asst. Dist. Atty. Pete Maresca
National Geographic: Inside the Vatican
Movie • 2001
Narrator
Pat Neal Is Back
Movie • 1968
Self
The Price of a Life
Movie • 1967
Edward Miles Layton
Eyewitness DVD: Weather
Movie • 2007
Narrator
Unity
Movie • 2015
Narrator (voice)
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
Movie • 1996
Peter Maurin
Jerzy Popieluszko: Messenger of the Truth
Movie • 2013
Narrator (voice)
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann
Movie • 1971
Jules Worthman
News at Eleven
Movie • 1986
Frank Kenley
The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story
Movie • 1993
William F.(Ike) Eisenbraun
JFK
Movie • 1991
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Boxcar Children
Movie • 2014
Grandfather Alden (voice)
Ninth Street
Movie • 1999
Father Frank
A Prowler in the Heart
Movie • 1973
Tony Parrish
Hits!
Movie • 1994
Kelly
The Elevator
Movie • 1998
Sarge
Medusa's Child
Movie • 1997
President
Montserrat
Movie • 1971
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Movie • 2016
Martin Sheen
Broken Rainbow
Movie • 1985
Narrator (voice)
The Nomi Song
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Anne of Green Gables
Movie • 2016
Matthew Cuthbert
Catch-22
Movie • 1970
1st Lt. Dobbs
The Vessel
Movie • 2016
Father Douglas
Dreamland: Mark Twain's Journey to Jerusalem
Movie • 2017
Narrator
The Water Engine
Movie • 1992
Chain Letter Voice (voice) (uncredited)
The Twelve Apostles
Movie • 1999
Narrator (voice)
Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On
Movie • 1973
Harlan Garrison
Vigilantes INC. - America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen
Movie • 2024
Presenter
8
Movie • 2012
Theodore Olson
Flatland
Movie • 2007
Arthur Square (voice)
Project: ALF
Movie • 1996
Colonel Gilbert Milfoil
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Movie • 1991
Harold Hohne
They Killed Sister Dorothy
Movie • 2008
Narrator
The Legend of Earl Durand
Movie • 1974
Luther Sykes
Marked for Murder
Movie • 1989
Man in Park
Amazonia
Movie • 2013
Narrator
National Geographic: Last Voyage of the Lusitania
Movie • 1994
Narrator
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Movie • 1993
Capt. Benjamin L. Willard (uncredited)
Braving Alaska
Movie • 1993
Narrator
Braving Alaska
Movie • 1993
Narrator (voice)
Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars
Movie • 2017
Matthew Cuthbert
Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew
Movie • 2017
Matthew Cuthbert
Centralia Fire
Movie • 1982
Narrator
Come Sunday
Movie • 2018
Oral Roberts
Jerusalem Syndrome
Movie • 2004
Choices of the Heart
Movie • 1983
Father Philan
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
Movie • 2015
Self
The Making of 'Spawn'
Movie • 1997
Self
The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island
Movie • 2018
James Alden (voice)
Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle
Movie • 2017
Narrator
Bringing Down a Dictator
Movie • 2002
Narrator (voice)
Mercy of the Sea
Movie • 2003
Frederik
Back to the Lane
Movie • 2016
Promises to Keep
Movie • 1988
Self
Crime Club
Movie • 1973
Deputy Wilson
Absence of Malick
Movie • 2003
Self
Shattered Spirits
Movie • 1986
Lyle Mollencamp
White House Revealed
Movie • 2009
Self- Narrator (voice)
On Great White Wings: The Wright Brothers and the Race for Flight
Movie • 2000
Narrator
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
Movie • 2012
Self
12 Mighty Orphans
Movie • 2021
Doc Hall
The Devil Has a Name
Movie • 2019
Ralph
Making Badlands
Movie • 2013
Self
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
Movie • 1987
Narrator
Native Sons: Palestinians In Exile
Movie • 1985
Narrator
The Darklings
Movie • 1999
Ira Everett
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Movie • 2014
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Movie • 1994
Self
Alive: 20 Years Later
Movie • 1993
Narrator (voice)
Dead Presidents
Movie • 1995
The Judge
Salinger
Movie • 2013
Self - Actor
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
Movie • 2008
Self
Bench
Movie • 2019
Princess of the Row
Movie • 2020
John Austin
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Movie • 1987
Alan (voice)
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
Movie • 2007
Narrator
Judas and the Black Messiah
Movie • 2021
J. Edgar Hoover
Can Art Stop a Bullet: William Kelly's Big Picture
Movie • 2020
Self
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
Movie • 2020
President Josiah Bartlet
One Hundred and One Nights
Movie • 1995
Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited)
The Time Shifters
Movie • 1999
Grifasi
Sacred Cargo
Movie • 1996
Father Andrew Kanvesky
The Commission
Movie • 2003
Dep. Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach
Another Time, Another Place
Movie • 1989
Richard Conley
Monument Ave.
Movie • 1998
Hanlon
The Rites Of Mu
Movie • 1991
Narrator
When the Line Goes Through
Movie • 1972
Bluff Jackson
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
Movie • 2008
Self
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
Movie • 1983
Self
The Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous
Movie • 2020
Self
The Politics of the Dead Zone
Movie • 2006
Self
Croatia: Land of 1,100 Islands & 101 Dalmatians
Movie • 1997
Narrator (voice)
Cinema Combat: Hollywood Goes to War
Movie • 1998
Self - Narrator
Crossing the Line
Movie • 1999
self
Halfway Home
Movie • 2011
Narrator(voice)
Eyewitness: Monster
Movie • 1997
Narrator (voice)
The Making of Eyewitness
Movie • 1995
Narrator
Father G and the Homeboys
Movie • 2007
Narrator
Hidden in Plain Sight
Movie • 2003
Narrator (voice)
23 Seconds to Eternity
Movie • 2023
Narrator
Defending Gideon
Movie • 2013
Narrator
The Little Pageant That Could
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
Eyewitness: Shark
Movie • 1994
Narrator (voice)
Winning New Hampshire
Movie • 2004
Self
No Place to Hide
Movie • 1983
Narrator
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
Columbo
TV • 1971
Karl Lessing
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Real Seymour Skinner (voice)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV • 2003
Self - Guest
The Rookies
TV • 1972
Police Surgeon
TV • 1960
Ben Grover
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Norman Gretzler
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
TV • 2006
Radio Host
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Eddie Calhao
Spin City
TV • 1996
Ray Harris / Ray Crawford
Route 66
TV • 1960
The View
TV • 1997
Self
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
Two and a Half Men
TV • 2003
Harvey
E! True Hollywood Story
TV • 1996
Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1985
Paul Dano
Naked City
TV • 1958
Phillip Kosnik
Mannix
TV • 1967
Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966
Lieutenant Albert Brocke
Cannon
TV • 1971
The Edge of Night
TV • 1956
Roy Sanders
Total Recall 2070
TV • 1999
The Colbert Report
TV • 2005
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Taxi Driver
Ironside
TV • 1967
Johnny
Gun
TV • 1997
Van Guinness
10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
TV • 2006
Lancer
TV • 1968
Matt Lincoln
TV • 1970
Charles
Toma
TV • 1973
Eddie Siatti
The Nurses
TV • 1962
Saunders
The Nurses
TV • 1962
Carl
The Young Lawyers
TV • 1970
Reverend Jimmy Haines
Chicken Soup for the Soul
TV • 1999
The View
TV • 1997
Self - Guest
Love Story (US)
TV • 1973
Frank Randolph
Kennedy
TV • 1983
John F. Kennedy
Alex Haley's Queen
TV • 1993
James Jackson Sr.
Spaceflight
TV • 1985
The Defenders
TV • 1961
Arnold McCabe
The Defenders
TV • 1961
Dino Locatelli
The Outer Limits
TV • 1963
Pvt. Arthur Dix
The Defenders
TV • 1961
Joey Americus
The Defenders
TV • 1961
Adam Novins
Ghost Story
TV • 1972
Frank
For the People
TV • 1965
Louis Cahane
Hawk
TV • 1966
Peter Janus
Anger Management
TV • 2012
Martin Goodson
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
The West Wing
TV • 1999
Josiah Bartlet
Grace and Frankie
TV • 2015
Robert Hanson
Naked City
TV • 1958
Nick (uncredited)
Naked City
TV • 1958
Counterman
The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color
TV • 2003
Narrator
Tales from the Crypt
TV • 1989
Kraygen / Thomas Miller / Zorbin the Magnificent
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
TV • 2014
Self
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Perry Victor
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Neil Harland
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Steve Chandler
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
TV • 2006
Narrator (voice)
Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing Evidence
TV • 2017
Narrator (voice)
Flipper
TV • 1964
Phil Adams
Blind Ambition
TV • 1979
John Dean
Who Do You Think You Are?
TV • 2010
Self
Nature
TV • 1982
Narrator (voice)
American Dynasties: The Kennedys
TV • 2018
Narrator (voice)
The Atlanta Child Murders
TV • 1985
Chet Dettlinger
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Arthur Dixon
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
TV • 1990
Sly Sludge (voice)
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TV • 2022
The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
Danny Morgan
Celebrity Poker Showdown
TV • 2003
Self
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
TV • 1996
Self - Guest
Eyewitness
TV • 1995
Narrator
A Matter of Justice
TV • 1993
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
Söndagsparty med Filip & Fredrik
TV • 2009
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
TV • 2007
Self
Love, American Style
TV • 1969
Dr. Art Parmel
The Missiles of October
TV • 1974
Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee / Presenter
Wild Cards
TV • 2024
Jonathan Ashford
Medical Center
TV • 1969
Glen
Dan August
TV • 1970
Norman Sayles
The Friday Night Project
TV • 2005
Self - Host
Arrest and Trial
TV • 1963
Dale Beatty
aka Charlie Sheen
TV • 2025
Self (archive footage)
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Winner