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.
347 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 347
The Simpsons
1989
Two and a Half Men
2003
Columbo
1971
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Saturday Night Live
1975
The West Wing
1999
The Colbert Report
2005
Mannix
1967
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
The View
1997
Ironside
1967
Love, American Style
1969
Mission: Impossible
1966
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
Spin City
1996
Naked City
1958
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
The F.B.I.
1965
Nature
1982
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Grace and Frankie
2015
Medical Center
1969
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Route 66
1960
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
The Outer Limits
1963
Cannon
1971
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
2007
The Rookies
1972
The Defenders
1961
Anger Management
2012
The Amazing Spider-Man
2012
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
1990
Apocalypse Now
1979
Catch Me If You Can
2002
The Mod Squad
1968
Wild Cards
2024
Lancer
1968
The Departed
2006
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
2006
Arrest and Trial
1963
Ghost Story
1972
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006
Flipper
1964
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
The Nurses
1962
Total Recall 2070
1999
Dan August
1970
Toma
1973
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
JFK
1991
Hot Shots! Part Deux
1993
Wall Street
1987
Spawn
1997
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Dead Presidents
1995
The American President
1995
The Final Countdown
1980
Celebrity Poker Showdown
2003
Gun
1997
Alex Haley's Queen
1993
Gettysburg
1993
Judas and the Black Messiah
2021
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
2016
Gandhi
1982
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
1976
The Dead Zone
1983
The Atlanta Child Murders
1985
Badlands
1974
Hawk
1966
Unity
2015
For the People
1965
Bobby
2006
aka Charlie Sheen
2025
Blind Ambition
1979
Chicken Soup for the Soul
1999
Selma
2014
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
2012
Police Surgeon
1960
Eyewitness
1995
The Edge of Night
1956
Catch-22
1970
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991
The Way
2010
Firestarter
1984
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
The Cassandra Crossing
1976
The Meaning of Life
2009
The Maid
1991
12 Mighty Orphans
2021
Rules Don't Apply
2016
Kennedy
1983
Trash
2014
Echelon Conspiracy
2009
Bordertown
2007
The Double
2011
The Young Lawyers
1970
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1987
Love Happens
2009
Ask Me Anything
2014
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
2012
O
2001
One Hundred and One Nights
1995
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
2020
The Believers
1987
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
2008
Imagine That
2009
Cadence
1990
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
1997
Project: ALF
1996
Söndagsparty med Filip & Fredrik
2009
Talk to Me
2007
Rage
1972
American Dynasties: The Kennedys
2018
Hostile Waters
1997
Lost & Found
1999
Enigma
1982
Matt Lincoln
1970
Anne of Green Gables
2016
The Time Shifters
1999
The Devil Has a Name
2019
Free Money
1998
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002
Love Story (US)
1973
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
Babylon 5: The River of Souls
1998
10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
2006
Who Killed the Electric Car?
2006
Spaceflight
1985
Pickup on 101
1972
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
1993
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
1987
Monument Ave.
1998
A Matter of Justice
1993
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
1987
No Code of Conduct
1999
8
2012
The Missiles of October
1974
Salinger
2013
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
2013
Roswell
1994
Shadrach
1998
Come Sunday
2018
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
1977
The Break
1995
The Incident
1967
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
2007
Grey Knight
1993
The Nomi Song
2004
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
1972
Pursuit
1972
Mongo's Back in Town
1971
The Fourth Wise Man
1985
Badge of Honor
2015
Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys
1995
Out of the Darkness
1985
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
1999
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
1996
The Missiles of October
1974
The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color
2003
Lost & Found in Cleveland
2025
Loophole
1981
Hear No Evil
1993
Dillinger and Capone
1995
The Execution of Private Slovik
1974
The War at Home
1996
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
1996
The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island
2018
Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story
1986
Judgment in Berlin
1988
A Texas Funeral
1999
Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew
2017
I Love Liberty
1982
Fortunes of War
1994
The Last Survivors
1975
Original Intent
1992
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
2013
The Whale
2013
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
1991
Eagle's Wing
1979
Voyage of Terror
1998
The Darklings
1999
Sweet Hostage
1975
When the Bough Breaks
1994
Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing Evidence
2017
A Prayer for Rain
2014
Tell Them Who You Are
2004
Virgin Mary
1995
The Elevator
1998
Choices of the Heart
1983
Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On
1973
Beverly Hills Brats
1989
In the Custody of Strangers
1982
The California Kid
1974
Downwind
2023
Storm
1999
Forget Me Never
1999
Crime Club
1973
Nightbreaker
1989
The Catholics
1973
The Making of 'Spawn'
1997
Amazonia
2013
Siesta
1987
The Boxcar Children
2014
Beyond the Stars
1989
News at Eleven
1986
Shattered Spirits
1986
Message to My Daughter
1973
Boca
1994
Princess of the Row
2020
Hits!
1994
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
1994
The Little Pageant That Could
2024
Flatland
2007
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
1974
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
2008
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
2014
Vigilantes INC. - America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen
2024
The Commission
2003
The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story
1993
Montserrat
1971
Sacred Cargo
1996
Trigger Fast
1994
One of Her Own
1994
Cold Front
1989
D.R.E.A.M. Team
1999
A Stranger in the Kingdom
1999
Consenting Adult
1985
The Guardian
1984
The Legend of Earl Durand
1974
Stella Days
2012
The Water Engine
1992
Born Wild
1995
Walking After Midnight
1988
The Subject Was Roses
1968
The Andersonville Trial
1970
Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars
2017
Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster
1997
Ninth Street
1999
The Vessel
2016
Benedict Arnold: Hero Betrayed
2021
That Championship Season
1982
9/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks Up
2011
Making Badlands
2013
Letters from Three Lovers
1973
Taxi!!
1978
Broken Rainbow
1985
The Politics of the Dead Zone
2006
Gloves of Stone
2009
That Certain Summer
1972
Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments
2020
Alive: 20 Years Later
1993
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann
1971
The End of Poverty?
2008
Sharkwise
2011
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
1983
Man, Woman and Child
1983
Then Came Bronson
1969
Mexico
1996
Medusa's Child
1997
The Friday Night Project
2005
Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle
2017
Marked for Murder
1989
Da
1988
National Geographic: Inside the Vatican
2001
No Drums, No Bugles
1972
Absence of Malick
2003
Gunfighter
1999
23 Seconds to Eternity
2023
The Twelve Apostles
1999
Jerusalem Syndrome
2004
A State of Emergency
1986
Straight Up: Helicopters in Action
2002
The Price of a Life
1967
Touch and Die
1991
Guns of Honor
1994
Miller's Tale
2011
Death By China
2012
A Prowler in the Heart
1973
Man in the Mirror
2008
The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas
1995
Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
1994
Hidden in Plain Sight
2003
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
1966
The Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous
2020
An Act of Conscience
1997
Another Time, Another Place
1989
James Dean: Forever Young
2005
Mercy of the Sea
2003
Pirate for the Sea
2008
Stockpile: The New Nuclear Menace
2001
Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White
2011
Jerzy Popieluszko: Messenger of the Truth
2013
The One
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National Geographic: Last Voyage of the Lusitania
1994
White House Revealed
2009
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
2015
On Great White Wings: The Wright Brothers and the Race for Flight
2000
Bringing Down a Dictator
2002
A Letter from Death Row
1998
Pat Neal Is Back
1968
When the Line Goes Through
1972
Eyewitness: Dinosaur
1994
Promises to Keep
1988
Winning New Hampshire
2004
Croatia: Land of 1,100 Islands & 101 Dalmatians
1997
Secrets of the Titanic
1986
In the King of Prussia
1983
They Killed Sister Dorothy
2008
The Kennedy Detail
2010
In the Name of the People
1985
The Rites Of Mu
1991
Eyewitness: Monster
1997
Father G and the Homeboys
2007
Braving Alaska
1993
Dreamland: Mark Twain's Journey to Jerusalem
2017
Can Art Stop a Bullet: William Kelly's Big Picture
2020
Vietnam: American Holocaust
2008
A Conversation with Martin Sheen
2010
No Place to Hide
1983
Cinema Combat: Hollywood Goes to War
1998
Brothers on the Line
2012
Halfway Home
2011
The Making of Eyewitness
1995
Confessions Of An Innocent Man
2007
Holes in Heaven? H.A.A.R.P. & Advances In Tesla Technology
1998
Crossing the Line
1999
Enemies of War
2001
Defending Gideon
2013
Eyewitness DVD: Weather
2007
Native Sons: Palestinians In Exile
1985
Eyewitness: Shark
1994
The Real Thing
1985
Bench
2019
Franz Jagerstätter: A Man of Conscience
2009
Centralia Fire
1982
Back to the Lane
2016