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Martin Sheen
Martin Sheen’s screen credits include Captain Benjamin Willard in Apocalypse Now, Queenan in The Departed, and J. Edgar Hoover in Judas and the Black Messiah.
Born August 3, 1940 Dayton, Ohio, USA5 movies on MoviHero
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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. …
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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.
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- 2026American Martyr: The Stanley Rother StoryNarrator
- 2025Lost & Found in ClevelandDr. Austin Raybourne
- 2024Vigilantes INC. - America's New Vote Suppression HitmenProducer · Presenter
- 2024The Little Pageant That CouldSelf (archive footage)
- 202323 Seconds to EternityNarrator
- 2023VigilanteProducer
- 2023DownwindSelf Narrator
- 2021Benedict Arnold: Hero BetrayedNarrator
- 202112 Mighty OrphansDoc Hall
- 2020The Berrigans: Devout and DangerousSelf
- 2020Can Art Stop a Bullet: William Kelly's Big PictureSelf
- 2020Princess of the RowJohn Austin
- 2020A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All VoteJosiah Bartlet
- 2020Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day StorySelf
- 2019The Devil Has a NameRalph
- 2019The Map to ParadiseProducer
- 2018The Boxcar Children: Surprise IslandJames Alden (voice)
- 2018Come SundayOral Roberts
- 2017Citizen Clark... A Life of PrincipleNarrator
- 2017Anne of Green Gables: Fire & DewMatthew Cuthbert
- 2017Anne of Green Gables: The Good StarsMatthew Cuthbert
- 2017Dreamland: Mark Twain's Journey to JerusalemNarrator
- 2016Rules Don't ApplyNoah Dietrich
- 2016The VesselFather Douglas
- 2016Popstar: Never Stop Never StoppingMartin Sheen
- 2016Back to the LaneActor
- 2016Anne of Green GablesMatthew Cuthbert
- 2015Badge of HonorCaptain Daniel Richards
- 2015Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of JoySelf
- 2015UnityNarrator (voice)
- 2014SelmaFrank Minis Johnson (uncredited)
- 2014A Prayer for RainWarren Anderson
- 2014TrashPadre Juilliard
- 2014Marlon Brando: An Actor Named DesireSelf - Actor (archive footage)
- 2014The Boxcar ChildrenGrandfather Alden (voice)
- 2014Holbrook/Twain: An American OdysseySelf
- 2014Ask Me AnythingActor
- 2014The Amazing Spider-Man 2Uncle Ben (uncredited)
- 2013The WhaleTom Nickerson
- 2013AmazoniaNarrator
- 2013Jerzy Popieluszko: Messenger of the TruthNarrator (voice)
- 2013The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of OzNarrator
- 2013SalingerSelf - Actor
- 2013Making BadlandsSelf
- 2013Defending GideonNarrator
- 2013Tales from the Warner Bros. LotSelf
- 2012Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man RebornSelf
- 2012Death By ChinaNarrator
- 2012Seeking a Friend for the End of the WorldFrank Petersen
- 2012Stella DaysFr. Daniel Barry
- 2012Brothers on the LineNarrator
- 20128Theodore Olson
- 2011The DoubleTom Highland
- 2011Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas WhiteNarrator
- 20119/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks UpSelf
- 2011SharkwiseNarrator
- 2011Miller's TaleSelf
- 2011Halfway HomeNarrator(voice)
- 2010The Kennedy DetailNarrator
- 2010The WayTom
- 2010A Conversation with Martin SheenSelf
- 2009Gloves of StoneDr. Frank Irwin
- 2009Love HappensBurke's Father-in-Law
- 2009Imagine ThatDante D'Enzo
- 2009Franz Jagerstätter: A Man of ConscienceFranz Jagerstätter (voice)
- 2009Echelon ConspiracyRaymond Burke
- 2009White House RevealedSelf- Narrator (voice)
- 2008Man in the MirrorFallen Soldier / JC Super Star / Man in Black
- 2008Vietnam: American HolocaustVoice
- 2008Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American PrimarySelf
- 2008Pirate for the SeaSelf
- 2008The End of Poverty?Self - Narrator
- 2008They Killed Sister DorothyNarrator
- 2008Notes on an American Film Director at WorkSelf
- 2007Eyewitness DVD: WeatherNarrator
- 2007Talk to MeE.G. Sonderling
- 2007Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The PresidencyNarrator
- 2007BordertownGeorge Morgan
- 2007FlatlandArthur Square (voice)
- 2007Confessions Of An Innocent ManSelf - Narrator
- 2007Father G and the HomeboysNarrator
- 2006The Politics of the Dead ZoneSelf
- 2006BobbyJack Stevens
- 2006Who Killed the Electric Car?Self - Narrator (voice)
- 200650 Films to See Before You DieSelf
- 2005James Dean: Forever YoungNarrator (voice)
- 2004Happy Birthday Oscar WildeSelf
- 2004Winning New HampshireSelf
- 2004The Nomi SongSelf (archive footage)
- 2004Jerusalem SyndromeActor
- 2004Tell Them Who You AreSelf
- 2003Hidden in Plain SightNarrator (voice)
- 2003The CommissionDep. Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach
- 2003Mercy of the SeaFrederik
- 2003Absence of MalickSelf
- 2002Straight Up: Helicopters in ActionNarrator (voice)
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