Martin Sheen
Known for: Acting
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
Series
The Simpsons
Real Seymour Skinner (voice)
1989
Series
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Series
Two and a Half Men
Harvey
2003
Film
The Amazing Spider-Man
Uncle Ben
2012
Film
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Uncle Ben (uncredited)
2014
Series
The West Wing
Josiah Bartlet
1999
Series
Columbo
Karl Lessing
1971
Series
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975
Series
Saturday Night Live
Self (uncredited)
1975
Series
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
Series
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
Series
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Series
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Self
2014
Series
The View
Self
1997
Series
The View
Self - Guest
1997
Series
The Colbert Report
Self - Guest
2005
Series
Hawaii Five-O
Eddie Calhao
1968
Series
Hawaii Five-O
Arthur Dixon
1968
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self
1944
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee / Presenter
1944
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Winner
1944
Series
Ironside
Johnny
1967
Series
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self - Guest
1992
Series
Mannix
1967
Film
The Departed
Queenan
2006
Series
Mission: Impossible
Lieutenant Albert Brocke
1966
Series
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
Series
Nature
Narrator (voice)
1982
Series
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self - Guest
2003
Series
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
2003
Series
Love, American Style
Dr. Art Parmel
1969
Series
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Self
2007
Series
Grace and Frankie
Robert Hanson
2015
Series
Tales from the Crypt
Kraygen / Thomas Miller / Zorbin the Magnificent
1989
Series
Spin City
Ray Harris / Ray Crawford
1996
Series
Cannon
1971
Film
Apocalypse Now
Captain Benjamin Willard
1979
Film
Catch Me If You Can
Roger Strong
2002
Series
Wild Cards
Jonathan Ashford
2024
Series
The F.B.I.
Norman Gretzler
1965
Series
The F.B.I.
Perry Victor
1965
Series
The F.B.I.
Steve Chandler
1965
Series
The F.B.I.
Neil Harland
1965
Series
Naked City
Phillip Kosnik
1958
Series
Naked City
Counterman
1958
Series
Naked City
Nick (uncredited)
1958
Series
Anger Management
Martin Goodson
2012
Series
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Paul Dano
1985
Series
The Defenders
Arnold McCabe
1961
Series
The Defenders
Dino Locatelli
1961
Series
The Defenders
Adam Novins
1961
Series
The Defenders
Joey Americus
1961
Series
Route 66
1960
Series
Medical Center
Glen
1969
Series
The Outer Limits
Pvt. Arthur Dix
1963
Series
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Sly Sludge (voice)
1990
Film '72
Self
1971
Series
The Rookies
1972
Series
Toma
Eddie Siatti
1973
Series
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Series
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Father Kinsella
1969
Series
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Narrator (voice)
2006
Series
Lancer
1968
Series
Flipper
Phil Adams
1964
Series
The Mod Squad
Danny Morgan
1968
Series
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Radio Host
2006
Series
NET Playhouse
Kilroy
1966
Series
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self
2010
Series
Ghost Story
Frank
1972
Series
Arrest and Trial
Dale Beatty
1963
Film
The Dead Zone
Greg Stillson
1983
Film
Wall Street
Carl Fox
1987
Film
Catch-22
1st Lt. Dobbs
1970
Film
JFK
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1991
Film
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Capt. Benjamin L. Willard (uncredited)
1993
Series
Total Recall 2070
1999
Series
The Nurses
Carl
1962
Series
The Nurses
Saunders
1962
Series
Dan August
Norman Sayles
1970
Film
Spawn
Jason Wynn
1997
Film
Gandhi
Vince Walker
1982
Film
The Final Countdown
Warren Lasky
1980
Film
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Martin Sheen
2016
Film
Judas and the Black Messiah
J. Edgar Hoover
2021
Series
aka Charlie Sheen
Self (archive footage)
2025
Film
Love Happens
Donald, Burke's Father-in-Law
2009
Film
The Double
Tom Highland
2011
Film
The Way
Tom
2010
Film
Trash
Padre Juilliard
2014
Series
The American Experiment
George Washington
2026
Series
Söndagsparty med Filip & Fredrik
2009
Film
Badlands
Kit Carruthers
1974
Film
The American President
A.J. MacInerney
1995
Film
The Cassandra Crossing
Robby Navarro
1976
Film
Gettysburg
Gen. Robert E. Lee
1993
Film
Imagine That
Dante D'Enzo
2009
Series
Celebrity Poker Showdown
Self
2003
Film
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Frank Petersen
2012
Series
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest
1996
Series
Alex Haley's Queen
James Jackson Sr.
1993
Film
The Maid
Anthony Wayne
1991
Film
Selma
Frank Minis Johnson (uncredited)
2014
Film
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Frank Hallet
1976
Film
Firestarter
Captain Hollister
1984
Film
Bobby
Jack Stevens
2006
Series
The Edge of Night
Roy Sanders
1956
Film
Echelon Conspiracy
Raymond Burke
2009
Series
The Meaning of Life
Self
2009
Film
12 Mighty Orphans
Doc Hall
2021
Film
Anne of Green Gables
Matthew Cuthbert
2016
Series
The Atlanta Child Murders
Chet Dettlinger
1985
Film
Bordertown
George Morgan
2007
Film
Rules Don't Apply
Noah Dietrich
2016
Film
Project: ALF
Colonel Gilbert Milfoil
1996
Film
Dead Presidents
The Judge
1995
Film
Amazonia
Narrator
2013
Series
Hawk
Peter Janus
1966
Film
Flatland
Arthur Square (voice)
2007
Film
The Believers
Cal Jamison
1987
Series
Blind Ambition
John Dean
1979
Film
Virgin Mary
Father Jozo Zovko
1995
Chicken Soup for the Soul
1999
Film
Dillinger and Capone
John Dillinger
1995
Film
Ask Me Anything
2014
Film
No Code of Conduct
Bill Peterson
1999
Film
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Self
1991
Film
Free Money
Guard
1998
Series
The Young Lawyers
Reverend Jimmy Haines
1970
Film
O
Coach Duke Goulding
2001
Film
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Self
1994
Series
E! True Hollywood Story
Self
1996
Film
When the Bough Breaks
Captain Swaggert
1994
Series
Eyewitness
Narrator
1995
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Taxi Driver
1951
Series
American Dynasties: The Kennedys
Narrator (voice)
2018
Film
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
Self
2013
Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
Hostile Waters
Aurora Skipper
1997
Film
Cadence
MSgt. Otis V. McKinney
1990
Series
Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
1983
Film
The Devil Has a Name
Ralph
2019
Film
Unity
Narrator (voice)
2015
Film
One Hundred and One Nights
Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited)
1995
Film
50 Films to See Before You Die
Self
2006
Film
Lost & Found
Millstone
1999
Film
Talk to Me
E.G. Sonderling
2007
Film
Enigma
Alex Holbeck
1982
Film
The Execution of Private Slovik
Eddie Slovik
1974
Series
Police Surgeon
Ben Grover
1960
For the People
Louis Cahane
1965
Film
The Incident
Artie Connors
1967
Film
Nightbreaker
Dr. Alexander Brown - Present
1989
Film
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
Sir
1997
Film
Hear No Evil
Lt. Brock
1993
Film
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Self - Narrator (voice)
2006
Film
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
Self
1999
Film
Loophole
Stephen Booker
1981
Film
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
Self
2012
Series
10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
2006
Film
Man, Woman and Child
Robert Beckwith
1983
Film
Roswell
Townsend
1994
Love Story (US)
Frank Randolph
1973
Film
Princess of the Row
John Austin
2020
Choices of the Heart
Father Philan
1983
Film
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Self
2004
Film
Taxi!!
Taxi Driver
1978
Film
The Time Shifters
Grifasi
1999
Film
Gunfighter
The Stranger
1999
Film
Salinger
Self - Actor
2013
Film
Shattered Spirits
Lyle Mollencamp
1986
Film
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Harold Hohne
1991
Film
8
Theodore Olson
2012
Film
Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys
Jeff Snyder
1995
Film
The Little Pageant That Could
Self (archive footage)
2024
Film
The Fourth Wise Man
Artaban
1985
Film
Come Sunday
Oral Roberts
2018
Film
Beyond the Stars
Paul Andrews
1989
Film
Eagle's Wing
Pike
1979
Film
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
Self
2015
Film
The War at Home
Bob Collier
1996
Film
The Vessel
Father Douglas
2016
Film
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
Dalton Trumbo
1996
Film
Grey Knight
Gen. Haworth
1993
Film
Babylon 5: The River of Souls
Soul Hunter
1998
Film
Boca
Jesse James Montgomery
1994
Film
The Water Engine
Chain Letter Voice (voice) (uncredited)
1992
Film
The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island
James Alden (voice)
2018
Film
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Alan (voice)
1987
Film
Absence of Malick
Self
2003
Film
The Whale
Tom Nickerson
2013
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
Self
1983
Film
Gloves of Stone
Dr. Frank Irwin
2009
Film
That Championship Season
Tom Daley
1982
Film
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann
Jules Worthman
1971
Film
Siesta
Del
1987
Film
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2014
Film
Sacred Cargo
Father Andrew Kanvesky
1996
Film
Halfway Home
Narrator(voice)
2011
Film
They Killed Sister Dorothy
Narrator
2008
Film
Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story
Mitch Snyder
1986
Film
Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On
Harlan Garrison
1973
Film
The California Kid
Michael McCord
1974
Film
Voyage of Terror
Henry Northcutt
1998
Film
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Self
2002
9/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks Up
Self
2011
Film
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
Self
2008
Film
Consenting Adult
Ken Lynd
1985
Film
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
Narrator
1987
Film
The Boxcar Children
Grandfather Alden (voice)
2014
Film
A Stranger in the Kingdom
Sigurd Moulton
1999
Film
No Drums, No Bugles
Ashby Gatrell
1972
Film
Badge of Honor
Captain Daniel Richards
2015
Matt Lincoln
Charles
1970
Film
Da
Charlie
1988
Film
The One
Jefferson
Film
Jerusalem Syndrome
2004
Film
Sweet Hostage
Leonard Hatch
1975
Film
Born Wild
Dan Walker
1995
Series
The Missiles of October
Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy
1974
Film
The Missiles of October
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy
1974
Film
Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle
Narrator
2017
Film
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
Kilroy
1966
Film
Judgment in Berlin
Herbert J. Stern
1988
Film
Monument Ave.
Hanlon
1998
Film
Out of the Darkness
Eddie Zigo
1985
Series
A Matter of Justice
1993
Film
Storm
General James Roberts
1999
Series
The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color
Narrator
2003
Film
Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars
Matthew Cuthbert
2017
Film
James Dean: Forever Young
Narrator (voice)
2005
Film
Pirate for the Sea
Self
2008
Film
The Andersonville Trial
Captain Williams
1970
Film
The Last Survivors
Alexander William Holmes
1975
Film
Touch and Die
Frank Magenta
1991
Film
The Darklings
Ira Everett
1999
Film
Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster
Narrator
1997
Film
Fortunes of War
Francis Labeck
1994
Film
Mongo's Back in Town
Gordon
1971
Film
Original Intent
Homeless Joe
1992
Film
A State of Emergency
Alex Carmody
1986
Film
Pickup on 101
Lester Baumgartner
1972
Film
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
James Marion Hunt
1987
Film
Message to My Daughter
John Thatcher
1973
Film
The Commission
Dep. Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach
2003
Film
That Certain Summer
Gary McCain
1972
Film
A Letter from Death Row
Michael's Father
1998
Film
Downwind
Self Narrator
2023
Film
Lost & Found in Cleveland
Dr. Austin Raybourne
2025
Film
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
1974
Film
An Act of Conscience
Narrator
1997
Film
The King and I: Recording a Hollywood Dream
1993
Film
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
Graytak
1972
Film
Shadrach
Narrator (voice)
1998
Film
Stella Days
Fr. Daniel Barry
2012
Film
Vietnam: American Holocaust
Voice
2008
Film
The Subject Was Roses
Timmy Cleary
1968
Film
Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew
Matthew Cuthbert
2017
Film
Alive: 20 Years Later
Narrator (voice)
1993
Film
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
Self
2014
Film
In the Custody of Strangers
Frank Caldwell
1982
Film
News at Eleven
Frank Kenley
1986
Film
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
Josiah Bartlet
2020
Film
Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White
Narrator
2011
Film
Rage
Maj. Holliford
1972
Film
Miller's Tale
Self
2011
Film
Confessions Of An Innocent Man
Self - Narrator
2007
Film
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
Peter Maurin
1996
Film
Guns of Honor
Jackson Baines Hardin (Ole Devil)
1994
Film
Tell Them Who You Are
Self
2004
Film
Pursuit
Timothy Drew
1972
Film
Medusa's Child
President
1997
Film
In the King of Prussia
Judge Samuel Salus II
1983
Film
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
Narrator
2007
Film
The Elevator
Sarge
1998
Film
When the Line Goes Through
Bluff Jackson
1972
Series
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994
Film
I Love Liberty
Self
1982
Spaceflight
1985
Film
The Break
Gil Robbins
1995
Film
One of Her Own
Asst. Dist. Atty. Pete Maresca
1994
Film
A Texas Funeral
Grandpa Sparta
1999
Film
D.R.E.A.M. Team
J.W. Garrison
1999
Film
The Guardian
Charlie Hyatt
1984
Series
Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing Evidence
Narrator (voice)
2017
Film
The Legend of Earl Durand
Luther Sykes
1974
Film
Death By China
Narrator
2012
Film
Letters from Three Lovers
Vincent
1973
Film
A Prayer for Rain
Warren Anderson
2014
Film
The Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous
Self
2020
Film
The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story
William F.(Ike) Eisenbraun
1993
The Making of 'Spawn'
Self
1997
Film
Then Came Bronson
Nick Oresko
1969
Film
Beverly Hills Brats
Dr. Jeffrey Miller
1989
Film
Man in the Mirror
Fallen Soldier / JC Super Star / Man in Black
2008
Film
The Nomi Song
Self (archive footage)
2004
Film
Franz Jagerstätter: A Man of Conscience
Franz Jagerstätter (voice)
2009
Film
Broken Rainbow
Narrator (voice)
1985
Film
Benedict Arnold: Hero Betrayed
Narrator
2021
Film
Eyewitness: Dinosaur
Narrator (voice)
1994
Film
Brothers on the Line
Narrator
2012
Film
Cold Front
John Hyde
1989
Film
A Prowler in the Heart
Tony Parrish
1973
Film
Hidden in Plain Sight
Narrator (voice)
2003
Film
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
1993
Film
Defending Gideon
Narrator
2013
The Politics of the Dead Zone
Self
2006
Film
Straight Up: Helicopters in Action
Narrator (voice)
2002
Film
White House Revealed
Self- Narrator (voice)
2009
Film
Can Art Stop a Bullet: William Kelly's Big Picture
Self
2020
Film
In the Name of the People
Narrator
1985
Film
Making Badlands
Self
2013
Film
Another Time, Another Place
Richard Conley
1989
Film
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
Self
1977
Film
A Conversation with Martin Sheen
Self
2010
Film
Eyewitness DVD: Weather
Narrator
2007
Film
Walking After Midnight
Self
1988
Film
Secrets of the Titanic
Self - Narrator
1986
Film
National Geographic: Last Voyage of the Lusitania
Narrator
1994
Film
Hits!
Kelly
1994
Film
Forget Me Never
Jack
1999
Film
The Rites Of Mu
Narrator
1991
Mercy of the Sea
Frederik
2003
Film
Marked for Murder
Man in Park
1989
Ninth Street
Father Frank
1999
Film
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Narrator
2013
Film
Crime Club
Deputy Wilson
1973
Father G and the Homeboys
Narrator
2007
Film
The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas
Voice of Marcos
1995
Film
Native Sons: Palestinians In Exile
Narrator
1985
Film
The End of Poverty?
Self - Narrator
2008
Film
Mexico
Narrator (voice)
1996
No Place to Hide
Narrator
1983
Film
23 Seconds to Eternity
Narrator
2023
Series
The Friday Night Project
Self - Host
2005
Film
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
Self
2008
Film
Sharkwise
Narrator
2011
Film
Promises to Keep
Self
1988
Film
On Great White Wings: The Wright Brothers and the Race for Flight
Narrator
2000
Film
The Twelve Apostles
Narrator (voice)
1999
Centralia Fire
Narrator
1982
Film
National Geographic: Inside the Vatican
Narrator
2001
Film
Dreamland: Mark Twain's Journey to Jerusalem
Narrator
2017
Film
Montserrat
1971
Film
The Catholics
Father Kinsella
1973
Pat Neal Is Back
Self
1968
Film
Trigger Fast
Jackson Baines Hardin / Ole Devil
1994
Film
Vigilantes INC. - America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen
Presenter
2024
The Real Thing
Narrator (voice)
1985
Film
The Kennedy Detail
Narrator
2010
Stockpile: The New Nuclear Menace
Narrator
2001
Film
Jerzy Popieluszko: Messenger of the Truth
Narrator (voice)
2013
Croatia: Land of 1,100 Islands & 101 Dalmatians
Narrator (voice)
1997
Film
Winning New Hampshire
Self
2004
Film
Eyewitness: Shark
Narrator (voice)
1994
Film
Holes in Heaven? H.A.A.R.P. & Advances In Tesla Technology
Narrator (voice)
1998
Back to the Lane
2016
Film
Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story
Self
2020
Film
The Price of a Life
Edward Miles Layton
1967
Enemies of War
Narrator
2001
Cinema Combat: Hollywood Goes to War
Self - Narrator
1998
Crossing the Line
self
1999
The Making of Eyewitness
Narrator
1995
Film
Eyewitness: Monster
Narrator (voice)
1997
Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
Narrator
1994
Film
Braving Alaska
Narrator
1993
Film
Braving Alaska
Narrator (voice)
1993
Film
Bringing Down a Dictator
Narrator (voice)
2002
Film
American Martyr: The Stanley Rother Story
Narrator
2026