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Martin Sheen

Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez, 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 in Apocalypse Now (1979), as United States President Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Wing (1999–2006), and recently as Robert Hanson in the Netflix television series Grace and Frankie (2015–present).

Aliases
  • Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez
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Filmography

The Amazing Spider-Man

2012
as Uncle Ben

Catch Me If You Can

2002
as Roger Strong

Grace and Frankie

2015
as Robert Hanson

The Departed

2006
as Capt. Oliver Charles Queenan

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

2014
as Uncle Ben

The West Wing

1999
as Josiah Bartlet

Judas and the Black Messiah

2021
as J. Edgar Hoover

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

2016
as Himself

Apocalypse Now

1979
as Captain Benjamin L. Willard

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

2012
as Frank Petersen

Spawn

1997
as Jason Wynn

Wall Street

1987
as Carl Fox

Love Happens

2009
as Burke's Father-in-Law

Selma

2015
as Frank Minis Johnson

Anger Management

2012
as Martin Goodson

Beverly Hills Brats

1989
as Dr. Jeffrey Miller

Free Money

1998
as Guard

Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol

1972
as Graytak

The Kennedy Detail

2010
as Martin Sheen

A Prowler in the Heart

1973
as Tony Parrish

Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil and the Presidency

2008
as Narrator

Jerusalem Syndrome

2004

Catch-22

1970
as 1st Lt. Dobbs

Spaceflight

1985
as Narrator (voice)

Apocalypse Pooh

1987
as Winnie the Pooh

Forget Me Never

1999
as Jack

Unity

2015
as Himself - Narrator (voice)

Hot Shots! Part Deux

1993
as Capt. Benjamin L. Willard

Walking After Midnight

1988
as Martin Sheen

Pirate for the Sea

2008
as Self - Actor & Activist

Shattered Spirits

1986
as Lyle Mollencamp

The Way

2010
as Tom

No Drums, No Bugles

1972
as Ashby Gatrell

Talk to Me

2007
as E.G. Sonderling

The Dead Zone

1983
as Greg Stillson

Gandhi

1982
as Vince Walker

Hear No Evil

1993
as Lt. Brock

Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story

1996
as Peter Maurin

Stella Days

2012
as Fr. Daniel Barry

Bobby

2006
as Jack Stevens

Present Tense, Past Perfect

1995
as Brian

Echelon Conspiracy

2009
as Raymond Burke

Trash

2014
as Father Juilliard / Padre Juilliard

In the King of Prussia

1982
as Judge Samuel Salus II

Da

1988
as Charlie

Babylon 5: The River of Souls

1998
as Soul Hunter

The Whale

2013
as Tom Nickerson

James Dean: Forever Young

2005
as Narrator (voice)

12 Mighty Orphans

2021
as Doc Hall

Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew

2017
as Matthew Cuthbert

Garwood: Prisoner of War

1993
as William F.(Ike) Eisenbraun

Miller's Tale

2011
as Himself

Fortunes of War

1994
as Francis Labeck

News at Eleven

1986
as Frank Kenley

The Believers

1987
as Cal Jamison

Badlands

1973
as Kit Carruthers

Salinger

2013
as Himself

A Prayer for Rain

2014
as Warren Anderson

That Championship Season

1982
as Tom Daley

Who Killed the Electric Car?

2006
as Narrator

In the Custody of Strangers

1982
as Frank Caldwell

Roswell

1994
as Townsend

Hubble: Secrets From Space

1998
as Self - Host

That Certain Summer

1972
as Gary McCain

Vietnam: American Holocaust

2008
as Narrator

Then Came Bronson

1969
as Nick Oresko

The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd

1974
as Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd

Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys

1995
as Jeff Snyder

Eyewitness (1994)

1994
as Narrator (Seasons 1-2 US)

IMAX - Straight Up, Helicopters in Action

2002
as Narrator (voice)

Notes on an American Film Director at Work

2008
as Martin Sheen

Family Attraction

1998
as President

All the Presidents' Movies

2003
as Narrator

O

2001
as Coach Duke Goulding

Cadence

1990
as MSgt. Otis V. McKinney

Rules Don't Apply

2016
as Noah Dietrich

In the Name of the People

1985
as Narrator

Tell Them Who You Are

2004
as Himself

Crime Club

1973
as Deputy Wilson

Brothers on the Line

2012
as Narrator

Holy Man: The USA vs Douglas White

2011
as Narrator

Ask Me Anything

2014
as Glenn Warburg

The Final Countdown

1980
as Warren Lasky

Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion

2002
as Narrator

Eagle's Wing

1979
as Pike

The Catholics

1973
as Father Kinsella

The Boxcar Children

2014
as Grandfather Alden (voice)

Amazonia

2013
as Narrator

Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On

1973
as Harlan Garrison

Blacklist: Hollywood on trial

1996
as Dalton Trumbo

Original Intent

1992
as Homeless Joe

8

2012
as Theodore B. Olson

Enemies of War

2001
as Self - Narrator

The Darklings

1999
as Ira Everett

Pat Neal Is Back

1968
as Himself

Mongo's Back in Town

1971
as Gordon

L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars

2018
as Matthew Cuthbert

Letters from Three Lovers

1973
as Vincent

National Geographic Video: Inside the Vatican

2001
as Martin Sheen

Braving Alaska

1993
as Narrator (voice)

Chamaco

2009
as Dr. Frank Irwin

A State of Emergency

1986

Dillinger and Capone

1995
as John Dillinger

Absence of Malick

2003
as Martin Sheen

Marlon Brando: The Wild One

1994
as Martin Sheen

The Double

2011
as Tom Highland

The California Kid

1974
as Michael McCord

Come Sunday

2018
as Oral Roberts

Consenting Adult

1985
as Ken Lynd

The War at Home

1996
as Bob Collier

Ninth Street

1999
as Father Frank

Beyond the Stars

1989
as Paul Andrews

Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot

2013
as Himself

The Incident

1967
as Artie Connors

A Stranger in the Kingdom

1999
as Sigurd Moulton

Hostile Waters

1997
as Aurora Skipper

Sacred Cargo

1996
as Father Andrew Kanvesky

Mexico

1996
as Narrator

Ballad of a Gunfighter

1998
as The Stranger

Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey

2014

The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz

2013
as Narrator

Choices of the Heart

1983
as Father Philan

The Legend of Earl Durand

1974
as Luther Sykes

Wrinkles

2011
as (voice)

D.R.E.A.M. Team

1999
as J.W. Garrison

A Matter of Justice

1993
as Jack Brown

Curiosity

2011
as Himself - Narrator

A Letter from Death Row

1998
as Michael's Father

The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun

1987
as Narrator (voice)

Kennedy

1983
as John Kennedy

Anne of Green Gables

2016
as Matthew Cuthbert

The Andersonville Trial

1970
as Captain Williams

The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island

2018
as James Alden (voice)

Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy

2015
as Martin Sheen

The End of Poverty?

2008
as narrator

Captain Planet and the Planeteers

1990
as Sly Sludge (seasons 1-3)

Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8

1987
as James Marion Hunt

Flatland

2007
as Arthur Square (voice)

Alive: 20 Years Later

1993
as Narrator

The Fourth Wise Man

1985
as Artaban

Alex Haley's Queen

1993
as Col. James Jackson Senior

Centralia Fire

1982
as Self - Narrator

Sharkwise

2011
as Narrator

Enigma

1982
as Alex Holbeck

The Subject Was Roses

1968
as Timmy Cleary

One of Her Own

1994
as Asst. Dist. Atty. Pete Maresca

The Break

1995
as Gil Robbins

Goodbye, Raggedy Ann

1971
as Jules Worthman

The Story of the Twelve Apostles

1999
as Narrator

The Vessel

2016
as Father Douglas

The Making of 'Spawn'

1997
as Himself

Ten Blocks on the Camino Real

1966
as Kilroy

Grey Knight

1993
as Gen. Haworth

Message to My Daughter

1973
as John Thatcher

Holes in Heaven

1998
as Narrator

Hits!

1994
as Kelly

No Code of Conduct

1999
as Bill Peterson

Confessions Of An Innocent Man

2007
as Self - Narrator

Man, Woman and Child

1983
as Robert Beckwith

Project: ALF

1996
as Colonel Gilbert Milfoil

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

1976
as Frank Hallet

The Maid

1991
as Anthony Wayne

Princess of the Row

2019
as John Austin

Shadrach

1998
as Narrator (voice)

Bordertown

2007
as George Morgan

The Missiles of October

1974
as Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy

Guilty Until Proven Innocent

1991
as Harold Hohne

Touch and Die

1991
as Frank Magenta

The American President

1995
as A.J. MacInerney

Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn

2012
as Martin Sheen

The Atlanta Child Murders

1985
as Chet Dettlinger

The Execution of Private Slovik

1974
as Eddie Slovik

Bringing Down a Dictator

2002
as Narrator

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

2002
as Himself

Gettysburg

1993
as Gen. Robert E. Lee

Halfway Home

2011
as Narrator

Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary

2008
as Martin Sheen

Judgment in Berlin

1988
as Herbert J. Stern

Voyage of Terror

1998
as Henry Northcutt

Cold Front

1990
as John Hyde

They Killed Sister Dorothy

2008
as Narrator

Firestarter

1984
as Captain Hollister

Guns of Honor

1994
as Jackson Baines Hardin (Ole Devil)

Pickup on 101

1972
as Lester Baumgartner

The Last Survivors

1975
as Alexander William Holmes

Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology

1993
as Martin Sheen

Echoes from the White House

2001
as Self - Host

When the Line Goes Through

as Bluff Jackson

Hollywood Speaks Up

2011
as Himself

Medusa's Child

1997
as President (U.S.)

Tudjman

1997
as Narrator

Out of the Darkness

1985
as Eddie Zigo

When the Bough Breaks

1994
as Captain Swaggert

Helen’s War: Portrait Of A Dissident

2004
as Martin Sheen

Born Wild

1995
as Dan Walker

The Cassandra Crossing

1976
as Robby Navarro

Taxi!!

1978
as Taxi Driver

Sweet Hostage

as Leonard Hatch

Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle

2017
as Narrator

Truth or Consequences, N.M.

1997
as Sir

Imagine That

2009
as Dante D'Enzo

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

1991
as Himself

Rage

1972
as Maj. Holliford

Badge of Honor

2015
as Captain Daniel Richards

Trigger Fast

1994
as Jackson Baines Hardin / Ole Devil

Secrets of the Titanic

1986
as Himself (Narrator)

Milost mora

2003
as Frederik

Fighting for Our Lives

1975

White House Revealed

2009
as Narrator

Broken Rainbow

1985
as Narrator

Storm

1999
as General James Roberts

Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story

1986
as Mitch Snyder

Death By China

2012
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Siesta

1987
as Del

A Texas Funeral

1999
as Grandpa Sparta

Nightbreaker

1989
as Dr. Alexander Brown - Present

Virgin Mary

1995
as Father Jozo Zovko

Jerzy Popieluszko: Messenger of the Truth

2013
as Narrator

Loophole

1981
as Stephen Booker

Director

Movie Cadence 1990

Writer

Movie Cadence 1990

Host

Episode National Geographic Documentaries
Quest for the Atocha 		1986
Episode America's Game
1969 Kansas City Chiefs 		2006
Episode America's Game
1971 Dallas Cowboys 		2007
Episode America's Game
1999 St. Louis Rams 		2006
Episode America's Game
2001 New England Patriots 		2007

Producer

Movie Nightbreaker 1989
Movie The Map to Paradise 2019

Guest Star

Episode Tales from the Crypt
Well Cooked Hams 		1993
Episode Flipper
Flipper and the Seal 		1967
Episode The Sunday Night Project
The Best Of The Sunday Night Project 		2009
Episode The Graham Norton Show
Episode 2 		2008
Episode Colour of War: The American Story
Colour of War III: The American Story : Slow to Anger (1919-1942) (UK) aka The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color: Infamy (1919-1942) (US) 		2003
Episode Colour of War: The American Story
The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color: Battlefronts (1942-1944) 		2003
Episode Anger Management
Charlie's Dad Starts to Lose It 		2013
Episode The F.B.I.
The Dynasty 		1968
Episode Colour of War: The American Story
The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color: Wrath: D-Day-VE-Day 		2003
Episode Cannon
Memo from a Dead Man 		1973
Episode For the People
The Killing Of One Human Being 		1965
Episode Toma
The Oberon Contract 		1973
Episode The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Cast of The West Wing 		2006
Episode The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Rosie's Backstage Pass: The West Wing / Whose Line Is It Anyway 		2000
Episode Nature
A Conversation with Koko 		1999
Episode Colour of War: The American Story
The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color: Triumph: The Pacific, 1943-1945 		2002
Episode Anger Management
Charlie and the Devil 		2013
Episode The Simpsons
The Principal and the Pauper 		1997
Episode Anger Management
Charlie and the Grad Student 		2013
Episode Hallmark Hall Of Fame
Taxi! 		1978
Episode Route 66
... and the Cat Jumped Over the Moon 		1961
Episode Anger Management
Charlie and the Sting 		2013
Episode Today
October 5, 2011 		2011
Episode Söndagsparty med Filip och Fredrik
Tomas Wassberg tar Manhattan 		2009
Episode The Streets of San Francisco
Betrayed 		1973
Episode Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Episode 34 		2015
Episode Anger Management
Charlie and the Break-Up Coach 		2013
Episode Naked City
The Night the Saints Lost Their Halos 		1962
Episode National Geographic Documentaries
Inside the Vatican 		2001
Episode Matt Lincoln
Charles 		1970
Episode Mannix
To Kill a Memory 		1972
Episode Anger Management
Charlie, Kate and Jen Get Romantic 		2013
Episode Arrest and Trial
We May Be Better Strangers 		1963
Episode Columbo
Lovely but Lethal 		1973
Episode Mission: Impossible
Live Bait 		1969
Episode Anger Management
Charlie Helps Lacey Stay Rich 		2013
Episode The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Martin Sheen/Drea DeMatteo 		2004
Episode Anger Management
Charlie's Dad Breaks Bad 		2013
Episode Anger Management
Charlie Kills His Ex's Sex Life 		2013
Episode East Side/West Side
You Can't Beat the System 		1963
Episode The Colbert Report
Martin Sheen 		2012
Episode Ironside
No Game for Amateurs 		1970
Episode Today
July 3, 2012 		2012
Episode Who Do You Think You Are? (US)
Martin Sheen 		2012
Episode Spin City
Rags to Riches 		2002
Episode Naked City
Dust Devil on a Quiet Street 		1962
Episode National Geographic Documentaries
Last Voyage of the Lusitania 		1970
Episode Discovery Channel The Deep
Forbidden Depths (1) 		1970
Episode Discovery Channel The Deep
Forbidden Depths (2) 		1970
Episode BBC Drama
The Whale 		2013
Episode The Outer Limits
Nightmare 		1963
Episode Harry O
Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On 		1973
Episode Hawaii Five-O
Cry, Lie 		1970
Episode Hawaii Five-O
Time And Memories 		1970
Episode Anger Management
Charlie and Deception Therapy 		2013
Episode The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Martin Sheen, Joan Cusack, Marjorie Johnson 		2000
Episode Cannon
Devil's Playground 		1972
Episode Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Martin Sheen, Joe Franklin, Sheryl Crow 		1993
Episode Christmas In Rockefeller Center
71 		2003
Episode The Dame Edna Treatment
Martin Sheen, Tracey Emin 		2007
Episode Murphy Brown
Angst For the Memories 		1993
Episode Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985)
Method Actor 		1985
Episode Cannon
A Flight of Hawks 		1972
Episode Curiosity
What's Beneath America? 		2011
Episode Today
May 12, 2015 		2015
Episode National Geographic Documentaries
Secrets of the Titanic 		1986
Episode Babylon 5
Babylon 5: The River of Souls 		1998
Episode Two and a Half Men
Sleep Tight, Puddin' Pop 		2005
Episode The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Tina Turner/Martin Sheen 		2005
Episode Anger Management
Charlie & Catholicism 		2013
Episode Anger Management
Charlie's Dad Visits 		2012
Episode Saturday Night Live
Al Gore/Phish 		2002
Episode LateLine
The Seventh Plague 		1999
Episode Sarge
Ring Out, Ring It 		1971
Episode Screen One
Hostile Waters 		1997
Episode Cade's County
Safe Deposit 		1971