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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

Judas and the Black Messiah

2021
as J. Edgar Hoover

12 Mighty Orphans

2021
as Doc Hall

Princess of the Row

2019
as John Austin

The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island

2018
as James Alden (voice)

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

2018
as Matthew Cuthbert

Come Sunday

2018
as Oral Roberts

Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew

2017
as Matthew Cuthbert

Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle

2017
as Narrator

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

2016
as Himself

The Vessel

2016
as Father Douglas

Anne of Green Gables

2016
as Matthew Cuthbert

Rules Don't Apply

2016
as Noah Dietrich

Grace and Frankie

2015
as Robert Hanson

Selma

2015
as Frank Minis Johnson

Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy

2015
as Martin Sheen

Unity

2015
as Himself - Narrator (voice)

Badge of Honor

2015
as Captain Daniel Richards

A Prayer for Rain

2014
as Warren Anderson

Ask Me Anything

2014
as Glenn Warburg

The Boxcar Children

2014
as Grandfather Alden (voice)

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

2014
as Uncle Ben

Trash

2014
as Father Juilliard / Padre Juilliard

Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey

2014

Salinger

2013
as Himself

The Whale

2013
as Tom Nickerson

Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot

2013
as Himself

Amazonia

2013
as Narrator

Jerzy Popieluszko: Messenger of the Truth

2013
as Narrator

The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz

2013
as Narrator

Anger Management

2012
as Martin Goodson

Brothers on the Line

2012
as Narrator

Death By China

2012
as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Amazing Spider-Man

2012
as Uncle Ben

8

2012
as Theodore B. Olson

Stella Days

2012
as Fr. Daniel Barry

Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn

2012
as Martin Sheen

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

2012
as Frank Petersen

The Double

2011
as Tom Highland

Halfway Home

2011
as Narrator

Curiosity

2011
as Himself - Narrator

Holy Man: The USA vs Douglas White

2011
as Narrator

Wrinkles

2011
as (voice)

Sharkwise

2011
as Narrator

Miller's Tale

2011
as Himself

Hollywood Speaks Up

2011
as Himself

The Way

2010
as Tom

The Kennedy Detail

2010
as Martin Sheen

Chamaco

2009
as Dr. Frank Irwin

Echelon Conspiracy

2009
as Raymond Burke

Imagine That

2009
as Dante D'Enzo

Love Happens

2009
as Burke's Father-in-Law

White House Revealed

2009
as Narrator

Notes on an American Film Director at Work

2008
as Martin Sheen

They Killed Sister Dorothy

2008
as Narrator

Vietnam: American Holocaust

2008
as Narrator

Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary

2008
as Martin Sheen

The End of Poverty?

2008
as narrator

Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil and the Presidency

2008
as Narrator

Pirate for the Sea

2008
as Self - Actor & Activist

Talk to Me

2007
as E.G. Sonderling

Confessions Of An Innocent Man

2007
as Self - Narrator

Flatland

2007
as Arthur Square (voice)

Bordertown

2007
as George Morgan

The Departed

2006
as Capt. Oliver Charles Queenan

Bobby

2006
as Jack Stevens

Who Killed the Electric Car?

2006
as Narrator

James Dean: Forever Young

2005
as Narrator (voice)

Helen’s War: Portrait Of A Dissident

2004
as Martin Sheen

Tell Them Who You Are

2004
as Himself

Jerusalem Syndrome

2004

Milost mora

2003
as Frederik

All the Presidents' Movies

2003
as Narrator

Absence of Malick

2003
as Martin Sheen

Bringing Down a Dictator

2002
as Narrator

Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion

2002
as Narrator

Catch Me If You Can

2002
as Roger Strong

IMAX - Straight Up, Helicopters in Action

2002
as Narrator (voice)

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

2002
as Himself

Enemies of War

2001
as Self - Narrator

Echoes from the White House

2001
as Self - Host

National Geographic Video: Inside the Vatican

2001
as Martin Sheen

O

2001
as Coach Duke Goulding

Forget Me Never

1999
as Jack

Storm

1999
as General James Roberts

No Code of Conduct

1999
as Bill Peterson

The Darklings

1999
as Ira Everett

The West Wing

1999
as Josiah Bartlet

A Stranger in the Kingdom

1999
as Sigurd Moulton

Ninth Street

1999
as Father Frank

The Story of the Twelve Apostles

1999
as Narrator

A Texas Funeral

1999
as Grandpa Sparta

D.R.E.A.M. Team

1999
as J.W. Garrison

Hubble: Secrets From Space

1998
as Self - Host

Holes in Heaven

1998
as Narrator

A Letter from Death Row

1998
as Michael's Father

Ballad of a Gunfighter

1998
as The Stranger

Family Attraction

1998
as President

Babylon 5: The River of Souls

1998
as Soul Hunter

Shadrach

1998
as Narrator (voice)

Voyage of Terror

1998
as Henry Northcutt

Free Money

1998
as Guard

Tudjman

1997
as Narrator

Medusa's Child

1997
as President (U.S.)

The Making of 'Spawn'

1997
as Himself

Spawn

1997
as Jason Wynn

Hostile Waters

1997
as Aurora Skipper

Truth or Consequences, N.M.

1997
as Sir

Mexico

1996
as Narrator

The War at Home

1996
as Bob Collier

Blacklist: Hollywood on trial

1996
as Dalton Trumbo

Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story

1996
as Peter Maurin

Project: ALF

1996
as Colonel Gilbert Milfoil

Sacred Cargo

1996
as Father Andrew Kanvesky

Born Wild

1995
as Dan Walker

Virgin Mary

1995
as Father Jozo Zovko

The Break

1995
as Gil Robbins

Dillinger and Capone

1995
as John Dillinger

Present Tense, Past Perfect

1995
as Brian

The American President

1995
as A.J. MacInerney

Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys

1995
as Jeff Snyder

Hits!

1994
as Kelly

Eyewitness (1994)

1994
as Narrator (Seasons 1-2 US)

Trigger Fast

1994
as Jackson Baines Hardin / Ole Devil

One of Her Own

1994
as Asst. Dist. Atty. Pete Maresca

Guns of Honor

1994
as Jackson Baines Hardin (Ole Devil)

Roswell

1994
as Townsend

Fortunes of War

1994
as Francis Labeck

When the Bough Breaks

1994
as Captain Swaggert

Marlon Brando: The Wild One

1994
as Martin Sheen

Braving Alaska

1993
as Narrator (voice)

Alex Haley's Queen

1993
as Col. James Jackson Senior

Hear No Evil

1993
as Lt. Brock

A Matter of Justice

1993
as Jack Brown

Grey Knight

1993
as Gen. Haworth

Hot Shots! Part Deux

1993
as Capt. Benjamin L. Willard

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

1993
as Martin Sheen

Gettysburg

1993
as Gen. Robert E. Lee

Garwood: Prisoner of War

1993
as William F.(Ike) Eisenbraun

Alive: 20 Years Later

1993
as Narrator

Original Intent

1992
as Homeless Joe

Guilty Until Proven Innocent

1991
as Harold Hohne

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

1991
as Himself

The Maid

1991
as Anthony Wayne

Touch and Die

1991
as Frank Magenta

Cadence

1990
as MSgt. Otis V. McKinney

Cold Front

1990
as John Hyde

Captain Planet and the Planeteers

1990
as Sly Sludge (seasons 1-3)

Beyond the Stars

1989
as Paul Andrews

Beverly Hills Brats

1989
as Dr. Jeffrey Miller

Nightbreaker

1989
as Dr. Alexander Brown - Present

Walking After Midnight

1988
as Martin Sheen

Da

1988
as Charlie

Judgment in Berlin

1988
as Herbert J. Stern

Siesta

1987
as Del

Wall Street

1987
as Carl Fox

The Believers

1987
as Cal Jamison

The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun

1987
as Narrator (voice)

Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8

1987
as James Marion Hunt

Apocalypse Pooh

1987
as Winnie the Pooh

News at Eleven

1986
as Frank Kenley

Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story

1986
as Mitch Snyder

Shattered Spirits

1986
as Lyle Mollencamp

A State of Emergency

1986

Secrets of the Titanic

1986
as Himself (Narrator)

In the Name of the People

1985
as Narrator

Out of the Darkness

1985
as Eddie Zigo

Spaceflight

1985
as Narrator (voice)

Consenting Adult

1985
as Ken Lynd

The Atlanta Child Murders

1985
as Chet Dettlinger

The Fourth Wise Man

1985
as Artaban

Broken Rainbow

1985
as Narrator

Firestarter

1984
as Captain Hollister

Kennedy

1983
as John Kennedy

The Dead Zone

1983
as Greg Stillson

Man, Woman and Child

1983
as Robert Beckwith

Choices of the Heart

1983
as Father Philan

In the King of Prussia

1982
as Judge Samuel Salus II

In the Custody of Strangers

1982
as Frank Caldwell

That Championship Season

1982
as Tom Daley

Enigma

1982
as Alex Holbeck

Centralia Fire

1982
as Self - Narrator

Gandhi

1982
as Vince Walker

Loophole

1981
as Stephen Booker

The Final Countdown

1980
as Warren Lasky

Apocalypse Now

1979
as Captain Benjamin L. Willard

Eagle's Wing

1979
as Pike

Taxi!!

1978
as Taxi Driver

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

1976
as Frank Hallet

The Cassandra Crossing

1976
as Robby Navarro

Fighting for Our Lives

1975

The Last Survivors

1975
as Alexander William Holmes

The Execution of Private Slovik

1974
as Eddie Slovik

The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd

1974
as Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd

The Legend of Earl Durand

1974
as Luther Sykes

The California Kid

1974
as Michael McCord

The Missiles of October

1974
as Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy

Message to My Daughter

1973
as John Thatcher

Badlands

1973
as Kit Carruthers

Crime Club

1973
as Deputy Wilson

A Prowler in the Heart

1973
as Tony Parrish

Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On

1973
as Harlan Garrison

Letters from Three Lovers

1973
as Vincent

The Catholics

1973
as Father Kinsella

No Drums, No Bugles

1972
as Ashby Gatrell

Rage

1972
as Maj. Holliford

Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol

1972
as Graytak

Pickup on 101

1972
as Lester Baumgartner

That Certain Summer

1972
as Gary McCain

Goodbye, Raggedy Ann

1971
as Jules Worthman

Mongo's Back in Town

1971
as Gordon

Catch-22

1970
as 1st Lt. Dobbs

The Andersonville Trial

1970
as Captain Williams

Then Came Bronson

1969
as Nick Oresko

The Subject Was Roses

1968
as Timmy Cleary

Pat Neal Is Back

1968
as Himself

The Incident

1967
as Artie Connors

Ten Blocks on the Camino Real

1966
as Kilroy

When the Line Goes Through

as Bluff Jackson

Sweet Hostage

as Leonard Hatch

Director

Movie Cadence 1990

Writer

Movie Cadence 1990

Host

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

Producer

Movie The Map to Paradise 2019
Movie Nightbreaker 1989

Guest Star

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