Martin Sheen biography
Martin Sheen is an American actor (born 1940), born on 3 August 1940 in Dayton.
Martin Sheen's screen career began in 1963 with Nightmare.
Martin Sheen has appeared in 201 films and 157 television or streaming titles.
The most recent films are The Green Box: At the Heart of War (2025), Lost & Found in Cleveland (2024), Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023).
Honours include Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, Thomas Merton Award and Laetare Medal.
- Also known as
- Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez
- Born
- 3 August 1940 (age 86)
- Birthplace
- Dayton
- Work
- Actor, Film actor, Voice actor, Film producer, Television producer
- Film industries
- Hollywood and beyond
- Years active
- 1961 to present
- Awards
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
- Thomas Merton Award
- Laetare Medal
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor , Television Series Drama
Martin Sheen filmography
201 films and 157 television or streaming titles, newest first.
Films
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Green Box: At the Heart of War | Narrator | ||
| 2024 | Lost & Found in Cleveland | Dr. Austin Raybourne | ||
| 2023 | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | Ben Parker | Archival footage from The Amazing Spider-Man | |
| 2021 | Judas and the Black Messiah | FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover | ||
| 2021 | 12 Mighty Orphans | Doc Hall | ||
| 2019 | Princess of the Row | John Austin | ||
| 2019 | The Devil Has a Name | Ralph Wegis | ||
| 2018 | The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island | James Henry Alden | Voice | |
| 2018 | Come Sunday | Oral Roberts | ||
| 2017 | L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew | English | ||
| 2017 | L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars | English | ||
| 2017 | Untitled Film on World Citizen # 1 Garry Davis | |||
| 2017 | The Home Front: Life in America During World War II | Narrator | ||
| 2016 | Rules Don't Apply | Noah Dietrich | ||
| 2016 | Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping | English | ||
| 2016 | L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables | English | ||
| 2016 | Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing Evidence | Narrator | ||
| 2015 | Disengaged | English | ||
| 2015 | Trash | Father Juilliard | ||
| 2015 | Unity | Narrator | ||
| 2015 | The Vessel | Father Douglas | ||
| 2015 | Badge of Honor | Captain Richards | ||
| 2015 | American Hercules: Babe Ruth | Narrator | ||
| 2014 | Selma | Frank Minis Johnson | Uncredited | |
| 2014 | Ask Me Anything | Glenn Warburg |
Show all 201 films
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | English | ||
| 2014 | The Boxcar Children | James Henry Alden | Voice | |
| 2014 | Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain | Warren Anderson | ||
| 2013 | Salinger | English | ||
| 2013 | The Second Cooler | Narrator | ||
| 2013 | Messenger of the Truth | Narrator | ||
| 2012 | The Amazing Spider-Man | Ben Parker | ||
| 2012 | Seeking a Friend for the End of the World | Frank Petersen | ||
| 2012 | Death by China | Narrator | ||
| 2012 | Brothers on the Line | Narrator | ||
| 2011 | The Double | Tom Highland | ||
| 2011 | Stella Days | Daniel Barry | ||
| 2011 | Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson | English | ||
| 2011 | Curiosity | Host | ||
| 2010 | The Way | Thomas Avery | ||
| 2010 | The Spirit | "The Octopuss" | ||
| 2010 | The Kennedy Detail | Narrator | ||
| 2010 | Return to El Salvador | Narrator | ||
| 2009 | Love Happens | Burke's Father-In-Law | ||
| 2009 | The Kid: Chamaco | Dr. Frank Irwin | ||
| 2009 | Imagine That | Dante D'Enzo | ||
| 2009 | Echelon Conspiracy | Raymond Burke | ||
| 2009 | The End of Poverty? | Narrator | ||
| 2009 | White House Revealed | Narrator | ||
| 2009 | One Water | Narrator | ||
| 2008 | They Killed Sister Dorothy | Narrator | ||
| 2008 | Vietnam-American Holocaust | Narrator | ||
| 2008 | Man in the Mirror | 9 roles | ||
| 2008 | Flower in the Gun Barrel | Narrator | ||
| 2008 | A Single Woman | Unknown | Voice | |
| 2007 | Talk to Me | E.G. Sonderling | ||
| 2007 | Bordertown | George Morgan | ||
| 2007 | Searching for George Washington | George Washington (voice) | ||
| 2007 | Flatland: The Movie | Arthur Square | Voice | |
| 2006 | The Departed | Captain Oliver Queenan | ||
| 2006 | Bobby | Jack Stevens | ||
| 2006 | Who Killed the Electric Car? | Narrator | ||
| 2006 | Between Iraq and a Hard Place | Narrator | ||
| 2005 | James Dean: Forever Young | Narrator | ||
| 2004 | Jerusalemski sindrom | Unknown | ||
| 2004 | Tell Them Who You Are | Narrator | ||
| 2004 | Learning to Sea | Narrator | ||
| 2004 | A Prairie Home Companion | Wolf | ||
| 2003 | The Perilous Fight | Narrator | ||
| 2003 | The Commission | Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach | ||
| 2003 | Mercy of the Sea | Frederik | ||
| 2003 | Hidden in Plain Sight | Narrator | ||
| 2003 | All the Presidents' Movies | Narrator | ||
| 2002 | Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion | Narrator | ||
| 2002 | Rosy-Fingered Dawn | |||
| 2002 | Catch Me If You Can | Roger Strong | ||
| 2002 | Straight Up: Helicopters in Action | Narrator | ||
| 2002 | Cuba: The 40 Years War | Narrator | ||
| 2001 | O | Coach Duke Goulding | ||
| 2001 | Apocalypse Now Redux | Khmer | ||
| 2001 | Stockpile | Narrator | ||
| 2001 | Inside the Vatican | Narrator | ||
| 2000 | World's Deadliest Storms | Narrator | ||
| 1999 | Storm | General James Roberts | ||
| 1999 | Ninth Street | Father Frank | ||
| 1999 | Lost & Found | Millstone | ||
| 1999 | A Texas Funeral | Grandpa Sparta | ||
| 1999 | World's Deadliest Earthquakes | Narrator | ||
| 1999 | The History Channel Presents: The Story of the 12 Apostles | Narrator | ||
| 1999 | A Conversation with Koko | Narrator | ||
| 1998 | Voyage of Terror | English | ||
| 1998 | Shadrach | Narrator | Voice | |
| 1998 | No Code of Conduct | Bill Peterson | ||
| 1998 | Monument Ave | Hanlon | ||
| 1998 | Free Money | New Warden | ||
| 1998 | Babylon 5: The River of Souls | English | ||
| 1998 | A Letter from Death Row | Mr. Raine | ||
| 1998 | Taylor's Campaign | Narrator | ||
| 1998 | Holes in Heaven | Narrator | ||
| 1998 | Gunfighter | The Stranger | ||
| 1998 | Family Attraction | President | Short film | |
| 1998 | A Stranger in the Kingdom | Sigurd Moulton | ||
| 1997 | Truth or Consequences, N.M | Sir | ||
| 1997 | Spawn | CIA Director Jason Wynn | ||
| 1997 | Hostile Waters | English | ||
| 1997 | Tudjman | Narrator | ||
| 1997 | Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster | Narrator | ||
| 1997 | An Act of Conscience | Narrator | Voice | |
| 1997 | 187: Documented | Narrator | ||
| 1996 | The War at Home | Bob Collier | ||
| 1996 | Project ALF | English | ||
| 1996 | Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story | Peter Maurin | ||
| 1996 | The Elevator | Sarge | ||
| 1995 | Dillinger and Capone | John Dillinger | ||
| 1995 | The American President | Chief of Staff A.J. McInnerney | ||
| 1995 | One Hundred and One Nights | French | ||
| 1995 | Gospa | Father Jozo Zovko | ||
| 1995 | Dead Presidents | The Judge | ||
| 1995 | Running Wild | Dan Walker | ||
| 1995 | The Break | Gil Robbins | ||
| 1995 | Sacred Cargo | Father Andrew Kanvesky | ||
| 1995 | Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys | Jeff Snyder | ||
| 1994 | Roswell | English | ||
| 1994 | Hits! | Kelly | ||
| 1994 | When the Bough Breaks | Captain Swaggert | ||
| 1994 | Last Voyage of the Lusitania | Narrator | ||
| 1994 | Guns of Honor | Jackson Baines Hardin | ||
| 1994 | Boca | Jesse James Montgomery | ||
| 1993 | Gettysburg | General Robert E. Lee | ||
| 1993 | Hot Shots! Part Deux | Captain Benjamin L. Willard | Cameo | |
| 1993 | Hear No Evil | Lieutenant Brock | ||
| 1993 | Ghost Brigade | General Haworth | ||
| 1993 | Fortunes of War | Francis Labeck | ||
| 1993 | Alive: 20 Years Later | English | ||
| 1993 | My Home, My Prison | Narrator | ||
| 1993 | A Matter of Justice | Jack Brown | ||
| 1992 | Original Intent | Joe | ||
| 1991 | The Maid | Anthony Wayne | ||
| 1991 | JFK | Narrator | Voice | |
| 1991 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | English | ||
| 1991 | Touch and Die | Frank | ||
| 1990 | Cadence | Master Sergeant Otis V. McKinney | Also director | |
| 1990 | Doing Time Ten Years Later | Narrator | ||
| 1989 | Nightbreaker | Dr. Alexander Brown | ||
| 1989 | Cold Front | John Hyde | ||
| 1989 | Beyond the Stars | Paul Andrews | ||
| 1989 | Beverly Hills Brats | Dr. Jeffrey Miller | ||
| 1989 | Marked for Murder | Man In Park | ||
| 1988 | Judgment in Berlin | Herbert Jay Stern | ||
| 1988 | Da | Charlie Tynan | ||
| 1987 | Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam | English | ||
| 1987 | The Believers | Cal Jamison | ||
| 1987 | Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 | English | ||
| 1987 | Wall Street | Carl Fox | ||
| 1987 | Siesta | Del | ||
| 1986 | Shattered Spirits | Lyle Mollencamp | ||
| 1986 | Secrets of the Titanic | Narrator | ||
| 1986 | A State of Emergency | Dr. Alex Carmody | ||
| 1985 | The Fourth Wise Man | English | ||
| 1985 | Spaceflight | Narrator | ||
| 1985 | Out of the Darkness | English | ||
| 1985 | Consenting Adult | English | ||
| 1985 | Broken Rainbow | Narrator | ||
| 1985 | In the Name of the People | Narrator | ||
| 1984 | Firestarter | Captain James Hollister | ||
| 1984 | The Guardian | English | ||
| 1983 | Man, Woman and Child | Robert Beckwith | ||
| 1983 | The Dead Zone | Greg Stillson | ||
| 1983 | Choices of the Heart | English | ||
| 1983 | In the King of Prussia | Judge Samuel Salus II | ||
| 1982 | Enigma | Alex Holbeck | ||
| 1982 | Gandhi | Vince Walker | ||
| 1982 | That Championship Season | Tom Daley | ||
| 1982 | In the Custody of Strangers | Frank Caldwell | ||
| 1981 | Loophole | Stephen Booker | ||
| 1980 | The Final Countdown | Warren Lasky | ||
| 1979 | Eagle's Wing | Pike | ||
| 1979 | Apocalypse Now | Captain Benjamin L. Willard | ||
| 1978 | Taxi!!! | English | ||
| 1976 | The Cassandra Crossing | Robby Navarro | ||
| 1976 | The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane | Frank Hallet | ||
| 1975 | Sweet Hostage | Leonard Hatch | ||
| 1975 | The Last Survivors | Alexander William Holmes | ||
| 1974 | The Missiles of October | English | ||
| 1974 | The Execution of Private Slovik | English | ||
| 1974 | The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd | |||
| 1974 | The California Kid | Michael McCord | ||
| 1974 | The Legend of Earl Durand | Luther Sykes | ||
| 1973 | Catholics | English | ||
| 1973 | Badlands | Kit Carruthers | ||
| 1973 | Letters from Three Lovers | English | ||
| 1973 | When the Line Goes Through | Bluff Jackson | ||
| 1973 | The Conflict (Catholics) | Father James Kinsella | ||
| 1972 | Pursuit | English | ||
| 1972 | Rage | Major Holliford | ||
| 1972 | Pickup on 101 | Les | ||
| 1972 | No Drums, No Bugles | Ashby Gatrell | ||
| 1970 | Catch-22 | 1st Lieutenant Dobbs | ||
| 1970 | The Cliff | Charlie Devon | ||
| 1968 | The Subject Was Roses | Timmy Cleary | ||
| 1967 | The Incident | Artie Connors |
Television and streaming
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Tomorrow | English | ||
| 2006 | Institutional Memory | English | ||
| 2006 | The Last Hurrah | English | ||
| 2006 | Transition | English | ||
| 2006 | Requiem | American Sign Language | ||
| 2006 | Election Day Part II | English | ||
| 2006 | Election Day Part I | English | ||
| 2006 | Welcome to Wherever You Are | English | ||
| 2006 | Two Weeks Out | English | ||
| 2006 | The Cold | English | ||
| 2006 | Duck and Cover | English | ||
| 2006 | Internal Displacement | English | ||
| 2006 | Running Mates | English | ||
| 2005 | The Wedding | English | ||
| 2005 | Undecideds | English | ||
| 2005 | The Debate | English | ||
| 2005 | The Al Smith Dinner | English | ||
| 2005 | Here Today | English | ||
| 2005 | Mr. Frost | English | ||
| 2005 | Message of the Week | English | ||
| 2005 | The Mommy Problem | American Sign Language | ||
| 2005 | The Ticket | American Sign Language | ||
| 2005 | 2162 Votes | English | ||
| 2005 | Things Fall Apart | English | ||
| 2005 | In God We Trust | English |
Show all 157 titles
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Ninety Miles Away | English | ||
| 2005 | La Palabra | English | ||
| 2005 | A Good Day | English | ||
| 2005 | Drought Conditions | English | ||
| 2005 | Freedonia | English | ||
| 2005 | The Wake Up Call | English | ||
| 2005 | King Corn | English | ||
| 2005 | 365 Days | English | ||
| 2005 | Opposition Research | American Sign Language | ||
| 2005 | Faith Based Initiative | English | ||
| 2004 | Impact Winter | English | ||
| 2004 | In the Room | English | ||
| 2004 | A Change Is Gonna Come | English | ||
| 2004 | The Dover Test | English | ||
| 2004 | The Hubbert Peak | English | ||
| 2004 | Liftoff | English | ||
| 2004 | Third-Day Story | English | ||
| 2004 | The Birnam Wood | English | ||
| 2004 | NSF Thurmont | English | ||
| 2004 | Memorial Day | English | ||
| 2004 | Gaza | English | ||
| 2004 | No Exit | English | ||
| 2004 | Talking Points | English | ||
| 2004 | Access | English | ||
| 2004 | The Supremes | English | ||
| 2004 | Eppur Si Muove | English | ||
| 2004 | Full Disclosure | English | ||
| 2004 | An Khe | English | ||
| 2004 | The Warfare of Genghis Khan | English | ||
| 2004 | Slow News Day | English | ||
| 2004 | The Benign Prerogative | American Sign Language | ||
| 2004 | The Stormy Present | English | ||
| 2003 | Abu el Banat | English | ||
| 2003 | Shutdown | English | ||
| 2003 | Separation of Powers | English | ||
| 2003 | Disaster Relief | English | ||
| 2003 | Constituency of One | English | ||
| 2003 | Han | English | ||
| 2003 | Jefferson Lives | English | ||
| 2003 | The Dogs of War | English | ||
| 2003 | 7A WF 83429 | English | ||
| 2003 | Twenty Five | English | ||
| 2003 | Commencement | English | ||
| 2003 | Life on Mars | English | ||
| 2003 | Evidence of Things Not Seen | English | ||
| 2003 | Angel Maintenance | English | ||
| 2003 | Privateers | English | ||
| 2003 | Red Haven's on Fire | English | ||
| 2003 | The California 47th | English | ||
| 2003 | Inauguration: Over There | English | ||
| 2003 | Inauguration, Part I | English | ||
| 2003 | The Long Goodbye | English | ||
| 2003 | Guns Not Butter | English | ||
| 2002 | Holy Night | Yiddish | ||
| 2002 | Arctic Radar | English | ||
| 2002 | Swiss Diplomacy | English | ||
| 2002 | Process Stories | English | ||
| 2002 | Election Night | English | ||
| 2002 | Game On | English | ||
| 2002 | Debate Camp | American Sign Language | ||
| 2002 | The Red Mass | English | ||
| 2002 | College Kids | English | ||
| 2002 | 20 Hours in America (Part II) | English | ||
| 2002 | 20 Hours in America (Part I) | English | ||
| 2002 | Posse Comitatus | English | ||
| 2002 | We Killed Yamamoto | English | ||
| 2002 | The Black Vera Wang | English | ||
| 2002 | Enemies Foreign and Domestic | English | ||
| 2002 | Stirred | English | ||
| 2002 | The U.S. Poet Laureate | English | ||
| 2002 | Dead Irish Writers | English | ||
| 2002 | Hartsfield's Landing | English | ||
| 2002 | Night Five | English | ||
| 2002 | The Two Bartlets | English | ||
| 2002 | 100,000 Airplanes | American Sign Language | ||
| 2002 | H. Con-172 | English | ||
| 2001 | Bartlet for America | English | ||
| 2001 | The Women of Qumar | English | ||
| 2001 | The Indians in the Lobby | English | ||
| 2001 | Gone Quiet | English | ||
| 2001 | War Crimes | English | ||
| 2001 | On the Day Before | English | ||
| 2001 | Ways and Means | English | ||
| 2001 | Manchester (Part II) | American Sign Language | ||
| 2001 | Manchester (Part I) | American Sign Language | ||
| 2001 | Isaac and Ishmael | English | ||
| 2001 | Two Cathedrals | English | ||
| 2001 | 18th and Potomac | American Sign Language | ||
| 2001 | The Fall's Gonna Kill You | American Sign Language | ||
| 2001 | Bad Moon Rising | English | ||
| 2001 | 17 People | English | ||
| 2001 | The Stackhouse Filibuster | English | ||
| 2001 | Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail | English | ||
| 2001 | Ellie | English | ||
| 2001 | Bartlet's Third State of the Union | American Sign Language | ||
| 2001 | The Drop-In | English | ||
| 2001 | The Leadership Breakfast | English | ||
| 2000 | Noël | English | ||
| 2000 | Galileo | English | ||
| 2000 | Shibboleth | English | ||
| 2000 | The Portland Trip | English | ||
| 2000 | The Lame Duck Congress | English | ||
| 2000 | And It's Surely to Their Credit | English | ||
| 2000 | In This White House | English | ||
| 2000 | The Midterms | English | ||
| 2000 | In the Shadow of Two Gunmen (Part II) | English | ||
| 2000 | In the Shadow of Two Gunmen (Part I) | English | ||
| 2000 | What Kind of Day Has It Been | English | ||
| 2000 | Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics | American Sign Language | ||
| 2000 | Mandatory Minimums | American Sign Language | ||
| 2000 | Let Bartlet Be Bartlet | English | ||
| 2000 | Six Meetings Before Lunch | English | ||
| 2000 | The White House Pro-Am | English | ||
| 2000 | 20 Hours in L.A. | American Sign Language | ||
| 2000 | Celestial Navigation | English | ||
| 2000 | Take This Sabbath Day | American Sign Language | ||
| 2000 | Take out the Trash Day | English | ||
| 2000 | He Shall, from Time to Time... | English | ||
| 2000 | Lord John Marbury | English | ||
| 1999 | In Excelsis Deo | English | ||
| 1999 | The Short List | English | ||
| 1999 | Enemies | English | ||
| 1999 | The State Dinner | English | ||
| 1999 | Mr. Willis of Ohio | English | ||
| 1999 | The Crackpots and These Women | English | ||
| 1999 | Five Votes Down | English | ||
| 1999 | A Proportional Response | English | ||
| 1999 | Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc | English | ||
| 1999 | Pilot | English | ||
| 1985 | The Atlanta Child Murders | |||
| 1979 | Blind Ambition | |||
| 1963 | Nightmare | English |