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Martin Sheen

Martin Sheen

Highest Rated: 100% Downwind (2023)

Lowest Rated: 8% Echelon Conspiracy (2009)

Birthday: Aug 3, 1940

Birthplace: Dayton, Ohio, USA

One of the busiest, most conscientious actors who ever worked in Hollywood, Martin Sheen put together a Herculean body of work - though much of it forgettable - that contained enough highlights to consider him to be among the great actors of his generation. After establishing himself as a youth run amok, most notably in "Badlands" (1973), Sheen grew over the years into a patriarchal figure whose rectitude and social responsibility kept with his liberal Catholic activism. A proud family man who saw all four children enter the acting business, with sons Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen enjoying lucrative careers of their own, he was perhaps most noted for his performance in Francis Ford Coppola's storied "Apocalypse Now" (1979), on which he suffered a near-fatal heart attack while seen onscreen in a drunken, unscripted meltdown the director incorporated into the finished product. But he subdued his rebellious ways with the help of Alcoholics Anonymous, while putting his political activism to the fore with an enduring portrayal of an idealistic president on "The West Wing" (NBC, 1999-2006), which allowed him to put his two greatest passions - acting and activism - on full display.

Highest rated movies

100% 74% The Subject Was Roses
99% 86% Selma 97% 90% Badlands 96% 95% Judas and the Black Messiah 96% 89% Catch Me if You Can
93% 92% A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
93% 80% Wrinkles
93% 91% Apocalypse Now Redux

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Vigilantes Inc.: America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen Executive Producer - 2024
100% 75% Downwind Narrator - 2023
63% 94% 12 Mighty Orphans Doc Hall (Character) $3.7M 2021
96% 95% Judas and the Black Messiah J. Edgar Hoover (Character) $5.0M 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Benedict Arnold: Hero Betrayed Narrator - 2021
35% 38% The Devil Has a Name Unknown (Character) - 2020
93% 92% A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet (Character) - 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Heart of Camden: The Father Michael Doyle Story Narrator - 2020
88% 93% Princess of the Row John Austin (Character) - 2019
No Score Yet 80% The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island James Alden (Voice) - 2018
69% 59% Come Sunday Oral Roberts (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Map to Paradise Executive Producer - 2018
No Score Yet 50% Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew Matthew Cuthbert (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Citizen Clark ... A Life of Principle Narrator - 2017
No Score Yet 68% Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars Matthew Cuthbert (Character) - 2017
55% 34% Rules Don't Apply Noah Dietrich (Character) $3.6M 2016
No Score Yet 45% Anne of Green Gables Matthew Cuthbert (Character) - 2016
67% 44% The Vessel Father Douglas (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet 29% Badge of Honor Capt. Richards (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ghost Town: The Hebron Story Narrator - 2015
66% 70% Trash Father Julliard (Character) $10.2K 2014
99% 86% Selma Judge Frank M. Johnson (Character) $52.1M 2014
No Score Yet 45% Ask Me Anything Glenn Warburg (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet 67% The Boxcar Children Grandfather Alden (Voice) - 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Water Wars Unknown (Character) - 2014
93% 80% Wrinkles Unknown (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jerzy Popieluszko: Messenger of the Truth Narrator - 2013
No Score Yet 51% Amazonia Narrator - 2013
68% 59% Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain Warren Anderson (Character) $12.1K 2013
37% 52% Salinger Unknown (Character) $575.8K 2013
No Score Yet 67% Brothers on the Line Narrator - 2012
38% 72% Death by China Narrator $30.0K 2012
71% 77% The Amazing Spider-Man Uncle Ben (Character) $262.0M 2012
55% 53% Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Frank (Character) $6.6M 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Second Cooler Narrator - 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet Halfway Home Narrator - 2011
No Score Yet 80% Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White Narrator - 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet After Kony: Staging Hope Executive Producer - 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wrinkles Emilio (Voice) - 2011
60% 32% Stella Days Father Daniel Barry (Character) - 2011
22% 33% The Double Tom Highland (Character) - 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet Losing the Elephants Self - 2011
83% 83% The Way Tom (Character) $44.7K 2010
No Score Yet 100% Return to El Salvador Narrator - 2010
No Score Yet 67% The Kid: Chamaco Dr. Frank Irwin (Character) - 2009
16% 37% Love Happens Burke's Father-in-Law (Character) $22.9M 2009
41% 40% Imagine That Dante D'Enzo (Character) $16.1M 2009
8% 31% Echelon Conspiracy Raymond Burke (Character) $500.2K 2009
52% 76% The End of Poverty? Narrator $57.3K 2008
100% 83% They Killed Sister Dorothy Narrator - 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet Finding Our Voices: Stories of American Dissent Narrator - 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet White House Revealed Unknown (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet 71% Confessions of an Innocent Man Narrator - 2007
No Score Yet 63% Bordertown George Morgan (Character) - 2007
83% 77% Talk to Me E.G. Sonderling (Character) $4.5M 2007
47% 72% Bobby Jack (Character) $11.2M 2006
89% 84% Who Killed the Electric Car? Narrator $1.7M 2006
91% 94% The Departed Capt. Queenan (Character) $132.4M 2006
No Score Yet 85% James Dean: Forever Young Narrator - 2005
88% 70% Tell Them Who You Are Self $38.6K 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet Winning New Hampshire Unknown (Character) - 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet 3 Wise Men Unknown (Character) - 2004
86% 90% Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion Narrator $577.8K 2003
78% 70% Hidden in Plain Sight Narrator - 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Commission Dep. Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach (Character) - 2003
96% 89% Catch Me if You Can Roger Strong (Character) $164.4M 2002
No Score Yet 33% Straight Up: Helicopters in Action Narrator - 2002
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bringing Down a Dictator Narrator - 2002
65% 58% O Coach Duke Goulding (Character) $16.4M 2001
No Score Yet 53% A Texas Funeral Grandpa Sparta (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Forget Me Never Jack (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet 46% The TimeShifters Grifasi (Character) - 1999
13% 28% Lost & Found Millstone (Character) $6.5M 1999
No Score Yet 33% Storm General James Roberts (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ninth Street Father Frank (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ballad of a Gunfighter The Stranger (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Storm Tracker General James Roberts (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet D.R.E.A.M. Team J.W. Garrison (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Darklings Ira Everett (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Stranger in the Kingdom Sigurd Moulton (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 57% Babylon 5: River of Souls Soul Hunter (Character) - 1998
90% 67% Snitch Hanlon (Character) $332.4K 1998
No Score Yet 44% No Code of Conduct Bill Peterson (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 62% A Letter From Death Row Michael's Father (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Family Attraction President (Character) - 1998
17% 37% Spawn Jason Wynn (Character) $55.0M 1997
No Score Yet 45% Hostile Waters Aurora Skipper (Character) - 1997
38% 46% Truth or Consequences, N.M. Sir (Character) $54.2K 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Act of Conscience Narrator - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mexico Narrator - 1996
50% 69% Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story Peter Maurin (Character) - 1996
60% 75% The War at Home Bob Collier (Character) $43.9K 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Elevator Sarge (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet 56% Project: ALF Col. Gilbert Milfoil (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sacred Cargo Father Andrew Kanvesky (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet 41% Dillinger and Capone John Dillinger (Character) - 1995
91% 77% The American President A.J. MacInerney (Character) $59.0M 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gospa Father Jozo Zovko (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet 25% The Break Gil Robbins (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet 33% Captain Nuke and the Bomberboys Jeff Snyder (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet 33% One of Her Own Asst. Dist. Atty. Pete Maresca (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet 30% Born Wild Dan Walker (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet 86% Roswell: The U.F.O. Cover-Up Unknown (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Boca Jesse James Montgomery (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Trigger Fast Jackson Baines Hardin (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hits Kelly (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet 56% Roswell Townsend (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet 83% Fortunes of War Francis Labeck (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Matter of Justice Jack Brown (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ghost Brigade Gen. Haworth (Character) - 1993
77% 89% Gettysburg Gen. Robert E. Lee (Character) - 1993
20% 35% Hear No Evil Lt. Brock (Character) $5.2M 1993
No Score Yet 52% When the Bough Breaks Captain Swaggert (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Last POW?: The Bobby Garwood Story William F. Eisenbraun (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Braving Alaska Unknown (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet 55% Guilty Until Proven Innocent Harold Hohne (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Touch and Die Frank (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet 50% The Maid Anthony Wayne (Character) - 1990
42% 70% Cadence McKinney (Character),
Director
$2.1M 1990
No Score Yet 42% Beverly Hills Brats Dr. Jeffrey Miller (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet 44% Beyond the Stars Paul Andrews (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cold Front John Hyde (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet 67% Nightbreaker Dr. Alexander Brown - Present (Character) - 1989
20% 41% Judgment in Berlin Herbert J Stern (Character),
Executive Producer
$218.4K 1988
64% 58% Da Charlie (Character),
Executive Producer
$3.3M 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Walking After Midnight Unknown (Character) - 1988
35% 45% The Believers Cal Jamison (Character) $17.4M 1987
79% 81% Wall Street Carl Fox (Character) $41.3M 1987
14% 64% Siesta Del (Character) $604.5K 1987
No Score Yet 73% Shattered Spirits Lyle Mollencamp (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story Mitch Snyder (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet A State of Emergency Dr. Alex Carmody (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet News at Eleven Frank Kenley (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet 83% The Fourth Wise Man Artaban (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet 75% Out of the Darkness Eddie Zigo (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet 75% Broken Rainbow Narrator - 1985
No Score Yet 40% Consenting Adult Ken Lynd (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet In the Name of the People Narrator - 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fourth Wise Man Artaban (Character) - 1985
40% 53% Firestarter Captain Hollister (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet 78% The Guardian Charlie Hyatt (Character) - 1984
89% 77% The Dead Zone Greg Stillson (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet 71% Man, Woman and Child Robert Beckwith (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Making of Gandhi: Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi Self - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Choices of the Heart Father Philan (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kennedy John F. Kennedy (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet 48% In the Custody of Strangers Frank Caldwell (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet 28% Enigma Alex Holbeck (Character) - 1982
89% 92% Gandhi Vince Walker (Character) - 1982
71% 50% That Championship Season Tom Daley (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet In the King of Prussia Unknown (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet 18% Break In Stephen Booker (Character) - 1981
52% 60% The Final Countdown Warren Lasky (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 26% Eagle's Wing Pike (Character) - 1979
91% 94% Apocalypse Now Captain Willard (Character) $78.8M 1979
93% 91% Apocalypse Now Redux Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Character) - 1979
36% 52% The Cassandra Crossing Robby Navarro (Character) - 1977
93% 75% The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane Frank Hallet (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet 77% Sweet Hostage Leonard Hatch (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Last Survivors Alexander William Holmes (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet 67% The Execution of Private Slovik Eddie Slovik (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Legend of Earl Durand Luther Sykes (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet 74% The California Kid Michael McCord (Character) - 1974
80% 91% The Missiles of October Robert Kennedy (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Letters From Three Lovers Vincent (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Message to My Daughter John Thatcher (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet 56% Catholics Father Kinsella (Character) - 1973
97% 90% Badlands Kit Carruthers (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Prowler in the Heart Tony Parrish (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Crime Club Deputy Wade Wilson (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Harry-O Harlan Garrison (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet 44% Rage Maj. Holliford (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet 25% Pursuit Timothy Drew (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Pickup on 101 Les (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol Graytak (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet That Certain Summer Gary McClain (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mongo's Back in Town Gordon (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet When the Line Goes Through Bluff Jackson (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Relative Solution Norman Sayles (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Goodbye Raggedy Ann Jules Worthman (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet No Drums, No Bugles Ashby Gatrell (Character) - 1971
81% 76% Catch-22 1st Lt. Dobbs (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Then Came Bronson Nick Oresko (Character) - 1968
100% 74% The Subject Was Roses Timmy Cleary (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet El Incidente Unknown (Character) - 1967
88% 87% The Incident Artie Connors (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet Holes in Heaven? H.A.A.R.P. & Advances In Tesla Technology Narrator -

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 14% The View Guest 2015 2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Jennifer Hudson Show Guest 2023
90% 86% Grace and Frankie Robert (Character) 2015-2022
No Score Yet 49% The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Guest 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Ellen DeGeneres Show Guest 2011 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet American Dynasties: The Kennedys Narrator 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tavis Smiley Guest 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing Evidence Executive Producer,
Narrator
2017
No Score Yet 80% Last Week Tonight With John Oliver Guest 2015
23% 52% Anger Management Martin Goodson (Guest Star) 2012-2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet The 90s: The Decade That Connected Us Guest 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Colbert Report Guest 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet Who Do You Think You Are? Unknown (Guest Star) 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet Curiosity Host 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Bonnie Hunt Show Guest 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Graham Norton Show Unknown (Guest Star) 2008
81% 95% The West Wing President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet (Character) 1999-2006
65% 66% Two and a Half Men Harvey (Guest Star) 2005
68% No Score Yet Spin City Unknown (Guest Star) 2002
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lateline Unknown (Guest Star) 1999
33% 92% Total Recall 2070 Unknown (Guest Star) 1999
85% 76% The Simpsons Sgt. Seymour Skinner (Guest Voice) 1997
57% No Score Yet Gun Unknown (Character) 1997
82% 90% Tales From the Crypt Unknown (Character) 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Alex Haley's Queen James Jackson Sr. (Character) 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Alfred Hitchcock Presents Unknown (Character) 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Atlanta Child Murders Chet Dettlinger (Character) 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kennedy John F. Kennedy (Character) 1983
No Score Yet 58% Saturday Night Live Host 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Love Story Frank Randolph (Character) 1973
No Score Yet 81% Columbo Karl Lessing (Guest Star) 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Streets of San Francisco Dean Knox (Guest Star) 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cannon Jerry Warton (Guest Star) 1972-1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Rookies Unknown (Guest Star) 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mannix Alex Lachlan (Guest Star) 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mod Squad Danny Morgan (Guest Star) 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dan August Norman Sayles (Guest Star) 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Interns Unknown (Guest Star) 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lancer Unknown (Guest Star) 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet Flipper Unknown (Guest Star) 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Trials of O'Brien Arthur Beckett (Guest Star) 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet My Three Sons Unknown (Guest Star) 1964
92% 90% The Outer Limits Pvt. Arthur Dix (Character) 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet East Side/West Side Unknown (Guest Star) 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Route 66 Unknown (Guest Star) 1961