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.
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Martin Sheen
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Vigilantes Inc.: America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen | Executive Producer | - | 2024 |
100% |
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Downwind | Narrator | - | 2023 |
63% |
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12 Mighty Orphans | Doc Hall (Character) | $3.7M | 2021 |
96% |
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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% |
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The Devil Has a Name | Unknown (Character) | - | 2020 |
93% |
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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% |
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Princess of the Row | John Austin (Character) | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet |
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The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island | James Alden (Voice) | - | 2018 |
69% |
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Come Sunday | Oral Roberts (Character) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Map to Paradise | Executive Producer | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet |
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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 |
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Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars | Matthew Cuthbert (Character) | - | 2017 |
55% |
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Rules Don't Apply | Noah Dietrich (Character) | $3.6M | 2016 |
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Anne of Green Gables | Matthew Cuthbert (Character) | - | 2016 |
67% |
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The Vessel | Father Douglas (Character) | - | 2016 |
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Badge of Honor | Capt. Richards (Character) | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ghost Town: The Hebron Story | Narrator | - | 2015 |
66% |
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Trash | Father Julliard (Character) | $10.2K | 2014 |
99% |
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Selma | Judge Frank M. Johnson (Character) | $52.1M | 2014 |
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Ask Me Anything | Glenn Warburg (Character) | - | 2014 |
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The Boxcar Children | Grandfather Alden (Voice) | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Water Wars | Unknown (Character) | - | 2014 |
93% |
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Wrinkles | Unknown (Character) | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jerzy Popieluszko: Messenger of the Truth | Narrator | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet |
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Amazonia | Narrator | - | 2013 |
68% |
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Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain | Warren Anderson (Character) | $12.1K | 2013 |
37% |
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Salinger | Unknown (Character) | $575.8K | 2013 |
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Brothers on the Line | Narrator | - | 2012 |
38% |
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Death by China | Narrator | $30.0K | 2012 |
71% |
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The Amazing Spider-Man | Uncle Ben (Character) | $262.0M | 2012 |
55% |
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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 |
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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% |
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Stella Days | Father Daniel Barry (Character) | - | 2011 |
22% |
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The Double | Tom Highland (Character) | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Losing the Elephants | Self | - | 2011 |
83% |
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The Way | Tom (Character) | $44.7K | 2010 |
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Return to El Salvador | Narrator | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet |
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The Kid: Chamaco | Dr. Frank Irwin (Character) | - | 2009 |
16% |
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Love Happens | Burke's Father-in-Law (Character) | $22.9M | 2009 |
41% |
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Imagine That | Dante D'Enzo (Character) | $16.1M | 2009 |
8% |
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Echelon Conspiracy | Raymond Burke (Character) | $500.2K | 2009 |
52% |
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The End of Poverty? | Narrator | $57.3K | 2008 |
100% |
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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 |
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Confessions of an Innocent Man | Narrator | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet |
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Bordertown | George Morgan (Character) | - | 2007 |
83% |
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Talk to Me | E.G. Sonderling (Character) | $4.5M | 2007 |
47% |
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Bobby | Jack (Character) | $11.2M | 2006 |
89% |
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Who Killed the Electric Car? | Narrator | $1.7M | 2006 |
91% |
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The Departed | Capt. Queenan (Character) | $132.4M | 2006 |
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James Dean: Forever Young | Narrator | - | 2005 |
88% |
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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% |
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Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion | Narrator | $577.8K | 2003 |
78% |
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Hidden in Plain Sight | Narrator | - | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Commission | Dep. Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach (Character) | - | 2003 |
96% |
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Catch Me if You Can | Roger Strong (Character) | $164.4M | 2002 |
No Score Yet |
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Straight Up: Helicopters in Action | Narrator | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bringing Down a Dictator | Narrator | - | 2002 |
65% |
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O | Coach Duke Goulding (Character) | $16.4M | 2001 |
No Score Yet |
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A Texas Funeral | Grandpa Sparta (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Forget Me Never | Jack (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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The TimeShifters | Grifasi (Character) | - | 1999 |
13% |
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Lost & Found | Millstone (Character) | $6.5M | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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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 |
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Babylon 5: River of Souls | Soul Hunter (Character) | - | 1998 |
90% |
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Snitch | Hanlon (Character) | $332.4K | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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No Code of Conduct | Bill Peterson (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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A Letter From Death Row | Michael's Father (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Family Attraction | President (Character) | - | 1998 |
17% |
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Spawn | Jason Wynn (Character) | $55.0M | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
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Hostile Waters | Aurora Skipper (Character) | - | 1997 |
38% |
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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% |
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Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story | Peter Maurin (Character) | - | 1996 |
60% |
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The War at Home | Bob Collier (Character) | $43.9K | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Elevator | Sarge (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet |
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Project: ALF | Col. Gilbert Milfoil (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sacred Cargo | Father Andrew Kanvesky (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet |
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Dillinger and Capone | John Dillinger (Character) | - | 1995 |
91% |
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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 |
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The Break | Gil Robbins (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet |
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Captain Nuke and the Bomberboys | Jeff Snyder (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet |
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One of Her Own | Asst. Dist. Atty. Pete Maresca (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet |
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Born Wild | Dan Walker (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet |
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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 |
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Roswell | Townsend (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet |
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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% |
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Gettysburg | Gen. Robert E. Lee (Character) | - | 1993 |
20% |
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Hear No Evil | Lt. Brock (Character) | $5.2M | 1993 |
No Score Yet |
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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 |
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent | Harold Hohne (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Touch and Die | Frank (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet |
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The Maid | Anthony Wayne (Character) | - | 1990 |
42% |
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Cadence |
McKinney (Character), Director |
$2.1M | 1990 |
No Score Yet |
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Beverly Hills Brats | Dr. Jeffrey Miller (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet |
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Beyond the Stars | Paul Andrews (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cold Front | John Hyde (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet |
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Nightbreaker | Dr. Alexander Brown - Present (Character) | - | 1989 |
20% |
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Judgment in Berlin |
Herbert J Stern (Character), Executive Producer |
$218.4K | 1988 |
64% |
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Da |
Charlie (Character), Executive Producer |
$3.3M | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Walking After Midnight | Unknown (Character) | - | 1988 |
35% |
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The Believers | Cal Jamison (Character) | $17.4M | 1987 |
79% |
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Wall Street | Carl Fox (Character) | $41.3M | 1987 |
14% |
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Siesta | Del (Character) | $604.5K | 1987 |
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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 |
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The Fourth Wise Man | Artaban (Character) | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet |
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Out of the Darkness | Eddie Zigo (Character) | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet |
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Broken Rainbow | Narrator | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet |
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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% |
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Firestarter | Captain Hollister (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet |
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The Guardian | Charlie Hyatt (Character) | - | 1984 |
89% |
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The Dead Zone | Greg Stillson (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet |
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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 |
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In the Custody of Strangers | Frank Caldwell (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet |
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Enigma | Alex Holbeck (Character) | - | 1982 |
89% |
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Gandhi | Vince Walker (Character) | - | 1982 |
71% |
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That Championship Season | Tom Daley (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In the King of Prussia | Unknown (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet |
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Break In | Stephen Booker (Character) | - | 1981 |
52% |
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The Final Countdown | Warren Lasky (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
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Eagle's Wing | Pike (Character) | - | 1979 |
91% |
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Apocalypse Now | Captain Willard (Character) | $78.8M | 1979 |
93% |
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Apocalypse Now Redux | Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Character) | - | 1979 |
36% |
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The Cassandra Crossing | Robby Navarro (Character) | - | 1977 |
93% |
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The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane | Frank Hallet (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet |
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Sweet Hostage | Leonard Hatch (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Survivors | Alexander William Holmes (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet |
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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 |
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The California Kid | Michael McCord (Character) | - | 1974 |
80% |
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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 |
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Catholics | Father Kinsella (Character) | - | 1973 |
97% |
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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 |
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Rage | Maj. Holliford (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet |
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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% |
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Catch-22 | 1st Lt. Dobbs (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Then Came Bronson | Nick Oresko (Character) | - | 1968 |
100% |
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The Subject Was Roses | Timmy Cleary (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | El Incidente | Unknown (Character) | - | 1967 |
88% |
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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
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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 |