MARTIN SHEEN BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:

Martin Sheen was born on August 3rd, 1940 in Dayton, Ohio with the birth name Ramon Antonio Gerard Estevez to parents Francisco Estévez and Mary Ann Phelan.  His parents both immigrated to America, his father was from Spain and his mother from Ireland.  He was one of ten children.  He graduated from Chaminade High School and even though is parents did not approve of his interest in pursuing a career as an actor, he chose to relocate to New York City and see if he had a chance.  He purposely flunked his college entrance exam to the university of Dayton so he could follow his dream of acting instead.
 
When he arrived in New York, along with a couple other aspiring actors, he developed a theater company hoping that one of the productions he would star in would gain him attention from critics.  He did a number of stage productions and soon was appearing on Broadway in, "The Subject Was Roses" (1964) for which he was nominated for the 1965 Tony Award for Supporting or Featured Actor in a Drama.
 
It did not take long for Sheen to begin making a name for himself.  Sheen then began working on Television in such series as, "Nightmare" (1963), "Live Bait" (1968), the television movie, "That Certain Summer" (1972), "Catholics" (1973) starring with Trevor Howard, Raf Vallone and Cyril Cusack, and on the pilot, "Such Dust As Dreams Are Made On" (1973).  He also was seen on the big screen in such features as, "Catch-22" (1970) starring alongside Alan Arkin, Bob Balaban, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Olimpia Carlisi, Marcel Dalio, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Paula Prentiss, Jon Voight and Orson Welles, "Badlands" (1973) starring with Sissy Spacek, Ramon Bieri and Warren Oates, "Apocalypse Now" (1979) and "The Final Countdown" (1980).
 
Throughout his career he appeared in more than sixty five feature films.  Some of his other well known roles were on, "Wall Street" (1987) co-starring his son Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah and Michael Douglas, "Catch Me If You Can" (2002) starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, "The Departed" (2006) and "Bobby" (2006) which was written and directed by his son, Emilio Estevez and starred such actresses as, Demi Moore, Heather Graham and Sharon Stone.      
 
Many viewers and fans associate Martin Sheen with his television role that he was nominated for Six Emmy's as President Josiah Bartlet in, "The West Wing" (1999).  He has received numerous other honors throughout his acting career such as winning a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor on a TV Series Drama in 2001 and winning an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series on the sitcom, "Murphy Brown" (1988).  He also made appearances on the series, "Two and a Half Men" (2003) that stars his son, Charlie Sheen.  For his appearances on this series, Martin Sheen also received a nomination for an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series.
 
Martin Sheen has remained married to his one and only wife, Janet Sheen whom he wed in 1961 and together they have four children, Charlie, Emilio, Renee and Ramon and they remain married today.
 
Martin is also quite involved in politics and a number of causes he believes very strongly about.  He is a strong advocate for the closing of the Schools of the Americas which is a military base that trains Latin American soldiers where it is suspected they were taught techniques of torture and political terror.  He was also sentenced to three years probation when he trespassed an Air Force base during a protest against the United States building a missile defense system.  He has been arrested more than seventy times for liberal protests. 
 
Martin Sheen currently resides in Malibu, California and his latest known work will be on the big screen in 2012 in, "The Amazing Spiderman".         

Filmography

2012 The Amazing Spider-Man 
2011 Flatland 
2011 Mass Effect 3
2011 Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain 
2011 Stella Days 
2011 The Double
2010 The Way 
2010 Mass Effect 2 
2009 The Kid: Chamaco 
2009 The Bell 
2009 Love Happens 
2009 Imagine That 
2009 Echelon Conspiracy
2008 Hope Not Lost
2007 Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
2007 Talk to Me
2007 Flatland: The Movie 
2006 The Departed 
2006 Bobby 
1999-2006 The West Wing
2006 Bordertown 
2005 Two and a Half Men 
2004 Jerusalemski sindrom 
2003 The 3 Wise Men 
2003 The Commission 
2003 Mercy of the Sea 
2003 Freedom: A History of Us 
2002 Catch Me If You Can
2002 Spin City 
2002 We the People 
2001 O 
2001 The Apostle Paul: The Man Who Turned the World Upside Down 
1999 A Stranger in the Kingdom 
1999 The Time Shifters 
1999 Forget Me Never 
1999 D.R.E.A.M. Team 
1999 A Texas Funeral
1999 Chicken Soup for the Soul
1999 Storm 
1999 Total Recall: The Series
1999 Lost & Found 
1999 The Darklings 
1999 Ninth Street 
1999 Gunfighter 
1998 No Code of Conduct 
1998 Free Money 
1998 A Letter from Death Row 
1998 Babylon 5: The River of Souls
1998 Voyage of Terror 
1998 Shadrach 
1998 Monument Ave. 
1998 Stories from My Childhood
1998 Family Attraction
1998 Phenomenon: The Lost Archives
1997 Medusa's Child 
1997 The Simpsons
1997 Spawn 
1997 Hostile Waters
1997 Truth or Consequences, N.M. 
1997 Gun
1996 Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story 
1996 The War at Home
1996 Project: ALF
1996 Crystal Cave
1996 The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century 
1996 Alchemy 
1996 The Elevator 
1995 The American President 
1995 Gospa 
1995 Running Wild
1995 Dead Presidents
1995 The Break
1995 Dillinger and Capone 
1995 Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma
1995 Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys 
1995 Present Tense, Past Perfect 
1995 Sacred Cargo 
1994 Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' 
1994 Hits! 
1994 Boca
1994 Roswell 
1994 Trigger Fast 
1994 One of Her Own
1994 When the Bough Breaks 
1994 Fortunes of War 
1994 Guns of Honor
1993 A Matter of Justice
1993 Tales from the Crypt 
1993 Gettysburg 
1993 Murphy Brown 
1993 Hot Shots! Part Deux 
1993 Braving Alaska 
1993 Hear No Evil 
1993 Grey Knight 
1993 Queen 
1993 My Home, My Prison
1990-1992 Captain Planet and the Planeteers
1992 The Water Engine
1992 Original Intent 
1992 Touch and Die 
1992 The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story
1991 JFK
1991 Guilty Until Proven Innocent 
1991 The Maid 
1991 A Legacy of Genocide: The Serbian Death Squads 
1991 Help Croatia 
1991 The Yugoslav Army Is Helping Serbian Terrorism 
1990 Cadence 
1989 Cold Front 
1989 Beyond the Stars
1989 Nightbreaker
1989 Beverly Hills Brats 
1989 Marked for Murder 
1988 Judgment in Berlin 
1988 Da
1987 War of the Stars
1987 Wall Street
1987 Siesta
1987 The Believers
1987 Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 
1987 CBS Schoolbreak Special
1986 A State of Emergency
1986 Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story
1986 News at Eleven 
1986 Shattered Spirits 
1986 A Life in the Day
1985 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985 Out of the Darkness 
1985 The Fourth Wise Man
1985 The Atlanta Child Murders
1985 Consenting Adult
1984 The Guardian 
1984 Firestarter 
1983 Choices of the Heart 
1983 Kennedy
1983 The Dead Zone 
1983 Man, Woman and Child 
1983 In the King of Prussia
1983 Enigma
1982 That Championship Season
1982 Gandhi
1982 In the Custody of Strangers 
1982 No Place to Hide
1981 Loophole 
1970-1980 Insight 
1980 The Final Countdown 
1979 Eagle's Wing
1979 Blind Ambition 
1979 Apocalypse Now 
1978 Taxi!!! 
1978 Hallmark Hall of Fame 
1976 The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane 
1976 The Cassandra Crossing
1975 Sweet Hostage
1975 The Last Survivors 
1974 The Missiles of October 
1974 The Legend of Earl Durand 
1974 The California Kid 
1974 The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd 
1974 The Execution of Private Slovik
1973 Message to My Daughter
1973 ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1973 Love Story
1973 Badlands
1970-1973 Medical Center
1973 Police Surgeon
1973 Toma
1973 Letters from Three Lovers 
1973 Columbo 
1973 The Streets of San Francisco 
1972-1973 Cannon
1973 Love, American Style
1973 Harry O
1973 Crime Club
1973 The Rookies 
1973 Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1968-1973 The F.B.I.
1973 Circle of Fear 
1973 Conflict 
1973 Wide World Mystery 
1973 When the Line Goes Through 
1972 Pursuit 
1972 Rage 
1972 That Certain Summer 
1972 Mannix
1972 Pickup on 101 
1972 No Drums, No Bugles
1972 Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
1971 Mongo's Back in Town 
1970-1971 Mod Squad
1971 Goodbye, Raggedy Ann 
1971 Cade's County
1971 Sarge 
1971 Dan August 
1971 The Interns 
1970 The Young Lawyers
1970 Hawaii Five-O
1970 Matt Lincoln
1970 Ironside 
1970 Catch-22 
1970 The Andersonville Trial
1970 Bracken's World 
1969 Then Came Bronson 
1969 Lancer 
1969 Mission: Impossible
1968 N.Y.P.D. 
1968 The Subject Was Roses 
1967 The Edge of Night
1967 The Incident 
1967 The Catholic Hour 
1967 Flipper 
1966 Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
1966 Hawk 
1965-1970 As the World Turns 
1965 The Trials of O'Brien 
1965 For the People 
1961-1964 The Defenders
1963-1964 The Doctors and the Nurses 
1964 My Three Sons
1963 The Outer Limits
1963 Arrest and Trial
1963 East Side/West Side
1963 Armstrong Circle Theatre
1962-1963 The United States Steel Hour
1962 Naked City
1961 Route 66