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Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez (born August 3, 1940), better known by his stage name Martin Sheen, is a film actor best known for his performances in the films Badlands (1973) and Apocalypse Now (1979), and in the television series The West Wing from 1999 to 2006. In film he has won the Best Actor award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival for his performance as Kit Carruthers in Badlands. His portrayal of Capt. Willard in Apocalypse Now earned a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor. Sheen has worked with a wide variety of film directors, such as Richard Attenborough, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Oliver Stone. He has had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame since 1989. In television he has won both a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild awards for playing the lead role of President Bartlet in The West Wing, and an Emmy for guest acting in the sitcom Murphy Brown. Born and raised in the ... Show more...
Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez (born August 3, 1940), better known by his stage name Martin Sheen, is a film actor best known for his performances in the films Badlands (1973) and Apocalypse Now (1979), and in the television series The West Wing from 1999 to 2006. In film he has won the Best Actor award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival for his performance as Kit Carruthers in Badlands. His portrayal of Capt. Willard in Apocalypse Now earned a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor. Sheen has worked with a wide variety of film directors, such as Richard Attenborough, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Oliver Stone. He has had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame since 1989. In television he has won both a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild awards for playing the lead role of President Bartlet in The West Wing, and an Emmy for guest acting in the sitcom Murphy Brown. Born and raised in the United States to immigrant parents, a first-generation Irish mother, Mary-Anne Phelan from Borrisokane in County Tipperary and a Galician father, Francisco Estévez from Vigo in Galicia (Spain), he adopted the stage name Martin Sheen to help him gain acting parts. He is the father of actors Emilio Estevez, Ramón Estevez, Carlos Irwin Estevez (Charlie Sheen), and Renée Estevez. His younger brother Joe Estevez is also an actor. Although known as an actor, he has also directed one film, Cadence (1990), appearing alongside sons Charlie and Ramon. He has also narrated, produced and directed in documentary television, earning two Daytime Emmy awards in the 1980s. In addition to film and television, Sheen has also become notable for his activism in liberal politics.
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L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars (2018)
As: Matthew Cuthbert
Author L.M. Montgomery's spirited heroine, Anne Shirley, faces numerous milestones, including first sleepovers, culinary misadventures and shifting relationships, all while embracing her inquisitive nature.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: John Kent Harrison
Stars: Martin Sheen | Sara Botsford | Ella Ballentine | Julia Lalonde | Drew Haytaoglu
The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island (2018)
As: James Alden (voice)
The continuing adventures of Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny as they spend the summer on their grandfather's private island.
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Mark A.Z. Dippé | Daniel Chuba | Anna Chi | Wonjae Lee
Stars: Gil Birmingham | J.K. Simmons | Joey King | Dane DeHaan | Talitha Bateman
Come Sunday (2018)
As: Oral Roberts
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Joshua Marston
Stars: Danny Glover | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Condola Rashad | Martin Sheen | Jason Segel
Citizen Clark... A Life of Principal (2017)
As: Narrator
For fifty years, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark has challenged the abuses of U.S. power and championed the causes of human rights.
Directed by: Joseph C. Stillman
Stars: Noam Chomsky | Brian Becker | Richard Becker | Blase Bonpane | Ramsey Clark
Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew (2017)
As: Matthew Cuthbert
Anne heads to Charlottetown to attend accelerated classes as she continues to work towards her dream of being a school teacher. While there, she is forced to adapt quickly to her new surroundings and classmates as she navigates her way through her first school experience outside of her beloved Green Gables. Anne finds herself facing daunting choices for her future, the stirrings of romance, and tragedy ...
Directed by: John Kent Harrison
Stars: Martin Sheen | Sara Botsford | Ella Ballentine | Julia Lalonde | Isaac Kragten
Rules Don't Apply (2016)
As: Noah Dietrich
It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his seventh grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also ...
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Warren Beatty
Stars: Annette Bening | Warren Beatty | Matthew Broderick | Alec Baldwin | Lily Collins
The Vessel (2016)
As: Father Douglas
Ten years after a tsunami destroyed a small-town elementary school with all the children inside, a young man builds a mysterious structure out of the school's remains, setting the town aflame with passions long forgotten.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Julio Quintana
Stars: Marisé Álvarez | Martin Sheen | Julio Ramos | Sunshine Logroño | Leslie Van Zandt
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)
As: Himself
When his new album fails to sell records, pop/rap superstar Conner4real goes into a major tailspin and watches his celebrity high life begin to collapse. He'll try anything to bounce back, anything except reuniting with his old rap group The Style Boyz.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Akiva Schaffer | Jorma Taccone
Stars: Jorma Taccone | Sarah Silverman | Tim Meadows | Andy Samberg | Akiva Schaffer
Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables (2016)
As: Matthew Cuthbert
A retelling of L.M. Montgomery's story of Anne Shirley, an orphan who is accidentally sent to a couple looking to adopt a boy instead
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: John Kent Harrison
Stars: Martin Sheen | Sara Botsford | Ella Ballentine | Julia Lalonde | Zoe Fraser
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy (2015)
As: Himself
A Thousand Years of Joy charts poet/activist Robert Bly's journey from Midwestern farm boy to global troubadour, bestselling author of Iron John and leader of the men's movement.
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Haydn Reiss
Stars: Martin Sheen | Peter Coyote | John Densmore | Coleman Barks | Robert Bly
Unity (2015)
As: Himself - Narrator (voice)
Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one another, the animals, and nature. UNITY is a film about why we can't seem to get along, even after thousands and thousands of years.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Shaun Monson
Stars: Alison Eastwood | Aaron Paul | Amanda Seyfried | Adrian Grenier | Adam Levine
Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster (2015)
As: Narrator
"Titanic - Anatomy of a Disaster" is an original Discovery Channel production that looks into not only the history but the mystery surrounding the sinking of Britain's most luxurious passenger liner. This investigation, narrated by Martin Sheen, shows a research and recovery expedition that uses science to piece together the final hours of the Titanic: Discovery Channel has assembled a ...
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Stephen Burns
Stars: Martin Sheen
Badge of Honor (2015)
As: Captain Daniel Richards
Two Narcotics Detectives find themselves in an intense investigation lead by a determined Internal Affairs Detective after a child is wrongfully shot dead in a violent drug bust.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Agustin
Stars: Jesse Bradford | Lochlyn Munro | Martin Sheen | Natasha Henstridge | Mena Suvari
Selma (2014)
As: Frank Minis Johnson
"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Civil Rights Act.
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: Ava DuVernay
Stars: Tim Roth | Tom Wilkinson | Carmen Ejogo | Oprah Winfrey | David Oyelowo
Trash (2014)
As: Father Juilliard / Padre Juilliard
Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Stephen Daldry
Stars: Selton Mello | Rooney Mara | Rickson Tevez | Eduardo Luis | Gabriel Weinstein
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey (2014)
Hal Holbrook's Mark Twain is an icon of American theater. Since first walking on stage in 1954, Holbrook has performed his one-man show Mark Twain Tonight! for millions on and off Broadway, in all fifty states, in twenty countries, before five U.S. presidents and behind the Iron Curtain. Countless actors and Twain scholars have been influenced by Holbrook's work and his Tony and ...
Directed by: Scott Teems
Stars: Martin Sheen | Robert Patrick | Cherry Jones | Hal Holbrook | Emile Hirsch
Ask Me Anything (2014)
Beautiful, wild, funny, and lost, Katie Kampenfelt takes a year off before college to find herself, all the while chronicling her adventures in an anonymous blog into which she pours her innermost secrets. Eventually, Katie's fearless narrative begins to crack, and dark pieces of her past emerge.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Allison Burnett
Stars: Justin Long | Andy Buckley | Martin Sheen | Britt Robertson | Christian Slater
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
As: Uncle Ben
For Peter Parker, life is busy. Between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen Stacy, high school graduation cannot come quickly enough. Peter has not forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen’s father to protect her by staying away, but that is a promise he cannot keep. Things will change for Peter when a new villain, Electro, emerges, an old friend, ...
Runtime: 142 min.
Directed by: Marc Webb
Stars: Emma Stone | Andrew Garfield | Jamie Foxx | Campbell Scott | Dane DeHaan
The Whale (2013)
As: Tom Nickerson
Dramatic retelling of the fateful last voyage of the Nantucket whaleship Essex. When the Essex is attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in November 1820, her crew take to three fragile whalers. Alone in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the men must decide whether to head for the nearest islands - a thousand miles downwind to the west - or set out on an epic journey of almost three thousand miles ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Alrick Riley
Stars: Paul Kaye | Martin Sheen | Jonas Armstrong | Adam Rayner | Jassa Ahluwalia
A Prayer for Rain (2013)
As: Warren Anderson
Thirty years on from the 1984 Union Carbide plant malfunction, the consequences of which are tragically ongoing, A Prayer for Rain is the powerful and moving story of the Bhopal tragedy, one of the great corporate and environmental scandals of the last half-century. It dramatises the dependence of the local community on the chemical plant that will eventually cause catastrophe, and the series of oversights ...
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Ravi Kumar
Stars: Rajpal Yadav | Martin Sheen | Tannishtha Chatterjee | Mischa Barton | Kal Penn
Salinger (2013)
As: Himself
A feature documentary on formative personal and professional experiences in the life of writer J.D. Salinger
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Shane Salerno
Stars: Edward Norton | John Cusack | Martin Sheen | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Tom Wolfe
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot (2013)
As: Himself
Actors, crew and executives who worked at Warner Bros. Pictures recall their days at the studio.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Gary Khammar
Stars: Morgan Freeman | Martin Sheen | Clint Eastwood | William Friedkin | Christopher Nolan
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
As: Uncle Ben
Peter Parker is an outcast high schooler abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents' disappearance – leading him directly to ...
Runtime: 136 min.
Directed by: Marc Webb
Stars: Emma Stone | Rhys Ifans | Andrew Garfield | Campbell Scott | Denis Leary
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
As: Frank Petersen
As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Lorene Scafaria
Stars: Keira Knightley | Rob Corddry | Adam Brody | Connie Britton | Steve Carell
Stella Days (2012)
As: Fr. Daniel Barry
A priest stationed in Tipperary, Ireland, is eager to return to Rome. Told he cannot do so until he has raised enough money for the building of a new church, he decides to open a cinema in the local town.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Stars: Amy Huberman | Stephen Rea | Martin Sheen | Joey O'Sullivan
8 (2012)
As: Theodore B. Olson
"8"—a new play by Academy-award winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk, J. Edgar)—demystifies the debate around marriage equality by chronicling the landmark trial of Perry v. Schwarzenegger. A one time show was done live on youtube with a superstar cast
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Rob Reiner
Stars: George Clooney | Kevin Bacon | Jamie Lee Curtis | Matt Bomer | Chris Colfer
The Double (2011)
As: Tom Highland
The mysterious murder of a US senator bearing the distinctive trademark of the legendary Soviet assassin 'Cassius', forces retired CIA operative, Paul Shepherson to team with rookie FBI agent, Ben Geary to solve the crime. Having spent his career chasing Cassius, Shepherdson is convinced his nemesis is long dead, but is pushed to take on the case by his former supervisor, Tom Highland. ...
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Michael Brandt
Stars: Stephen Moyer | Topher Grace | Martin Sheen | Stana Katic | Richard Gere
Wrinkles (2011)
As: (voice)
Based on Paco Roca's comic of the same title (2008 Spanish National Comic Prize), WRINKLES is a 2D animated feature-length film for an adult audience. Wrinkles portrays the friendship between Emilio and Miguel, two aged gentlemen shut away in a care home. Recent arrival Emilio, in the early stages of Alzheimer, is helped by Miguel and colleagues to avoid ending up on the feared top floor of the ...
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Ignacio Ferreras
Stars: George Coe | Álvaro Guevara | Tacho González | Casey E. Lewis | Tyler Merna
Holy Man: The USA vs Douglas White (2011)
As: Narrator
Holy Man is the story of Douglas White, an 88 year old Lakota Sioux medicine man from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, who spent 17 years in federal prison for a crime he did not commit. During the making of this film, filmmakers uncovered new evidence of White's innocence and brought the case back to Federal Court. Holy Man offers a rare glimpse into the mysterious world of ...
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Jennifer Jessum
Stars: Martin Sheen | Russell Means | Fred Alan Wolf | Floyd Red Crow Westerman
Hollywood Speaks Up (2011)
As: Himself
A documentary concerning the views of those in the movie industry, pertaining to the subject of 9/11. This film should be viewed as a whole body of work, as it is NOT about the life, career or credibility of any one particular Hollywood Celebrity. Celebrities do have the right to freedom of speech and are free to verbally express their own opinion. If I wanted respectability, I would have made a ...
Runtime: 150 min.
Directed by: Dajjal Sahan | Steve Bates
Stars: Charlie Sheen | Daniel Sunjata | Jesse Ventura | Willie Nelson | Dean Haglund
Sharkwise (2011)
As: Narrator
The movie takes place in the beautiful settings of Egypt, Mozambique and South Africa, where Marc Sluszny and his team prepare for the ultimate journey. Marc will attempt to dive with the Great White shark outside of the cage. During this road movie we are submerged in the beautiful world beneath the sea. We get to share his failures and successes during his coming of age. Marc must ...
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Lieven Debrauwer
Stars: Martin Sheen | Marc Sluszny
Miller's Tale (2011)
As: Himself
Miller's Tale is a personal journey into the life of playwright and actor Jason Miller and his relationship with his hometown, Scranton, Pennsylvania. Best known for his performance as Father Karras in The Exorcist, Miller experienced a brief but brilliant period of national acclaim, then curiously abandoned Hollywood to return to his hometown. After Miller died in a local bar Scranton, at the age of 62, ...
Directed by: Rebecca Marshall
Stars: Stacy Keach | Martin Sheen | Bruce Dern | Paul Sorvino | William Friedkin
The Kennedy Detail (2010)
As: Narrator
Based on the book by Gerald S. Blaine With Lisa McCubbin "The Kennedy Detail", this documentary interviews the men who served on President JFK's Secret Service Detail and their memories of the man, president, and perceptions of Camelot. Some of these men were there on the fateful day when life changed on the streets of Dallas, TX in Dealey Plaza on November 22nd, 1963.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Vince DiPersio
Stars: Martin Sheen | Clint Hill | Gerald S. Blaine | Paul Landis | David B. Grant
The Way (2010)
As: Tom
When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged child’s life, he decides to complete the 500-mile mountain trek to Spain. Tom soon joins up with other travelers and realizes they’re all searching for something.
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Emilio Estevez
Stars: James Nesbitt | Deborah Kara Unger | Emilio Estevez | Martin Sheen | Yorick van Wageningen
Chamaco (2010)
As: Dr. Frank Irwin
Abner is trapped in the rough life of Mexico City. His escape? Boxing. Dr. Frank Irwin (Martin Sheen) and his son Jimmy, a pro boxer, come together to teach Abner that the heart fuels the punches we throw in life.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Miguel Necoechea
Stars: Michael Madsen | Martin Sheen | Kirk Harris | Álex Perea | Danny Perea
The End of Poverty? (2009)
As: narrator
The End of Poverty? asks if the true causes of poverty today stem from a deliberate orchestration since colonial times which has evolved into our modern system whereby wealthy nations exploit the poor. People living and fighting against poverty answer condemning colonialism and its consequences; land grab, exploitation of natural resources, debt, free markets, demand for corporate profits and the evolution ...
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Philippe Diaz
Stars: Martin Sheen | John Christensen | John Perkins
Love Happens (2009)
As: Burke's Father-in-Law
Dr. Burke Ryan is a successful self-help author and motivational speaker with a secret. While he helps thousands of people cope with tragedy and personal loss, he secretly is unable to overcome the death of his late wife. It's not until Burke meets a fiercely independent florist named Eloise that he is forced to face his past and overcome his demons.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Brandon Camp
Stars: Aaron Eckhart | Judy Greer | Jennifer Aniston | Martin Sheen | Deirdre Blades
Imagine That (2009)
As: Dante D'Enzo
A financial executive who can't stop his career downspiral is invited into his daughter's imaginary world, where solutions to his problems await.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Karey Kirkpatrick
Stars: Yara Shahidi | Eddie Murphy | Stephen Rannazzisi | Thomas Haden Church | Ronny Cox
Echelon Conspiracy (2009)
As: Raymond Burke
Mysterious cell phone messages promise a young American engineer untold wealth - then make him the target of a deadly international plot. Dangerous security operatives chase the engineer across the globe, while a powerful government official pursues a mysterious agenda that threatens the stability of the entire world.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Greg Marcks
Stars: Edward Burns | Ving Rhames | Shane West | Martin Sheen | Steven Elder
Vietnam: American Holocaust (2008)
As: Voice
VIETNAM: AMERICAN HOLOCAUST exposes one of the worst cases of sustained mass slaughter in history, carefully planned and executed by presidents of both parties. Our dedicated generals and foot soldiers, knowingly or unknowingly, killed nearly 5 million people, on an almost unimaginable scale, mostly using incendiary bombs. Vietnam has never left our national consciousness, and now, in this time, it has ...
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Clay Claiborne
Stars: Martin Sheen
Pirate for the Sea (2008)
As: Himself
A documentary on Paul Watson, who takes the law into his own hands on the open seas, confronting, by any nonviolent means necessary, the hunters who indiscriminately slaughter whales, seals and sharks, along with complicit governments and environmental organizations. Written by Anonymous "Pirate for the Sea" is a biographical film of Captain Paul Watson, the youngest founding member of Greenpeace Canada. ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Ronald Colby
Stars: Martin Sheen | Paul Watson | Robert Hunter | Patrick Moore | Farley Mowat
The Garden (2008)
As: Himself
From the ashes of the L.A. riots arose a lush, 14-acre community garden, the largest of its kind in the United States. Now bulldozers threaten its future.
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Stars: Danny Glover | Martin Sheen | Daryl Hannah | Antonio Villaraigosa
Talk to Me (2007)
As: E.G. Sonderling
The story of Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene, an ex-con who became a popular talk show host and community activist in the 1960s.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Kasi Lemmons
Stars: Mike Epps | Taraji P. Henson | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Martin Sheen | Don Cheadle
Confessions Of An Innocent Man (2007)
As: Himself - Narrator
The shocking, heart-wrenching story of British-Canadian engineer William Sampson who lived a privileged life in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia until he was kidnapped, locked up and tortured by Saudi thugs for almost three years.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: David Paperny
Stars: Martin Sheen | William Sampson
The Departed (2006)
As: Capt. Oliver Charles Queenan
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.
Runtime: 151 min.
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio | Matt Damon | Mark Wahlberg | Martin Sheen | Jack Nicholson
Bobby (2006)
As: Jack Stevens
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Emilio Estevez
Stars: Helen Hunt | Mary Elizabeth Winstead | Anthony Hopkins | Ashton Kutcher | Heather Graham
Bordertown (2006)
As: George Morgan
The opening titles explain that American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products.Lauren Adrian (Jennifer Lopez), an impassioned American news reporter for the "Chicago Sentinel" wants to ...
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Gregory Nava
Stars: Antonio Banderas | Jennifer Lopez | Martin Sheen | Maya Zapata | Sônia Braga
Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006)
As: Narrator
In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust, and ran without gasoline... Ten years later, these cars were destroyed.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Chris Paine
Stars: Mel Gibson | Tom Hanks | Martin Sheen
James Dean: Forever Young (2005)
As: Narrator (voice)
Documentary of the brief but memorable career of the now iconic James Dean. Narrated by Martin Sheen, the film focuses much attention on his early work for television, and utilizes a variety of archival footage in order to tell the story of the young man who gained immortality with only three feature films to his credit.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Michael J. Sheridan
Stars: Martin Sheen | Elizabeth Taylor | Marilyn Monroe | Corey Allen | James Dean
Tell Them Who You Are (2004)
As: Himself
The son of acclaimed cinematographer Haskell Wexler confronts his complex father by turning the camera on him. What results is a portrait of a difficult genius and a son's path out of the shadow of a famous father.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Mark Wexler
Stars: Martin Sheen | Jane Fonda | Haskell Wexler | Mark Wexler | Simon Wexler
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
As: Roger Strong
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.
Runtime: 141 min.
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio | Tom Hanks | Martin Sheen | Nathalie Baye | Christopher Walken
Straight Up: Helicopters in Action (2002)
As: Narrator (voice)
Straight Up: Helicopters in Action will take audiences on a series of aerial adventures. Fly along with skilled helicopter crews as they carry out sea and mountain rescues, apprehend drug smugglers, repair high voltage lines, save endangered animals, deliver humanitarian aid, and undertake a reconnaissance mission. Learn how helicopters are flown.
Runtime: 42 min.
Directed by: David Douglas
Stars: Martin Sheen
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick (2002)
As: Himself
Rosy-Fingered Dawn is a film on Terrence Malick. It is about the making of BADLANDS, DAYS OF HEAVEN, THE THIN RED LINE and the personal involvement of some of the most representative figures of the American culture itself. This medley of voices has given origin to a journey throughout the whole United States, from California to Colorado, from Virginia to Minnesota, passing by New York and Los ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Luciano Barcaroli | Carlo Shalom Hintermann | Gerardo Panichi | Daniele Villa
Stars: Jim Caviezel | Ben Chaplin | Penelope Allen | Sergei Bodrov | Bob Codyk
Bringing Down a Dictator (2002)
A student group called Otpor! ("Resistance!" in Serbian) forms part of the nonviolent opposition movement that toppled the regime of Slobodan Milosevic.
Runtime: 56 min.
Stars: Martin Sheen
National Geographic: Inside the Vatican (2001)
As: Narrator
National Geographic offers an inside look at Vatican City the seat of authority for the Roman Catholic Church.
Runtime: 50 min.
Directed by: John B. Bredar
Stars: Martin Sheen
Enemies of War (2001)
As: Narrator
Throughout the 1980s, El Salvador -- a small country rich with coffee growers and rife with poverty -- endured a brutal civil war, largely ignored by the international community. With aid supplied by the United States, El Salvadoran soldiers ravaged the countryside, killing 75,000 civilians -- many of them women and children. In 1989, the horrific murder of six ...
Stars: Martin Sheen
O (2001)
As: Coach Duke Goulding
Hot young stars, a hip, driving soundtrack, plus a provocative tale of jealousy and betrayal combine to create this controversial modern-day version of Shakespeare's classic, "Othello." O is Odin James (Mekhi Phifer), the school's star basketball player and future NBA hopeful. Even though he's the only black student at the elite Palmetto Grove Academy, he has the adoration of all, including the ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Tim Blake Nelson
Stars: Andrew Keegan | Martin Sheen | Mekhi Phifer | Josh Hartnett | Julia Stiles
Mexico (2000)
As: Narrator
Using text from Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes and ancient Aztec and Mayan poetry, narrators Martin Sheen (in English) and Enrique Rocha (in Spanish) lead viewers on a visual journey through this country's rich and varied past and present. Stunning Giant Screen images and a dramatic musical score by Daniel Valdez create a vivid, insightful portrait of the Mexican people and their culture.
Runtime: 43 min.
Directed by: Lorena Parlee
Stars: Martin Sheen | Enrique Rocha
A Stranger in the Kingdom (1999)
As: Sigurd Moulton
A Vermont town in the 1950's hires a new minister based on his war record and capable presentation, but then are shocked when he shows up and is a black man. Things go completely wrong for ...
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Jay Craven
Stars: Ernie Hudson | Martin Sheen | Bill Raymond | David Lansbury
Forget Me Never (1999)
Diane McGowin was employed as an administrative assistant for a group of attorneys in private practice. She found herself forgetting things, especially losing short term memory. She suspected that something was wrong and went to the doctor. After many tests, the diagnosis was Alzheimer's. Diana did not want to tell her husband, Jack McGowin because she thought her husband, Jack, would ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Robert Allan Ackerman
Stars: Martin Sheen | Mia Farrow | Roberta Maxwell | Liisa Repo-Martell | Kristen Holden-Ried
D.R.E.A.M. Team (1999)
As: J.W. Garrison
J.W. Garrison, the head of a top-secret sub agency of the United Nations, discovers that a team of terrorists, led by the murderous Oliver Maxwell, plan on producing a bomb carrying an anthrax virus to be used in the United States. Garrison summons CIA agent Zack Hamilton who puts together a team of three beautiful women; CIA trainer Kim Taylor; photographer Victoria Carrera; and actress Eva Kirov to go to ...
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Dean Hamilton
Stars: Martin Sheen | Angie Everhart | Jeff Kaake | Traci Bingham | Eva Halina
Storm (1999)
As: General James Roberts
A top secret government study involving the manipulation of the weather goes awry, leaving L.A. in the path of a destructive hurricane. A meteorologist sets out to save the city.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Harris Done
Stars: Luke Perry | Martin Sheen | Robert Knott | Alexandra Powers | David Moses
No Code of Conduct (1999)
As: Bill Peterson
A cop (Charlie Sheen), his partner (Dacascos), and his father (Martin Sheen) uncover a plot by city elders to smuggle drugs from Mexico into Phoenix, Arizona.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Bret Michaels
Stars: Mark Dacascos | Martin Sheen | Charlie Sheen | Bruce Nelson | Joe Lando
Gunfighter (1999)
As: The Stranger
One foggy night The Kid (Carradine), a down at the heals singer, arrives at a seemingly abandoned salon where he meets a stranger in a dark duster (Sheen). The Kid notices the Stranger's unusual leather gloves and asks about their origin. The Stranger proceeds to tell him the legend of the gloves, a story which revolves around the rivalry and jealousy of two men, lightning fast shot ...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Christopher Coppola
Stars: Robert Carradine | Martin Sheen | Clu Gulager | Tom Gulager | George Nix
A Texas Funeral (1999)
As: Grandpa Sparta
It's 1968 and the Whit clan are reuniting for the burial of Grandpa Sparta (Martin Sheen). But Sparta still has some secrets to reveal to his family and wisdom to impart to his grandson, in this whimsical comedy from the writer of The Bourne Identity.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: W. Blake Herron
Stars: Chris Noth | Martin Sheen | Jane Adams | Robert Patrick | Olivia d'Abo
Free Money (1998)
As: Guard
The Swede (Marlon Brando), a prison warden, rules his family and his prison with an iron hand in one of the coldest parts of North Dakota. When an inmate dies under mysterious circumstances, however, the FBI sends in agent Karen Polarski (Mira Sorvino) to investigate. On the home front, the sons-in-law of the Swede, Larry (Thomas Haden Church) and Bud (Charlie Sheen) accidentally discover ...
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Yves Simoneau
Stars: Donald Sutherland | Martin Sheen | Charlie Sheen | Marlon Brando | David Arquette
A Letter From Death Row (1998)
As: Michael's Father
A psychological thriller that takes you through the mind of convicted killer, Michael Raine, and his experiences on death row. Was he guilty of killing his girlfriend or was he a victim of a conspiracy to frame him for a crime he didn't commit? As the story unfolds Jessica Foster, an assistant to the Governor of Tennessee begins to interview Raine while on death row, claiming that she's writing a ...
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Bret Michaels
Stars: Martin Sheen | Bret Michaels | Kristi Gibson | Lorelei Shellist | Simon Elsworth
Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998)
As: Soul Hunter
A group of Soul Hunters come to Babylon 5 demanding the return of something that was stolen from them.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Janet Greek
Stars: Martin Sheen | Jeff Conaway | Tracy Scoggins | Jerry Doyle | Richard Biggs
Shadrach (1998)
As: Narrator (voice)
In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie and their seven children, and to bury a black man on that land is a violation of strict Virginia law.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Susanna Styron
Stars: Andie MacDowell | Harvey Keitel | Martin Sheen | Scott Terra | John Franklin Sawyer
Voyage of Terror (1998)
An infectious disease researcher is on a cruise with her daughter when an ebola-type virus attacks the ship's passengers and crew.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Brian Trenchard-Smith
Stars: Michael Ironside | Martin Sheen | Horst Buchholz | Lindsay Wagner
Holes in Heaven (1998)
As: Narrator (voice)
Holes in Heaven investigates the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program also known as HAARP. This experimentation is being conducted by our government and top scientists are concerned about the possibly drastic effects on Earth. This documentary demonstrates how we are all interconnected as electromagnetic beings.
Runtime: 53 min.
Directed by: Wendy Robbins
Stars: Martin Sheen
Medusa's Child (1997)
As: President
Fuming over the departure of his wife Vivian and the cutting of his research funding, crazy nuclear scientist Rogers Henry constructs Medusa, a thermonuclear bomb capable of generating a continent-sized electro-magnetic pulse; such EMP could effectively destroy a computer-based society. He dupes Vivian into bringing it to the Pentagon to exact his final revenge on the government, rigging it so it ...
Runtime: 240 min.
Directed by: Larry Shaw
Stars: John Glover | Kevin Dillon | Vincent Spano | Lori Loughlin | Gail O'Grady
Hostile Waters (1997)
As: Aurora Skipper
Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and an ensuing standoff occurs that could lead to total annihilation.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: David Drury
Stars: Max von Sydow | Rob Campbell | Martin Sheen | Rutger Hauer | Colm Feore
Spawn (1997)
As: Jason Wynn
After being murdered by corrupt colleagues in a covert government agency, Al Simmons makes a pact with the devil to be resurrected to see his beloved wife Wanda. In exchange for his return to Earth, Simmons agrees to lead Hell's Army in the destruction of mankind.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Mark A.Z. Dippé
Stars: Michael Jai White | John Leguizamo | Theresa Randle | Martin Sheen | Nicol Williamson
The Making of 'Spawn' (1997)
As: Himself
Documentary on the making of the 1997 film 'Spawn.'
Runtime: 22 min.
Stars: Michael Jai White | Theresa Randle | Martin Sheen | Peter Cullen | Todd McFarlane
Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997)
As: Sir
Raymond Lembecke is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss Tony Vago. (Lembecke was innocent and took the rap for Vago.) Lembecke thinks Vago owes him big time so, when his former boss gets him a measly job in a warehouse, he decides on revenge and plans to steal a million dollars worth of drugs from him.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Kiefer Sutherland
Stars: John C. McGinley | Kiefer Sutherland | Vincent Gallo | Max Perlich | Rod Steiger
The War at Home (1996)
As: Bob Collier
Jeremy Collier is a Vietnam veteran who has returned home and is struggling to cope with the war experiences that haunt him. He is also at odds with his family, who cannot begin to understand what he has been through. Jeremy's battles with his family finally spiral out of control on Thanksgiving Day, when a bitter secret is revealed
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Emilio Estevez
Stars: Emilio Estevez | Martin Sheen | Kathy Bates | Kimberly Williams-Paisley | Carla Gugino
Entertaining Angels - The Dorothy Day Story (1996)
As: Peter Maurin
"Entertaining Angels" is an interesting title for this movie about the 1920's and 30's social activist, Dorothy Day, for it can be regarded that what this woman did, sometimes single-handedly, always controversially, in her fight against social injustice would, indeed, be wonderful entertainment for angels... or it could mean that her work was for the benefit of the 'angels' at the bottom of the social ...
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Michael Ray Rhodes
Stars: Martin Sheen | Moira Kelly | Paul Lieber | Melinda Dillon | Lenny Von Dohlen
Project: ALF (1996)
As: Colonel Gilbert Milfoil
Six years ago, the space alien, ALF, was on his way back to his new home...When the Alien Task Force finally caught him. Now, the story continues to where the series ended. ALF is now protected by the Alien Task Force, but the leader wants to terminate ALF. So two officers decide to save ALF by taking ALF away from him. But the man the officers took ALF to wants to finally reveal ALF to the world.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Dick Lowry
Stars: Martin Sheen | Miguel Ferrer | Ray Walston | Jensen Daggett | William O'Leary
The American President (1995)
As: A.J. MacInerney
Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wade, a Washington lobbyist. But Shepherd's attempts at courting her spark wild rumors and decimate his approval ratings.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Rob Reiner
Stars: Annette Bening | Martin Sheen | Michael Douglas | Michael J. Fox | Anna Deavere Smith
Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys (1995)
As: Jeff Snyder
Three teenage boys inadvertently find themselves holding the adult world hostage in this in this wild comedy caper. When Slug, Mickey and Frank flee to a secret hideout to avoid their angry parents, they find an atomic bomb! Instead of turning it in, they call the President and demand that he... cancels school!
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Charles Gale
Stars: Martin Sheen | Joe Mantegna | Rod Steiger | Joanna Pacula
Virgin Mary (1995)
As: Father Jozo Zovko
In 1981 in Medjugorje (BA), a group of kids claim that Virgin Mary appeared to them on a hill. The local priest believes them and spreads the word. Religious tourism blossoms. The communist government is concerned and arrests the priest.
Runtime: 125 min.
Directed by: Jakov Sedlar
Stars: Michael York | Martin Sheen | Paul Guilfoyle | Morgan Fairchild | George Coe
Born Wild (1995)
As: Dan Walker
A young documentary filmmaker working for a struggling television station travels to South Africa for work.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Duncan McLachlan
Stars: Brooke Shields | Martin Sheen | Renée Estevez | David Keith | Greg Latter
The Break (1995)
As: Gil Robbins
A depressed and destitute Nick Irons, a tennis pro banned from the tour for slugging a player during a TV match, agrees to coach a bookie's "head case" son, Joel, who wants to turn pro. The bookie wants his son to get out of tennis and contracts Nick to discourage him. Nick begins to do that but after an episode with his old flame, Jennifer, and after seeing the kid's determination he decides ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Lee H. Katzin
Stars: Martin Sheen | Rae Dawn Chong | Valerie Perrine | Vincent Van Patten
Dillinger and Capone (1995)
As: John Dillinger
In 1934, J. Edgar Hoover and the boys made headlines for mowing down John Dillinger in a hail of bullets outside Chicago's Biograph theater. But in fact, according to this Jon Purdy gangster thriller, the Feds iced Dillinger's brother. Fast-forward five years, when mobster kingpin Al Capone (F. Murray Abraham) gives the real Dillinger (Martin Sheen) an offer he can't refuse: rob millions from a ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Jon Purdy
Stars: Catherine Hicks | Martin Sheen | F. Murray Abraham | Don Stroud | Stephen Davies
Fortunes of War (1994)
As: Francis Labeck
When Canadian diplomat Carl Pimmler sends his friend Peter Kernan and his wife Johanna to deliver medicine to the deep jungles of Cambodia, but Peter gets more than he bargained for when the journey ends in a fight for survival. Peter must use his experience and knowledge of South East Asia to get them out of this dangerous mess.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Thierry Notz
Stars: Michael Nouri | Michael Ironside | Martin Sheen | Matt Salinger | Sam Sorbo
Boca (1994)
As: Jesse James Montgomery
A photo-journalist goes to Brazil to investigate a savage crime boss. She becomes infatuated with the story.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Zalman King | Walter Avancini
Stars: Martin Kemp | Martin Sheen | Rae Dawn Chong | Tarcísio Meira | Carlos Eduardo Dolabella
Roswell (1994)
As: Townsend
Based on the book "UFO Crash at Roswell" by Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt, Roswell follows the attempts of Major Jesse Marcel to discover the truth about strange debris found on a local rancher's field in July of 1947. Told by his superiors that what he has found is nothing more than a downed weather balloon, Marcel maintains his military duty until the weight of the truth, however out of this world it ...
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Jeremy Kagan
Stars: Bob Gunton | Xander Berkeley | Dwight Yoakam | Martin Sheen | Kyle MacLachlan
Trigger Fast (1994)
As: Jackson Baines Hardin / Ole Devil
A feisty woman struggles to keep her ranch from being stolen by a greedy and unscrupulous land-baron named Malick. A trio of young men comes to her aid Dusty Fog, the "Kid," and Miguel. They are later joined by a fourth man named Mark, who switches allegiance away from Malick, and then by the local Sheriff who's finally forced to stand up to the local tyrant.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: David Lister
Stars: Corbin Bernsen | Jürgen Prochnow | Martin Sheen | Todd Jensen | Gerard Christopher
One of Her Own (1994)
As: Asst. Dist. Atty. Pete Maresca
A rookie female cop, raped by a fellow officer, risks her career and her life when she reports the attack. Based on a true story.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Armand Mastroianni
Stars: Reginald VelJohnson | Martin Sheen | Lori Loughlin | Greg Evigan | Valerie Landsburg
When the Bough Breaks (1994)
As: Captain Swaggert
A police detective investigates the apparent serial killing of several children which is linked to an institutionalized, autistic child.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Michael Cohn
Stars: Ron Perlman | Martin Sheen | Ally Walker | Robert Knepper | Gina Philips
Guns of Honor (1994)
As: Jackson Baines Hardin (Ole Devil)
In 1867, an ex-Confederate general, Jackson Hardin, still holds a grudge against the Union. He and his legendary "Floating Outfit" refuse to let the ravages of war dictate how they'll live in the impoverished South. Across the Rio Grande, a French army divides the occupied Mexican nation and casts an avaricious glance on the weakened American states. It's up to Hardin and his "guns of honor" to stave off ...
Runtime: 188 min.
Directed by: Peter Edwards
Stars: Corbin Bernsen | Jürgen Prochnow | Martin Sheen | Gerard Christopher | Christopher Atkins
A Matter of Justice (1993)
As: Jack Brown
True story about the mother of a murder victim seeking to bring her son's widow to justice and gain custody of her granddaughter.
Runtime: 240 min.
Directed by: Michael Switzer
Stars: Jason London | Martin Sheen | Patty Duke | Alexandra Powers
Gettysburg (1993)
As: Gen. Robert E. Lee
Summer 1863. The Confederacy pushes north into Pennsylvania. Union divisions converge to face them. The two great armies clash at Gettysburg, site of a theology school. For three days, through such legendary actions as Little Round Top and Pickett's Charge, the fate of "one nation, indivisible" hangs in the balance.
Runtime: 271 min.
Directed by: Ronald F. Maxwell
Stars: Tom Berenger | Sam Elliott | Martin Sheen | Stephen Lang | Jeff Daniels
Garwood: Prisoner of War (1993)
As: William F.(Ike) Eisenbraun
Marine Private First Class Robert Garwood spent fourteen harrowing years as a Vietnam P.O.W. only to finally be released and immediately arrested by the U.S. Marine Corps on charges of collaboration with the enemy. He is found guilty on the strength of the testimony from those P.O.W.s he tried to take care of so many years before and is branded a traitor.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Georg Stanford Brown
Stars: Martin Sheen | Noah Blake | Ralph Macchio
Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
As: Capt. Benjamin L. Willard
Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team who... who went in to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Jim Abrahams
Stars: Valeria Golino | Charlie Sheen | Rowan Atkinson | Lloyd Bridges | Richard Crenna
Hear No Evil (1993)
As: Lt. Brock
Jillian Shanahan, a deaf woman, becomes the target of a ruthless and corrupt cop. The cop is looking for a stolen coin, which he plans to keep for himself. A journalist briefly acquires the coin and hides it in Jillian's apartment, then his car explodes, now the cop is after her.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Robert Greenwald
Stars: John C. McGinley | Martin Sheen | Christina Carlisi | Marlee Matlin | D. B. Sweeney
Grey Knight (1993)
As: Gen. Haworth
Slave traders bring back evil voodoo entity that is accidently freed by the Confederate army during the Civil War. The entity possesses the bodies of the dead soldiers to create an army of its own bent on conquest, using the corpses of both the North and South.
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: George Hickenlooper
Stars: Corbin Bernsen | Billy Bob Thornton | Ray Wise | Adrian Pasdar | Cynda Williams
Original Intent (1992)
As: Homeless Joe
Matthew Cameron (Jay Richardson) is a lawyer undergoing a midlife crisis despite having a seemingly perfect life with his wife, advertising executive Jessica (Candy Clark), and his young son. When he champions a homeless shelter facing eviction, his problems only deepen. Matthew faces pressure from Jessica, whose agency is representing the corporate honcho pushing the eviction, and Matthew is forced to ...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Robert Marcarelli
Stars: Kurt Fuller | Jay Richardson | Candy Clark | Caitlyn Jenner | Caroline Jones
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)
As: Himself
A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Fax Bahr | George Hickenlooper | Eleanor Coppola
Stars: George Lucas | Francis Ford Coppola | Sam Bottoms | Eleanor Coppola | John Milius
The Maid (1991)
As: Anthony Wayne
The Maid is a 1991 film in which Anthony Wayne (Martin Sheen) goes to Paris for a new job and has a 30 day period before he starts work to get settled.
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Ian Toynton
Stars: Martin Sheen | Jean-Pierre Cassel | Jacqueline Bisset | James Faulkner | Victoria Shalet
Touch and Die (1991)
As: Frank Magenta
Martin Sheen stars as an American newsman in Rome who begins to investigate the appearance of several corpses found throughout Europe with their hands cut off. He soon uncovers not only plots of plutonium theft, but also of nuclear arms deals and dark political schemes.
Runtime: 180 min.
Directed by: Piernico Solinas
Stars: Paolo Bonacelli | Martin Sheen | Jacques Perrin | David Birney | Véronique Jannot
Cadence (1990)
As: MSgt. Otis V. McKinney
As punishment for drunken, rebellious behavior, a young white soldier is thrown into a stockade populated entirely by black inmates. But instead of falling victim to racial hatred, the soldier joins forces with his fellow prisoners and rises up against the insanely tyrannical and bigoted prison warden.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Martin Sheen
Stars: Laurence Fishburne | Blu Mankuma | Martin Sheen | Charlie Sheen | Michael Beach
Cold Front (1990)
As: John Hyde
An American cop teams up with a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman and together they uncover a plot to hide international terrorists in Vancouver.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Allan A. Goldstein
Stars: Kim Coates | Martin Sheen | Beverly D'Angelo | Katharine Isabelle | Michael Ontkean
Beverly Hills Brats (1989)
As: Dr. Jeffrey Miller
A rich young boy arranges to be kidnapped so he'll get more attention from his parents.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Jim Sotos
Stars: Fernando Allende | Martin Sheen | Peter Billingsley | Burt Young | Terry Moore
Nightbreaker (1989)
As: Dr. Alexander Brown - Present
Dr. Alexander Brown (Martin Sheen) arrives in Las Vegas, awarded for his recent medical invention. An ex-G.I. tells Brown he was a test subject during the 1950's, exposed to atomic bomb radiation in the Nevada desert-- will Brown help the man uncover the truth? In 1950's Nevada, Brown (played by Emilio Estevez) is a young psychiatrist and a guest of the U.S. Army, where soldiers were routinely exposed to ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Peter Markle
Stars: Joe Pantoliano | Emilio Estevez | Martin Sheen | Lea Thompson | Melinda Dillon
Beyond the Stars (1989)
As: Paul Andrews
This Sci-Fi Drama centers around the teen-age Eric, son of a computer scientist who worked for the Apollo mission which sent the first human to the moon. Eric, determined to become an astronaut himself one day, befriends Paul Andrews, the first man on the moon. Paul is avoided by other astronauts nowadays, because he was very rude and rebuffing when he returned from space. Only slowly Eric learns, that ...
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: David Saperstein
Stars: Martin Sheen | Olivia d'Abo | Christian Slater | Sharon Stone | Robert Foxworth
Marked for Murder (1989)
As: Man in Park
A snooty female production assistant and an eager gopher at a TV station are assigned by their boss to locate a mysterious cassette. They quickly find themselves framed for murder and pursued by government agents.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Rick Sloane
Stars: Wings Hauser | Renée Estevez | Ross Hagen | James Mitchum | Ken Abraham
Da (1988)
As: Charlie
A New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his father (his "Da"). While at his boyhood home, he encounters his father's spirit and relives memories both pleasant and not.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Matt Clark
Stars: Martin Sheen | Barnard Hughes | William Hickey
Judgment in Berlin (1988)
As: Herbert J. Stern
American judge in Germany must decide if the hijacking of an East German plane into West Berlin was justified.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Leo Penn
Stars: Martin Sheen | Heinz Hoenig | Sean Penn | Sam Wanamaker | Cristine Rose
Walking After Midnight (1988)
Explores the past-life experiences of various celebrities.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Jonathon Kay
Stars: Martin Sheen | Rae Dawn Chong | James Coburn | The Dalai Lama | Patsy Cline
Wall Street (1987)
As: Carl Fox
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.
Runtime: 126 min.
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Stars: John C. McGinley | Martin Sheen | Michael Douglas | Charlie Sheen | Daryl Hannah
Siesta (1987)
As: Del
Claire (an American) wakes up in a terrible state at the end of a runway in Spain. As she tries to account for her state (blood-soaked and bruised), she has flashbacks from the past few days. She thinks she's killed someone, but isn't sure, and now she's wandering the Spanish streets without money or a clear memory.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Mary Lambert
Stars: Ellen Barkin | Isabella Rossellini | Martin Sheen | Julian Sands | Gabriel Byrne
The Believers (1987)
As: Cal Jamison
Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison (Martin Sheen) is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: John Schlesinger
Stars: Martin Sheen | Robert Loggia | Elizabeth Wilson | Helen Shaver | Harley Cross
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 (1987)
As: James Marion Hunt
A made-for-cable-TV docudrama about the trial of the men accused of conspiring to cause protesters to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Combines in an innovative manner dramatic recreations (largely faithful to the actual trial transcripts) with documentary footage and interviews with the actual defendants.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Jeremy Kagan
Stars: Elliott Gould | Robert Carradine | Michael Lembeck | Robert Loggia | Peter Boyle
A State of Emergency (1986)
This story is about a crusading scientist out to stop nuclear testing who is motivated by scientific fact, conscience and faith. Dr. Alex Carmody (Martin Sheen) is a physicist who becomes convinced that if the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. continue to test nuclear weapons, eventually one of these tests will set off an atomic chain reaction that will obliterate the world. Carmody travels to Portugal where ...
Stars: Martin Sheen | Fionnula Flanagan | William Hootkins | Peter Firth | Ramon Estevez
Secrets of the Titanic (1986)
As: Himself (Narrator)
Dr. Robert Ballard of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and his research team become the first undersea explorers to locate, photograph, and explore the wreckage of the ill-fated HMS Titanic, which sank on its maiden voyage 2 1/2 mile deep in the icy waters of the Atlantic in 1912, taking 1500 passengers and crew with it to a watery grave. Utilizing dazzling state-of-the art equipment and cutting edge ...
Runtime: 51 min.
Directed by: Robert D. Ballard | Graham Hurley
Stars: Martin Sheen | Robert D. Ballard
Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story (1986)
As: Mitch Snyder
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Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Richard T. Heffron
Stars: Martin Sheen | Cicely Tyson | Stan Shaw | Joe Seneca | Roxanne Hart
Out of the Darkness (1985)
As: Eddie Zigo
A gripping thriller telling the true story of the hunt and capture of David Berkowitz, a.k.a. "Son of Sam" — the infamous serial killer who stalked New York in the 70s.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Jud Taylor
Stars: Martin Sheen | Matt Clark | Eddie Egan | Jennifer Salt | Héctor Elizondo
The Fourth Wise Man (1985)
As: Artaban
Artaban is a young Magus (Wise Man) who desires to follow the star to the birthplace of the coming King, against the counsel of his friends and family. Carrying three precious jewels to give to the baby Messiah, Artaban and his reluctant servant Orontes set off to join the caravan of the three other wise men. They miss the caravan, but Artaban continues the search for his King, always one ...
Runtime: 72 min.
Directed by: Michael Ray Rhodes
Stars: Martin Sheen | Alan Arkin | Harold Gould | Eileen Brennan | James Farentino
In the Name of the People (1985)
As: Narrator
In the Name of the People is a 1985 documentary film directed by Frank Christopher about the Salvadoran Civil War. The film follows four filmmakers who secretly entered El Salvador, marched with guerrillas across the country, and followed them into combat against government forces in San Salvador. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Runtime: 73 min.
Directed by: Frank Christopher
Stars: Martin Sheen
Consenting Adult (1985)
As: Ken Lynd
Young and shy Jeff discovers his attraction to men. After struggling with himself he comes out to his parents. Mum eventually listens to his son and tries to understand his feelings, but his Dad would rather die - which, in the end, he really does, leaving behind a mother, her son and his friend to work those things out Jeff and his Dad had never the courage to talk about.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Gilbert Cates
Stars: Martin Sheen | Barry Tubb | Marlo Thomas
The Guardian (1984)
As: Charlie Hyatt
The residents of a New York apartment building are shocked when one of them is shot during a burgulary. They decide to hire a security expert to patrol the building, but he seem a little over-committed to his work.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: David Greene
Stars: Martin Sheen | Arthur Hill | Simon Reynolds | Tandy Cronyn | Louis Gossett, Jr.
Firestarter (1984)
As: Captain Hollister
As youths, Andy McGee (David Keith) and his future wife, Vicky (Heather Locklear), participated in secret experiments, allowing themselves to be subjected to mysterious medical tests. Years later, the couple's daughter, Charlie (Drew Barrymore), begins to exhibit the ability of setting fires solely with her mind. This volatile talent makes the youngster extremely dangerous and soon she becomes a target for ...
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Mark L. Lester
Stars: Martin Sheen | David Keith | Drew Barrymore | Freddie Jones | Heather Locklear
The Dead Zone (1983)
As: Greg Stillson
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Stars: Tom Skerritt | Martin Sheen | Christopher Walken | Herbert Lom | Brooke Adams
Man, Woman, and Child (1983)
As: Robert Beckwith
A California professor (Martin Sheen), his wife (Blythe Danner) and his daughters make room for his orphaned illegitimate French son (Sebastian Dungan).
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Dick Richards
Stars: David Hemmings | Craig T. Nelson | Martin Sheen | Blythe Danner | Nathalie Nell
In the King of Prussia (1983)
As: Judge Samuel Salus II
Dramatization of the trial of Christian anti-war activists, known collectively as the "Plowshares Eight". In September 1980, they broke into a General Electric weapons plant in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and in an act of protest against nuclear proliferation, poured vials of their own blood onto secret missle plans, burned other files, and damaged nosecones intended for nuclear missles. The ...
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Emile de Antonio
Stars: Martin Sheen
Enigma (1983)
As: Alex Holbeck
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc
Stars: Derek Jacobi | Michael Lonsdale | Martin Sheen | Sam Neill | Brigitte Fossey
That Championship Season (1982)
As: Tom Daley
It started as a friendly meeting between 4 old buddies with their basketball coach and ended up in revealing the truth about their relationship. The meeting forces the five men to reveal their true identity, to be honest with each other for the first time in their lives. When the night comes to an end they decide to go back to the old glorious days and reunite into the team which won that ...
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Jason Miller
Stars: Stacy Keach | Martin Sheen | Bruce Dern | Robert Mitchum | Paul Sorvino
Gandhi (1982)
As: Vince Walker
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
Runtime: 191 min.
Directed by: Richard Attenborough
Stars: Ben Kingsley | Candice Bergen | Edward Fox | Trevor Howard | John Gielgud
In the Custody of Strangers (1982)
As: Frank Caldwell
A teenage delinquent who goes on a drunken joyride is left in jail overnight by his parents in the hope that he might learn a lesson from it. But events follow which result in the boy spending far longer behind bars than anyone had foreseen.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Robert Greenwald
Stars: Ed Lauter | Emilio Estevez | Martin Sheen | Kenneth McMillan | Jane Alexander
Loophole (1981)
As: Stephen Booker
When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in a daring scheme to rob one of London's biggest bank vaults.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: John Quested
Stars: Martin Sheen | Jonathan Pryce | Albert Finney | Susannah York | Colin Blakely
The Final Countdown (1980)
As: Warren Lasky
In 1980, the US Navy's most powerful warship, the USS Nimitz, is caught in a storm during routine manoeuvres in the Pacific. Enveloped by a strange green light, the ship passes through a vortex and when they emerge, their communications have been cut off. The ship's Captain (Kirk Douglas) sends out a patrol and the F-14 pilots are shocked to encounter vintage Japanese warplanes.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Don Taylor
Stars: Martin Sheen | Kirk Douglas | Ron O'Neal | Katharine Ross | James Farentino
Eagle's Wing (1979)
As: Pike
Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle's Wing in antebellum Mexico, meeting marauded stagecoach travelers and garrisoned Mexicans along the way.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Anthony Harvey
Stars: Harvey Keitel | Martin Sheen | Sam Waterston | Stéphane Audran | John Castle
Apocalypse Now (1979)
As: Captain Benjamin L. Willard
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
Runtime: 147 min.
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Martin Sheen | Robert Duvall | Marlon Brando | Frederic Forrest | Sam Bottoms
Taxi!! (1978)
As: Taxi Driver
Taxi!!! is a television movie that debuted on the NBC television network as a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie.
Runtime: 60 min.
Directed by: Joseph Hardy
Stars: Martin Sheen | Eva Marie Saint
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary (1977)
As: Himself
Train wreck, some might call it a TV special, proving that not everything was better in the good old days. That includes Rolling Stone Magazine.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Steve Binder
Stars: Teri Garr | Art Garfunkel | Richie Havens | Yvonne Elliman | Charlotte Crossley
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
As: Frank Hallet
Quiet, withdrawn 13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives peacefully in her home in a New England beach town. Whenever the prying landlady inquires after Rynn's father, she politely claims that he's in the city on business. But when the landlady's creepy and increasingly persistent son, Frank, won't leave Rynn alone, she teams up with kindly neighbor boy Mario to maintain the dark family secret that she's ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Nicolas Gessner
Stars: Martin Sheen | Jodie Foster | Scott Jacoby | Alexis Smith | Mort Shuman
The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
As: Robby Navarro
The Cassandra Crossing is an all-star disaster spectacular telling of the terrifying odyssey of 1000 doomed passengers trapped aboard a plague-infested train. A terrorist infected with a deadly virus boards the Stockholm to Geneva Express and exposes all aboard to the disease. Colonel Mackenzie (Burt Lancaster) is called in to handle the situation and finds Dr. Chamberlain (Richard Harris) who is ...
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: George P. Cosmatos
Stars: Richard Harris | Martin Sheen | O.J. Simpson | Sophia Loren | Ava Gardner
Sweet Hostage (1975)
As: Leonard Hatch
An escaped mental patient kidnaps an illiterate teenage farm girl and takes her to his mountain hide-away, where they soon become friends and, eventually, lovers.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Lee Philips
Stars: Martin Sheen | Bert Remsen | Linda Blair | Lee de Broux | Jeanne Cooper
The Last Survivors (1975)
As: Alexander William Holmes
When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Lee H. Katzin
Stars: Tom Bosley | Martin Sheen | Bruce Davison | Diane Baker | Anne Francis
The Missiles of October (1974)
As: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy
Based in part on Robert F. Kennedy's book, "Thirteen Days," this film profiles the Kennedy Administration's actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Runtime: 150 min.
Directed by: Anthony Page
Stars: William Devane | Martin Sheen | James Hong | Howard Da Silva | Ralph Bellamy
The California Kid (1974)
As: Michael McCord
A sadistic small-town sheriff has a habit of deliberately forcing speeders to their deaths on the mountain roads leading into town. The brother of one of the victims rolls into town in his hot rod to investigate his brother's death.
Runtime: 74 min.
Directed by: Richard T. Heffron
Stars: Nick Nolte | Martin Sheen | Michelle Phillips | Vic Morrow | Stuart Margolin
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd (1974)
As: Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
A humanistic account of "the Robin Hood of the Cookson Hills", in which Charles Arthur Floyd is portrayed as a decent man who has a strong sense of family and duty.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Clyde Ware
Stars: Martin Sheen | Michael Parks | Steven Keats | Kim Darby
The Execution of Private Slovik (1974)
As: Eddie Slovik
The story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Lamont Johnson
Stars: Ned Beatty | Martin Sheen | Matt Clark | Gary Busey | Mariclare Costello
Message to My Daughter (1973)
As: John Thatcher
A confused teenager discovers a stack of tapes recorded years earlier by her dying mother.
Runtime: 74 min.
Directed by: Robert Michael Lewis
Stars: Martin Sheen | Bonnie Bedelia | Mark Slade | Kitty Winn | Neva Patterson
Conflict (1973)
As: Father Kinsella
In the near future, the Catholic church has joined with other western religions in an ecumenical movement that has washed out much of the original message of the religion. A group of Irish monks have begun saying the mass again in Latin and have begun to have an international following. Martin Sheen is sent from Rome to bring them to task and they must confront what is truly essential ...
Runtime: 76 min.
Directed by: Jack Gold
Stars: Michael Gambon | Martin Sheen | Raf Vallone | Trevor Howard | Cyril Cusack
Badlands (1973)
As: Kit Carruthers
Dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950s, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Terrence Malick
Stars: Martin Sheen | Sissy Spacek | Warren Oates | Alan Vint | Ramon Bieri
Letters from Three Lovers (1973)
As: Vincent
Three letters, whose delivery has been delayed by a year, change the lives of the people to whom they were addressed.
Runtime: 75 min.
Directed by: John Erman
Stars: Belinda Montgomery | Martin Sheen | Ken Berry | Juliet Mills | June Allyson
Pursuit (1972)
As: Timothy Drew
What begins as a routine investigation quickly escalates into a heartstopping race to save millions from certain death in this taut and gripping thriller. Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, ER) "makes an impressive directorial debut" (The Hollywood Reporter) in this deadly cat-and-mouse game in which the stakes couldn't be higher! When government agent Steven Graves (Ben Gazzara) investigates political ...
Runtime: 73 min.
Directed by: Michael Crichton
Stars: Martin Sheen | William Windom | Joseph Wiseman | E.G. Marshall | Ben Gazzara
Rage (1972)
As: Maj. Holliford
An accidental nerve gas leak by the military kills not only a rancher's livestock, but also his son. When he tries to hold the military accountable for their actions, he runs up against a wall of silence.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: George C. Scott
Stars: Martin Sheen | George C. Scott | Barnard Hughes | Richard Basehart | Nicolas Beauvy
That Certain Summer (1972)
As: Gary McCain
The first US teleplay to deal sympathetically with homosexuality. Divorced San Francisco contractor Doug Salter is looking forward to a summer visit from his fourteen-year-old son Nick, who lives in Los Angeles with his mother Janet. The boy does not know that his father is gay and committed to Gary McClain, his life partner of several years.
Runtime: 73 min.
Directed by: Lamont Johnson
Stars: Martin Sheen | Joe Don Baker | Hal Holbrook | Scott Jacoby | Marlyn Mason
Pickup on 101 (1972)
As: Lester Baumgartner
An elderly wanderer, a sexy young girl running away from home and a folk singer looking for stardom hitch-hike their way cross-country, trying to get to California.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: John Florea
Stars: Lesley Ann Warren | Martin Sheen | Hal Baylor | George Chandler | Jack Albertson
No Drums, No Bugles (1972)
As: Ashby Gatrell
During the Civil War, a conscientious objector is forced to flee to the woods of West Virginia to avoid being sent into combat where he would be forced to kill, which he is adamantly against. He sets up shelter in a cave and is warily accepted by his new "neighbors"--the animals who live in the vicinity.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Clyde Ware
Stars: Martin Sheen | Rod McCary | Davey Davison | Denine Terry | Carmen Costi
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol (1972)
As: Graytak
An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town. When he is finally released from the camp, and is discharged from the military, he goes back to his town - but he can find no trace whatsoever of it.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: George McCowan
Stars: Martin Sheen | Martin Landau | Brock Peters | Pat O’Brien | Jane Alexander
Mongo's Back in Town (1971)
As: Gordon
Professional killer is hired by his brother, a gang boss, to wipe out a rival gangster.
Runtime: 73 min.
Directed by: Marvin J. Chomsky
Stars: Sally Field | Martin Sheen | Telly Savalas | Charles Cioffi | Anne Francis
Catch-22 (1970)
As: 1st Lt. Dobbs
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation. Catch-22 is a parody of a "military mentality" and of a bureaucratic society in general.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Mike Nichols
Stars: Alan Arkin | Richard Benjamin | Martin Balsam | Art Garfunkel | Jack Gilford
The Andersonville Trial (1970)
As: Captain Williams
A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.
Runtime: 150 min.
Directed by: George C. Scott
Stars: William Shatner | Martin Sheen | Jack Cassidy | Cameron Mitchell | Richard Basehart
The Subject Was Roses (1968)
As: Timmy Cleary
When Timmy Cleary, comes home from soldiering, he's greeted by the open but strained arms of his two parents, John and Nettie. Once considered sickly and weak, he has now distinguished himself in the service and is ready to begin a new life. His parents, however, are still trapped in the bygone days of early and unresolved marital strife and begin emotionally deteriorating through several drama ...
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Ulu Grosbard
Stars: Martin Sheen | Patricia Neal | Jack Albertson | Don Saxon
The Incident (1967)
As: Artie Connors
Two young hoodlums (including a young Martin Sheen) terrorize the passengers of a late night New York City subway train.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Larry Peerce
Stars: Beau Bridges | Martin Sheen | Ed McMahon | Ruby Dee | Victor Arnold
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966)
An adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play.
Runtime: 70 min.
Directed by: Jack Landau
Stars: Martin Sheen | Albert Dekker | Tom Aldredge