Martin Sheen

At 84 years old, Martin Sheen has this physical status:

Career

Sheen was heavily inspired by actor James Dean. "All of his films had a major influence on my life, both in my work and all of my generation," Sheen said. He surpassed cinema acting. It wasn't acting anymore; it was human behavior." Sheen formed a theatre company with other actors in the hopes that a performance would bring him recognition. He appeared in "Nightmare," an episode of the television science fiction series "The Outer Limits," in 1963. He co-starred in The Subject Was Roses, a Broadway play, later reprised his role in the 1968 film of the same name, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Sheen appeared in the television series Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966), an extension of Tennessee Williams' play Camino Real directed by Jack Landau and presented by NET, a PBS predecessor.

Sheen appeared on several popular television shows, including Insight (1960s-1980s), My Three Sons (1964), Flipper (1967), The F.B.I. Mission: Impossible (1968), Irmo (1969), Dan August (1971), The Rookies (1973), Columbo (1973), and San Francisco's Streets (1973). On Mod Squad (1970–1971), he appeared on television as "Danny Morgan" on a recurring basis. Sheen had been concentrating on television films and motion pictures by the early 1970s.

In the 1970 film version of Catch-22, Sheen played Dobbs. He co-starred in The Unwinnable 1972 television film That Certain Summer, which was also the first television film in America to portray homosexuality in a sympathetic light. He appeared in 1973, when he appeared with Sissy Spacek in the crime film Badlands, as an antisocial multiple murderer. Sheen has stated that his stint in Badlands was one of his two favorite, the other being his stint as a US Army special operations officer in Apocalypse Now. Sheen appeared alongside David Janssen in "Such Dust As Dreams Are Made On," the first pilot for the television series Harry O.'s 1973 debut.

Sheen portrayed a hot rod driver in the television series The California Kid, and the following year, sheen received an Emmy Award nomination for Best Actor in a television drama for his role as Pvt. In the television film The Execution of Private Slovik, Eddie Slovik appears. The film, which was based on an event that occurred during World War II, told the tale of the only US soldier to be executed for desertion since the American Civil War.

In 1979's Apocalypse Now, Sheen's appearance led to Francis Ford Coppola's casting of him in a leading role as US Army Captain Benjamin L. Willard, gaining him a lot of respect. Sheen, who was filming in the Philippines in the 1976 typhoon season, admitted that he was not in good shape and was heavily consuming alcohol. Sheen's portrayal of Willard as inebriated for the film's historic opening scene in a Saigon hotel room was aided by Sheen's celebration of his 36th birthday on-set and being legally inebriated. Sheen suffered a minor heart attack while crawling out to a road for assistance 12 months into filming. Joe Estevez, his younger brother, starred in a number of long shots and in some of the voice-overs as he was recovering. A few weeks later, Sheen was able to resume filming. Sheen appeared in The Final Countdown in 1979 with Kirk Douglas, another celebrity with family ties to Bermuda (Diana Dill, Douglas's first wife and the mother of their sons' Michael Douglas and Joel Douglas were Bermudian).

Attorney General John F. Kennedy in the television series The Missiles of October; White House Chief of Staff A.J. McInnerney's in The American President; White House Advisor John Dean in the television series Blind Ambition; sinister would-be president Greg Stillson in The Dead Zone; and Medusa's Child, Lori Loughlin-Chris Noth television mini-series.

Sheen's sympathetic portrayal of General Robert E. Lee in the Ronald Maxwell film Gettysburg in 1993 received acclaim.

In the famed television drama, The West Wing, he played fictional Democratic president Josiah "Jed" Bartlet. In Firestarter, he plays Captain Hollister opposite Drew Barrymore and David Keith.

In November 2010, Sheen was cast as Uncle Ben in Sony's 2012 sequel to the Spider-Man film series The Amazing Spider-Man, directed by Marc Webb.

In the controversial Simpsons episode "The Principal and the Pauper," Sheen has performed voice-over work as both the narrator for the Eyewitness series and as the "tru" Seymour Skinner. In addition,, he appeared as the Illusive Man in Mass Effect 2, the sequel, Mass Effect 3, and the sequel, Mass Effect 3. Emilio was the main character in the 2011 animated film Arrugas (Wrinkles). Martin Sheen is also the host of In Focus, a television show that appears on PBS affiliate stations on Public Television, but not in fact, according to a company spokesperson, who appeared in The Washington Post on December 27, 2012.

Sheen, Alex Perea, Gustavo Sánchez Parra, and Michael Madsen appeared in Chamaco in 2009. Sheen appeared in Martin Scorsese's The Departed as Captain Oliver Queenan, a commanding officer who is monitoring an undercover officer. (Leonardo DiCaprio) Estevez Sheen Productions was founded by Martin Sheen and his son Ramon Estevez, who used both their real and stage names to create the Warner Bros.-affiliated company. The Way was published in 2010 by Sheen's son Emilio Estevez, who also appeared in the film as Martin's on-screen son who died while hiking the Camino de Santiago. Renée, his daughter, is also included in the film. Martin's character, an American doctor, leaves his Californian life and embarks on the 800 km (500 mi) pilgrimage from the French Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela himself, with his son's ashes. The Way premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.

In 2010, he filmed Stella Days in County Tipperary, Ireland, near his mother's birthplace. Stephen Rea, an Irish actor, starred in Thaddeus O'Sullivan's film and Ireland actor Stephen Rea, as well as IFTA award-winning actress Amy Huberman. Sheen plays Daniel Barry, a cinephile who's obsession with movies has inspired him to help set up a cinema in Borrisokane.

Sheen appeared in Netflix's Grace and Frankie (2015–2022). In December 2019, Sheen partnered with Lakeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons, and Daniel Kaluya in Judas and the Black Messiah to play legendary FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. The film, which was produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, was released in 2021. On December 4, 1969, Shaka King and chronicles the death of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton in Chicago.

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