Martin Sheen: Movies, Awards & Box Office
- films
- 173
- on screen
- 1966–2024
- box office
- $1.98B
- nomination
- 1
- average score
- 74
- Born
- August 3, 1940 (age 86)
- Birthplace
- Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
- Full name
- Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez
- Citizenship
- United States, Ireland
- Occupations
- Actor, activist
- Years active
- 1961-present
- Spouses
- Janet Templeton
- Children
- 4
The Best Martin Sheen Movies
The highest-rated films Martin Sheen is credited on, by the Movie Echo Score that blends critic reviews, audience ratings and lasting impact. Lost & Found in Cleveland (2024) scores highest, at 88. The full ranking adds the biggest box office hits and the most awarded films.
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Movie Echo Score: Score 88 Lost & Found in Cleveland 2024 · Dr. Austin Raybourne -
Movie Echo Score: Score 83 Judas and the Black Messiah 2021 · J. Edgar Hoover -
Movie Echo Score: Score 82 A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote 2020 · President Josiah Bartlet -
Movie Echo Score: Score 78 Princess of the Row 2020 · John Austin -
Movie Echo Score: Score 72 12 Mighty Orphans 2021 · Doc Hall -
Movie Echo Score: Score 72 Princess of the Row 2019 · John Austin
Martin Sheen's Career in Numbers
Martin Sheen's films in numbers — as an actor, not counting appearances as themselves: when they were made, the genres Martin Sheen works in most and the milestones along the way. The filmography runs from Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966) to Lost & Found in Cleveland (2024), and the 1990s were the busiest decade.
Martin Sheen Movies by Decade
- 1960s 4
- 1970s 19
- 1980s 33
- 1990s 51
- 2000s 8
- 2010s 23
- 2020s 7
The 1990s were Martin Sheen's busiest decade, with 51 films.
Martin Sheen Movies by Genre
- Drama 50
- Documentary 24
- Thriller 13
- Tv movie 10
- Action 9
- Crime 7
- Comedy 6
- Adventure 4
- History 3
- Animation 3
Drama is the genre Martin Sheen has worked in most, with 50 films, ahead of documentary (24).
Martin Sheen Career Milestones
- First film
- Ten Blocks on the Camino Real 1966
- Biggest box office hit
- The Amazing Spider-Man $759M worldwide
- Best-rated film
- Lost & Found in Cleveland Movie Echo Score 88
- Newest film
- Lost & Found in Cleveland 2024
Martin Sheen Filmography: Every Movie
Every film Martin Sheen is credited on, newest first, with the role, the box office and the Movie Echo Score. Rated films average a score of 74. Re-order the list to see the best-rated films or the biggest hits first.
Martin Sheen Movies as an Actor
145- 2024
Lost & Found in Cleveland as Dr. Austin Raybourne · Comedy Movie Echo Score: 88 - 2023
23 Seconds to Eternity as Narrator · Music - 2021
12 Mighty Orphans as Doc Hall · History Worldwide box office: $3.71M Movie Echo Score: 72 - 2021
Judas and the Black Messiah as J. Edgar Hoover · Biography Worldwide box office: $7.48M Movie Echo Score: 83 - 2020
Princess of the Row as John Austin · Drama Worldwide box office: $3.22K Movie Echo Score: 78 - 2020
The Devil Has a Name as Ralph · Drama Movie Echo Score: 55 - 2020
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote as President Josiah Bartlet · Drama Movie Echo Score: 82 - 2019
The Devil Has a Name as Ralph · Thriller Movie Echo Score: 67 - 2019
Princess of the Row as John Austin · Drama Worldwide box office: $3.22K Movie Echo Score: 72 - 2018
The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island as James Alden (voice) · Animation Worldwide box office: $78.7K - 2018
Come Sunday as Oral Roberts · Drama Movie Echo Score: 67 - 2018
American Dynasties: The Kennedys as Narrator (voice) · Documentary - 2017
Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew as Matthew Cuthbert · Tv movie Worldwide box office: $127K - 2017
Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars as Matthew Cuthbert · Family Worldwide box office: $127K - 2017
Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing Evidence as Narrator (voice) · Crime - 2016
Anne of Green Gables as Matthew Cuthbert · Drama Worldwide box office: $127K - 2015
Badge of Honor as Captain Daniel Richards · Crime - 2015
Trash Adventure Worldwide box office: $4.81M - 2015
Unity as Narrator (voice) · Documentary - 2014
The Boxcar Children as Grandfather Alden (voice) · Animation - 2014
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Action Worldwide box office: $717M - 2013
The Whale as Tom Nickerson · History - 2013
Amazonia as Narrator · Adventure Worldwide box office: $4.96M - 2013
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz as Narrator · Documentary - 2013
Salinger Documentary Worldwide box office: $651K - 2012
The Amazing Spider-Man Action Worldwide box office: $759M - 2012
Stella Days Drama Worldwide box office: $103K - 2012
Brothers on the Line as Narrator · Documentary - 2012
8 as Theodore Olson · Drama - 2010
The Kennedy Detail as Narrator · Documentary - 2009
Gloves of Stone as Dr. Frank Irwin · Action - 2008
They Killed Sister Dorothy as Narrator · Documentary Worldwide box office: $9.45K - 2007
Flatland as Arthur Square (voice) · Animation - 2006
Who Killed the Electric Car? Documentary Worldwide box office: $1.76M - 2005
James Dean: Forever Young as Narrator (voice) · Documentary - 2002
Bringing Down a Dictator as Narrator (voice) · Documentary - 2001
National Geographic: Inside the Vatican as Narrator · Documentary - 2001
Apocalypse Now Redux Action - 1999
The Time Shifters as Grifasi · Thriller - 1999
Forget Me Never as Jack · Tv movie - 1999
D.R.E.A.M. Team as J.W. Garrison · Action - 1999
Storm as General James Roberts · Thriller - 1999
Gunfighter as The Stranger · Western - 1999
The Darklings as Ira Everett · Drama - 1999
A Texas Funeral as Grandpa Sparta · Drama - 1998
Free Money as Guard · Comedy - 1998
A Letter from Death Row as Michael's Father · Mystery - 1998
Babylon 5: The River of Souls as Soul Hunter · Adventure - 1998
No Code of Conduct as Bill Peterson · Drama - 1998
Shadrach as Narrator (voice) · Drama - 1998
The Elevator as Sarge · Comedy - 1998
Voyage of Terror as Henry Northcutt · Thriller - 1997
Medusa’s Child as President · Thriller - 1997
Hostile Waters as Aurora Skipper · Thriller - 1997
Gun as Van Guinness - 1997
Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster as Narrator · History - 1996
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story as Peter Maurin · Drama - 1996
The War at Home as Bob Collier · Drama Worldwide box office: $44.7K - 1996
Sacred Cargo as Father Andrew Kanvesky · Thriller - 1996
Mexico as Narrator (voice) · Documentary - 1996
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial as Dalton Trumbo · Documentary - 1996
Project: ALF as Colonel Gilbert Milfoil · Sci-Fi - 1995
The American President Drama Worldwide box office: $108M - 1995
Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys as Jeff Snyder · Thriller - 1995
Virgin Mary as Father Jozo Zovko · Drama - 1995
Dead Presidents as The Judge · Thriller Worldwide box office: $24.1M - 1995
Dillinger and Capone as John Dillinger · Drama - 1995
Born Wild as Dan Walker · Drama - 1995
One Hundred and One Nights as Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited) · Comedy - 1995
The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas as Voice of Marcos · Documentary - 1994
Boca as Jesse James Montgomery · Drama - 1994
Roswell as Townsend · Sci-Fi - 1994
One of Her Own as Asst. Dist. Atty. Pete Maresca · Tv movie - 1994
When the Bough Breaks as Captain Swaggert · Thriller - 1994
National Geographic: Last Voyage of the Lusitania as Narrator · Documentary - 1994
Eyewitness: Dinosaur as Narrator (voice) · Documentary - 1994
Eyewitness: Shark as Narrator (voice) · Documentary - 1993
Alive: 20 Years Later as Narrator (voice) · Documentary - 1993
A Matter of Justice as Jack Brown - 1993
Gettysburg as Gen. Robert E. Lee · Drama Worldwide box office: $10.8M - 1993
The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story as William F.(Ike) Eisenbraun · War - 1993
Hot Shots! Part Deux as Capt. Benjamin L. Willard (uncredited) · Comedy Worldwide box office: $134M - 1993
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker’s Apology Documentary - 1993
Grey Knight as Gen. Haworth · Drama - 1993
Alex Haley’s Queen as James Jackson Sr. · Drama - 1992
The Water Engine as Chain Letter Voice (voice) (uncredited) · Tv movie - 1991
Guilty Until Proven Innocent as Harold Hohne · Crime - 1991
The Maid as Anthony Wayne · Romance - 1991
Cadence Drama Worldwide box office: $2.07M - 1989
Beverly Hills Brats as Dr. Jeffrey Miller · Comedy Worldwide box office: $193K - 1989
Cold Front as John Hyde · Crime - 1989
Beyond the Stars as Paul Andrews · Sci-Fi - 1989
Nightbreaker as Dr. Alexander Brown - Present · Tv movie - 1989
Marked for Murder as Man in Park · Thriller - 1989
Marked for Murder as Man in Park · Thriller - 1988
Judgment in Berlin as Herbert J. Stern · Drama Worldwide box office: $230K - 1988
Da as Charlie · Drama - 1987
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun as Narrator · Documentary - 1987
Siesta as Del · Drama Worldwide box office: $700K - 1987
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam as Alan (voice) · War - 1987
The Believers Drama Worldwide box office: $18.8M - 1987
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 as James Marion Hunt · Drama - 1986
News at Eleven as Frank Kenley · Drama - 1986
Shattered Spirits as Lyle Mollencamp · Tv movie - 1985
Out of the Darkness as Eddie Zigo · Crime - 1985
Broken Rainbow as Narrator (voice) · Documentary - 1985
The Fourth Wise Man as Artaban · Drama - 1985
In the Name of the People as Narrator · Documentary - 1985
Consenting Adult as Ken Lynd · Drama - 1985
The Atlanta Child Murders as Chet Dettlinger · Drama - 1984
The Guardian as Charlie Hyatt · Drama - 1983
Choices of the Heart as Father Philan · Drama - 1983
Man, Woman and Child as Robert Beckwith · Drama Worldwide box office: $2.31M - 1983
Gandhi Biography Worldwide box office: $52.8M - 1983
In the King of Prussia as Judge Samuel Salus II · Documentary - 1983
In the King of Prussia as Judge Samuel Salus II · Documentary - 1983
Kennedy as John F. Kennedy · Drama - 1982
That Championship Season as Tom Daley · Drama - 1982
Enigma as Alex Holbeck · Drama Worldwide box office: $894K - 1982
In the Custody of Strangers as Frank Caldwell · Drama - 1981
Loophole as Stephen Booker · Adventure - 1980
The Final Countdown Action Worldwide box office: $16.6M - 1979
Apocalypse Now Action Worldwide box office: $105M - 1979
Eagle’s Wing as Pike · Western - 1977
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane Drama - 1977
The Cassandra Crossing Drama - 1975
The Last Survivors as Alexander William Holmes · Tv movie - 1974
The Missiles of October as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy · Drama - 1974
The California Kid as Michael McCord · Action - 1974
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd as Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd · Crime - 1974
The Execution of Private Slovik as Eddie Slovik · Drama - 1973
Message to My Daughter as John Thatcher · Tv movie - 1973
Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On as Harlan Garrison · Mystery - 1973
Badlands Drama Worldwide box office: $54.4K - 1972
Pursuit as Timothy Drew · Action - 1972
Rage as Maj. Holliford · Drama - 1972
That Certain Summer as Gary McCain · Drama - 1972
Pickup on 101 as Lester Baumgartner · Drama - 1971
Mongo’s Back in Town as Gordon · Crime - 1970
Catch-22 Drama - 1970
The Andersonville Trial as Captain Williams · Tv movie - 1969
Then Came Bronson as Nick Oresko · Drama - 1968
The Subject Was Roses as Timmy Cleary · Drama - 1967
The Incident as Artie Connors · Thriller - 1966
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real as Kilroy · Tv movie
Martin Sheen in Documentaries & Specials
28- 2024
The Little Pageant That Could as Self (archive footage) · Comedy - 2023
Robert De Niro: Hiding in the Spotlight as Self (archive footage) · Documentary - 2023
Downwind as Self Narrator · Documentary - 2022
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home as Self (archive footage) · Documentary - 2014
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire as Self - Actor (archive footage) · Documentary - 2014
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey as Self · Documentary - 2013
Making Badlands as Self · Documentary - 2013
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot as Self · Documentary - 2012
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn as Self · Documentary - 2011
9/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks Up as Self · Documentary - 2011
Miller’s Tale as Self · Documentary - 2010
A Conversation with Martin Sheen as Self · Documentary - 2009
White House Revealed as Self- Narrator (voice) · Documentary - 2008
Pirate for the Sea as Self · Documentary Worldwide box office: $94.7K - 2008
The End of Poverty? as Self - Narrator · Documentary Worldwide box office: $57.8K - 2006
50 Films to See Before You Die as Self · Documentary - 2005
Notes on an American Film Director at Work as Self · Documentary - 2003
Absence of Malick as Self · Documentary - 2002
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick as Self · Documentary - 1999
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story as Self · Music - 1997
The Making of ‘Spawn’ as Self · Documentary - 1994
Marlon Brando: The Wild One as Self · Documentary - 1991
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse as Self · Documentary Worldwide box office: $1.33M - 1991
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse as Self · Documentary Worldwide box office: $1.33M - 1988
Promises to Keep as Self · Documentary - 1986
Secrets of the Titanic as Self - Narrator · Documentary - 1982
I Love Liberty as Self · Documentary - 1977
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary as Self · Music
Martin Sheen: Awards & Nominations
1 nomination across 1 award body. Every ceremony is listed newest first, with the category and the film.
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33rd British Academy Film Awards- Martin Sheen: Nominated Best Actor Apocalypse Now
Who Is Martin Sheen?
Martin Sheen was born in Dayton, Ohio, U.S. in 1940 and is 86 years old. Credited on films since 1966, as an actor. The background, training and the roles that shaped the career.
Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor who has been in the acting industry for six decades. The Emmy Award winner was born on August 3, 1940, and his illustrious career has numerous accolades including three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. He rose to prominence in his breakthrough roles in Terrence Malick's crime drama Badlands (1973) and Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War drama Apocalypse Now (1979). He is also known for notable films like The Subject Was Roses (1968), Catch-22 (1970), and The California Kid (1974), just to name a few. In addition to film, Sheen portrayed President Jed Bartlet in The West Wing where he received six Emmy nominations. He also played Robert Hanson in the Netflix series Grace and Frankie (2015–2022). His career is characterized by notable performances and social advocacy. Sheen was born to immigrant parents in Dayton, Ohio and adopted the stage name Martin Sheen to help him gain acting parts. He is the father of four children, all of whom are also actors. He has directed, narrated, and produced film projects and continues to be active in liberal politics.
Who Martin Sheen Makes Movies With
The actors and directors Martin Sheen shares the most films with. Charlie Sheen comes first, with 11 films together, followed by Marlon Brando (7).
Martin Sheen: Questions & Answers
How many movies Martin Sheen has made, the biggest hit, the best-rated film, the award record and more, answered from the filmography above.
How many movies has Martin Sheen been in?
Martin Sheen is credited on 173 films, from 1966 to 2024. The filmography on this page lists every one of them, newest first, with the role and the Movie Echo Score.
What is Martin Sheen's highest-grossing movie?
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) is Martin Sheen's biggest box office hit, with $759M worldwide, ahead of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) ($717M). Across every film with box office figures, Martin Sheen's movies have made $1.98B.
Martin Sheen's biggest hits What is the best Martin Sheen movie?
By the Movie Echo Score, which blends critic reviews, audience ratings and lasting impact, Martin Sheen's best-rated film is Lost & Found in Cleveland (2024) with a score of 88, followed by Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) (83).
Best Martin Sheen movies, ranked Has Martin Sheen won an Oscar?
Martin Sheen has not been nominated for an Oscar. Across every ceremony in the awards database, Martin Sheen has 0 wins from 1 nomination.
How old is Martin Sheen?
Martin Sheen is 86 years old, born on August 3, 1940 in Dayton, Ohio, U.S..
What is Martin Sheen's newest movie?
The most recent film on Martin Sheen's filmography is Lost & Found in Cleveland (2024), in the role of Dr. Austin Raybourne.
Who does Martin Sheen work with most often?
Martin Sheen shares the most films with Charlie Sheen (11 films), Marlon Brando (7 films) and Francis Ford Coppola (7 films).
The Best Martin Sheen Movies, Ranked
Top rated, most awarded and biggest box office hits from 173 credits.
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