FrameThrower · Actors · Martin Sheen
Martin Sheen
10 films · 648 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1967–2021
Born 3 August 1940 · Dayton, Ohio, USA
Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez, known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor. He first became known for his roles in the films The Subject Was Roses (1968) and Badlands (1973), and later achieved wide recognition for his leading role as Captain Benjamin Willard in Apocalypse Now (1979), as U.S. President Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Wing (1999–2006), and as Robert Hanson in the Netflix television series Grace and Frankie (2015–2022).
In film, Sheen has won the Best Actor award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival for his performance as Kit Carruthers in Badlands. Sheen's portrayal of Capt.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 10 films · 648 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1967–2021
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama2001
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series2002
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series2001
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series2001
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series1994
- Order of Danica Hrvatska
- Thomas Merton Award2013
- Thomas Merton Award2012
- Laetare Medal2008
- Silver Shell for Best Actor1974
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 648 frames from the 10 films we hold. This is the look of the work Martin takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 10 films we hold, 48% of their frames are night, 43% low key — the look of the work Martin takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Apocalypse Now
1979 · Captain Benjamin Willard
Badlands
1973 · Kit Carruthers
The Incident
1967 · Artie Connors
Judas and the Black Messiah
2021 · J. Edgar Hoover
The Amazing Spider-Man
2012 · Uncle Ben
The Departed
2006 · Queenan
Catch Me If You Can
2002 · Roger Strong
The Dead Zone
1983 · Greg Stillson
Gandhi
1982 · Vince Walker
Catch 22
1970 · 1st Lt. Dobbs
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 648 frames from Martin Sheen's 10 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.