By Michelle Dumas
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez (born August 3, 1940), known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor. In a career spanning six decades he has received numerous accolades including three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Sheen 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). Sheen is also known for such notable films as The Subject Was Roses (1968), Catch-22 (1970), The California Kid (1974), Gandhi (1982), Wall Street (1987), Gettysburg (1993), The American President (1995), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Departed, Bobby (both 2006), Selma (2014), and Judas and the Black Messiah (2021). He also portrayed Uncle Ben in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).
He is also known for portraying Robert F. Kennedy in The Missiles of October (1974), Eddie Slovik in The Execution of Private Slovik (1974), John Dean in Blind Ambition (1979), and John F. Kennedy in Kennedy (1983). He received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his role in Murphy Brown (1994). He played President Jed Bartlet in The West Wing, for which he received six Emmy nominations. He played Robert Hanson in the Netflix series Grace and Frankie (2015–2022).
Born and raised in the United States by a Spanish father and an Irish mother, he adopted the stage name Martin Sheen to help him gain acting parts.[3] He is the father of four children, all of whom are actors. Sheen has directed one film, Cadence (1990), in which he appears alongside his sons Charlie and Ramón. He has narrated, produced, and directed documentary projects and has been active in liberal politics.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon (Canadian governor general) –
- John T. Scopes (fined $100 in 1925 for teaching evolution” in Tennessee”) –
- Tony Bennett (singer) –
- Martin Sheen (actor) –
- Martha Stewart (homemaking guru) –
- John C. McGinley (actor) –
- Tom Brady (football player) –
- Evangeline Lilly (actress) –
Died
- Joseph Conrad (writer) –
- Flannery O’Connor (author) –
- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano) –
Events
- Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain with Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria, in search of a western sea route to Asia–
- First intercollegiate boat race–
- American Canoe Association formed, Lake George, New York–
- Distinguished Flying Cross for William Bishop announced–
- At 2:47 A.M., Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as president by his father at Vermont homestead–
- The first okapi imported into U.S. went on display, Bronx Zoo, N.Y.C.–
- National Basketball Association formed from merger–
- Tom Yawkey inducted into National Baseball Hall of Fame–
- Lightning evidently triggered the fire alarm in an office building near Fort Collins, Colorado, which caused the inhabitants to evacuate – without their keys. While locked out, 16 were injured, most by the marble-size hail and wind gusts produced by the thunderstorm.–
Weather
- Philadelphia, PA, received 5.84 inches of rain within two hours–
- Warsaw, Indiana, received 6.25 inches of rain–
- Hail in Fort Collins, Colorado, injured locked-out workers after lightning triggered fire alarm–
- 115 degrees F, Fort Smith, Arkansas–
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