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[[File:Martin Sheen Cannes.jpg|right|thumb|Sheen at the [[1990 Cannes Film Festival]]]]

Sheen's performance led to [[Francis Ford Coppola]]'s casting him in a lead role as U.S. Army Captain [[Benjamin L. Willard]] in 1979's ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'', gaining him wide recognition. Filming in the [[Philippines|Philippine]] jungle in the [[typhoon]] season of 1976, Sheen admitted he was not in great shape and was drinking heavily.<ref name="actors"/> For the film's legendary opening sequence in a [[Ho Chi Minh City|Saigon]] hotel room, Sheen's portrayal of Willard as heavily intoxicated was aided by Sheen's celebrating his 36th birthday on-set that day, and being actually drunk.<ref name="T"/> Twelve months into filming, Sheen suffered a minor [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] and had to crawl out to a road for help.<ref name="actors"/> While he was recovering, his younger brother [[Joe Estevez]] stood in for him in a number of long shots and in some of the voice-overs.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/lR80zXPE5i4 Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131213231809/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR80zXPE5i4 Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR80zXPE5i4 |title=Joe Estevez shares an incredible story |author=Shane Devins |date=June 2, 2008 |website=YouTube |access-date=June 3, 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Sheen was able to resume filming a few weeks later.<ref name="T">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8385806/The-Way-interview-with-Martin-Sheen-and-Emilio-Estevez.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8385806/The-Way-interview-with-Martin-Sheen-and-Emilio-Estevez.html |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=The Way: interview with Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez |last=McLean |first=Craig |date=March 21, 2011 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=March 26, 2011 |location=London}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In 1979, Sheen acted in ''[[The Final Countdown (film)|The Final Countdown]]'' with [[Kirk Douglas]], another actor with family connections to Bermuda ([[Diana Douglas|Diana Dill]], Douglas's first wife and the mother of their sons [[Michael Douglas]] and [[Joel Douglas]] was a Bermudian).

 

Sheen has played [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[John F. Kennedy]] in the miniseries ''[[Kennedy (TV miniseries)|Kennedy]]''; [[Attorney General of the United States|Attorney General]] [[Robert F. Kennedy]] in the television special ''[[The Missiles of October]]''; [[White House Chief of Staff]] A.J. McInnerney in ''[[The American President (film)|The American President]]''; White House Counsel [[John Dean]] in the television mini-series ''[[Blind Ambition (TV miniseries)|Blind Ambition]]''; sinister would-be president [[Greg Stillson]] in ''[[The Dead Zone (film)|The Dead Zone]]''; the President in the [[Lori Loughlin]]-[[Chris Noth]] television mini-series, ''Medusa's Child''; the president in the short film ''Family Attraction''.