Film actor, born in Dayton, Ohio, USA. He worked in the theatre before beginning a film career in Catch 22 (1970). Later films include Apocalypse Now (1979), Wall Street (1983), The American President (1995), and Lost and Found (1999). Known for his support of liberal causes, he narrated Broken Arrow (1985), an Oscar-winning documentary about the Navajo nation, and helped narrate the letter-from-Vietnam documentary Dear America (1987). He played the liberal president Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Wing (1999–2006), for which he received a Best Actor Golden Globe award in 2001. Set in the West Wing of the White House, the show won Emmy Awards for best TV drama in four successive years and has the record for most Emmys in a single season, with nine in its first year. He is the father of Charlie Sheen.