![]() ![]() ![]() His dad decided it best to keep the family together and Sheen considered him his "hero." "So there was a lot of talk about us going with relatives or possibly an orphanage." He was a factory worker for the (National Cash Register Co.) and he wasn't sure if he could keep the whole brood together. Two of the older siblings had moved out on their own and one of those two was in the marines and was in Korea at the time during the war, so my dad was torn. "My mother passed away just prior to my 11th birthday and there were 10 of us, so my father was left with all of these guys," said Sheen. She's also a character he relates to, having faced the possibility of being put up for adoption himself when he was young. In a telephone interview from the set in Milton, Ont., Sheen called Anne - a spirited, red-headed orphan played by Toronto-born Ella Ballentine - "probably the most famous and successful character in modern Canadian literary history." Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew," will air on July 1. The first instalment, which is nominated for three Canadian Screen Awards, aired last year and also on PBS in the U.S. It's the second of three films co-executive produced by the author's granddaughter, Kate Macdonald Butler. ![]() Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars," debuting Monday. The Golden Globe-winning star of "The West Wing" is reprising the role of the adoptive father of Anne Shirley in YTV's "L.M. TORONTO - Martin Sheen has a great affinity for the classic Canadian story of "Anne of Green Gables" and his introverted character, Matthew Cuthbert. ![]()
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