From the get-go, actor Charlie Sheen has been as much a rebel and iconoclast as his famous father Martin Sheen. Sheen made his first film appearance at age 9, as an extra in his dad's TV movie The Execution of Private Slovik. Never quite happy at Santa Monica High School, Sheen evinced interest only in the school's baseball team, but was kicked off after skipping too many practices. He also played ball at the Mickey Owens Baseball Camp, at one point boasting a pitching speed of 85 miles per hour. Reportedly, he was seriously scouted by the major leagues, but Sheen chose acting over baseball. Technically, he'd been a filmmaker since childhood, lensing 8-mm epics starring his brothers and other future-star siblings like Rob and Chad Lowe and Sean and Christopher Penn. Sheen's first "adult" film appearance was in 1984's Red Dawn; his breakthrough picture was Platoon, one of four films he made in 1986. Two years later, he combined the two abiding loves of his life by portraying baseball players in a brace of films, Eight Men Out and Major League. Not at all concerned with protecting any sort of screen image, Sheen has gleefully poked fun at his frequent "macho" roles in the two Hot Shots films of the early 1990s. In addition to his acting accomplishments, Charlie Sheen has also expressed himself artistically with a volume of bizarre poetry, which, though unpublished, has shown up in book form on Hollywood's sub rosa circuit.