Requisite MST3K quote:
“Does anything really star Joe Estevez?”
Whoa! I didn’t realize Werewolf* was made in 1996! Why does it look like vintage 80s schlock, then?
A third bio (not wiki, not IMDB) also says of English/Irish/Scottish descent. Father Glenn Martin, an aspiring actor, mother, Mary Lee, don’t “sound” Spanish.
Let me be the 7th to say I think there is a bit of confusion with the friend & Martin is almost certainly not Hispanic.
My guess this is exactly it. Someone along the line is getting Steve Martin and Martin Sheen mixed up.
No, his real name is Gern Blanston. Steve Martin only makes movies to support his educational tape business, “Learn with Gern”.
He did make an admirable effort to teach Spanish to Gilda Radner and Bill Murray.
IIRC, they played cousins in that film.
Don’t be ridiculous!
He’s played by Raymond Burr. How ciould he be Spanish?
Let me also add my name to those who think that the OP’s friend was talking about Martin Sheen ne Ramon Estevez. I don’t think the OP’s friend has much of a case, though. Sheen’s mother was Irish-American and Sheen has claimed closer emotional ties to his Irish-Catholic side. And I’ve never heard that he has “denied” being of Spanish descent.
As an aside, about 15 years ago, I worked in the same company as one of Sheen’s non-acting brothers for a short time. The funny thing was, he always referred to him as “Sheen,” not as Ramon or Martin.
Well, if Charlton Heston can be Mexican…
Remember Louis, the psychotic dude who joins them?
Louis(pointing gun at cop):Yeah, cop, I know you, man. I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, we’ve got us another crazy nigger here with a gun. Well, let me tell you something. Human life means very little to me at this point in time. You see, I thrive on misery. In the jungle, misery’s all you got. But things are different back here in the world, or so they seem. Nobody wants to talk about pain and suffering. Everybody wants everything to be nice and civil. Well, OK then. Let’s be nice; let’s be civil. And let’s drop those guns before I pull this trigger and change the way you feel about me.
Great movie!
and John Wayne can be Mongolian…
… then John Wayne might make a convincing Ghengis Khan? 
hee…I think they’ve also used that line with Ben Murphy. “Isn’t it more accurate to say that the camera was pointed at Ben Murphy?”
And Anthony Quinn can be any tannish-skinned ethnicity…
Thanks, folks! He definitely said Steve Martin (I have a literal mindedness so I know I automatically linked up a mental image of SM with his comments) but I have no problem believing he was mixed up somewhere along the way.
[Don Adams]
Missed it by that much!
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…and Mickey Rooney can be asian!
Make it two of his actor sons (Emilio y Ramon) and one actress daughter (Renee, a bit character on The West Wing, who plays one of the secretaries, not a Bartlet daughter), and God knows how many I don’t know about.
There used to be a joke (Leno?) about how all the stars of Young Guns were Martin Sheen’s kids, even though they all had different last names.
He’ll do it! He’ll blow off his head! That’s right! HIS WHOLE HEAD!
He’s retired?