Captain Benjamin L. Willard is a fictional character and main protagonist in Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now, and is portrayed by American actor Martin Sheen. His character is loosely based on the character Charles Marlow from Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness. He is a Captain in the U.S. Army, who is dispatched to kill the renegade Colonel Walter E. Kurtz.
He makes a cameo in Hot Shots! Part Deux.
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