Los Angeles - Charlie Sheen, filed a $100 million lawsuit against film and television studio Warner Bros. for firing the actor from his Two And A Half Men TV show, according to a representative for Sheen's attorney.

The suit also names the show's producer, Chuck Lorre, as a co-defendant and was filed on behalf of the programme's cast and crew, according to a copy of the suit posted on celebrity website TMZ.com.

A spokesperson for Warner Bros had no immediate comment.

The suit blasts Lorre and Warner Bros for deciding ''unilaterally not to pay Mr Sheen or other cast and the crew the remainder of this season”.

Sheen, the highest-paid actor on US TV for his role as a hard-drinking, skirt-chasing bachelor on Two And A Half Men, entered a home drug and alcohol rehab programme in January after media reports of his wild partying lifestyle.

By late February, after Sheen began appearing in media interviews making disparaging comments about Lorre and Warner Bros, the studio and the CBS television network that airs it decided to cancel the remainder of the current season.