Name
Sterling Hayden
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1916-03-26
Deathday
1986-05-23 (70 years old)
Place of Birth
Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Biography
Sterling Walter Hayden (born Sterling Relyea Walter; March 26, 1916 – May 23, 1986) was an American actor and author. He dropped out of high school at the age of 16 and hired on as mate on a schooner. He was a ship's captain at 22, and in need of cash to buy his own boat, established himself as a model in New York, discovered by Paramount Studios talent scouts and offered a contract.
Sterling Hayden, the handsome tall blond actor who played wholesome leading-man movie roles in the 1940's and 1950's and later weathered into a rough-hewn solid character actor in films such as "Dr. Strangelove", "The Godfather," "Nine to Five" and "King of the Gypsies". He appeared in 71 feature films and tv-productions from the debut in "Virginia" 1941 to the tv mini-series "The Blue and the Gray" in 1982.
He wrote of his obsessive fascination with the sea in a 1963 autobiography, "Wanderer," and in 1970 his 700-page epic novel of the sea, "Voyage," was a main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club.
Sterling Hayden appeared in the German documentary, "Pharos of Chaos," (1983) filmed aboard his barge in Europe, and seemed to be in an alcoholic stupor much of the time, supplementing his wine intake with hashish. On camera he said: "What confuses me is I ain't all that unhappy. So why do I drink, I don't know."
Known For
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Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone cr...
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After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a ...
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Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender...
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Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to t...
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Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from A...
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American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999), one of the greatest in history, but also...
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- 1956 The Killing as Johnny Clay
- 1964 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb as Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper
- 1973 The Long Goodbye as Roger Wade
- 1956 Crime of Passion as Lt. William Doyle
- 1976 1900 as Leo Dalcò
- 1978 King of the Gypsies as King Zharko Stepanowicz
- 1981 Venom as Howard Anderson
- 1954 Johnny Guitar as Johnny 'Guitar' Logan
- 1954 Naked Alibi as Joe E. Conroy
- 1979 Winter Kills as Z.K. Dawson
- 1973 The Final Programme as Maj. Wrongway Lindbergh
- 1949 Manhandled as Joe Cooper
- 1956 The Come On as Dave Arnold
- 1950 The Asphalt Jungle as Dix Handley
- 1954 Prince Valiant as Sir Gawain
- 1958 Terror in a Texas Town as George Hansen
- 1969 Hard Contract as Michael Carlson
- 1953 Kansas Pacific as Capt. John Nelson
- 1954 Suddenly as Sheriff Tod Shaw
- 1953 So Big as Pervis De Jong
- 1980 Nine to Five as Russell Tinsworthy
- 1952 Flat Top as Commander Dan Collier
- 1953 Crime Wave as Det. Lt. Sims
- 1957 Zero Hour! as Captain Martin Treleaven
- 1957 Valerie as John Garth
- 1970 Loving as Lepridon
- 1975 Deadly Strangers as Malcolm Robarts
- 1975 Cry, Onion! as Henry 'Jack' Pullitzer
- 1979 The Outsider as Seamus Flaherty
- 1952 The Star as Jim Johannsen aka Barry Lester
- 1972 The Godfather as Captain McCluskey
- 1956 5 Steps to Danger as John Emmett
- 1964 Carol for Another Christmas as Daniel Grudge
- 1941 Bahama Passage as Adrian Ainsworth
- 1985 Irving Johnson High Seas Adventurer as Self
- 1971 Angel's Leap as Mason / Custer
- 1947 Variety Girl as Sterling Hayden
- 1953 Take Me to Town as Will Hall
- 1955 Battle Taxi as Capt. Russ Edwards
- 1954 Arrow In The Dust as Bart Laish
- 1958 Ten Days To Tulara as Scotty
- 1952 Denver and Rio Grande as McCabe
- 1955 Shotgun as Clay Hardin
- 1952 The Golden Hawk as Kit 'The Hawk' Gerardo
- 1957 Gun Battle at Monterey as Jay Turner / John York
- 1949 El Paso as Bert Donner
- 1952 Hellgate as Lt. Tod Voorhees
- 1955 Top Gun as Rick Martin
- 1941 Virginia as Norman Williams
- 1947 Blaze of Noon as Tad McDonald
- 1957 The Iron Sheriff as Sheriff Samuel Galt
- 1953 Fighter Attack as Steve
- 1955 The Eternal Sea as Rear-Adm. John Madison Hoskins
- 1980 The Starlost: The Beginning as Jeremiah
- 2016 Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar' as Self (archive footage)
- 2016 Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other as Self (archive footage)
- 2016 Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western? as Self (archive footage)
- 1955 Timberjack as Tim Chipman
- 2022 Rat Pack as Self (archive footage)
- 1955 The Last Command as Jim Bowie
- 1952 Flaming Feather as Tex McCloud
- 1951 Journey Into Light as Rev, John Burrows
- 1958 Old Man as Tall Convict
- 1983 Pharos of Chaos as Self - Actor
- 1970 Sweet Hunters as Allan
- 1972 The Big Departure as M. Nature / The Leader
- 1981 Gas as Duke Stuyvesant
- 2016 The Albatross as Glass Man (voice) (archive footage)
- 1976 The Cinema According to Bertolucci as Self
- 1982 At Anchor / Land Under: A Film With Sterling Hayden as Self
- 1958 Days of Wine and Roses as Self (introduction)
- 1956 Requiem for a Heavyweight as Self (intro/outro)
- 1957 A Sound of Different Drummers as Gordon Miller
- 2020 Kubrick by Kubrick as Self (archive footage)
- 1992 The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 as Captain Mark McCluskey
- 1953 General Electric Theater ( 1 episode ) as Joe Turner
- 1951 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars ( 1 episode ) as Maj. Jim Curtis
- 1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Link Stevens
- 1956 Playhouse 90 ( 1 episode )
- 1951 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars ( 1 episode )
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1972 Banacek ( 1 episode ) as Tony Fowler
- 1977 Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television ( 4 episodes ) as Capt. Mark McCluskey
- 1982 The Blue and the Gray ( 3 episodes ) as John Brown
- 1973 The Starlost ( 1 episode ) as Old Jeremiah
