Sterling Walter Hayden, born Sterling Relyea Walter, was an American actor and author. He didn't really harbor any aspirations of being an actor, 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.''
Movie | Rat Pack | Self (archive footage) | 2022-01-11 |
Movie | Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other | Self (archive footage) | 2016-09-20 |
Movie | Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar' | Self (archive footage) | 2016-09-20 |
Movie | Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western? | Self (archive footage) | 2016-09-20 |
Movie | Irving Johnson High Seas Adventurer | Himself | 1985-03-28 |
Movie | The Shipwrecker | Himself (archive footage) | 1984-08-17 |
Movie | Pharos of Chaos | Self - Actor | 1983-10-21 |
Series | The Blue and the Gray | John Brown | 1982-11-14 |
Movie | The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic | Capt. Mark McCluskey | 1981-03-24 |
Movie | Gas | Duke Stuyvesant | 1981-07-24 |
Movie | Venom | Howard Anderson | 1981-11-28 |
Movie | Nine to Five | Russell Tinsworthy | 1980-12-18 |
Movie | The Outsider | Seamus Flaherty | 1980-06-02 |
Movie | Winter Kills | Z.K. Dawson | 1979-05-11 |
Movie | King of the Gypsies | King Zharko Stepanowicz | 1978-12-20 |
Series | Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television | Capt. Mark McCluskey | 1977-11-12 |
Movie | 1900 | Leo Dalcò | 1976-08-28 |
Movie | The Cinema According to Bertolucci | Self | 1976-02-28 |
Movie | Deadly Strangers | Malcolm Robarts | 1975-04-01 |
Movie | Cry, Onion! | Henry 'Jack' Pullitzer | 1975-08-25 |
Movie | The Final Programme | Maj. Wrongway Lindbergh | 1973-10-04 |
Movie | The Long Goodbye | Roger Wade | 1973-03-08 |
Movie | The Big Departure | M. Nature / The Leader | 1972-11-15 |
Movie | The Godfather | Captain McCluskey | 1972-03-14 |
Movie | Angel's Leap | Mason / Custer | 1971-09-21 |
Movie | Sweet Hunters | Allan | 1970-03-22 |
Movie | Loving | Lepridon | 1970-03-04 |
Movie | Hard Contract | Michael Carlson | 1969-04-30 |
Movie | Carol for Another Christmas | Daniel Grudge | 1964-12-28 |
Movie | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper | 1964-01-29 |
Movie | Ten Days To Tulara | Scotty | 1958-10-29 |
Movie | Terror in a Texas Town | George Hansen | 1958-09-01 |
Movie | Zero Hour! | Captain Martin Treleaven | 1957-11-13 |
Movie | Gun Battle at Monterey | Jay Turner / John York | 1957-10-27 |
Movie | Valerie | John Garth | 1957-08-01 |
Movie | The Iron Sheriff | Sheriff Samuel Galt | 1957-04-01 |
Movie | The Killing | Johnny Clay | 1956-06-06 |
Movie | The Come On | Dave Arnold | 1956-04-16 |
Movie | Crime of Passion | Lt. William Doyle | 1956-12-28 |
Series | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Unknown | 1956-10-05 |
Movie | Five Steps to Danger | John Emmett | 1956-11-05 |
Movie | Top Gun | Rick Martin | 1955-12-01 |
Movie | The Last Command | Jim Bowie | 1955-08-03 |
Movie | Shotgun | Clay Hardin | 1955-04-23 |
Movie | The Eternal Sea | Rear-Adm. John Madison Hoskins | 1955-04-19 |
Movie | Timberjack | Tim Chipman | 1955-02-18 |
Movie | Battle Taxi | Capt. Russ Edwards | 1955-01-03 |
Movie | Naked Alibi | Joe E. Conroy | 1954-10-01 |
Movie | Suddenly | Sheriff Tod Shaw | 1954-09-17 |
Movie | Johnny Guitar | Johnny 'Guitar' Logan | 1954-05-26 |
Movie | Arrow In The Dust | Bart Laish | 1954-04-25 |
Movie | Prince Valiant | Sir Gawain | 1954-04-05 |
Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
Movie | Kansas Pacific | Capt. John Nelson | 1953-02-22 |
Movie | Take Me to Town | Will Hall | 1953-06-19 |
Movie | Crime Wave | Det. Lt. Sims | 1953-10-22 |
Movie | Fighter Attack | Steve | 1953-11-29 |
Movie | So Big | Pervis De Jong | 1953-10-31 |
Movie | Hellgate | Lt. Tod Voorhees | 1952-09-04 |
Movie | Denver and Rio Grande | McCabe | 1952-05-16 |
Movie | Flaming Feather | Tex McCloud | 1952-02-01 |
Movie | The Golden Hawk | Kit 'The Hawk' Gerardo | 1952-10-08 |
Movie | Flat Top | Commander Dan Collier | 1952-10-26 |
Movie | The Star | Jim Johannsen aka Barry Lester | 1952-12-11 |
Movie | Journey Into Light | Rev, John Burrows | 1951-09-28 |
Movie | The Asphalt Jungle | Dix Handley | 1950-05-12 |
Movie | Manhandled | Joe Cooper | 1949-07-21 |
Movie | El Paso | Bert Donner | 1949-03-22 |
Movie | Variety Girl | Sterling Hayden | 1947-08-29 |
Movie | Blaze of Noon | Tad McDonald | 1947-05-02 |
Movie | Bahama Passage | Adrian Ainsworth | 1941-12-10 |
Movie | Virginia | Norman Williams | 1941-01-28 |