Sterling Hayden
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 26, 1916
- Died
- May 23, 1986 (aged 70)
- Birthplace
- 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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Filmography
Rat Pack
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Kubrick by Kubrick
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Albatross
Movie · as Glass Man (voice) (archive footage)
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
Movie · as Captain Mark McCluskey
Irving Johnson High Seas Adventurer
Movie · as Self
Pharos of Chaos
Movie · as Self - Actor
At Anchor / Land Under: A Film With Sterling Hayden
Movie · as Self
The Blue and the Gray
TV · as John Brown · 3 eps
Venom
Movie · as Howard Anderson
Gas
Movie · as Duke Stuyvesant
Nine to Five
Movie · as Russell Tinsworthy
The Starlost: The Beginning
Movie · as Jeremiah
Winter Kills
Movie · as Z.K. Dawson
The Outsider
Movie · as Seamus Flaherty
King of the Gypsies
Movie · as King Zharko Stepanowicz
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
TV · as Capt. Mark McCluskey · 4 eps
1900
Movie · as Leo Dalcò
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
Movie · as Self
Deadly Strangers
Movie · as Malcolm Robarts
Cry, Onion!
Movie · as Henry 'Jack' Pullitzer
The Long Goodbye
Movie · as Roger Wade
The Final Programme
Movie · as Maj. Wrongway Lindbergh
The Starlost
TV · as Old Jeremiah · 1 ep
The Godfather
Movie · as Captain McCluskey
The Big Departure
Movie · as M. Nature / The Leader
Banacek
TV · as Tony Fowler · 1 ep
Angel's Leap
Movie · as Mason / Custer
Loving
Movie · as Lepridon
Sweet Hunters
Movie · as Allan
Hard Contract
Movie · as Michael Carlson
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Movie · as Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper
Carol for Another Christmas
Movie · as Daniel Grudge
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Terror in a Texas Town
Movie · as George Hansen
Ten Days To Tulara
Movie · as Scotty
Old Man
Movie · as Tall Convict
Days of Wine and Roses
Movie · as Self (introduction)
Zero Hour!
Movie · as Captain Martin Treleaven
Valerie
Movie · as John Garth
Gun Battle at Monterey
Movie · as Jay Turner / John York
The Iron Sheriff
Movie · as Sheriff Samuel Galt
A Sound of Different Drummers
Movie · as Gordon Miller
The Killing
Movie · as Johnny Clay
Crime of Passion
Movie · as Lt. William Doyle
The Come On
Movie · as Dave Arnold
5 Steps to Danger
Movie · as John Emmett
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Movie · as Self (intro/outro)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV · as Link Stevens · 1 ep
Playhouse 90
TV · 1 ep
Battle Taxi
Movie · as Capt. Russ Edwards
Shotgun
Movie · as Clay Hardin
Top Gun
Movie · as Rick Martin
The Eternal Sea
Movie · as Rear-Adm. John Madison Hoskins
Timberjack
Movie · as Tim Chipman
The Last Command
Movie · as Jim Bowie
Johnny Guitar
Movie · as Johnny 'Guitar' Logan
Naked Alibi
Movie · as Joe E. Conroy
Prince Valiant
Movie · as Sir Gawain
Suddenly
Movie · as Sheriff Tod Shaw
Arrow In The Dust
Movie · as Bart Laish
Kansas Pacific
Movie · as Capt. John Nelson
So Big
Movie · as Pervis De Jong
Crime Wave
Movie · as Det. Lt. Sims
Take Me to Town
Movie · as Will Hall
Fighter Attack
Movie · as Steve
General Electric Theater
TV · as Joe Turner · 1 ep
Flat Top
Movie · as Commander Dan Collier
The Star
Movie · as Jim Johannsen aka Barry Lester
Denver and Rio Grande
Movie · as McCabe
The Golden Hawk
Movie · as Kit 'The Hawk' Gerardo
Hellgate
Movie · as Lt. Tod Voorhees
Flaming Feather
Movie · as Tex McCloud
Journey Into Light
Movie · as Rev, John Burrows
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV · as Maj. Jim Curtis · 1 ep
The Asphalt Jungle
Movie · as Dix Handley
Manhandled
Movie · as Joe Cooper
El Paso
Movie · as Bert Donner
Variety Girl
Movie · as Sterling Hayden
Blaze of Noon
Movie · as Tad McDonald
Bahama Passage
Movie · as Adrian Ainsworth
Virginia
Movie · as Norman Williams