Sterling Hayden
65 movies · 8 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 26, 1916
- Died
- May 23, 1986 (age 70)
- Place of birth
- Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA
- Also known as
- Sterling Relyea Walter · Sterling Walter Hayden · استرلینگ هایدن
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.
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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."
Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 8.7 The Godfather
1972 · Film
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★ 8.1 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964 · Film
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★ 7.6 The Killing
1956 · Film
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★ 7.4 The Long Goodbye
1973 · Film
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★ 7.8 1900
1976 · Film
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★ 7.0 Nine to Five
1980 · Film
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★ 7.5 The Asphalt Jungle
1950 · Film
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★ 7.4 Johnny Guitar
1954 · Film
Sterling Hayden: movies and TV shows
Acting (72)
- 2016 The Albatross
as Glass Man (voice) (archive footage)
- 1992 The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
as Captain Mark McCluskey
- 1982
- 1981 Venom
as Howard Anderson
- 1981 Gas
as Duke Stuyvesant
- 1980 Nine to Five
as Russell Tinsworthy
- 1980 The Starlost: The Beginning
as Jeremiah
- 1979 The Outsider
as Seamus Flaherty
- 1979 Winter Kills
as Z.K. Dawson
- 1978 King of the Gypsies
as King Zharko Stepanowicz
- 1977 Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television · TV
as Capt. Mark McCluskey · 4 episodes
- 1976 1900
as Leo Dalcò
- 1975 Cry, Onion!
as Henry 'Jack' Pullitzer
- 1975 Deadly Strangers
as Malcolm Robarts
- 1973 The Final Programme
as Maj. Wrongway Lindbergh
- 1973
- 1973 The Long Goodbye
as Roger Wade
- 1972 The Big Departure
as M. Nature / The Leader
- 1972
- 1972 The Godfather
as Captain McCluskey
- 1971 Angel's Leap
as Mason / Custer
- 1970 Sweet Hunters
as Allan
- 1970 Loving
as Lepridon
- 1969 Hard Contract
as Michael Carlson
- 1964 Carol for Another Christmas
as Daniel Grudge
- 1964 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
as Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper
- 1958 Old Man
as Tall Convict
- 1958 Ten Days To Tulara
as Scotty
- 1958 Terror in a Texas Town
as George Hansen
- 1957 Zero Hour!
as Captain Martin Treleaven
- 1957 Gun Battle at Monterey
as Jay Turner / John York
- 1957 A Sound of Different Drummers
as Gordon Miller
- 1957 Valerie
as John Garth
- 1957 The Iron Sheriff
as Sheriff Samuel Galt
- 1956 Crime of Passion
as Lt. William Doyle
- 1956 5 Steps to Danger
as John Emmett
- 1956
- 1956
- 1956 The Killing
as Johnny Clay
- 1956 The Come On
as Dave Arnold
- 1955 Top Gun
as Rick Martin
- 1955 The Last Command
as Jim Bowie
- 1955 Shotgun
as Clay Hardin
- 1955 The Eternal Sea
as Rear-Adm. John Madison Hoskins
- 1955 Timberjack
as Tim Chipman
- 1955 Battle Taxi
as Capt. Russ Edwards
- 1954 Naked Alibi
as Joe E. Conroy
- 1954 Suddenly
as Sheriff Tod Shaw
- 1954 Johnny Guitar
as Johnny 'Guitar' Logan
- 1954 Arrow In The Dust
as Bart Laish
- 1954 Prince Valiant
as Sir Gawain
- 1953 Fighter Attack
as Steve
- 1953 So Big
as Pervis De Jong
- 1953 Crime Wave
as Det. Lt. Sims
- 1953 Take Me to Town
as Will Hall
- 1953 Kansas Pacific
as Capt. John Nelson
- 1953
- 1952 The Star
as Jim Johannsen aka Barry Lester
- 1952 Flat Top
as Commander Dan Collier
- 1952 The Golden Hawk
as Kit 'The Hawk' Gerardo
- 1952 Hellgate
as Lt. Tod Voorhees
- 1952 Denver and Rio Grande
as McCabe
- 1952 Flaming Feather
as Tex McCloud
- 1951
- 1951 Journey Into Light
as Rev, John Burrows
- 1950 The Asphalt Jungle
as Dix Handley
- 1949 Manhandled
as Joe Cooper
- 1949 El Paso
as Bert Donner
- 1947 Variety Girl
as Sterling Hayden
- 1947 Blaze of Noon
as Tad McDonald
- 1941 Bahama Passage
as Adrian Ainsworth
- 1941 Virginia
as Norman Williams
Behind the camera (1)
- 1984 The Shipwrecker
Book
Talk shows and appearances (12)
- 2022
- 2020
- 2016
- 2016
- 2016
- 1985
- 1983
- 1982
- 1976
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1 episode
- 1958
- 1956