1916-03-26 Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA
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.''
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Rat Pack | Self (archive footage) | 2022-01-11 |
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Kubrick by Kubrick | Self | 2020-10-22 |
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Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar' | Self (archive footage) | 2016-09-20 |
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Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western? | Self (archive footage) | 2016-09-20 |
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Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other | Self (archive footage) | 2016-09-20 |
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The Albatross | Glass Man (voice) (archive footage) | 2016-12-01 |
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Irving Johnson High Seas Adventurer | Himself | 1985-03-28 |
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Leuchtturm des Chaos | Self - Actor | 1983-10-13 |
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Vor Anker, Land unter - Ein Film mit Sterling Hayden | Himself | 1982-04-13 |
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Gas | Duke Stuyvesant | 1981-07-24 |
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Venom | Howard Anderson | 1981-11-28 |
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The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959 | Capt. Mark McCluskey | 1981-03-24 |
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The Starlost: The Beginning | Jeremiah | 1980-01-01 |
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Nine to Five | Russell Tinsworthy | 1980-12-18 |
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Winter Kills | Z.K. Dawson | 1979-05-11 |
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The Outsider | Seamus Flaherty | 1979-11-26 |
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King of the Gypsies | King Zharko Stepanowicz | 1978-12-20 |
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Novecento | Leo Dalcò | 1976-08-28 |
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Bertolucci secondo il cinema | Self | 1976-02-28 |
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Deadly Strangers | Malcolm Robarts | 1975-04-01 |
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Cipolla Colt | Henry 'Jack' Pullitzer | 1975-08-25 |
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The Long Goodbye | Roger Wade | 1973-03-08 |
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The Final Programme | Maj. Wrongway Lindbergh | 1973-10-04 |
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Le Grand Départ | M. Nature / The Leader | 1972-11-15 |
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The Godfather | Captain McCluskey | 1972-03-14 |
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Le saut de l'ange | Mason / Custer | 1971-09-21 |
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Loving | Lepridon | 1970-03-04 |
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Ternos Caçadores | Allan | 1970-03-22 |
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Hard Contract | Michael Carlson | 1969-04-30 |
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Carol for Another Christmas | Daniel Grudge | 1964-12-28 |
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper | 1964-01-29 |
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Days of Wine and Roses | Self (introduction) | 1958-10-02 |
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Old Man | Tall Convict | 1958-11-20 |
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Ten Days To Tulara | Scotty | 1958-10-29 |
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Terror in a Texas Town | George Hansen | 1958-09-01 |
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Gun Battle at Monterey | Jay Turner / John York | 1957-10-27 |
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Zero Hour! | Captain Martin Treleaven | 1957-11-13 |
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The Iron Sheriff | Sheriff Samuel Galt | 1957-04-01 |
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A Sound of Different Drummers | Gordon Miller | 1957-10-03 |
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Valerie | John Garth | 1957-08-01 |
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Crime of Passion | Lt. William Doyle | 1956-12-28 |
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Requiem for a Heavyweight | Self (intro/outro) | 1956-10-11 |
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5 Steps to Danger | John Emmett | 1956-11-05 |
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The Killing | Johnny Clay | 1956-06-06 |
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The Come On | Dave Arnold | 1956-04-16 |
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Shotgun | Clay Hardin | 1955-04-23 |
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Top Gun | Rick Martin | 1955-12-01 |
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Timberjack | Tim Chipman | 1955-02-18 |
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The Last Command | Jim Bowie | 1955-08-03 |
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Battle Taxi | Capt. Russ Edwards | 1955-01-03 |
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The Eternal Sea | Rear-Adm. John Madison Hoskins | 1955-04-19 |
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Naked Alibi | Joe E. Conroy | 1954-10-01 |
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Johnny Guitar | Johnny 'Guitar' Logan | 1954-05-26 |
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Arrow In The Dust | Bart Laish | 1954-04-25 |
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Suddenly | Sheriff Tod Shaw | 1954-09-17 |
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Prince Valiant | Sir Gawain | 1954-04-05 |
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Take Me to Town | Will Hall | 1953-06-19 |
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Crime Wave | Det. Lt. Sims | 1953-10-22 |
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Fighter Attack | Steve | 1953-11-29 |
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So Big | Pervis De Jong | 1953-10-31 |
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Kansas Pacific | Capt. John Nelson | 1953-02-22 |
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The Star | Jim Johannsen aka Barry Lester | 1952-12-11 |
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Flat Top | Commander Dan Collier | 1952-10-26 |
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Denver and Rio Grande | McCabe | 1952-05-16 |
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Hellgate | Lt. Tod Voorhees | 1952-09-04 |
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The Golden Hawk | Kit 'The Hawk' Gerardo | 1952-10-08 |
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Flaming Feather | Tex McCloud | 1952-02-01 |
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Journey Into Light | Rev, John Burrows | 1951-09-28 |
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The Asphalt Jungle | Dix Handley | 1950-05-12 |
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Manhandled | Joe Cooper | 1949-07-21 |
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El Paso | Bert Donner | 1949-03-22 |
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Variety Girl | Sterling Hayden | 1947-08-29 |
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Blaze of Noon | Tad McDonald | 1947-05-02 |
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Bahama Passage | Adrian Ainsworth | 1941-12-10 |
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Virginia | Norman Williams | 1941-01-28 |
