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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Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other | 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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Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar' | 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 1901–1959: The Complete Epic | 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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Bertolucci secondo il cinema | Self | 1976-02-28 |
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Novecento | Leo Dalcò | 1976-08-28 |
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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 Final Programme | Maj. Wrongway Lindbergh | 1973-10-04 |
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The Long Goodbye | Roger Wade | 1973-03-08 |
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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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Ternos Caçadores | Allan | 1970-03-22 |
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Loving | Lepridon | 1970-03-04 |
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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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Terror in a Texas Town | George Hansen | 1958-09-01 |
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Days of Wine and Roses | Self (introduction) | 1958-10-02 |
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Ten Days To Tulara | Scotty | 1958-10-29 |
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Old Man | Tall Convict | 1958-11-20 |
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The Iron Sheriff | Sheriff Samuel Galt | 1957-04-01 |
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Valerie | John Garth | 1957-08-01 |
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Zero Hour! | Captain Martin Treleaven | 1957-11-13 |
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Gun Battle at Monterey | Jay Turner / John York | 1957-10-27 |
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The Killing | Johnny Clay | 1956-06-06 |
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5 Steps to Danger | John Emmett | 1956-11-05 |
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Requiem for a Heavyweight | Self (intro/outro) | 1956-10-11 |
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Crime of Passion | Lt. William Doyle | 1956-12-28 |
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The Come On | Dave Arnold | 1956-04-16 |
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The Eternal Sea | Rear-Adm. John Madison Hoskins | 1955-04-19 |
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The Last Command | Jim Bowie | 1955-08-03 |
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Timberjack | Tim Chipman | 1955-02-18 |
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Top Gun | Rick Martin | 1955-12-01 |
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Battle Taxi | Capt. Russ Edwards | 1955-01-03 |
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Shotgun | Clay Hardin | 1955-04-23 |
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Arrow In The Dust | Bart Laish | 1954-04-25 |
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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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Suddenly | Sheriff Tod Shaw | 1954-09-17 |
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Prince Valiant | Sir Gawain | 1954-04-05 |
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Crime Wave | Det. Lt. Sims | 1953-10-22 |
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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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Take Me to Town | Will Hall | 1953-06-19 |
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Fighter Attack | Steve | 1953-11-29 |
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Denver and Rio Grande | McCabe | 1952-05-16 |
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The Golden Hawk | Kit 'The Hawk' Gerardo | 1952-10-08 |
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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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Flaming Feather | Tex McCloud | 1952-02-01 |
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Hellgate | Lt. Tod Voorhees | 1952-09-04 |
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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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El Paso | Bert Donner | 1949-03-22 |
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Manhandled | Joe Cooper | 1949-07-21 |
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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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Virginia | Norman Williams | 1941-01-28 |
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Bahama Passage | Adrian Ainsworth | 1941-12-10 |
