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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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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Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western? | Self (archive footage) | 2016-09-20 |
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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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Nine to Five | Russell Tinsworthy | 1980-12-18 |
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The Starlost: The Beginning | Jeremiah | 1980-01-01 |
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The Outsider | Seamus Flaherty | 1979-11-26 |
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Winter Kills | Z.K. Dawson | 1979-05-11 |
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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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Cipolla Colt | Henry 'Jack' Pullitzer | 1975-08-25 |
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Deadly Strangers | Malcolm Robarts | 1975-04-01 |
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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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The Godfather | Captain McCluskey | 1972-03-14 |
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Le Grand Départ | M. Nature / The Leader | 1972-11-15 |
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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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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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Carol for Another Christmas | Daniel Grudge | 1964-12-28 |
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Old Man | Tall Convict | 1958-11-20 |
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Terror in a Texas Town | George Hansen | 1958-09-01 |
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Ten Days To Tulara | Scotty | 1958-10-29 |
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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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Valerie | John Garth | 1957-08-01 |
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Gun Battle at Monterey | Jay Turner / John York | 1957-10-27 |
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The Come On | Dave Arnold | 1956-04-16 |
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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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Crime of Passion | Lt. William Doyle | 1956-12-28 |
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The Eternal Sea | Rear-Adm. John Madison Hoskins | 1955-04-19 |
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Top Gun | Rick Martin | 1955-12-01 |
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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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Battle Taxi | Capt. Russ Edwards | 1955-01-03 |
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Shotgun | Clay Hardin | 1955-04-23 |
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Prince Valiant | Sir Gawain | 1954-04-05 |
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Johnny Guitar | Johnny 'Guitar' Logan | 1954-05-26 |
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Naked Alibi | Joe E. Conroy | 1954-10-01 |
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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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So Big | Pervis De Jong | 1953-10-31 |
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Kansas Pacific | Capt. John Nelson | 1953-02-22 |
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Crime Wave | Det. Lt. Sims | 1953-10-22 |
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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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Flaming Feather | Tex McCloud | 1952-02-01 |
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The Star | Jim Johannsen aka Barry Lester | 1952-12-11 |
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The Golden Hawk | Kit 'The Hawk' Gerardo | 1952-10-08 |
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Hellgate | Lt. Tod Voorhees | 1952-09-04 |
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Flat Top | Commander Dan Collier | 1952-10-26 |
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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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Bahama Passage | Adrian Ainsworth | 1941-12-10 |
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Virginia | Norman Williams | 1941-01-28 |
