Sterling Hayden
Acting
- Born:
- 1916-03-26
- Died:
- 1986-05-23
- Place of birth:
- 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
Filmography
Rat Pack
Kubrick by Kubrick
The Albatross
Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'
Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other
Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
Irving Johnson High Seas Adventurer
Pharos of Chaos
The Blue and the Gray
At Anchor / Land Under: A Film With Sterling Hayden
Venom
Gas
Nine to Five
The Starlost: The Beginning
The Outsider
Winter Kills
King of the Gypsies
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
1900
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
Cry, Onion!
Deadly Strangers
The Final Programme
The Starlost
The Long Goodbye
The Big Departure
Banacek
The Godfather
Angel's Leap
Sweet Hunters
Loving
Hard Contract
Carol for Another Christmas
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Old Man
Ten Days To Tulara
Days of Wine and Roses
Terror in a Texas Town
Zero Hour!
Gun Battle at Monterey
A Sound of Different Drummers
Valerie
The Iron Sheriff
Crime of Passion
5 Steps to Danger
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Playhouse 90
The Killing
The Come On
Top Gun
The Last Command
Shotgun
The Eternal Sea
Timberjack
Battle Taxi
Naked Alibi
Suddenly
Johnny Guitar
Arrow In The Dust
Prince Valiant
Fighter Attack
So Big
Crime Wave
Take Me to Town
Kansas Pacific
General Electric Theater
The Star
Flat Top
The Golden Hawk
Hellgate
Denver and Rio Grande
Flaming Feather
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Journey Into Light
The Asphalt Jungle
Manhandled
El Paso
Variety Girl
Blaze of Noon
Bahama Passage
Virginia