Sterling Hayden
Acting
Born: March 26, 1916 · Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Died: May 23, 1986 (aged 70)
Highest Rated
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
The Godfather
1972
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964
The Killing
1956
The Long Goodbye
1973
1900
1976
Nine to Five
1980
The Asphalt Jungle
1950
Johnny Guitar
1954
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
1992
Suddenly
1954
Venom
1981
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
1977
Photos (4)
Movies (64)
The Godfather
Captain McCluskey
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper
Nine to Five
Russell Tinsworthy
The Asphalt Jungle
Dix Handley
The Killing
Johnny Clay
The Long Goodbye
Roger Wade
Johnny Guitar
Johnny 'Guitar' Logan
Prince Valiant
Sir Gawain
Flaming Feather
Tex McCloud
Suddenly
Sheriff Tod Shaw
Venom
Howard Anderson
1900
Leo Dalcò
Naked Alibi
Joe E. Conroy
5 Steps to Danger
John Emmett
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
Captain Mark McCluskey
The Last Command
Jim Bowie
Crime Wave
Det. Lt. Sims
Zero Hour!
Captain Martin Treleaven
Arrow In The Dust
Bart Laish
Winter Kills
Z.K. Dawson
Crime of Passion
Lt. William Doyle
The Final Programme
Maj. Wrongway Lindbergh
Shotgun
Clay Hardin
King of the Gypsies
King Zharko Stepanowicz
Variety Girl
Sterling Hayden
Cry, Onion!
Henry 'Jack' Pullitzer
Hellgate
Lt. Tod Voorhees
The Albatross
Glass Man (voice) (archive footage)
So Big
Pervis De Jong
Virginia
Norman Williams
Hard Contract
Michael Carlson
Terror in a Texas Town
George Hansen
Kansas Pacific
Capt. John Nelson
The Eternal Sea
Rear-Adm. John Madison Hoskins
Flat Top
Commander Dan Collier
Sweet Hunters
Allan
Top Gun
Rick Martin
Valerie
John Garth
Denver and Rio Grande
McCabe
Loving
Lepridon
Battle Taxi
Capt. Russ Edwards
Take Me to Town
Will Hall
The Iron Sheriff
Sheriff Samuel Galt
Angel's Leap
Mason / Custer
Gun Battle at Monterey
Jay Turner / John York
The Outsider
Seamus Flaherty
Carol for Another Christmas
Daniel Grudge
Journey Into Light
Rev, John Burrows
Manhandled
Joe Cooper
The Starlost: The Beginning
Jeremiah
The Golden Hawk
Kit 'The Hawk' Gerardo
Timberjack
Tim Chipman
Gas
Duke Stuyvesant
Fighter Attack
Steve
El Paso
Bert Donner
The Come On
Dave Arnold
A Sound of Different Drummers
Gordon Miller
Ten Days To Tulara
Scotty
The Star
Jim Johannsen aka Barry Lester
Bahama Passage
Adrian Ainsworth
The Big Departure
M. Nature / The Leader
Deadly Strangers
Malcolm Robarts
Blaze of Noon
Tad McDonald
Old Man
Tall Convict
TV Shows (9)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Link Stevens · 1 eps
Playhouse 90
1 eps
Banacek
Tony Fowler · 1 eps
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
Capt. Mark McCluskey · 4 eps
The Starlost
Old Jeremiah · 1 eps
The Blue and the Gray
John Brown · 3 eps
General Electric Theater
Joe Turner · 1 eps
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Maj. Jim Curtis · 1 eps
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1 eps
Self / Appearances (11)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · 1 eps
Kubrick by Kubrick
Self (archive footage)
Rat Pack
Self (archive footage)
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Self (intro/outro)
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
Self
Days of Wine and Roses
Self (introduction)
Pharos of Chaos
Self - Actor
Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?
Self (archive footage)
Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other
Self (archive footage)
Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'
Self (archive footage)
At Anchor / Land Under: A Film With Sterling Hayden
Self
