Sterling Hayden
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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
Credits
The Godfather (1972)
as Captain McCluskey
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
as Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper
The Killing (1956)
as Johnny Clay
Nine to Five (1980)
as Russell Tinsworthy
The Long Goodbye (1973)
as Roger Wade
1900 (1976)
as Leo Dalcò
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
as Dix Handley
Kubrick by Kubrick (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Sweet Hunters (1970)
as Allan
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992)
as Captain Mark McCluskey
Johnny Guitar (1954)
as Johnny 'Guitar' Logan
Venom (1981)
as Howard Anderson
Naked Alibi (1954)
as Joe E. Conroy
Valerie (1957)
as John Garth
The Cinema According to Bertolucci (1976)
as Self
Gas (1981)
as Duke Stuyvesant
Denver and Rio Grande (1952)
as McCabe
Suddenly (1954)
as Sheriff Tod Shaw
Prince Valiant (1954)
as Sir Gawain
Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
as George Hansen
A Sound of Different Drummers (1957)
as Gordon Miller
Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other (2016)
as Self (archive footage)
King of the Gypsies (1978)
as King Zharko Stepanowicz
The Last Command (1955)
as Jim Bowie
Zero Hour! (1957)
as Captain Martin Treleaven
Winter Kills (1979)
as Z.K. Dawson
Shotgun (1955)
as Clay Hardin
Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar' (2016)
as Self (archive footage)
Cry, Onion! (1975)
as Henry 'Jack' Pullitzer
Flat Top (1952)
as Commander Dan Collier
Crime of Passion (1956)
as Lt. William Doyle
Crime Wave (1953)
as Det. Lt. Sims
Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western? (2016)
as Self (archive footage)
The Albatross (2016)
as Glass Man (voice) (archive footage)
Pharos of Chaos (1983)
as Self - Actor
Angel's Leap (1971)
as Mason / Custer
Ten Days To Tulara (1958)
as Scotty
Rat Pack (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Arrow In The Dust (1954)
as Bart Laish
Hellgate (1952)
as Lt. Tod Voorhees
5 Steps to Danger (1956)
as John Emmett
The Big Departure (1972)
as M. Nature / The Leader
The Star (1952)
as Jim Johannsen aka Barry Lester
Kansas Pacific (1953)
as Capt. John Nelson
Variety Girl (1947)
as Sterling Hayden
Flaming Feather (1952)
as Tex McCloud
Take Me to Town (1953)
as Will Hall
Manhandled (1949)
as Joe Cooper
Top Gun (1955)
as Rick Martin
The Final Programme (1973)
as Maj. Wrongway Lindbergh
Journey Into Light (1951)
as Rev, John Burrows
Requiem for a Heavyweight (1956)
as Self (intro/outro)
The Golden Hawk (1952)
as Kit 'The Hawk' Gerardo
Gun Battle at Monterey (1957)
as Jay Turner / John York
El Paso (1949)
as Bert Donner
Timberjack (1955)
as Tim Chipman
Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
as Daniel Grudge
Irving Johnson High Seas Adventurer (1985)
as Self
The Eternal Sea (1955)
as Rear-Adm. John Madison Hoskins
Fighter Attack (1953)
as Steve
So Big (1953)
as Pervis De Jong
Days of Wine and Roses (1958)
as Self (introduction)
The Come On (1956)
as Dave Arnold
The Starlost: The Beginning (1980)
as Jeremiah
Deadly Strangers (1975)
as Malcolm Robarts
Battle Taxi (1955)
as Capt. Russ Edwards
Blaze of Noon (1947)
as Tad McDonald
Bahama Passage (1941)
as Adrian Ainsworth
Loving (1970)
as Lepridon
The Iron Sheriff (1957)
as Sheriff Samuel Galt
The Outsider (1979)
as Seamus Flaherty
At Anchor / Land Under: A Film With Sterling Hayden (1982)
as Self
Old Man (1958)
as Tall Convict
Hard Contract (1969)
as Michael Carlson
Virginia (1941)
as Norman Williams