
Sterling Hayden
Biography
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.''
Acting (73 movies)

The Killing
1956

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964

The Long Goodbye
1973

Crime of Passion
1956

1900
1976

King of the Gypsies
1978

Venom
1981

Johnny Guitar
1954

Naked Alibi
1954

Winter Kills
1979

The Final Programme
1973

Manhandled
1949

The Come On
1956

The Asphalt Jungle
1950

Prince Valiant
1954

Terror in a Texas Town
1958

Hard Contract
1969

Kansas Pacific
1953

Suddenly
1954

So Big
1953

Nine to Five
1980

Flat Top
1952

Crime Wave
1953

Zero Hour!
1957

Valerie
1957

Loving
1970

Deadly Strangers
1975

Cry, Onion!
1975

The Outsider
1979

The Star
1952

The Godfather
1972

5 Steps to Danger
1956

Carol for Another Christmas
1964

Bahama Passage
1941

Angel's Leap
1971

Variety Girl
1947

Take Me to Town
1953

Battle Taxi
1955

Arrow In The Dust
1954

Ten Days To Tulara
1958

Denver and Rio Grande
1952

Shotgun
1955

The Golden Hawk
1952

Gun Battle at Monterey
1957

El Paso
1949

Hellgate
1952

Top Gun
1955

Virginia
1941

Blaze of Noon
1947

The Iron Sheriff
1957

Fighter Attack
1953

The Eternal Sea
1955

The Starlost: The Beginning
1980

Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'
2016

Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other
2016

Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?
2016

Timberjack
1955

Rat Pack
2022

The Last Command
1955

Flaming Feather
1952

Journey Into Light
1951

Old Man
1958

Pharos of Chaos
1983

Sweet Hunters
1970

The Big Departure
1972

Gas
1981

The Albatross
2016

The Cinema According to Bertolucci
1976

At Anchor / Land Under: A Film With Sterling Hayden
1982

Kubrick by Kubrick
2020

Days of Wine and Roses
1958

Requiem for a Heavyweight
1956

A Sound of Different Drummers
1957
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