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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