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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 26, 1916
Died
May 23, 1986
Place of Birth
Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Also Known As
- Sterling Relyea Walter
- Sterling Walter Hayden
- استرلینگ هایدن
Sterling Hayden
1.1 Popularity
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.''
Known For
9.0
Self (archive footage)
Rat Pack
2022
7.5
Self
Kubrick by Kubrick
2020
6.3
Glass Man (voice) (archive footage)
The Albatross
2016
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?
2016
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'
2016
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other
2016
🎬
0.0
Himself
Irving Johnson High Seas Adventurer
1985
6.5
Self - Actor
Pharos of Chaos
1983
6.6
John Brown
The Blue and the Gray
1982
0.0
Himself
At Anchor / Land Under: A Film With Sterling Hayden
1982
Credits
Rat Pack
as Self (archive footage)
2022
9.0
Kubrick by Kubrick
as Self
2020
7.5
The Albatross
as Glass Man (voice) (archive footage)
2016
6.3
Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?
as Self (archive footage)
2016
0.0
Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'
as Self (archive footage)
2016
0.0
Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other
as Self (archive footage)
2016
0.0
🎬
Irving Johnson High Seas Adventurer
as Himself
1985
0.0
Pharos of Chaos
as Self - Actor
1983
6.5
The Blue and the Gray
as John Brown
1982
6.6
At Anchor / Land Under: A Film With Sterling Hayden
as Himself
1982
0.0
Venom
as Howard Anderson
1981
5.6
Gas
as Duke Stuyvesant
1981
2.9
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
as Capt. Mark McCluskey
1981
8.9
Nine to Five
as Russell Tinsworthy
1980
6.9
The Starlost: The Beginning
as Jeremiah
1980
0.0
The Outsider
as Seamus Flaherty
1979
5.2
Winter Kills
as Z.K. Dawson
1979
5.8
King of the Gypsies
as King Zharko Stepanowicz
1978
5.7
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
as Capt. Mark McCluskey
1977
8.6
1900
as Leo Dalcò
1976
7.8
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
as Self
1976
6.5
Cry, Onion!
as Henry 'Jack' Pullitzer
1975
5.2
Deadly Strangers
as Malcolm Robarts
1975
5.4
The Final Programme
as Maj. Wrongway Lindbergh
1973
5.1
The Starlost
as Old Jeremiah
1973
8.1
The Long Goodbye
as Roger Wade
1973
7.4
The Big Departure
as M. Nature / The Leader
1972
4.7
Banacek
as Tony Fowler
1972
8.6
The Godfather
as Captain McCluskey
1972
8.7
Angel's Leap
as Mason / Custer
1971
5.5
Sweet Hunters
as Allan
1970
6.0
Loving
as Lepridon
1970
5.8
Hard Contract
as Michael Carlson
1969
4.7
Carol for Another Christmas
as Daniel Grudge
1964
5.8
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
as Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper
1964
8.1
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
Old Man
as Tall Convict
1958
0.0
Ten Days To Tulara
as Scotty
1958
4.8
Days of Wine and Roses
as Self (introduction)
1958
7.0
Terror in a Texas Town
as George Hansen
1958
6.7
Zero Hour!
as Captain Martin Treleaven
1957
6.6
Gun Battle at Monterey
as Jay Turner / John York
1957
4.6
A Sound of Different Drummers
as Gordon Miller
1957
0.0
Valerie
as John Garth
1957
4.1
The Iron Sheriff
as Sheriff Samuel Galt
1957
6.0
Crime of Passion
as Lt. William Doyle
1956
6.1
5 Steps to Danger
as John Emmett
1956
6.3
Requiem for a Heavyweight
as Self (intro/outro)
1956
8.0
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Link Stevens
1956
6.0
Playhouse 90
1956
7.6
The Killing
as Johnny Clay
1956
7.7
The Come On
as Dave Arnold
1956
5.0
Top Gun
as Rick Martin
1955
6.3
The Last Command
as Jim Bowie
1955
6.4
Shotgun
as Clay Hardin
1955
5.4
The Eternal Sea
as Rear-Adm. John Madison Hoskins
1955
6.4
Timberjack
as Tim Chipman
1955
3.2
Battle Taxi
as Capt. Russ Edwards
1955
5.4
Naked Alibi
as Joe E. Conroy
1954
6.0
Suddenly
as Sheriff Tod Shaw
1954
6.3
Johnny Guitar
as Johnny 'Guitar' Logan
1954
7.4
Arrow In The Dust
as Bart Laish
1954
5.8
Prince Valiant
as Sir Gawain
1954
6.0
Fighter Attack
as Steve
1953
4.5
So Big
as Pervis De Jong
1953
5.3
Crime Wave
as Det. Lt. Sims
1953
7.1
Take Me to Town
as Will Hall
1953
5.7
Kansas Pacific
as Capt. John Nelson
1953
4.8
General Electric Theater
as Joe Turner
1953
6.4
The Star
as Jim Johannsen aka Barry Lester
1952
7.2
Flat Top
as Commander Dan Collier
1952
4.2
The Golden Hawk
as Kit 'The Hawk' Gerardo
1952
5.1
Hellgate
as Lt. Tod Voorhees
1952
6.7
Denver and Rio Grande
as McCabe
1952
5.5
Flaming Feather
as Tex McCloud
1952
5.8
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Maj. Jim Curtis
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
7.2
Journey Into Light
as Rev, John Burrows
1951
6.0
The Asphalt Jungle
as Dix Handley
1950
7.5
Manhandled
as Joe Cooper
1949
4.9
El Paso
as Bert Donner
1949
5.7
Variety Girl
as Sterling Hayden
1947
6.1
Blaze of Noon
as Tad McDonald
1947
4.0
Bahama Passage
as Adrian Ainsworth
1941
6.0
Virginia
as Norman Williams
1941
0.0