Sterling Hayden
Acting
1916-03-26 · Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA
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."
Filmography
Rat Pack
2022 · Movie
Kubrick by Kubrick
2020 · Movie
The Albatross
2016 · Movie
Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'
2016 · Movie
Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other
2016 · Movie
Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?
2016 · Movie
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
2016 · Movie
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
1992 · Movie
Irving Johnson High Seas Adventurer
1985 · Movie
The Shipwrecker
1984 · Movie
Pharos of Chaos
1983 · Movie
The Blue and the Gray
1982 · Series
At Anchor / Land Under: A Film With Sterling Hayden
1982 · Movie
Venom
1981 · Movie
Gas
1981 · Movie
Nine to Five
1980 · Movie
The Starlost: The Beginning
1980 · Movie
The Outsider
1979 · Movie
Winter Kills
1979 · Movie
King of the Gypsies
1978 · Movie
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
1977 · Series
1900
1976 · Movie
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
1976 · Movie
Cry, Onion!
1975 · Movie
Deadly Strangers
1975 · Movie
The Final Programme
1973 · Movie
The Starlost
1973 · Series
The Long Goodbye
1973 · Movie
The Big Departure
1972 · Movie
Banacek
1972 · Series
The Godfather
1972 · Movie
Angel's Leap
1971 · Movie
Sweet Hunters
1970 · Movie
Loving
1970 · Movie
Hard Contract
1969 · Movie
Carol for Another Christmas
1964 · Movie
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964 · Movie
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series
Old Man
1958 · Movie
Ten Days To Tulara
1958 · Movie
Days of Wine and Roses
1958 · Movie
Terror in a Texas Town
1958 · Movie
Zero Hour!
1957 · Movie
Gun Battle at Monterey
1957 · Movie
A Sound of Different Drummers
1957 · Movie
Valerie
1957 · Movie
The Iron Sheriff
1957 · Movie
Crime of Passion
1956 · Movie
5 Steps to Danger
1956 · Movie
Requiem for a Heavyweight
1956 · Movie
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Series
Playhouse 90
1956 · Series
The Killing
1956 · Movie
The Come On
1956 · Movie
Top Gun
1955 · Movie
The Last Command
1955 · Movie
Shotgun
1955 · Movie
The Eternal Sea
1955 · Movie
Timberjack
1955 · Movie
Battle Taxi
1955 · Movie
Naked Alibi
1954 · Movie
Suddenly
1954 · Movie
Johnny Guitar
1954 · Movie
Arrow In The Dust
1954 · Movie
Prince Valiant
1954 · Movie
Fighter Attack
1953 · Movie
So Big
1953 · Movie
Crime Wave
1953 · Movie
Take Me to Town
1953 · Movie
Kansas Pacific
1953 · Movie
General Electric Theater
1953 · Series
The Star
1952 · Movie
Flat Top
1952 · Movie
The Golden Hawk
1952 · Movie
Hellgate
1952 · Movie
Denver and Rio Grande
1952 · Movie
Flaming Feather
1952 · Movie
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Series
Journey Into Light
1951 · Movie
The Asphalt Jungle
1950 · Movie
Manhandled
1949 · Movie
El Paso
1949 · Movie
Variety Girl
1947 · Movie
Blaze of Noon
1947 · Movie
Bahama Passage
1941 · Movie
Virginia
1941 · Movie