Sterling Hayden

Sterling Hayden

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: Acting

Born: Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA, 1916-03-26

Died: 1986-05-23

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1941	Virginia	Norman Williams	0
2	1941	Bahama Passage	Adrian Ainsworth	60
3	1947	Blaze of Noon	Tad McDonald	40
4	1947	Variety Girl	Sterling Hayden	61
5	1949	El Paso	Bert Donner	57
6	1949	Manhandled	Joe Cooper	51
7	1950	The Asphalt Jungle	Dix Handley	75
8	1951	Journey Into Light	Rev, John Burrows	60
9	1952	Flaming Feather	Tex McCloud	58
10	1952	Denver and Rio Grande	McCabe	55
11	1952	Hellgate	Lt. Tod Voorhees	67
12	1952	The Golden Hawk	Kit 'The Hawk' Gerardo	51
13	1952	Flat Top	Commander Dan Collier	40
14	1952	The Star	Jim Johannsen aka Barry Lester	72
15	1953	Kansas Pacific	Capt. John Nelson	48
16	1953	Take Me to Town	Will Hall	57
17	1953	Crime Wave	Det. Lt. Sims	71
18	1953	So Big	Pervis De Jong	56
19	1953	Fighter Attack	Steve	45
20	1954	Prince Valiant	Sir Gawain	59
21	1954	Arrow In The Dust	Bart Laish	58
22	1954	Johnny Guitar	Johnny 'Guitar' Logan	74
23	1954	Suddenly	Sheriff Tod Shaw	63
24	1954	Naked Alibi	Joe E. Conroy	60
25	1955	Battle Taxi	Capt. Russ Edwards	54
26	1955	Timberjack	Tim Chipman	32
27	1955	The Eternal Sea	Rear-Adm. John Madison Hoskins	64
28	1955	Shotgun	Clay Hardin	52
29	1955	The Last Command	Jim Bowie	64
30	1955	Top Gun	Rick Martin	59
31	1956	The Come On	Dave Arnold	50
32	1956	The Killing	Johnny Clay	77
33	1956	5 Steps to Danger	John Emmett	63
34	1956	Crime of Passion	Lt. William Doyle	62
35	1957	The Iron Sheriff	Sheriff Samuel Galt	62
36	1957	Valerie	John Garth	41
37	1957	Gun Battle at Monterey	Jay Turner / John York	46
38	1957	Zero Hour!	Captain Martin Treleaven	66
39	1958	Terror in a Texas Town	George Hansen	67
40	1958	Ten Days To Tulara	Scotty	48
41	1958	Old Man	Tall Convict	0
42	1964	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper	81
43	1964	Carol for Another Christmas	Daniel Grudge	56
44	1969	Hard Contract	Michael Carlson	47
45	1970	Loving	Lepridon	60
46	1970	Sweet Hunters	Allan	60
47	1971	Angel's Leap	Mason / Custer	55
48	1972	The Godfather	Captain McCluskey	87
49	1972	The Big Departure	M. Nature / The Leader	60
50	1973	The Long Goodbye	Roger Wade	74
51	1973	The Final Programme	Maj. Wrongway Lindbergh	51
52	1975	Deadly Strangers	Malcolm Robarts	58
53	1975	Cry, Onion!	Henry 'Jack' Pullitzer	52
54	1976	The Cinema According to Bertolucci	Self	65
55	1976	1900	Leo Dalcò	78
56	1978	King of the Gypsies	King Zharko Stepanowicz	56
57	1979	Winter Kills	Z.K. Dawson	59
58	1979	The Outsider	Seamus Flaherty	56
59	1980	The Starlost: The Beginning	Jeremiah	0
60	1980	Nine to Five	Russell Tinsworthy	69
61	1981	The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic	Capt. Mark McCluskey	94
62	1981	Gas	Duke Stuyvesant	31
63	1981	Venom	Howard Anderson	56
64	1982	At Anchor / Land Under: A Film With Sterling Hayden	Himself	0
65	1983	Pharos of Chaos	Self - Actor	65
66	1985	Irving Johnson High Seas Adventurer	Himself	0
67	2016	Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'	Self (archive footage)	0
68	2016	Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other	Self (archive footage)	0
69	2016	Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?	Self (archive footage)	0
70	2016	The Albatross	Glass Man (voice) (archive footage)	63
71	2020	Kubrick by Kubrick	Self	74
72	2022	Rat Pack	Self (archive footage)	90

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Maj. Jim Curtis	73
2	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars		73
3	1953	General Electric Theater	Joe Turner	63
4	1956	Playhouse 90		76
5	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Link Stevens	55
6	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
7	1972	Banacek	Tony Fowler	86
8	1973	The Starlost	Old Jeremiah	81
9	1977	Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television	Capt. Mark McCluskey	86
10	1982	The Blue and the Gray	John Brown	69

Sterling Hayden

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