Sterling Hayden

Known for ActingBorn 1916-03-26Died 1986-05-23Upper 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."Read more

Movies & web series

Rat Pack

The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959

Virginia

The Godfather

Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television

Banacek

The Starlost

The Starlost: The Beginning

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

Kubrick by Kubrick

Requiem for a Heavyweight

1900

The Killing

Playhouse 90

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Long Goodbye

The Asphalt Jungle

Johnny Guitar

Bahama Passage

Days of Wine and Roses

The Cinema According to Bertolucci

Nine to Five

The Star

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Crime Wave

The Blue and the Gray

Pharos of Chaos

The Albatross

General Electric Theater

Terror in a Texas Town

Zero Hour!

The Last Command

Hellgate

The Shipwrecker

5 Steps to Danger

Top Gun

The Iron Sheriff

The Eternal Sea

Sweet Hunters

Take Me to Town

Journey Into Light

Suddenly

Variety Girl

Arrow In The Dust

Flaming Feather

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

The Big Departure

Crime of Passion