Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 26, 1916
Died
May 23, 1986
Place of Birth
Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Credits
86 titles
Sterling Hayden
Biography
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."
Known For
Filmography
Rat Pack
Self (archive footage)
Kubrick by Kubrick
Self (archive footage)
The Albatross
Glass Man (voice) (archive footage)
Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other
Self (archive footage)
Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'
Self (archive footage)
Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?
Self (archive footage)
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
Capt. Mark McCluskey
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
Captain Mark McCluskey
Irving Johnson High Seas Adventurer
Himself
The Shipwrecker
Book
Pharos of Chaos
Self - Actor
The Blue and the Gray
John Brown
At Anchor / Land Under: A Film With Sterling Hayden
Himself
Venom
Howard Anderson
Gas
Duke Stuyvesant
Nine to Five
Russell Tinsworthy
The Starlost: The Beginning
Jeremiah
The Outsider
Seamus Flaherty
Winter Kills
Z.K. Dawson
King of the Gypsies
King Zharko Stepanowicz
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
Capt. Mark McCluskey
1900
Leo Dalcò
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
Self
Cry, Onion!
Henry 'Jack' Pullitzer
Deadly Strangers
Malcolm Robarts
The Final Programme
Maj. Wrongway Lindbergh
The Starlost
Old Jeremiah
The Long Goodbye
Roger Wade
The Big Departure
M. Nature / The Leader
Banacek
Tony Fowler
The Godfather
Captain McCluskey
Angel's Leap
Mason / Custer
Sweet Hunters
Allan
Loving
Lepridon
Hard Contract
Michael Carlson
Carol for Another Christmas
Daniel Grudge
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Old Man
Tall Convict
Ten Days To Tulara
Scotty
Days of Wine and Roses
Self (introduction)
Terror in a Texas Town
George Hansen
Zero Hour!
Captain Martin Treleaven
Gun Battle at Monterey
Jay Turner / John York
A Sound of Different Drummers
Gordon Miller
Valerie
John Garth
The Iron Sheriff
Sheriff Samuel Galt
Crime of Passion
Lt. William Doyle
5 Steps to Danger
John Emmett
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Self (intro/outro)