Sterling Hayden
Date of birth: 1916-03-26
Place of birth: Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Sterling Relyea Walter, Sterling Walter Hayden, استرلینگ هایدن
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.''
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The Killing
1956-06-06
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a bet
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964-01-29
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room f
The Long Goodbye
1973-03-08
In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his
Crime of Passion
1956-12-28
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack
1900
1976-08-28
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh
King of the Gypsies
1978-12-20
Zharko, leader of the Romanis in NYC, passes his position of leadership on to his unwilling grandso
Venom
1981-11-28
International terrorists attempt to kidnap a wealthy couple's child. Their plan comes unstuck, howev
Johnny Guitar
1954-05-26
On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
1981-03-24
The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic is a reduced, 386-minute version of the 1977 television m
Naked Alibi
1954-10-01
Questioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners,
Winter Kills
1979-05-11
The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and de
The Final Programme
1973-10-04
Returning from Lapland, where he buried his father, a renowned scientist, Jerry Cornelius comes back
Manhandled
1949-07-21
Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a priva
The Come On
1956-04-16
A con woman tries to swindle her partner-in-crime husband with the help of one of her former marks.
The Asphalt Jungle
1950-05-12
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emme
Prince Valiant
1954-04-05
A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled fathe
Terror in a Texas Town
1958-09-01
Armed with a harpoon, a Swedish whaler is out for revenge after the death of his father. A greedy oi
Hard Contract
1969-04-30
A cold hearted American hit man goes to Europe for "one last score". His encounter with a beautiful
Kansas Pacific
1953-02-22
Just before the Civil War (but after the South has seceded), Southern saboteurs try to prevent railr
Suddenly
1954-09-17
The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow
So Big
1953-10-31
A girl of wealth comes to a Dutch community outside Chicago as a schoolteacher, and while there fall
Nine to Five
1980-12-18
Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the ta
Flat Top
1952-10-26
A rock hard commander trains Navy Carrier Pilots during the Second World War
Crime Wave
1953-10-22
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out fo
Zero Hour!
1957-11-13
In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, t
Valerie
1957-08-01
After the American Civil War, former Union Major John Garth marries pretty settler Valerie but trage
Loving
1970-03-04
Brooks Wilson is in crisis. He is torn between his wife Selma and two daughters and his mistress Gra
Deadly Strangers
1975-04-01
After she misses her train, a young woman is forced to hitch a ride back to town. After managing to
Cry, Onion!
1975-08-25
Onion Jack has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of
The Outsider
1979-11-26
Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to
The Star
1952-12-11
Actress Margaret Elliot is well past her prime but refuses to retire from the acting business. Despi
The Godfather
1972-03-14
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family
5 Steps to Danger
1956-11-05
Can a couple keep important secrets from Communist spies?
Carol for Another Christmas
1964-12-28
Wealthy industrialist and fierce isolationist Daniel Grudge, long embittered by the loss of his son
Bahama Passage
1941-12-10
A girl, Carol whom the audience is quickly informed "has been around," and her father arrive to take
Irving Johnson High Seas Adventurer
1985-03-28
High Seas Adventurer highlights Johnson's exciting life, beginning with his introduction to the sea
Angel's Leap
1971-09-21
In this French crime thriller, you can leave the mob, but the mob won't leave you. Louis (Jean Yanne
Variety Girl
1947-08-29
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business char
Take Me to Town
1953-06-19
Saloon entertainer Vermilion O'Toole and her former partner in crime Newt Cole escape from a train r
Battle Taxi
1955-01-03
In the Korean war, the commander of an Air Rescue helicopter team must show a hot-shot former jet pi
Arrow In The Dust
1954-04-25
A cavalry deserter poses as a major and leads a wagon train with a hidden cargo of repeating rifles.
Ten Days To Tulara
1958-10-29
Director George Sherman's 1958 western about gold thieves in Mexico stars Sterling Hayden, Grace Ray
Denver and Rio Grande
1952-05-16
Jim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a
Shotgun
1955-04-23
Clay Hardin, a Deputy U.S. Marshal, is about to turn in his badge and take the job as the territory'
The Golden Hawk
1952-10-08
A 17th-century French pirate sides with an English noblewoman who's posing as a pirate.
Gun Battle at Monterey
1957-10-27
An outlaw saved by a Mexican girl hunts the holdup partner who shot him in the back.
El Paso
1949-03-22
Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan
Hellgate
1952-09-04
A man is framed and sent to the toughest prison in the territory.
Top Gun
1955-12-01
A gunslinger returns to his hometown to warn of an impending outlaw gang attack, but he's met with h
Virginia
1941-01-28
Post-Civil War romantic drama about defeated Southerners, starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMur
Blaze of Noon
1947-05-02
In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs
The Iron Sheriff
1957-04-01
Frontier peacekeeper Sheriff Galt faces a crisis of conscience in The Iron Sheriff. In the aftermath
Fighter Attack
1953-11-29
World War II film set in German occupied Italy. A US fighter pilot is shot down in enemy territory d
The Eternal Sea
1955-04-19
Biography of Admiral John Hoskins' efforts to retain active command despite WW2 injury.
The Starlost: The Beginning
1980-01-01
Three farmers in Cypress Corners discover that farm life is not so simple. Discovering a hidden door
Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'
2016-09-20
Larry Ceplair, co-author of The Inquisition in Hollywood, and blacklisted screenwriter Walter Bernst
Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other
2016-09-20
Critics Kent Jones, B. Ruby Rich, Joe McElhaney and Miriam Bale discuss the unique qualities of "Joh
Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?
2016-09-20
Critics Kent Jones, B. Ruby Rich, Joe McElhaney and Miriam Bale take a closer look at the feminist o
Timberjack
1955-02-18
A young man seeks his father's killers among lumberjacks, and discovers that they are actually timbe
Rat Pack
2022-01-11
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Fran
The Last Command
1955-08-03
During the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads for
Flaming Feather
1952-02-01
A mysterious outlaw known as the Sidewinder, phantom leader of renegade Ute Indians, terrorizes the
Journey Into Light
1951-09-28
John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger
Old Man
1958-11-20
In the South, convicts get a temporary release to help during a flood.
Pharos of Chaos
1983-10-13
A superb, moving and thrilling interview with American actor Sterling Hayden (1916-86), held in Besa
Sweet Hunters
1970-03-22
An ornithologist goes on a field trip to a deserted island near the mainland with his wife and small
The Big Departure
1972-11-15
This is the only feature directed by the famed French painter and sculptor Martial Raysse. In keepin
Gas
1981-07-24
Susan Anspach stars in this comedy as a news reporter who investigates a story about stolen milk cau
The Albatross
2016-12-01
In the center of a freezing, misty lake, a struggling writer's solitary fishing trip is disrupted by
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
1976-02-28
Documentary on the filming of Novecento by Bernardo Bertolucci
At Anchor / Land Under: A Film With Sterling Hayden
1982-04-13
A portrait cut for television using takes not used for the film “Leuchtturm des Chaos“. According to
Days of Wine and Roses
1958-10-02
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman whom he systematically addicts to
Requiem for a Heavyweight
1956-10-11
An over-the-hill heavyweight boxing champion who suffers from the ravages of years of head trauma is
A Sound of Different Drummers
1957-10-03
A young security police officer in a future totalitarian state is assigned to suppress illegal intel
Kubrick by Kubrick
2020-10-22
American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999), one of the greatest in history, but also one of the