Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1916-03-26
Day of Death
1986-05-23
Place of Birth
Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA
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."
Filmography (75)
Rat Pack
2022
Kubrick by Kubrick
2020
The Albatross
2016
Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?
2016
Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'
2016
Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other
2016
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
2016Irving Johnson High Seas Adventurer
1985
Pharos of Chaos
1983
At Anchor / Land Under: A Film With Sterling Hayden
1982
Venom
1981
Gas
1981
Nine to Five
1980
The Starlost: The Beginning
1980
