Sterling Hayden
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1916-03-26
Deathday 1986-05-23 (70 years old)
Place of Birth Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Also Known As Sterling Relyea Walter, Sterling Walter Hayden
Sterling Hayden
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.''
Known For
Actor
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Glass Man (voice) (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Himself
as Self - Actor
as John Brown
as Howard Anderson
as Duke Stuyvesant
as Capt. Mark McCluskey
as Russell Tinsworthy
as Seamus Flaherty
as Jeremiah
as Z.K. Dawson
as King Zharko Stepanowicz
as Capt. Mark McCluskey
as Leo Dalcò
as Henry 'Jack' Pullitzer
as Malcolm Robarts
as Maj. Wrongway Lindbergh
as Roger Wade
as Old Jeremiah
as M. Nature / The Leader
as Captain McCluskey
as Tony Fowler
as Mason / Custer
as Allan
as Lepridon
as Michael Carlson
as Daniel Grudge
as Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper
as Tall Convict
as Scotty
as George Hansen
as Captain Martin Treleaven
as Jay Turner / John York
as John Garth
as Sheriff Samuel Galt
as Lt. William Doyle
as John Emmett
as Johnny Clay
as Dave Arnold
as Link Stevens
as Rick Martin
as Jim Bowie
as Clay Hardin
as Rear-Adm. John Madison Hoskins
as Tim Chipman
as Capt. Russ Edwards
as Joe E. Conroy
as Sheriff Tod Shaw
as Johnny 'Guitar' Logan
as Bart Laish
as Sir Gawain
as Steve
as Pervis De Jong
as Det. Lt. Sims
as Will Hall
as Capt. John Nelson
as Joe Turner
as Jim Johannsen aka Barry Lester
as Commander Dan Collier
as Kit 'The Hawk' Gerardo
as Lt. Tod Voorhees
as McCabe
as Tex McCloud
as Rev, John Burrows
as Maj. Jim Curtis
as Dix Handley
as Joe Cooper
as Bert Donner
as Sterling Hayden
as Tad McDonald
as Adrian Ainsworth
as Norman Williams
Writer
as Book