Sterling Hayden
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 · 84
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
The Godfather
1972 · Captain McCluskey
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Link Stevens
Playhouse 90
1956
Banacek
1972 · Tony Fowler
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964 · Brigadier General Jack...
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
1977 · Capt. Mark McCluskey
The Killing
1956 · Johnny Clay
The Starlost
1973 · Old Jeremiah
General Electric Theater
1953 · Joe Turner
Nine to Five
1980 · Russell Tinsworthy
The Blue and the Gray
1982 · John Brown
The Asphalt Jungle
1950 · Dix Handley
The Long Goodbye
1973 · Roger Wade
1900
1976 · Leo Dalcò
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Maj. Jim Curtis
Winter Kills
1979 · Z.K. Dawson
Valerie
1957 · John Garth
Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other
2016 · Self (archive footage)
Johnny Guitar
1954 · Johnny 'Guitar' Logan
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
2016 · Capt. Mark McCluskey
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
1992 · Captain Mark McCluskey
Prince Valiant
1954 · Sir Gawain
Kubrick by Kubrick
2020 · Self (archive footage)
King of the Gypsies
1978 · King Zharko Stepanowic...
Carol for Another Christmas
1964 · Daniel Grudge
Suddenly
1954 · Sheriff Tod Shaw
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
1976 · Self
Venom
1981 · Howard Anderson
Sweet Hunters
1970 · Allan
Crime of Passion
1956 · Lt. William Doyle
Crime Wave
1953 · Det. Lt. Sims
Denver and Rio Grande
1952 · McCabe
So Big
1953 · Pervis De Jong
The Star
1952 · Jim Johannsen aka Barr...
The Last Command
1955 · Jim Bowie
Rat Pack
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Pharos of Chaos
1983 · Self - Actor
Naked Alibi
1954 · Joe E. Conroy
Cry, Onion!
1975 · Henry 'Jack' Pullitzer
Zero Hour!
1957 · Captain Martin Treleav...
Shotgun
1955 · Clay Hardin
Hellgate
1952 · Lt. Tod Voorhees
Variety Girl
1947 · Sterling Hayden
Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'
2016 · Self (archive footage)
The Eternal Sea
1955 · Rear-Adm. John Madison...
The Big Departure
1972 · M. Nature / The Leader
Gas
1981 · Duke Stuyvesant
The Final Programme
1973 · Maj. Wrongway Lindberg...
Gun Battle at Monterey
1957 · Jay Turner / John York
El Paso
1949 · Bert Donner
A Sound of Different Drummers
1957 · Gordon Miller
The Outsider
1979 · Seamus Flaherty
Days of Wine and Roses
1958 · Self (introduction)
Flat Top
1952 · Commander Dan Collier
5 Steps to Danger
1956 · John Emmett
Arrow In The Dust
1954 · Bart Laish
Top Gun
1955 · Rick Martin
Hard Contract
1969 · Michael Carlson
Manhandled
1949 · Joe Cooper
Terror in a Texas Town
1958 · George Hansen
Requiem for a Heavyweight
1956 · Self (intro/outro)
Angel's Leap
1971 · Mason / Custer
The Iron Sheriff
1957 · Sheriff Samuel Galt
Journey Into Light
1951 · Rev, John Burrows
Kansas Pacific
1953 · Capt. John Nelson
The Albatross
2016 · Glass Man (voice) (arc...
The Come On
1956 · Dave Arnold
Flaming Feather
1952 · Tex McCloud
The Golden Hawk
1952 · Kit 'The Hawk' Gerardo
Loving
1970 · Lepridon
Deadly Strangers
1975 · Malcolm Robarts
Ten Days To Tulara
1958 · Scotty
Take Me to Town
1953 · Will Hall
The Starlost: The Beginning
1980 · Jeremiah
Battle Taxi
1955 · Capt. Russ Edwards
Old Man
1958 · Tall Convict
Fighter Attack
1953 · Steve
Bahama Passage
1941 · Adrian Ainsworth
Blaze of Noon
1947 · Tad McDonald
Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?
2016 · Self (archive footage)
Timberjack
1955 · Tim Chipman
Virginia
1941 · Norman Williams
At Anchor / Land Under: A Film With Sterling Hayden
1982 · Himself