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."
76 movies · 9 shows
Rat Pack
2022·9.0
Kubrick by Kubrick
2020·7.4
The Albatross
2016·6.3
Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?
2016·0.0
Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'
2016·0.0
Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other
2016·0.0
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
2016·9.0
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
1992·8.9
Irving Johnson High Seas Adventurer
1985·0.0
Pharos of Chaos
1983·6.6
At Anchor / Land Under: A Film With Sterling Hayden
1982·0.0
Venom
1981·5.7
Gas
1981·3.7
Nine to Five
1980·6.9
The Starlost: The Beginning
1980·8.0
The Outsider
1979·5.8
Winter Kills
1979·5.8
King of the Gypsies
1978·5.9
1900
1976·7.8
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
1976·7.0
Cry, Onion!
1975·5.3
Deadly Strangers
1975·5.7
The Final Programme
1973·5.4
The Long Goodbye
1973·7.4
The Big Departure
1972·6.0
The Godfather
1972·8.7
Angel's Leap
1971·5.8
Sweet Hunters
1970·6.3
Loving
1970·6.0
Hard Contract
1969·5.1
Carol for Another Christmas
1964·5.9
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964·8.1
Old Man
1958·0.0
Ten Days To Tulara
1958·5.1
Days of Wine and Roses
1958·7.3
Terror in a Texas Town
1958·6.7
Zero Hour!
1957·6.7
Gun Battle at Monterey
1957·5.2
A Sound of Different Drummers
1957·0.0
Valerie
1957·4.6
The Iron Sheriff
1957·6.6
Crime of Passion
1956·6.1
5 Steps to Danger
1956·6.6
Requiem for a Heavyweight
1956·8.0
The Killing
1956·7.6
The Come On
1956·5.2
Top Gun
1955·6.6
The Last Command
1955·6.7
Shotgun
1955·5.6
The Eternal Sea
1955·6.6
Timberjack
1955·4.2
Battle Taxi
1955·5.6
Naked Alibi
1954·6.1
Suddenly
1954·6.4
Johnny Guitar
1954·7.4
Arrow In The Dust
1954·6.3
Prince Valiant
1954·6.1
Fighter Attack
1953·4.5
So Big
1953·5.5
Crime Wave
1953·7.1
Take Me to Town
1953·6.5
Kansas Pacific
1953·5.0
The Star
1952·7.2
Flat Top
1952·4.6
The Golden Hawk
1952·5.3
Hellgate
1952·6.7
Denver and Rio Grande
1952·5.6
Flaming Feather
1952·6.2
Journey Into Light
1951·6.5
The Asphalt Jungle
1950·7.5
Manhandled
1949·5.2
El Paso
1949·6.0
Variety Girl
1947·6.5
Blaze of Noon
1947·5.7
Bahama Passage
1941·7.5
Virginia
1941·9.0