Sterling Hayden

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.''

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA

Birthday: March 26, 1916

Deathday: May 23, 1986

Adult: No

Gender: Male

Popularity:

1.93%

Known For:

The Killing
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Long Goodbye
Crime of Passion
1900
King of the Gypsies
Venom
Johnny Guitar
The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic
Naked Alibi
Winter Kills
The Final Programme
Manhandled
The Come On
The Asphalt Jungle
Prince Valiant
Terror in a Texas Town
Hard Contract
Kansas Pacific
Suddenly
So Big
Nine to Five
Flat Top
Crime Wave
Zero Hour!
Valerie
Loving
Deadly Strangers
Cry, Onion!
The Outsider
The Star
5 Steps to Danger
The Godfather
Carol for Another Christmas
Bahama Passage
Irving Johnson High Seas Adventurer
Angel's Leap
Variety Girl
Take Me to Town
Battle Taxi
Arrow In The Dust
Ten Days To Tulara
Denver and Rio Grande
Shotgun
The Golden Hawk
Gun Battle at Monterey
El Paso
Hellgate
Top Gun
Virginia
Blaze of Noon
The Iron Sheriff
Fighter Attack
The Eternal Sea
The Starlost: The Beginning
Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'
Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?
Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other
Timberjack
Rat Pack
The Last Command
Flaming Feather
Journey Into Light
Old Man
Pharos of Chaos
Sweet Hunters
The Big Departure
Gas
The Albatross
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
Vor Anker, Land unter - Ein Film mit Sterling Hayden
Kubrick by Kubrick