Sterling Hayden

Sterling Hayden

Birthday: 1916-03-26

Deathday: 1986-05-23

Place of birth: Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA

Also known as: Sterling Relyea Walter, Sterling Walter Hayden, استرلینگ هایدن

imdb_id: nm0001330

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.''

Played in movies:

The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic

Score: 9.4

Rat Pack

Score: 9.0

The Godfather

Score: 8.7

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Score: 8.1

1900

Score: 7.8

The Killing

Score: 7.7

The Asphalt Jungle

Score: 7.5

Kubrick by Kubrick

Score: 7.4

Johnny Guitar

Score: 7.4

The Long Goodbye

Score: 7.4

The Star

Score: 7.2

Crime Wave

Score: 7.1

Requiem for a Heavyweight

Score: 7.0

Days of Wine and Roses

Score: 7.0

Nine to Five

Score: 6.9

Hellgate

Score: 6.7

Terror in a Texas Town

Score: 6.7

Zero Hour!

Score: 6.6

The Cinema According to Bertolucci

Score: 6.5

Pharos of Chaos

Score: 6.5

The Last Command

Score: 6.4

The Eternal Sea

Score: 6.4

Suddenly

Score: 6.3

The Albatross

Score: 6.3

5 Steps to Danger

Score: 6.3

The Iron Sheriff

Score: 6.2

Crime of Passion

Score: 6.2

Variety Girl

Score: 6.1

The Big Departure

Score: 6.0

Sweet Hunters

Score: 6.0

Journey Into Light

Score: 6.0

Bahama Passage

Score: 6.0

Loving

Score: 6.0

Naked Alibi

Score: 6.0

Prince Valiant

Score: 6.0

Top Gun

Score: 5.9

Winter Kills

Score: 5.9

El Paso

Score: 5.8

Flaming Feather

Score: 5.8

Arrow In The Dust

Score: 5.8

Deadly Strangers

Score: 5.8

Take Me to Town

Score: 5.7

Carol for Another Christmas

Score: 5.6

The Outsider

Score: 5.6

So Big

Score: 5.6

Venom

Score: 5.6

King of the Gypsies

Score: 5.6

Angel's Leap

Score: 5.5

Denver and Rio Grande

Score: 5.5

Battle Taxi

Score: 5.4

Shotgun

Score: 5.3

Cry, Onion!

Score: 5.2

The Golden Hawk

Score: 5.1

Manhandled

Score: 5.1

The Final Programme

Score: 5.1

The Come On

Score: 5.0

Ten Days To Tulara

Score: 4.8

Kansas Pacific

Score: 4.8

Hard Contract

Score: 4.7

Gun Battle at Monterey

Score: 4.6

Fighter Attack

Score: 4.5

Flat Top

Score: 4.2

Valerie

Score: 4.1

Blaze of Noon

Score: 4.0

Timberjack

Score: 3.2

Gas

Score: 3.1

At Anchor / Land Under: A Film With Sterling Hayden

Score: 0.0

Old Man

Score: 0.0

Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?

Score: 0.0

Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other

Score: 0.0

Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'

Score: 0.0

The Starlost: The Beginning

Score: 0.0

Virginia

Score: 0.0

Irving Johnson High Seas Adventurer

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Banacek

Score: 8.6

Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television

Score: 8.6

The Starlost

Score: 8.1

Playhouse 90

Score: 7.6

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Score: 7.5

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.3

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.3

The Blue and the Gray

Score: 6.9

General Electric Theater

Score: 6.3

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Score: 5.5