Sterling Hayden

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1916-03-26 (70 years old)

Deathday

1986-05-23

Place of Birth

Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA

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,'' "Ni...

Acting

1956

The Killing

as Johnny Clay

1973

The Long Goodbye

as Roger Wade

1956

Crime of Passion

as Lt. William Doyle

1976

1900

as Leo Dalcò

1978

King of the Gypsies

as King Zharko Stepanowicz

1981

Venom

as Howard Anderson

1954

Johnny Guitar

as Johnny 'Guitar' Logan

1954

Naked Alibi

as Joe E. Conroy

1979

Winter Kills

as Z.K. Dawson

1973

The Final Programme

as Maj. Wrongway Lindbergh

1949

Manhandled

as Joe Cooper

1956

The Come On

as Dave Arnold

1950

The Asphalt Jungle

as Dix Handley

1954

Prince Valiant

as Sir Gawain

1958

Terror in a Texas Town

as George Hansen

1969

Hard Contract

as Michael Carlson

1953

Kansas Pacific

as Capt. John Nelson

1954

Suddenly

as Sheriff Tod Shaw

1953

So Big

as Pervis De Jong

1980

Nine to Five

as Russell Tinsworthy

1952

Flat Top

as Commander Dan Collier

1953

Crime Wave

as Det. Lt. Sims

1957

Zero Hour!

as Captain Martin Treleaven

1957

Valerie

as John Garth

1970

Loving

as Lepridon

1975

Deadly Strangers

as Malcolm Robarts

1975

Cry, Onion!

as Henry 'Jack' Pullitzer

1979

The Outsider

as Seamus Flaherty

1952

The Star

as Jim Johannsen aka Barry Lester

1956

5 Steps to Danger

as John Emmett

1972

The Godfather

as Captain McCluskey

1964

1941

Bahama Passage

as Adrian Ainsworth

1971

Angel's Leap

as Mason / Custer

1947

Variety Girl

as Sterling Hayden

1953

Take Me to Town

as Will Hall

1955

Battle Taxi

as Capt. Russ Edwards

1954

Arrow In The Dust

as Bart Laish

1958

1955

Shotgun

as Clay Hardin

1952

The Golden Hawk

as Kit 'The Hawk' Gerardo

1957

Gun Battle at Monterey

as Jay Turner / John York

1949

El Paso

as Bert Donner

1952

Hellgate

as Lt. Tod Voorhees

1955

Top Gun

as Rick Martin

1941

Virginia

as Norman Williams

1947

Blaze of Noon

as Tad McDonald

1957

The Iron Sheriff

as Sheriff Samuel Galt

1953

1955

The Eternal Sea

as Rear-Adm. John Madison Hoskins

2016

Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?

as Self (archive footage)

2016

1955

Timberjack

as Tim Chipman

2022

Rat Pack

as Self (archive footage)

1955

The Last Command

as Jim Bowie

1952

Flaming Feather

as Tex McCloud

1951

Journey Into Light

as Rev, John Burrows

1958

Old Man

as Tall Convict

1983

Pharos of Chaos

as Self - Actor

1970

1972

The Big Departure

as M. Nature / The Leader

1981

Gas

as Duke Stuyvesant

2016

The Albatross

as Glass Man (voice) (archive footage)

Production

1984

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