Sterling Hayden
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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."
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Filmography
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Acting
59 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Godfather
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Banacek
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
The Long Goodbye
The Killing
The Starlost
Nine to Five
1900
The Blue and the Gray
Johnny Guitar
The Asphalt Jungle
Prince Valiant
Suddenly
Winter Kills
Cry, Onion!
General Electric Theater
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
Kubrick by Kubrick
Valerie
Crime Wave
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
Rat Pack
Venom
King of the Gypsies
Shotgun
Variety Girl
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Sweet Hunters
Naked Alibi
The Albatross
Crime of Passion
Flaming Feather
Zero Hour!
El Paso
The Last Command
Hellgate
The Final Programme
Denver and Rio Grande
So Big
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
Arrow In The Dust
Carol for Another Christmas
A Sound of Different Drummers
Blaze of Noon
Hard Contract
The Golden Hawk
The Big Departure
Terror in a Texas Town
Gas
Timberjack
The Star
5 Steps to Danger
Top Gun
Pharos of Chaos
Angel's Leap
Take Me to Town
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