Sterling Hayden
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.''
The Killing
(Johnny Clay)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
(Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper)
The Long Goodbye
(Roger Wade)
Crime of Passion
(Lt. William Doyle)
1900
(Leo Dalcò)
King of the Gypsies
(King Zharko Stepanowicz)
Venom
(Howard Anderson)
Johnny Guitar
(Johnny 'Guitar' Logan)
The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic
(Capt. Mark McCluskey)
Naked Alibi
(Joe E. Conroy)
Winter Kills
(Z.K. Dawson)
The Final Programme
(Maj. Wrongway Lindbergh)
Manhandled
(Joe Cooper)
The Come On
(Dave Arnold)
The Asphalt Jungle
(Dix Handley)
Prince Valiant
(Sir Gawain)
Terror in a Texas Town
(George Hansen)
Hard Contract
(Michael Carlson)
Kansas Pacific
(Capt. John Nelson)
Suddenly
(Sheriff Tod Shaw)
So Big
(Pervis De Jong)
Nine to Five
(Russell Tinsworthy)
Flat Top
(Commander Dan Collier)
Crime Wave
(Det. Lt. Sims)
Zero Hour!
(Captain Martin Treleaven)
Valerie
(John Garth)
Loving
(Lepridon)
Deadly Strangers
(Malcolm Robarts)
Cry, Onion!
(Henry 'Jack' Pullitzer)
The Outsider
(Seamus Flaherty)
The Star
(Jim Johannsen aka Barry Lester)
The Godfather
(Captain McCluskey)
Five Steps to Danger
(John Emmett)
Carol for Another Christmas
(Daniel Grudge)
Bahama Passage
(Adrian Ainsworth)
Irving Johnson High Seas Adventurer
(Himself)
Angel's Leap
(Mason / Custer)
Variety Girl
(Sterling Hayden)
Take Me to Town
(Will Hall)
Battle Taxi
(Capt. Russ Edwards)
Arrow In The Dust
(Bart Laish)
Ten Days To Tulara
(Scotty)
Denver and Rio Grande
(McCabe)
Shotgun
(Clay Hardin)
The Golden Hawk
(Kit 'The Hawk' Gerardo)
Gun Battle at Monterey
(Jay Turner / John York)
El Paso
(Bert Donner)
Hellgate
(Lt. Tod Voorhees)
Top Gun
(Rick Martin)
Virginia
(Norman Williams)
Blaze of Noon
(Tad McDonald)
The Iron Sheriff
(Sheriff Samuel Galt)
Fighter Attack
(Steve)
The Eternal Sea
(Rear-Adm. John Madison Hoskins)
The Starlost: The Beginning
(Jeremiah)
Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?
(Self (archive footage))
Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'
(Self (archive footage))
Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other
(Self (archive footage))
Timberjack
(Tim Chipman)
Rat Pack
(Self (archive footage))
The Last Command
(Jim Bowie)
Flaming Feather
(Tex McCloud)
Journey Into Light
(Rev, John Burrows)
Old Man
(Tall Convict)
Pharos of Chaos
(Self - Actor)
Sweet Hunters
(Allan)
The Big Departure
(M. Nature / The Leader)
Gas
(Duke Stuyvesant)
The Albatross
(Glass Man (voice) (archive footage))
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
(Self)
Vor Anker, Land unter - Ein Film mit Sterling Hayden
(Himself)
Kubrick by Kubrick
(Self)
General Electric Theater
(Joe Turner)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
(Maj. Jim Curtis)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
(Link Stevens)
Playhouse 90
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(Self)
Banacek
(Tony Fowler)
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
(Capt. Mark McCluskey)
The Blue and the Gray
(John Brown)
The Starlost
(Old Jeremiah)
