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Sterling Hayden
Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA
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 a…
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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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2022
Rat Pack
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
Kubrick by Kubrick
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2016
The Albatross
Movie Glass Man (voice) (archive footage)
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2016
Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2016
Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2016
Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2016
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
Movie Capt. Mark McCluskey
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1992
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
Movie Captain Mark McCluskey
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1985
Irving Johnson High Seas Adventurer
Movie Himself
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1984
The Shipwrecker
Movie Book
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1983
Pharos of Chaos
Movie Self - Actor
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1982
The Blue and the Gray
TV show John Brown
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1982
At Anchor / Land Under: A Film With Sterling Hayden
Movie Himself
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1981
Venom
Movie Howard Anderson
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1981
Gas
Movie Duke Stuyvesant
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1980
Nine to Five
Movie Russell Tinsworthy
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1980
The Starlost: The Beginning
Movie Jeremiah
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1979
The Outsider
Movie Seamus Flaherty
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1979
Winter Kills
Movie Z.K. Dawson
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1978
King of the Gypsies
Movie King Zharko Stepanowicz
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1977
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
TV show Capt. Mark McCluskey
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1976
1900
Movie Leo Dalcò
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1976
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
Movie Self
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1975
Cry, Onion!
Movie Henry 'Jack' Pullitzer
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1975
Deadly Strangers
Movie Malcolm Robarts
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1973
The Final Programme
Movie Maj. Wrongway Lindbergh
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1973
The Starlost
TV show Old Jeremiah
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1973
The Long Goodbye
Movie Roger Wade
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1972
The Big Departure
Movie M. Nature / The Leader
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1972
Banacek
TV show Tony Fowler
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1972
The Godfather
Movie Captain McCluskey
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1971
Angel's Leap
Movie Mason / Custer
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1970
Sweet Hunters
Movie Allan
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1970
Loving
Movie Lepridon
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1969
Hard Contract
Movie Michael Carlson
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1964
Carol for Another Christmas
Movie Daniel Grudge
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1964
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Movie Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper
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1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV show Self
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1958
Old Man
Movie Tall Convict
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1958
Ten Days To Tulara
Movie Scotty
