Sterling Walter Hayden, born Sterling Relyea Walter, was an American actor and author. He didnt 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 ships 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 1940s and 1950s 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 aint all that unhappy. So why do I drink, I dont know.
Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper
Film 1964
Roger Wade
Film 1973
Lt. William Doyle
Film 1956
Howard Anderson
Film 1981
Capt. Mark McCluskey
Film 1981
Maj. Wrongway Lindbergh
Film 1973
Joe Cooper
Film 1949
Dave Arnold
Film 1956
Dix Handley
Film 1950
George Hansen
Film 1958
Sheriff Tod Shaw
Film 1954
Pervis De Jong
Film 1953
Commander Dan Collier
Film 1952
Captain Martin Treleaven
Film 1957
John Garth
Film 1957
Malcolm Robarts
Film 1975
Henry 'Jack' Pullitzer
Film 1975
Seamus Flaherty
Film 1980
Jim Johannsen aka Barry Lester
Film 1952
John Emmett
Film 1956
Adrian Ainsworth
Film 1941
Himself
Film 1985
Mason / Custer
Film 1971
Sterling Hayden
Film 1947
Will Hall
Film 1953
Capt. Russ Edwards
Film 1955
Bart Laish
Film 1954
Scotty
Film 1958
McCabe
Film 1952
Clay Hardin
Film 1955
Kit 'The Hawk' Gerardo
Film 1952
Bert Donner
Film 1949
Lt. Tod Voorhees
Film 1952
Norman Williams
Film 1941
Tad McDonald
Film 1947
Sheriff Samuel Galt
Film 1957
Steve
Film 1953
Rear-Adm. John Madison Hoskins
Film 1955
Jeremiah
Film 1980
Self (archive footage)
Film 2016
Self (archive footage)
Film 2016
Self (archive footage)
Film 2016
Self (archive footage)
Film 2022
Jim Bowie
Film 1955
Tex McCloud
Film 1952
Rev, John Burrows
Film 1951
Tall Convict
Film 1958
Self - Actor
Film 1983
Allan
Film 1970
M. Nature / The Leader
Film 1972
Duke Stuyvesant
Film 1981
Glass Man (voice) (archive footage)
Film 2016
Self
Film 1976
Himself
Film 1982
Self
Film 2020
Joe Turner
Tv 1953
Maj. Jim Curtis
Tv 1951
Link Stevens
Tv 1956
Tv 1956
Tv 1951
Self
Tv 1962
Tony Fowler
Tv 1972
Old Jeremiah
Tv 1973