Sterling Hayden
Birthday: 1916-03-26
Place of Birth: Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA
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,'' "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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The Killing
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room f...
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The Long Goodbye
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Crime of Passion
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1900
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King of the Gypsies
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Venom
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Johnny Guitar
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The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
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Naked Alibi
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Winter Kills
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The Final Programme
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Manhandled
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The Come On
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The Asphalt Jungle
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Prince Valiant
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Terror in a Texas Town
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Hard Contract
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Kansas Pacific
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Suddenly
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So Big
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Nine to Five
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Crime Wave
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Zero Hour!
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Valerie
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Loving
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Deadly Strangers
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Cry, Onion!
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The Outsider
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The Star
Actress Margaret Elliot is well past her prime but refuses to retire from the acting business. Despi...
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The Godfather
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Carol for Another Christmas
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Bahama Passage
A girl, Carol whom the audience is quickly informed "has been around," and her father arrive to take...
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Irving Johnson High Seas Adventurer
High Seas Adventurer highlights Johnson's exciting life, beginning with his introduction to the sea ...
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Angel's Leap
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Variety Girl
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business char...
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Take Me to Town
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Battle Taxi
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Arrow In The Dust
A cavalry deserter poses as a major and leads a wagon train with a hidden cargo of repeating rifles....
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Ten Days To Tulara
Director George Sherman's 1958 western about gold thieves in Mexico stars Sterling Hayden, Grace Ray...
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Denver and Rio Grande
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Shotgun
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The Golden Hawk
A 17th-century French pirate sides with an English noblewoman who's posing as a pirate....
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Gun Battle at Monterey
An outlaw saved by a Mexican girl hunts the holdup partner who shot him in the back....
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El Paso
Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan...
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Top Gun
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Virginia
Post-Civil War romantic drama about defeated Southerners, starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMur...
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Blaze of Noon
In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs...
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The Iron Sheriff
Frontier peacekeeper Sheriff Galt faces a crisis of conscience in The Iron Sheriff. In the aftermath...
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Fighter Attack
World War II film set in German occupied Italy. A US fighter pilot is shot down in enemy territory d...
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The Eternal Sea
Biography of Admiral John Hoskins' efforts to retain active command despite WW2 injury....
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The Starlost: The Beginning
Three farmers in Cypress Corners discover that farm life is not so simple. Discovering a hidden door...
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Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'
Larry Ceplair, co-author of The Inquisition in Hollywood, and blacklisted screenwriter Walter Bernst...
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Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other
Critics Kent Jones, B. Ruby Rich, Joe McElhaney and Miriam Bale discuss the unique qualities of "Joh...
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Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?
Critics Kent Jones, B. Ruby Rich, Joe McElhaney and Miriam Bale take a closer look at the feminist o...
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Timberjack
A young man seeks his father's killers among lumberjacks, and discovers that they are actually timbe...
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Rat Pack
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Fran...
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The Last Command
During the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads for ...
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Flaming Feather
A mysterious outlaw known as the Sidewinder, phantom leader of renegade Ute Indians, terrorizes the ...
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Journey Into Light
John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger...
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Pharos of Chaos
A superb, moving and thrilling interview with American actor Sterling Hayden (1916-86), held in Besa...
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Sweet Hunters
An ornithologist goes on a field trip to a deserted island near the mainland with his wife and small...
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The Big Departure
This is the only feature directed by the famed French painter and sculptor Martial Raysse. In keepin...
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Gas
Susan Anspach stars in this comedy as a news reporter who investigates a story about stolen milk cau...
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The Albatross
In the center of a freezing, misty lake, a struggling writer's solitary fishing trip is disrupted by...
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The Cinema According to Bertolucci
Documentary on the filming of Novecento by Bernardo Bertolucci...
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At Anchor / Land Under: A Film With Sterling Hayden
A portrait cut for television using takes not used for the film “Leuchtturm des Chaos“. According to...
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Kubrick by Kubrick
A rare and transcendent journey into the life and films of the legendary Stanley Kubrick like we've ...
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Days of Wine and Roses
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman whom he systematically addicts to ...
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Requiem for a Heavyweight
An over-the-hill heavyweight boxing champion who suffers from the ravages of years of head trauma is...
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A Sound of Different Drummers
A young security police officer in a future totalitarian state is assigned to suppress illegal intel...
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