Sterling Hayden

ActorWriter Mar 26 (died age 70) Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA 1941–2022 (81 year career)

6.2 avg rating

Biography

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 19…

Known For

Film

The Godfather

Captain McCluskey

Film

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper

Film

The Killing

Johnny Clay

Film

1900

Leo Dalcò

Film

The Long Goodbye

Roger Wade

Film

The Asphalt Jungle

Dix Handley

Film

Johnny Guitar

Johnny 'Guitar' Logan

Film

Nine to Five

Russell Tinsworthy

Filmography

Acting (84)

Movies (75)

Rat Pack

2022

as Self (archive footage)

9.0

Kubrick by Kubrick

2020

as Self

7.5

Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'

2016

as Self (archive footage)

Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?

2016

as Self (archive footage)

Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other

2016

as Self (archive footage)

The Albatross

2016

as Glass Man (voice) (archive footage)

6.3

Irving Johnson High Seas Adventurer

1985

as Himself

Pharos of Chaos

1983

as Self - Actor

6.5

At Anchor / Land Under: A Film With Sterling Hayden

1982

as Himself

Gas

1981

as Duke Stuyvesant

2.9

The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959

1981

as Capt. Mark McCluskey

Venom

as Howard Anderson

Nine to Five

as Russell Tinsworthy

6.9

The Starlost: The Beginning

1980

as Jeremiah

Winter Kills

as Z.K. Dawson

The Outsider

as Seamus Flaherty

King of the Gypsies

as King Zharko Stepanowicz

5.6

1900

1976

as Leo Dalcò

7.8

The Cinema According to Bertolucci

1976

as Self

6.5

Cry, Onion!

1975

as Henry 'Jack' Pullitzer

Deadly Strangers

as Malcolm Robarts

The Long Goodbye

as Roger Wade

The Final Programme

as Maj. Wrongway Lindbergh

The Godfather

as Captain McCluskey

The Big Departure

as M. Nature / The Leader

Angel's Leap

as Mason / Custer

Loving

as Lepridon

Sweet Hunters

as Allan

Hard Contract

as Michael Carlson

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

1964

as Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper

8.1

Carol for Another Christmas

as Daniel Grudge

Ten Days To Tulara

as Scotty

Old Man

as Tall Convict

Days of Wine and Roses

1958

as Self (introduction)

7.0

Terror in a Texas Town

1958

as George Hansen

6.7

The Iron Sheriff

1957

as Sheriff Samuel Galt

6.0

Gun Battle at Monterey

1957

as Jay Turner / John York

Valerie

as John Garth

Zero Hour!

as Captain Martin Treleaven

6.6

A Sound of Different Drummers

1957

as Gordon Miller

The Come On

1956

as Dave Arnold

5.0

Requiem for a Heavyweight

1956

as Self (intro/outro)

The Killing

as Johnny Clay

Crime of Passion

as Lt. William Doyle

5 Steps to Danger

as John Emmett

Shotgun

as Clay Hardin

Top Gun

as Rick Martin

Timberjack

as Tim Chipman

The Last Command

as Jim Bowie

The Eternal Sea

as Rear-Adm. John Madison Hoskins

6.4

Battle Taxi

1955

as Capt. Russ Edwards

Suddenly

as Sheriff Tod Shaw

Johnny Guitar

as Johnny 'Guitar' Logan

Naked Alibi

as Joe E. Conroy

Prince Valiant

as Sir Gawain

Arrow In The Dust

as Bart Laish

So Big

as Pervis De Jong

Crime Wave

as Det. Lt. Sims

Take Me to Town

as Will Hall

Kansas Pacific

as Capt. John Nelson

Fighter Attack

as Steve

The Golden Hawk

as Kit 'The Hawk' Gerardo

5.1

Flat Top

1952

as Commander Dan Collier

Hellgate

as Lt. Tod Voorhees

Flaming Feather

as Tex McCloud

Denver and Rio Grande

1952

as McCabe

5.5

The Star

1952

as Jim Johannsen aka Barry Lester

Journey Into Light

as Rev, John Burrows

The Asphalt Jungle

as Dix Handley

El Paso

as Bert Donner

Manhandled

as Joe Cooper

Blaze of Noon

as Tad McDonald

Variety Girl

as Sterling Hayden

Bahama Passage

as Adrian Ainsworth

Virginia

as Norman Williams

Television (9)

The Blue and the Gray

1982

as John Brown

6.6

Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television

1977

as Capt. Mark McCluskey

The Starlost

as Old Jeremiah

Banacek

as Tony Fowler

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

as Self

7.4

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Link Stevens

Playhouse 90

General Electric Theater

1953

as Joe Turner

6.4

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951

as Maj. Jim Curtis

7.2

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

The Shipwrecker

1984

Book

5.8