Job Actor, author, sailor, model, Marine, OSS agent
Years active 1941-82
Top Roles Brig. Gen. Jack Ripper, Johnny 'Guitar' Logan, Sir Gawain, Police Lt. Bill Doyle, Tim Chipman
Top GenresDrama, Western, Action, Film Noir, Crime, Romance
Top TopicsBook-Based, Satire, Politics
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Shares birthday with Larry Morey, T. Hee, William Cagney  see more..

Sterling Hayden Overview:

Legendary actor, Sterling Hayden, was born Sterling Relyea Walter on Mar 26, 1916 in Upper Montclair, NJ. Hayden died at the age of 70 on May 23, 1986 in Sausalito, CA and was cremated and his ashes scattered in San Francisco Bay.

MINI BIO:

Tall, strong, blonde American leading man of Dutch parentage, idyllically good-looking in his early years when he became famous as a sea-going adventurer before taking up the cinema. After a distinguished war career in the Marines, he returned as the strong, silent, sometimes semi-corrupt hero with the occasional plum amidst routine action films. Quit Hollywood in 1958 and only acted according to financial necessity. Married (first of three) to Madeleine Carroll, 1942-1946. Died from prostate cancer.

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HONORS and AWARDS:

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Hayden was never nominated for an Academy Award.

Sterling Hayden BlogHub Articles:

5 Things You May Not Know about Sterling Hayden

By minooallen on Mar 26, 2017 From Classic Movie Hub Blog

5 Things You May Not Know about Sterling Hayden ? Like today is his birthday. Happy 101st Birthday to the legend?Sterling Hayden! ?.. He was a beauty So pretty. Sure, most stars during the classic era of Hollywood were beautiful but Paramount decided to take it to the next level with Hayden. In 1941... Read full article


On the Occasion of Sterling Hayden’s 100th Birthday Anniversary

By Marisa on Mar 26, 2016 From The Timothy Carey Experience

I usually don’t post on Saturdays, but as the legendary Sterling Hayden was born 100 years ago today, I couldn’t not post. Timothy appeared in three films with him: Hellgate (1952), Crime Wave (1954) and The Killing (1956), getting a chance to really interact with him only in the latter ... Read full article


On the Occasion of Sterling Hayden’s 100th Birthday Anniversary

By Marisa on Mar 26, 2016 From The Timothy Carey Experience

I usually don’t post on Saturdays, but as the legendary Sterling Hayden was born 100 years ago today, I couldn’t not post. Timothy appeared in three films with him: Hellgate (1952), Crime Wave (1954) and The Killing (1956), getting a chance to really interact with him only in the latter ... Read full article


Stars Blogathon – Sterling Hayden

By Carol Martinheira on Mar 11, 2016 From The Old Hollywood Garden

Stars Blogathon – Sterling Hayden On March 11, 2016 By Carol A while ago, my friends Virginie and Crystal asked me if I?d like to participate in their upcoming Stars Blogathon. It?s about stars that we don?t know that much about or haven?t seen that many movies w... Read full article


Sterling Hayden an actor, author, sailor, and WWII commando.

By Art on Mar 26, 2015 From Classic Cinema Gold

Sterling Hayden (March 26, 1916 ? May 23, 1986) was an American actor, author, sailor, and WWII marine and commando. During his career as a Hollywood leading man Hayden specialized in westerns and film noir. Sterling Hayden was born Sterling Relyea Walter on March 26, 1916 in Montclair, New Jerse... Read full article


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Sterling Hayden Quotes:

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Fay: Johnny, you've got to run!
Johnny Clay: Eh, what's the difference?


First Driver: Officer, can you tell me the way to Three Rivers?
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: About two miles to the first main intersection, then turn left. It's about sixty miles.
First Driver: Thanks, what town is this?
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Suddenly.
First Driver: Suddenly what?
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: No no, that's the name.
First Driver: [laughs] That's a funny name for a town.
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Uh huh, hangover from the old days; that's the way things used to happen here, suddenly.
First Driver: I see.
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Road agents, gamblers, gunfighters.
First Driver: Well, I take it things have changed.
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Uh huh. Things happen so slow now, the town council is figuring to change the name to Gradually.
First Driver: [laughs] Thanks, officer.
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Pleasure, come back.


Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: When a house is on fire everybody must come and help put it out... because the next time it just might be your house.


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Sterling Hayden Facts
Bought a canal barge in the Netherlands and moved it to Paris to live on it part of the time (1969).

In 1941, Paramount studios started advertising him as "The Most Beautiful Man in the Movies!"

Was first choice of producers Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown to play the role of Quint in Jaws (1975), but Hayden's tax problems with the US government--he lived outside the country and if he entered the US he would have been arrested--precluded his taking the role.

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