Job Actor, author, sailor, model, Marine, OSS agent
Years active 1941-82
Top Roles Brig. Gen. Jack Ripper, Sheriff Tod Shaw, Jim Johannsen aka Barry Lester, Johnny 'Guitar' Logan, Sir Gawain
Top GenresDrama, Western, Action, Film Noir, Crime, Romance
Top TopicsBook-Based, Satire, Politics
Top Collaborators (Director), , (Director),
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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Hayden was never nominated for an Academy Award.

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5 Things You May Not Know about

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

5 Things You May Not Know about ? Like today is his birthday. Happy 101st Birthday to the legend?! ?.. 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 ’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 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 ’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 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 –

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

Stars Blogathon – 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


an actor, author, sailor, and WWII commando.

By Art on Mar 26, 2015 From Classic Cinema Gold

(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. was born Sterling Relyea Walter on March 26, 1916 in Montclair, New Jerse... Read full article


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Sterling Hayden Quotes:

[Bart assumes the identity of Major Pepperis]
Christella Burke: We're not moving?
Bart Laish: Yes.
Christella Burke: Tonight?
Bart Laish: Tonight.
Christella Burke: But we can't Major.
Bart Laish: Why not?
Christella Burke: The trip will be too hard on the wounded soldiers.
Bart Laish: Miss Burke, back where I came from there happened to be dead soldiers.


Bart Laish: It's clearly common knowledge out here that most Indians do not like to fight at night. An Indian killed at night, they believe, wanders forever in darkness.


Johnny: There's only two things in this world that a 'real man' needs: a cup of coffee and a good smoke.


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Sterling Hayden Facts
He was the original choice to play the knife thrower Britt in The Magnificent Seven (1960). The part went to James Coburn when Hayden proved unavailable.

Dropped out of high school at the age of 15 and became a sailor, earning his master's license by the age of 21.

When the US entered World War II, Hayden changed his name to John Hamilton to obscure his Hollywood past, and joined the Office of Strategic Services--the predecessor of the CIA--headed by Col. "Wild Bill" Donovan, whose son Hayden had sailed with. Trained in guerrilla warfare, Hayden operated a fishing boat off of Yugoslavia to pick up downed Allied pilots and to supply Josip Broz Tito's Communist partisans. He won a Silver Star and a promotion to captain by the time he was discharged in 1945. He had also become enthusiastic about Communism, and joined the Communist Party after he returned to Hollywood. According to Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley's book "Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s", he was recruited by actress Karen Morley, who was a party activist, and screenwriter and future director Abraham Polonsky assigned him to a group of backlot workers to learn union militancy. He and others like him were, according to Billingsley, tasked with swinging the Screen Writers Guild to the supposedly Communist-controlled Conference of Studio Unions, which launched a strike against the studios in 1946-47. Communist Party membership was secret, and they were to keep their identitie

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