Sterling Hayden
Highest Rated: 100% Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
Lowest Rated: 25% The Star (1952)
Birthday: Mar 26, 1916
Birthplace: Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA
A handsome, virile star of the late 1940s and 50s, Sterling Hayden spent several years at sea before signing with Paramount in 1940, appearing in two films with future wife Madeleine Carroll. Variously touted by the studio publicity machine as "The Most Beautiful Man in Movies" or "The Beautiful Blond Viking God," the actor broke his contract in 1941 to join the Marines. During WWII, he assisted the Yugoslavian partisans fight against the Germans and briefly joined the Communist Party in 1946 (resigning after six months) before resuming his acting career the following year. Shortly after his superb performance in "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950), Hayden was gray-listed and was unable to work in Hollywood for six months. He then privately called on the FBI to make a statement concerning his former Communist affiliations, but was subpoenaed by HUAC in 1951 and obliged to testify in public, naming his fellow believers. Hayden was then allowed to continue working, though he expressed his guilt over having "named names" in his 1966 autobiography, "Wanderer." Ironically, in Stanley Kubrick's classic comedy "Dr. Strangelove" (1963), Hayden played the deranged General Jack D. Ripper, whose over-zealous desire to stop the "communist threat" sets World War III in motion. Among his other memorable roles were the corrupt police captain in "The Godfather" (1972) and the chairman of the board in the comedy "9 to 5" (1980). He rounded out his career portraying John Brown in the CBS Civil War miniseries "The Blue and the Gray" (1982).
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Sterling Hayden
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pharos of Chaos | Self | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet |
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The Blue and the Gray | John Brown (Character) | - | 1982 |
43% |
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Venom | Howard Anderson (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gas | Duke Stuyvesant (Character) | - | 1981 |
69% |
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9 to 5 | Russell Tinsworthy (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
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The Outsider | Seamus Flaherty (Character) | - | 1979 |
92% |
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Winter Kills | Z.K. Dawson (Character) | $75.6K | 1979 |
67% |
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King of the Gypsies | King Zharko Stepanowicz (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Cinema According to Bertolucci | Unknown (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cry Onion | Petrus Lamb (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet |
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Deadly Strangers | Malcolm Robarts (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fly Me -- If You Can Find Me | Tony Fowler (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet |
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The Last Days of Man on Earth | Maj. Wrongway Lindbergh (Character) | - | 1973 |
95% |
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The Long Goodbye | Roger Wade (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Beginning | Old Jeremiah (Character) | - | 1973 |
97% |
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The Godfather | Police Captain McCluskey (Character) | $134.8M | 1972 |
No Score Yet |
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Loving | Lepridon (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet |
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Hard Contract | Michael Carlson (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet |
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Carol for Another Christmas | Daniel Grudge (Character) | - | 1964 |
98% |
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Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ten Days to Tulara | Scotty (Character) | - | 1958 |
100% |
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Terror in a Texas Town | George Hansen (Character) | - | 1958 |
80% |
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Crime of Passion | Police Lt. Bill Doyle (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet |
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Five Steps to Danger | John Emmett (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet |
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Zero Hour | Capt. Martin Treleaven (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet |
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Valerie | John Garth (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gun Battle at Monterey |
Jay Turner/ |
- | 1957 |
No Score Yet |
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The Iron Sheriff | Sheriff Samuel "Sam" Galt (Character) | - | 1957 |
96% |
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The Killing | Johnny Clay (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Come On | Dave Arnold (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet |
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The Last Command | Jim Bowie (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet |
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Top Gun | Rick Martin (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet |
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Shotgun | Clay Hardin (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet |
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Battle Taxi | Capt. Russ Edwards (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet |
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Arrow in the Dust | Bart Lash (Character) | - | 1954 |
94% |
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Johnny Guitar | Johnny "Guitar" Logan (Character) | - | 1954 |
70% |
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Crime Wave | Det. Lt. Sims (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Eternal Sea | Rear-Adm. John Madison Hoskins (Character) | - | 1954 |
100% |
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Suddenly | Sheriff Tod Shaw (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet |
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Prince Valiant | Sir Gawain (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet |
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Naked Alibi | Chief Joe Conroy (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Timberjack | Tim Chipman (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet |
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Kansas Pacific | Capt. John Nelson (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hellgate | Gilman S. Hanley (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet |
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So Big | Pervis DeJong (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fighter Attack | Steve (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Take Me to Town | Will Hall (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet |
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The Golden Hawk | Kit "The Hawk" Gerardo (Character) | - | 1952 |
25% |
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The Star | Jim Johannsen (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet |
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Flat Top | Cmdr. Dan Collier (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet |
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Denver & Rio Grande | McCabe (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Journey Into Light | Rev, John Burrows (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flaming Feather | Tex McCloud (Character) | - | 1951 |
98% |
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The Asphalt Jungle | Dix Handley (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet |
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Manhandled | Joe Cooper (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet |
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El Paso | Bert Donner (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet |
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Variety Girl | Unknown (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blaze of Noon | Tad McDonald (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Virginia | Norman Williams (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bahama Passage | Adrian Ainsworth (Character) | - | 1941 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Banacek | Tony Fowler (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Les Rand (Guest Star) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zane Grey Theatre | Unknown (Character) | 1957 |