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Sterling Walter Hayden (born Sterling Relyea Walter; March 26, 1916 – May 23, 1986) was an American actor, author, sailor, model and Marine.A leading man for most of his career, he specialized in Westerns and film noir throughout the 1950s, in films such as John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950), Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar (1954), and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956).
Sterling Hayden. Actor: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Born to George & Frances Simonson Walter, and named Sterling Relyea Walter. Father died in 1925. Adopted by stepfather 'James Hayden' renamed Sterling Walter Hayden. Grew up in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., and Maine.
May 24, 1986 · Sterling Hayden, the handsome 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 ...
Sterling Hayden. Actor: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Born to George & Frances Simonson Walter, and named Sterling Relyea Walter. Father died in 1925. Adopted by stepfather 'James Hayden' renamed Sterling Walter Hayden. Grew up in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., and Maine. Though very poor, attended prep school at Wassookeag ...
Sterling passed away from prostate cancer on May 23, 1986 at the age of 70. Sailor, World War II hero, author, and actor is probably how he would have described his life, in that order. All in all, Sterling Hayden truly was a renaissance man.
May 23, 1986 · SAUSALITO — Sterling Hayden, actor, war hero and author who led a life of contradictions, died quietly at his home today of cancer. He was 70 and had been fighting the illness for several years.
May 24, 1986 · Maverick actor Sterling Hayden, the one-time Hollywood leading man whose restlessness led him through careers as a sea captain, OSS agent and gun-runner to ultimate success as an author and ...
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 ...
May 17, 2012 · Essential Hayden Noir: T The Asphalt Jungle, an iconic Sterling Hayden noir film he Asphalt Jungle (1950) Directed by John Huston, this is the heist movie by which all others are judged. (See my list of the top 5 classic heist movies.) Hayden plays a homesick hick living in the big city and making his way as a career criminal.
Sterling Hayden’s first film was the now forgotten Virginia, released in 1941, in which he supported Fred MacMurray and Madeleine Carroll. The former mariner struggled to develop acting skills, and his second screen appearance was in Bahama Passage, also released that year and unremembered.
