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Sterling Hayden

Acting

Born March 26, 1916 · Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA

Died May 23, 1986

Also known as Sterling Relyea Walter · Sterling Walter Hayden · استرلینگ هایدن

Biography

Sterling Walter Hayden was an American actor. 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). In the 1960s, he became noted for supporting roles, perhaps most memorably as General Jack D. Ripper in Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).

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Awards & recognition

  • Silver Star

Filmography41 titles

The Godfather

1972as Captain McCluskey

Banacek

1972as Tony Fowler

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

1964as Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper

Requiem for a Heavyweight

1956as Self (intro/outro)

1900

1976as Leo Dalcò

The Killing

1956as Johnny Clay

Kubrick by Kubrick

2020as Self (archive footage)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962as Self

The Asphalt Jungle

1950as Dix Handley

The Long Goodbye

1973as Roger Wade

Johnny Guitar

1954as Johnny 'Guitar' Logan

Days of Wine and Roses

1958as Self (introduction)

The Star

1952as Jim Johannsen aka Barry Lester

Crime Wave

1953as Det. Lt. Sims

9 to 5

1980as Russell Tinsworthy

Terror in a Texas Town

1958as George Hansen

Zero Hour!

1957as Captain Martin Treleaven

The Last Command

1955as Jim Bowie

Hellgate

1952as Lt. Tod Voorhees

The Iron Sheriff

1957as Sheriff Samuel Galt

5 Steps to Danger

1956as John Emmett

The Eternal Sea

1955as Rear-Adm. John Madison Hoskins

Top Gun

1955as Rick Martin

Suddenly

1954as Sheriff Tod Shaw

Arrow in the Dust

1954as Bart Laish

Crime of Passion

1956as Lt. William Doyle

Prince Valiant

1954as Sir Gawain

Loving

1970as Lepridon

El Paso

1949as Bert Donner

King of the Gypsies

1978as King Zharko Stepanowicz

Winter Kills

1979as Z.K. Dawson

The Outsider

1979as Seamus Flaherty

Venom

1981as Howard Anderson

Deadly Strangers

1975as Malcolm Robarts

Shotgun

1955as Clay Hardin

Denver and Rio Grande

1952as McCabe

Cry, Onion

1975as Henry 'Jack' Pullitzer

The Final Programme

1973as Maj. Wrongway Lindbergh

Ten Days to Tulara

1958as Scotty

Kansas Pacific

1953as Capt. John Nelson

Valerie

1957as John Garth