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 offered a contract.
Sterling Hayden, the handsome tall 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. Strangelove'', ''The Godfather,'' "Nine to Five" and "King of the Gypsies". He appeared in 71 feature films and tv-productions from the debut in "Virginia" 1941 to the tv mini-series "The Blue and the Gray" in 1982.
He wrote of his obsessive fascination with the sea in a 1963 autobiography, ''Wanderer,'' and in 1970 his 700-page epic novel of the sea, ''Voyage,'' was a main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club.
Sterling Hayden appeared in the German documentary, ''Pharos of Chaos,'' (1983) filmed aboard his barge in Europe, and seemed to be in an alcoholic stupor much of the time, supplementing his wine intake with hashish. On camera he said: ''What confuses me is I ain't all that unhappy. So why do I drink, I don't know.''
Link Stevens
Captain McCluskey
Old Jeremiah
Capt. Mark McCluskey
Tony Fowler
Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper
Joe Turner
Maj. Jim Curtis
John Brown
Roger Wade
Johnny Clay
Russell Tinsworthy
Sheriff Tod Shaw
Leo Dalcò
Johnny 'Guitar' Logan
Capt. John Nelson
Dix Handley
Capt. Mark McCluskey
Clay Hardin
Joe E. Conroy
Howard Anderson
Malcolm Robarts
Det. Lt. Sims
Lt. William Doyle
Captain Martin Treleaven
King Zharko Stepanowicz
Jim Bowie
Z.K. Dawson
Sir Gawain
Rear-Adm. John Madison Hoskins
John Garth
Pervis De Jong
Joe Cooper
Self (archive footage)
Maj. Wrongway Lindbergh
Self
McCabe
Jim Johannsen aka Barry Lester
Lt. Tod Voorhees
Henry 'Jack' Pullitzer
Sheriff Samuel Galt
Bert Donner
Commander Dan Collier
Self
Lepridon
Rick Martin
Bart Laish
Sterling Hayden
Duke Stuyvesant
John Emmett
George Hansen
Rev, John Burrows
Scotty
Kit 'The Hawk' Gerardo
Steve
Tex McCloud
Tall Convict
Adrian Ainsworth
Michael Carlson
Will Hall
Daniel Grudge
Tad McDonald
Tim Chipman
Seamus Flaherty
Mason / Custer
M. Nature / The Leader
Dave Arnold
Self
Norman Williams
Glass Man (voice) (archive footage)
Allan
Self - Actor
Capt. Russ Edwards
Jeremiah
Jay Turner / John York
Self (archive footage)
Himself
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Himself