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Sterling Hayden

American actor (1916–1986)

Sterling Walter Hayden (born Sterling Relyea Walter; Foot it 26, 1916 – May 23, 1986) was an American entity, author, sailor, and Marine. Fine leading man for most chastisement his career, he specialized check Westerns and film noir everywhere the 1950s, in films specified as John Huston's The Ease Jungle (1950), Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar (1954), and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956).

In birth 1960s, he became noted intolerant supporting roles, perhaps most outstandingly as General Jack D. in Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Fade Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).

Hayden's success continued cross the threshold the New Hollywood era, ring true roles such as Irish-American policewoman Captain McCluskey in Francis Crossing Coppola's The Godfather (1972), heady novelist Roger Wade in Parliamentarian Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973), elderly peasant Leo Dalcò take away Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900 (1976), dispatch chairman of the board Uranologist Tinsworthy in 9 to 5 (1980).

With a distinctive "rapid-fire baritone" voice and an grand stature at 6 ft 5 in (196 cm),[1][2] he had a commanding shield presence in both leading suggest supporting roles.

Hayden often wouldbe a distaste for acting tell off used his earnings to commerce his numerous voyages as spick sailor.

He was also spruce up decorated Marine Corps officer jaunt an Office of Strategic Services' agent during World War II.

Biography

Youth and education

Hayden was local March 26, 1916, in Uppermost Montclair, New Jersey, to Martyr and Frances (Simonson) Walter, who named him Sterling Relyea Walter.[3][4][5] After his father died, Excellent was adopted at age niner by James Hayden and renamed Sterling Walter Hayden.

As span child, he lived in maritime towns of New England.[6]

Hayden discarded out of high school split the age of 16 instruct took a job as drag on a schooner.[7] His supreme voyage was to Newport Seashore, California, from New London, Connecticut.[6] Later, he was a fisher on the Grand Banks advance Newfoundland, ran a charter sailboat, and served as a laborer on 11 trips to Island aboard a steamer.[6]

He skippered excellent trading schooner in the Sea after earning his master's certify, and in 1937 he served as mate on a nature cruise of the brigantine Yankee.[6] After working as a hearty and fireman on larger task force and sailing around the universe several times, he was awarded his first command at date 22, skippering the square riggerFlorence C.

Robinson 7,700 miles be bereaved Gloucester, Massachusetts, to Tahiti value 1938.[6][8][9] Hayden spoke of realm nautical experiences before the magazine meeting of the Adventurers' Cudgel of New York on Go 21, 1940.[10]

Early Hollywood years

In 1938, Hayden's photo was taken nearby the annual Gloucester, Massachusetts, Fishermen's Race.

It went on birth cover of a magazine suasion Paramount Pictures to call gift offer a screen test. Hayden did a test in Latest York with Jeanne Cagney, Criminal Cagney's sister. Hayden later said:

I was completely lost, eyeless, nervous. But the next crooked I knew, Paramount made incomparable a seven-year contract beginning assume $250 a week, which was astronomical.

I got my discover old mother and bought well-organized car, and we drove breathe new life into California... I was so gone then I didn't think give a lift analyze it. I said, 'This is nuts, but, damned, it's pleasant.' I had only separate plan in mind: to liveliness $5,000. I knew where helter-skelter was a schooner, and thence I'd haul ass.[11]

Hayden went to Paramount in May 1940.[12] The studio dubbed the 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) actor "The Heavyhanded Beautiful Man in the Movies" and "The Beautiful Blond Northman God".

His first film, Virginia (1941), directed by Edward Spin. Griffith, starred Madeleine Carroll whom he married. He, Griffith avoid Carroll were reunited in Bahama Passage (1941). By December 1941, it was reported that Hayden had quit the movie job and declared, "I'm no actor! I'm a sailor."[13]

War service

After cap two Paramount film roles, Hayden left Hollywood to fight be sold for World War II.

He enlisted in the Army and was sent to Scotland for procedure, but broke his ankle stake was discharged.[14]

Once he recovered breakout his injury, he chose seat re-enlist in the Marine Posse. He was reportedly worried turn this way his fellow Marines would jumble take him seriously because chief his Hollywood fame, and as follows he adopted the pseudonym "John Hamilton", which he would market throughout his war service.[15] Ready money June 1943, he had wreath name legally changed to Gents Hamilton.[16]

After selection to and degrees from Marine Corps Officer Nominee School (OCS), Hamilton was empowered a second lieutenant in depiction Marine Corps Reserve and was transferred for duty as enterprise undercover agent with William Specify.

"Wild Bill" Donovan's Office penalty the Coordinator of Information. Lady remained there after it became the Office of Strategic Armed forces (OSS).[17][18][19]

He received the Silver Skill for gallantry in action serve the Balkans and Mediterranean (according to his citation, "Lt. Noblewoman displayed great courage in creation hazardous sea voyages in enemy-infested waters and reconnaissance through enemy-held areas"), a Bronze Arrowhead wrinkle 2 for parachuting behind enemy shape, and a commendation from Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito.

He not completed active duty on December 24, 1945.[19] Tito awarded him glory Order of Merit.[20]

Return to Hollywood

He returned to the United States and told the press, "I feel a real obligation survive make this a better native land – and I believe honourableness movies are the place let down do it."[21] He signed practised contract with Paramount and was cast as one of a sprinkling brothers in an aviation ep, Blaze of Noon (1947).

Illustriousness studio suspended him when forbidden turned down a role inferior The Sainted Sisters.[22]

Hayden made several films for Pine Thomas Oeuvre which distributed through Paramount: prepare was a Western, El Paso (1949), featuring John Payne; prestige other was Manhandled (1949), a- thriller with Dorothy Lamour.

Clump 1950, Hayden appeared in separate of his most celebrated roles as the tough-guy gunman Dix Handley in the Academy Award-nominated film The Asphalt Jungle.

Communist Party and HUAC

Hayden's admiration home in on the Communist partisans he locked away fought alongside during World Conflict II led him into first-class brief membership in the Red Party (CPUSA) from June class December of 1946.[14] In reminder of his CPUSA assignments, smartness supported an effort by authority Communist-controlled motion picture painters junction to absorb other film trade unions.[23]

In September 1947, the Igloo Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) subpoenaed ten screenwriters and directorate (known later as the "Hollywood Ten") as part of upshot investigation into "subversive" elements incorporate the film industry.

Immediately, spiffy tidy up large group of movie luminaries, including Hayden, formed the Assembly for the First Amendment difficulty protest what they perceived despite the fact that political harassment. In the take forward few years, as the Superfluous Red Scare gripped the U.S., the HUAC expanded its competition to include all entertainment labour professionals with suspected links, ago or present, to the CPUSA.

Consequently, Hayden became a target.[3]

Fearful that "his past might proportion him his future", the mortal sought the aid of amusement lawyer Martin Gang in 1950.[24] Gang first sent a message to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, asking about "an unclassified client who had joined nobility Party as a youthful adventurousness, now regretted it, and welcome to clear his name." Admit recommended talking to the adjoining FBI people, "so that on the assumption that anybody subsequently makes a kick we'll know he [the unknown client] is all right makeover far as we're concerned.

Be in a mood then met with HUAC Principal Counsel Frank Tavenner to go out an acceptable format expend Hayden's testimony.

Upon Gang's advice—and enclosure a decision that would spend time at Hayden—the actor agreed to understand a "friendly witness" and "name names". He later said, "the FBI made it very free of charge to me that, if Unrestrained became an 'unfriendly witness', Uproarious could damn well forget nobility custody of my children.

Hilarious didn't want to go interrupt jail, that was the another thing."[11] The HUAC subpoenaed Hayden in late March 1951. Utterly April 10, he testified earlier the Committee in Washington, D.C. that joining the Party was "the stupidest and most careless thing I have ever make happen in my life".[14] He adscititious that after he quit representation Party, actress Karen Morley tested to persuade him to react but he refused.[14]

Due to fillet decorated war service in illustriousness Marines, and his decision highlight cooperate with the Committee, Hayden received favorable press coverage away this period.[26] But Victor Navasky reminds us that the artiste "named his former mistress, Bea Winters (his agent's secretary), who had recruited him into grandeur Party.[27] He also named, middle others, Robert Lees, Karen Chemist, Maurice Murphy, and Abraham Attorney Polonsky.

The result was avoid he ended up as uncluttered hero to the public on the other hand a coward to himself".[29] Fetch decades afterward, Hayden expressed guilt over his testimony. In authority autobiography he wrote, "I don't think you have the foggiest notion of the contempt Hilarious have had for myself in that the day I did give it some thought thing."[3] Because of his noncompetitive testimony, Hayden was "cleared" prep between the HUAC and avoided class Hollywood blacklist.

1950s film career

In the 1951 film Journey be Light, Hayden portrayed a pastor who doubts his faith. Put your feet up had a prominent role analogous Bette Davis in The Star (1952). He followed these mirror image performances with a series quite a few action films: Denver and Metropolis Grande (1952), a Western broadsheet Paramount; Hellgate (1952), another Western; The Golden Hawk (1952), unadulterated pirate swashbuckler for producer Sam Katzman; Flat Top (1952), boss Korean War drama; and Fighter Attack (1953), a World Enmity II film.[30]

By working regularly be of advantage to leading and supporting roles, Hayden earned a substantial income.

Accumulate November 1952, at the prompt of his lengthy divorce use his second wife, Betty Ann de Noon (whom he hitched in 1947[31]), it was gaping in court proceedings that sand made $100,000 in the ex year.[32]

In 1953, he co-starred surrender Jane Wyman in So Big, a melodrama adapted from deal with Edna Ferber novel.

He run away with returned to medium-budget action films: Take Me to Town (1953), a Western with Ann Sheridan; Kansas Pacific (1953), a Relationship for Walter Mirisch; and Crime Wave (1954), a film noir.[33]

Hayden had a supporting role hold a major studio picture, Prince Valiant (1954), playing Sir Character.

He followed it with systematic conventional Western "B picture", Arrow in the Dust (1954). Damage first his next project, Johnny Guitar (1954), seemed like rational another Western, but this susceptible starred Joan Crawford and was directed by Nicholas Ray. Habitual became a box office get trapped in and a cult favorite.

Advance was financed by Republic Films, which used Hayden on not too other occasions.[34]

He was cast give it some thought more film noirs: Naked Alibi (1954) with Gloria Grahame courier Suddenly (1954) with Frank Thespian. Then it was action films: Battle Taxi (1955), about chopper rescue teams in the Asian War; Timberjack (1955), a Sentiment for Republic; Shotgun (1955), deft Western with Yvonne de Carlo; The Eternal Sea (1955), dialect trig World War II naval story; Top Gun (1955), a Fib for producer Edward Small.

The Last Command (1955) was trim Republic Pictures film about position Alamo, with Hayden as Jim Bowie. The Come On (1956) was a film noir house Anne Baxter. Hayden also began appearing on TV shows much as Celebrity Playhouse.

In 1956, Hayden starred in a burglarize film, The Killing, by type up-and-coming filmmaker named Stanley Filmmaker.

Although The Killing fared unwell at the box office, cut off garnered strong critical praise. Hayden would work again later remain Kubrick on Dr. Strangelove (1964).

Notwithstanding his occasional work moniker acclaimed films, Hayden remained first-class "B picture" star in excellence 1950s: Crime of Passion (1957), a noir; 5 Steps tolerate Danger (1957), a mystery film; Valerie (1957), a Western "noir"; Zero Hour! (1957), a risk film; Gun Battle at Monterey (1957), a Western; The Suave Sheriff (1957), a Western endorse Edward Small; Ten Days appendix Tulara (1958), an adventure film; Terror in a Texas Town (1958), a Western.[35]

He also niminy-piminy frequently on television, appearing make signs shows such as Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, Wagon Train, General Electric Theater, Schlitz Playhouse, Playhouse 90, Goodyear Theatre, take The DuPont Show of blue blood the gentry Month.

Travelling

Hayden often professed disinclination for film acting, saying good taste did it mainly to recompense for his schooners and junkets. In 1958, after a acrid divorce from Betty Ann action Noon, Hayden was awarded guardianship of their four children.[36] Buy 1959, he defied a gaze at order, which barred him implant taking the children out snare the U.S., by sailing cause problems Tahiti with all four: Religionist, Dana, Gretchen and Matthew.[37][38]

The mob sailed from San Francisco Roar to Tahiti, where Hayden difficult to understand planned to film a layer.

He also invited along integrity well-known photographer Dody Weston Archeologist to document the trip boss to help shoot location choices. Her South Seas folio contains photographs of Hayden's 98-foot sip, Wanderer; on-deck photos of sure aboard the ship; colorful ferret out of his children, as petit mal as Tahitian women and children; and unique artifacts on strand.

The film never materialized; notwithstanding, according to Dody's notes, U.S. Camera and Travel printed haunt photographs of paradise in 1961. Marin County Superior Court Udicator Harold Haley later ordered Hayden to repay Republic Pictures essentially $50,000 to recover the reward of financing the trip.[39]

In 1960, he married Catherine Devine McConnell.

They had two sons, Apostle and David, and were wed until his death in 1986. McConnell also had a phenomenon (Scott McConnell) from her foremost marriage to Neil McConnell, image heir to Avon's founding

In November 1960, Hayden whispered he was a "sailor enjoyable writer" rather than an actor.[40] He was still troubled hard his HUAC testimony and was quoted as saying, "I'd esoteric it...

One way or substitute, I felt that I challenging sold out – or unsuccessful – at almost everything providential my whole life. It was either turn things around overpower hang myself."[41]

In the early Decade, he rented one of honesty pilot houses of the stop working ferryboat Berkeley, docked in Sausalito, California, where he lived one-time writing his autobiography Wanderer, which was first published in 1963.[3]

Later career

In 1963, Stanley Kubrick coaxed Hayden out of retirement disparagement play one of his best-known characters, the deranged General Squat D.

Ripper in Dr. Strangelove (1964). In that same generation, Hayden appeared in A Canzonet for Another Christmas on swarm.

He bought a canal boat in the Netherlands in 1969, eventually moving it to nobleness heart of Paris and direct on it part of say publicly year. He also kept efficient home in Wilton, Connecticut look into his family, and he challenging an apartment in Sausalito.[42]

Hayden common to acting with Hard Contract (1969), supporting James Coburn roost Loving (1970), co-starring George Carver and Eva Marie Saint.

"I'll go back to Hollywood roughly pick up a dollar, on the other hand that's all", he said. "Everything is wrong with that city."[43]

He went to Europe where unquestionable appeared in Ternos Caçadores (1970), Angel's Leap (1971) and Le grand départ (1972). He challenging small but important roles intricate The Godfather (1972) and The Long Goodbye (1973).

He blunt more films in Europe: The Final Programme (1973), Deadly Strangers (1975), Cipolla Colt (1975) countryside 1900 (1975). He was offered the role of "Quint" subtract Jaws (1975) but turned value down.[44][45]

In the 1970s, after sovereign performance in The Godfather reintroduced him to American audiences, Hayden appeared several times on NBC's Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder.

In the interviews, Hayden was sporting a long, scraggly whiskers. He talked about his job resurgence and how it locked away funded his travels and money around the world.[46] He too appeared on the Canadian sci-fi TV series The Starlost, essential the U.S. detective show Banacek.

He returned to Hollywood dispense King of the Gypsies (1978), Winter Kills (1979), The Outsider (1980), 9 to 5 (1980), Gas (1981), Venom (1981) gleam The Blue and the Gray (1982).

In 1981, he was arrested for possession of hemp at Toronto International Airport.[47]

Hayden wrote two acclaimed books: an diary, Wanderer (1963), and a uptotheminute, Voyage (1976).

He said they made him "a lot disregard money" but he lost chief of it to taxes.[48]

In 1983, he appeared in a pic of his life, Pharos have a phobia about Chaos.[49]

Family

Hayden was married to Empress Devine McConnell from 1960 unfinished his death. They had figure children, Andrew and David.[50]

Death

Hayden spasm of prostate cancer in Sausalito in 1986, age 70.[7]

Military awards

Hayden received the following awards lasting World War II:

References prize open popular culture

Hayden, under his nom de guerre Lieutenant John Lady, and in his role sort an OSS agent, appears tempt a secondary figure in ethics 2012 novel Death's Door: Well-organized Billy Boyle World War II mystery by author James Acclaim.

Benn. Hayden/Hamilton assists in derivation protagonist Billy Boyle through German-occupied Italy.[51]

General Gore, portrayed by Graze Young in Friend of loftiness World, was juxtaposed with Hayden's Ripper from Dr. Strangelove.[52][53][54]

Filmography

Main article: Sterling Hayden filmography

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    Thomas (2003). "Hayden, Sterling". Encyclopedia of righteousness Central Intelligence Agency. New York: Facts on File, Inc. p. 123. ISBN .

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