Sterling Hayden was born on March 26, 1916 in Upper Montclair,
New Jersey. On May 23, 1986 Sterling Hayden passed away in
Sausalito, California from cancer.
Working on publicity with Paramount Studio Sterling Hayden
was advetised as The Most Beautiful Man in the Movies and
The beautiful blond viking god.
Producer Edward H. Griffith signs Hayden to a Paramount contract.
In 1941 Sterling Hayden had his first movie break with these
first two films, BAHAMA PASSAGE and VIRGINIA (both 1941).
Sterling Hayden fell head over heals for his first leading
lady, Madeleine Carroll, and married her later they divorced.
Throughout the 1940s and 1950s Hayden starred in Westerns,
war films, and crime thrillers.
After giving his all-time best performance in THE ASPHALT
JUNGLE the public learned he'd spent six months in the Communist
party. Subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee
in 1951, Hayden willingly named names in public testimony
and was able to resume his career Betty Ann de Noon and Sterling
Hayden were married and divorced three times and went through
a nasty custody battle, they have 4 children together.
In 1963 Sterling Hayden Published autobiography WANDERER,
and later a novel VOYAGE in 1976.
Sterling Hayden's other notable credits include...
