Sterling Hayden

Hayden was born March 26, 1916, in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, to George and Frances (Simonson) Walter, who named him Sterling Relyea Walter.{{cite book|last=Smith, Jr.|first=W. Thomas| author-link = W. Thomas Smith Jr. |title=Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency|year=2003|publisher=Facts on File, Inc. |location=New York |isbn=9781438130187 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Jc9wBsImOIC&pg=PA123 |page=123 |chapter=Hayden, Sterling}} After his father died, Sterling was adopted at age nine by James Hayden and renamed Sterling Walter Hayden. As a child, he lived in coastal towns of New England.

Hayden dropped out of high school at the age of 16 and took a job as mate on a schooner. His first voyage was to Newport Beach, California, from New London, Connecticut. Later, he was a fisherman on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, ran a charter yacht, and served as a fireman on 11 trips to Cuba aboard a steamer.

He skippered a trading schooner in the Caribbean after earning his master's license, and in 1937 he served as mate on a world cruise of the brigantine Yankee. After working as a sailor and fireman on larger vessels and sailing around the world several times, he was awarded his first command at age 22, skippering the square rigger Florence C. Robinson 7,700 miles from Gloucester, Massachusetts, to Tahiti in 1938.[https://books.google.com/books?id=q-C9Opx76o0C&dq=%22Sterling%20Hayden%22&pg=PA25 "New in the News"], Boys' Life, Feb 1939, p. 25 Hayden spoke of his nautical experiences before the monthly meeting of the Adventurers' Club of New York on March 21, 1940."Report of the March Meeting." The Adventurer, April 1940.

In 1938, Hayden's photo was taken during the annual Gloucester, Massachusetts, Fishermen's Race. It went on the cover of a magazine prompting Paramount Pictures to call and offer a screen test. Hayden did a test in New York with Jeanne Cagney, James Cagney's sister. Hayden later said:

I was completely lost, ignorant, nervous. But the next thing I knew, Paramount made me a seven-year contract beginning at $250 a week, which was astronomical. I got my lovely old mother and bought a car, and we drove to California... I was so lost then I didn't think to analyze it. I said, 'This is nuts, but, damned, it's pleasant.' I had only one plan in mind: to get $5,000. I knew where there was a schooner, and then I'd haul ass.{{cite news |title=Sterling Hayden's a Seadog at Heart |last=Peary |first=Gerald |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |location=Toronto |date=3 February 1984 |page=E3}}

His first film, Virginia (1941), directed by Edward H. Griffith, starred Madeleine Carroll whom he married. He, Griffith and Carroll were reunited in Bahama Passage (1941). By December 1941, it was reported that Hayden had quit the movie business and declared, "I'm no actor! I'm a sailor."{{cite magazine |date=1941 |title=The Real Reason Why Sterling Hayden Quit Hollywood |magazine=Photoplay |access-date=December 4, 2019 |url=https://archive.org/details/photoplay119phot/page/n591 }}

After his two Paramount film roles, Hayden left Hollywood to fight in World War II. He enlisted in the Army and was sent to Scotland for training, but broke his ankle and was discharged.

Once he recovered from his injury, he chose to re-enlist in the Marine Corps. He was reportedly worried that his fellow Marines would not take him seriously because of his Hollywood fame, and so he adopted the pseudonym "John Hamilton", which he would carry throughout his war service.{{cite web |title=Sterling Hayden: The Hollywood Star That Left the Silver Screen to Become a Spy |url=https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/sterling-hayden-hollywood-star/ |publisher=Central Intelligence Agency |date=9 July 2021}} In June 1943, he had his name legally changed to John Hamilton.{{cite web |last=Hull |first=Michael D. |date=February 2020 |publisher=Warfare History Network |title=Sterling Hayden, Hollywood Actor, Viking Hero of the OSS |url=https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/sterling-hayden-viking-hero-of-the-oss/}}

After selection to and graduation from Marine Corps Officer Candidate School (OCS), Hamilton was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve and was transferred for duty as an undercover agent with William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan's Office of the Coordinator of Information. Hamilton remained there after it became the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).

He received the Silver Star for gallantry in action in the Balkans and Mediterranean (according to his citation, "Lt. Hamilton displayed great courage in making hazardous sea voyages in enemy-infested waters and reconnaissance through enemy-held areas"), a Bronze Arrowhead device for parachuting behind enemy lines, and a commendation from Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito. He left active duty on December 24, 1945. Tito awarded him the Order of Merit.{{cite news|title=Yugoslavs Reward Sterling Hayden in Toting Guns to Tito|agency=Associated Press|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=February 16, 1946|page=9}}

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He returned to the United States and told the press, "I feel a real obligation to make this a better country – and I believe the movies are the place to do it."{{Cite news|title=Sterling Hayden Returns From War With New Ideal|author=Scheuer, Philip K.|date=April 21, 1946|work=Los Angeles Times|page=B1}} He signed a contract with Paramount and was cast as one of several brothers in an aviation film, Blaze of Noon (1947). The studio suspended him when he turned down a role in The Sainted Sisters.{{Cite news|title=DRAMA AND FILM: Sterling Hayden Joins Suspended Star List|author=Schallert, Edwin|date=October 9, 1947|work=Los Angeles Times|page=A9}}

Hayden made two films for Pine Thomas Productions which distributed through Paramount: one was a Western, El Paso (1949), featuring John Payne; the other was Manhandled (1949), a thriller with Dorothy Lamour. In 1950, Hayden appeared in one of his most celebrated roles as the tough-guy gunman Dix Handley in the Academy Award-nominated film The Asphalt Jungle.

Hayden's admiration for the Communist partisans he had fought alongside during World War II led him into a brief membership in the Communist Party (CPUSA) from June to December of 1946. In one of his CPUSA assignments, he supported an effort by the Communist-controlled motion picture painters union to absorb other film industry unions.{{cite news |last=Meroney |first=John |title=Left in the Past |url=http://www.latimesmagazine.com/2012/02/left-in-the-past.html |date=February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130719165403/http://www.latimesmagazine.com/2012/02/left-in-the-past.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times Magazine |archive-date=19 July 2013 }}

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In September 1947, the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) subpoenaed ten screenwriters and directors (known later as the "Hollywood Ten") as part of an investigation into "subversive" elements in the film industry. Immediately, a large group of movie luminaries, including Hayden, formed the Committee for the First Amendment to protest what they perceived as political harassment. In the next few years, as the Second Red Scare gripped the U.S., the HUAC expanded its probe to include all entertainment industry professionals with suspected links, past or present, to the CPUSA. Consequently, Hayden became a target.

In 1950, fearful that "his past might cost him his future", the actor sought the aid of entertainment lawyer Martin Gang, known as the best "clearance lawyer" in Hollywood.{{cite book |title=Naming Names |last=Navasky |first=Victor S. |publisher=Viking |location=New York |year=1980 |page=100 |isbn=0670503932}} Gang first sent a letter to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, asking about "an unnamed client who had joined the Party as a youthful indiscretion, now regretted it, and wanted to clear his name." Hoover recommended talking to the local FBI people, "so that if anybody subsequently makes a complaint we'll know he [the unnamed client] is all right as far as we're concerned.{{sfn|Navasky|1980|p=100}} Gang then met with HUAC Chief Counsel Frank Tavenner to work out an acceptable format for Hayden's testimony.{{sfn|Navasky|1980|p=100}}

Upon Gang's advice—and in a decision that would haunt Hayden—the actor agreed to become a "friendly witness" and "name names". He later said, "the FBI made it very clear to me that, if I became an 'unfriendly witness', I could damn well forget the custody of my children. I didn't want to go to jail, that was the other thing." The HUAC subpoenaed Hayden in late March 1951. On April 10, he testified before the Committee in Washington, D.C. that joining the Party was "the stupidest and most ignorant thing I have ever done in my life".{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1951/04/11/archives/sterling-hayden-was-a-red-stupidest-thing-i-ever-did-sterling.html |title=Sterling Hayden Was a Red; 'Stupidest Thing I Ever Did' |newspaper=The New York Times |date=11 April 1951 |page=1}} He added that after he quit the Party, actress Karen Morley tried to persuade him to rejoin but he refused.

Due to his decorated war service in the Marines, and his decision to cooperate with the Committee, Hayden received favorable press coverage during this period.{{cite book |last=Hayden |first=Sterling |title=Wanderer |year=1963 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |location=New York |lccn=63020142 |page=329 |quote=Not often does a man find himself eulogized for having behaved in a manner that he himself despises.}} But Victor Navasky reminds us that the actor "named his former mistress, Bea Winters (his agent's secretary), who had recruited him into the Party.{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/04/11/issue.html |title=Hayden Will Not Lose Job |date=10 April 1951 |page=14 |newspaper=The New York Times |quote=Sterling Hayden will not be fired for admitting he once was a member of the Communist party, but at least one of the Hollywood people he named in Washington today may fare less well. Bea Winter, stenographer for Horizon Pictures, was told 'not to come to work until this thing is cleared up,' a studio spokesman said.}} He also named, among others, Robert Lees, Karen Morley, Maurice Murphy, and Abraham Lincoln Polonsky. The result was that he ended up as a hero to the public but a coward to himself".{{sfn|Navasky|1980|pp=100-101}}{{cite book |last=Vaughn |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Vaughn |title=Only Victims: A Study of Show Business Blacklisting |publisher=G.P. Putnam's Sons |location=New York |year=1972 |pages=131–133 |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Commentary/Only-Victims-Robert-Vaughn-1972.pdf |via=World Radio History}} Vaughn writes that Hayden also named fellow actors Lloyd Gough, Howard da Silva, and Morris Carnovsky. For decades afterward, Hayden expressed remorse over his testimony. In his autobiography he wrote, "I don't think you have the foggiest notion of the contempt I have had for myself since the day I did that thing." Because of his cooperative testimony, Hayden was "cleared" by the HUAC and avoided the Hollywood blacklist.

In the 1951 film Journey into Light, Hayden portrayed a minister who doubts his faith. He had a prominent role alongside Bette Davis in The Star (1952). He followed these two performances with a series of action films: Denver and Rio Grande (1952), a Western for Paramount; Hellgate (1952), another Western; The Golden Hawk (1952), a pirate swashbuckler for producer Sam Katzman; Flat Top (1952), a Korean War drama; and Fighter Attack (1953), a World War II film.{{cite news|title=Sterling Hayden In Prison Film|work=The Christian Science Monitor|date=November 21, 1952|page=9}}

By working regularly in leading and supporting roles, Hayden earned a substantial income. In November 1952, at the start of his lengthy divorce from his second wife, Betty Ann de Noon (whom he married in 1947{{cite news|title=Sterling Hayden Weds on Coast |date=April 26, 1947 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=10}}), it was revealed in court proceedings that he made $100,000 in the prior year.{{cite news |title=Sterling Hayden Sued by Wife for 4 Children |date=November 27, 1952 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |page=4}}

In 1953, he co-starred with Jane Wyman in So Big, a melodrama adapted from an Edna Ferber novel. He then returned to medium-budget action films: Take Me to Town (1953), a Western with Ann Sheridan; Kansas Pacific (1953), a Western for Walter Mirisch; and Crime Wave (1954), a film noir.{{cite news|title=Drama: 'Kansas Pacific' Will Star Sterling Hayden|date=June 11, 1952|work=Los Angeles Times|page=A10}}

Hayden had a supporting role in a major studio picture, Prince Valiant (1954), playing Sir Gawain. He followed it with a conventional Western "B picture", Arrow in the Dust (1954). At first his next project, Johnny Guitar (1954), seemed like just another Western, but this one starred Joan Crawford and was directed by Nicholas Ray. It became a box office hit and a cult favorite. It was financed by Republic Pictures, which used Hayden on several other occasions.{{cite news |title=STERLING HAYDEN TO DO A WESTERN; Film, to Be Made Next Year, Will End His Commitments With Allied Artists |last=Pryor |first=Thomas M. |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1954/07/06/archives/sterling-hayden-to-do-a-western-film-to-be-made-next-year-will-end.html |date=July 6, 1954 |page=19}}

He was cast in more film noirs: Naked Alibi (1954) with Gloria Grahame and Suddenly (1954) with Frank Sinatra. Then it was action films: Battle Taxi (1955), about helicopter rescue teams in the Korean War; Timberjack (1955), a Western for Republic; Shotgun (1955), a Western with Yvonne de Carlo; The Eternal Sea (1955), a World War II naval story; Top Gun (1955), a Western for producer Edward Small.

The Last Command (1955) was a Republic Pictures film about the Alamo, with Hayden as Jim Bowie. The Come On (1956) was a film noir with Anne Baxter. Hayden also began obtaining acting jobs on TV shows such as Celebrity Playhouse.

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In 1956, Hayden starred in a heist film, The Killing, by an up-and-coming filmmaker named Stanley Kubrick. Although The Killing fared poorly at the box office, it garnered strong critical praise. Hayden would work again later with Kubrick on Dr. Strangelove (1964).

Notwithstanding his occasional appearances in acclaimed films, Hayden remained a "B picture" star in the 1950s: Crime of Passion (1957), a noir; 5 Steps to Danger (1957), a mystery film; Valerie (1957), a Western "noir"; Zero Hour! (1957), a disaster film; Gun Battle at Monterey (1957), a Western; The Iron Sheriff (1957), a Western for Edward Small; Ten Days to Tulara (1958), an adventure film; Terror in a Texas Town (1958), a Western.{{cite news|title=Sterling Hayden to Do Dual Starring; Pavlowa Proposed for Charisse|author=Schallert, Edwin|work=Los Angeles Times|date=April 11, 1957|page=A13}}

He also worked frequently on television, in shows such as Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, Wagon Train, General Electric Theater, Schlitz Playhouse, Playhouse 90, Goodyear Theatre, and The DuPont Show of the Month.

Hayden often professed distaste for film acting, saying he did it mainly to pay for his schooners and voyages. In 1958, after a bitter divorce from Betty Ann de Noon, Hayden was awarded custody of their four children."Actor Sterling Hayden to Keep Four Children"; Los Angeles Times; January 16, 1959: 26. In 1959, he defied a court order, which barred him from taking the children out of the U.S., by sailing to Tahiti with all four: Christian, Dana, Gretchen and Matthew.{{cite web |last=Miller |first=Johnny |title=Sterling Hayden sails off with kids in 1959 |website=SFGate |url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Sterling-Hayden-sails-off-with-kids-in-1959-3254028.php |date=18 January 2009}}{{cite news

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The crew sailed from San Francisco Bay to Tahiti, where Hayden had planned to film a movie. He also invited along the well-known photographer Dody Weston Thompson to document the trip and to help shoot location choices. Her South Seas folio contains photographs of Hayden's 98-foot schooner, Wanderer; on-deck photos of life aboard the ship; colorful prints of his children, as well as Tahitian women and children; and unique artifacts on shore. The film never materialized; however, according to Dody's notes, U.S. Camera and Travel printed her photographs of paradise in 1961. Marin County Superior Court Judge Harold Haley later ordered Hayden to repay Republic Pictures nearly $50,000 to recover the cost of financing the trip.{{cite news |title=Film Actor Handed $49,518 Judgment |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=chUrAAAAIBAJ&dq=harold-haley%20marin&pg=3499%2C1610060 |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=Reading Eagle |location=Reading, Pennsylvania |date=August 6, 1961 |page=12 |access-date=July 6, 2010 }}

In 1960, he married Catherine Devine McConnell. They had two sons, Andrew and David, and were married until his death in 1986. McConnell also had a son (Scott McConnell) from her first marriage to Neil McConnell, an heir to Avon's founding family.

In November 1960, Hayden said he was a "sailor or writer" rather than an actor.{{cite news|title=Blue Book Upsets Sterling Hayden|work=Los Angeles Times|date=November 24, 1960|page=7}} He was still troubled by his HUAC testimony and was quoted as saying, "I'd had it... One way or another, I felt that I had sold out – or failed – at almost everything in my whole life. It was either turn things around or hang myself."{{cite news |title=Former OSS Agent, Sea Captain Actor Sterling Hayden Dies at 70|edition=Home|author=Thackrey, Ted Jr. |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-05-24-me-7504-story.html |date=May 24, 1986 |page=1}}

In the early 1960s, he rented one of the pilot houses of the retired ferryboat Berkeley, docked in Sausalito, California, where he lived while writing his autobiography Wanderer, which was first published in 1963.

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In 1963, Stanley Kubrick coaxed Hayden out of retirement to play one of his best-known characters, the deranged General Jack D. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove (1964). In that same year, Hayden appeared in A Carol for Another Christmas on television.

He bought a canal barge in the Netherlands in 1969, eventually moving it to the heart of Paris and living on it part of the year. He also kept a home in Wilton, Connecticut with his family, and he had an apartment in Sausalito.{{Cite book |last=Evans |first=Art |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vXntDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22sterling+hayden%22+%22barge%22+%22netherlands%22&pg=PA18 |title=World War II Veterans in Hollywood |date=2020-06-23 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-3967-3 |pages=18 |language=en}}

Hayden returned to acting with Hard Contract (1969), supporting James Coburn and Loving (1970), co-starring George Segal and Eva Marie Saint. "I'll go back to Hollywood to pick up a dollar, but that's all", he said. "Everything is wrong with that city."{{cite news|title=Obituaries: 'Strangelove' star Sterling Hayden, 70|date=May 24, 1986|work=Chicago Tribune|page=A12}}

He went to Europe where he appeared in Ternos Caçadores (1970), Angel's Leap (1971) and Le grand départ (1972). He had small but important parts in The Godfather (1972) and The Long Goodbye (1973). He did more films in Europe: The Final Programme (1973), Deadly Strangers (1975), Cipolla Colt (1975) and 1900 (1975). He was offered the role of "Quint" in Jaws (1975) but turned it down.{{cite news|title=Movies: Sterling Hayden: Still afloat after stormy seas |author=Base, Ron|work=Chicago Tribune|date=February 1, 1981|page=d13}}{{cite web | url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/07/jaws-making-of-spielberg-interview | title='Jaws Became a Living Nightmare': Steven Spielberg's Ultimate Tell-All Interview | website=Vanity Fair | date=July 27, 2023 }}

In the 1970s, after his performance in The Godfather reintroduced him to American audiences, Hayden was a guest several times on NBC's Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder. In the interviews, Hayden was sporting a long, scraggly beard. He talked about his career resurgence and how it had funded his travels and adventures around the world.{{cite web |title=Sterling Hayden, 2nd interview of three, Part 2 of | date=June 4, 2013 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=einQjrm2vnY |publisher=YouTube}} He also appeared on the Canadian sci-fi TV series The Starlost, and the American detective show Banacek.

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

In 1981, he was arrested for possession of hashish at Toronto International Airport.{{cite news|title=Sterling Hayden faces drug count|work=The Globe and Mail|date=April 17, 1981|page=4}}

Hayden wrote two acclaimed books: an autobiography, Wanderer (1963), and a novel, Voyage (1976). He said they made him "a lot of money" but he lost most of it to taxes.{{cite news|last=Mann |first=Roderick |title=Sterling Hayden: The Beard Must Remain|date=December 26, 1978 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |page=g10}}

In 1983, he appeared in a documentary of his life, Pharos of Chaos.{{cite news|title=A Profile of Sterling Hayden |last=Maslin |first=Janet |author-link=Janet Maslin |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 13, 1983 |page=C.13}}

Hayden's first wife was actress Madeleine Carroll.

In 1947 he Married Betty Ann de noon, and they had four children.

Hayden was later married to Catherine Devine McConnell from 1960 until his death. They had two children, Andrew and David.{{Cite journal |date=March 21, 1960 |title=Milestones |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,894828,00.html |journal=Time Magazine |volume=LXXV |issue=12}}

Hayden died of prostate cancer in Sausalito in 1986, age 70.

Hayden received the following awards during World War II:

Hayden, under his nom de guerre Lieutenant John Hamilton, and in his role as an OSS agent, appears as a secondary figure in the 2012 novel Death's Door: A Billy Boyle World War II mystery by author James R. Benn. Hayden/Hamilton assists in getting protagonist Billy Boyle through German-occupied Italy.{{cite book|last=Benn|first=James R.|year=2012|title=Deaths Door: A Billy Boyle World War II mystery|publisher=Soho Press|location=New York City|isbn=978-1-61695-185-6}}

General Gore, portrayed by Nick Young in Friend of the World, was juxtaposed with Hayden's Ripper from Dr. Strangelove.{{Cite web |last=Bacon |first=Redmond |date=2020-09-11 |title=Friend of the World is a Bracing Stocktake of a Crumbling World |url=https://tilt.goombastomp.com/film/friend-of-the-world/ |access-date=2023-08-12 |website=Tilt Magazine |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Parker |first=Sean |date=2022-05-10 |title=Friend of the World: The Divine Comedy of Body Horror |url=https://horrorobsessive.com/2022/05/10/friend-of-the-world-review/ |access-date=2023-08-12 |website=Horror Obsessive |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Mitchell |date=2023-01-03 |title=FRIEND OF THE WORLD Review – A Strong Debut Feature From Writer and Director Brian Patrick Butler |url=https://www.slayawaywithus.com/post/friend-of-the-world-review-brian-patrick-butler-horror-science-fiction-thriller |access-date=2023-08-12 |website=Slay Away |language=en}}

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• Leuchtturm des Chaos, a 1983 documentary profile of Sterling Hayden

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{{cite book|last=Schuon |first=Karl |year=1963 |title=U. S. Marine Corps Biographical Dictionary |url=https://archive.org/details/usmarinecorpsbio017890mbp |publisher=Watts |oclc=1360534 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/usmarinecorpsbio017890mbp/page/n116 99]–100}}

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