Sterling Walter Hayden born Sterling Relyea Walter was an American actor and author He didnt 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 ships 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 leadingman movie roles in the 1940s and 1950s and later weathered into a roughhewn 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 tvproductions from the debut in Virginia 1941 to the tv miniseries 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 700page epic novel of the sea Voyage was a main selection of the BookoftheMonth 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 aint all that unhappy So why do I drink I dont know
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