But in an ironic twist, after testifying for the House Un-American Activities Committee, Hayden returned to the big screen with a splash as an anti-Communist general in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1964), a performance that earned him a BAFTA nomination.
Hayden is also remembered for playing supporting roles in two high-profile films: The Godfather (1972) and Nine to Five (1980), in which he played a corrupt cop and a chairman of the board, respectively. He died on May 23, 1986, at the age of 70.
AddThe KillingIn Stanley Kubrick's noir classic, career criminal Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) plans one last heist before settling down to a respectable life with Fay (Colleen Gray). Clay and several cohorts devise a complex racetrack robbery, but inner tensions and bad luck work against them. Kubrick wrote the... Read More
AddThe Asphalt JungleNominated for four Academy Awards and long considered a noir classic, John Huston's heist film follows a band of criminal masterminds (Sam Jaffe, Sterling Hayden and Louis Calhern) as they carry out a million-dollar jewelry-store burglary that will have them set for life. Snatching the loot is easy,... Read More
Add1900Bernardo Bertolucci's epic tale follows the lives of two Italian men -- a peasant (Gerard Depardieu) and a landowner (Robert De Niro) -- both born on Jan. 1, 1900. Friends as children, the two become estranged as their differing social status pulls them apart. Their personal conflicts mirror the... Read More
AddFlat TopSterling Hayden stars as Dan Collier, a captain in charge of training pilots on U.S. Navy carriers, in this 1952 thriller that features actual newsreel footage from World War II. The stern skipper Collier faces a fight of his own in the form of a new commander on board the ship, even as he prepares... Read More
AddZero Hour!Lt. Ted Stryker (Dana Andrews), still haunted by his experiences as a fighter pilot in World War II, is on an ordinary commercial flight when its crew becomes ill with food poisoning. Struggling to overcome his personal demons, Stryker must play the hero and bring the plane in safely. Linda Darnell,... Read More
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