Cast: Sterling Hayden

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

Cast Marlon Brando · Al Pacino · James Caan · Robert Duvall

Synopsis The Godfather (1972) follows the powerful Corleone crime family, led by patriarch Vito Corleone. When an assassination attempt leaves Vito gravely wounded, his reluctant youngest son, Michael, is drawn into the family's violent underworld. As Michael takes charge, he transforms...

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Robert De Niro · Dominique Sanda · Stefania Sandrelli

Synopsis In 1901, in the north of Italy, the same day Giuseppe Verdi died, the sons of a landlord and a farm worker are born. They will be inseparable friends, although his relationship will be pushed to its limits due to...

Direction John Huston

Cast Sterling Hayden · Louis Calhern · Sam Jaffe · Jean Hagen

Synopsis Doc Erwin Riedenschneider has just been released from prison and immediately seeks out financial backing for a heist which he has been plotting, the robbery of a jewellery store. He puts together a group of men consisting of Dix Handley,...

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Peter Sellers · George C. Scott · Sterling Hayden · James Earl Jones

Synopsis Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) is a satirical black comedy about the Cold War and nuclear paranoia. When a rogue U.S. Air Force general orders a nuclear attack on the Soviet...

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Sterling Hayden · Coleen Gray · Vince Edwards · Jay C. Flippen

Synopsis The Killing (1956) follows a meticulously planned racetrack heist orchestrated by a group of disparate individuals, each with their own motivations. The mastermind, Johnny Clay, assembles a team to execute the perfect crime, but as the plan unfolds, tensions rise...

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Joan Crawford · Sterling Hayden · Scott Brady · Mercedes McCambridge

Synopsis In Johnny Guitar (1954), a strong-willed saloon owner named Vienna faces hostility from a vengeful townsfolk led by the ruthless Emma. When a mysterious stranger, Johnny Guitar, arrives—a former lover with a hidden past—tensions escalate. Accused of harboring an outlaw...

Direction Manfred Blank · Wolf-Eckart Bühler

Cast Sterling Hayden · Charles Brauer · Hanns Zischler

Synopsis Documentary profile of actor Sterling Hayden.

Direction André De Toth

Cast Sterling Hayden · Gene Nelson · Phyllis Kirk · Ted de Corsia

Synopsis Three San Quentin escapees (Penny, Hastings and Morgan) kill a cop in a gas-station holdup. Wounded, Morgan flees through black-shadowed streets to the handiest refuge: with former cellmate Steve Lacey, who's paroled, with a new life and lovely wife, and...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Elliott Gould · Sterling Hayden · Nina Van Pallandt · Mark Rydell

Synopsis Private eye Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) is certain that his friend Terry Lennox (Jim Bouton) isn't a wife-killer, even after the cops throw Marlowe in jail for not cooperating with their investigation into Lennox's subsequent disappearance. Once he gets out...

Direction Joseph H. Lewis

Cast Sterling Hayden · Sebastian Cabot · Carol Kelly · Eugene Martin

Synopsis A Swedish whaler is out for revenge when he finds out that a greedy oil man murdered his father for their land.

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Bette Davis · Sterling Hayden · Natalie Wood · Warner Anderson

Synopsis Margaret Elliot is a bankrupted washed-up Hollywood Oscar winning star living in the past and not accepting the reality. After another great deception trying to get her career back, she gets drunken and is jailed. She is bailed out by...

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Robert Wagner · James Mason · Janet Leigh · Debra Paget

Synopsis Cartoonist Hal Foster's medieval hero, the Scandinavian Prince Valiant, comes to the screen in all his Dutch-bob-haircut glory in this 1954 film directed by Henry Hathaway (Kiss of Death). Robert Wagner plays the title role and does a bang-up job...

Direction Lewis R. Foster

Cast Dan Duryea · Dorothy Lamour · Sterling Hayden · Irene Hervey

Synopsis Merl Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merl mentions in passing that one of her boss's patients is an author with recurring dreams of murdering his...

Direction Andrew V. McLaglen

Cast Stacy Keach · John Hammond · Lloyd Bridges · Rory Calhoun

Synopsis The plot revolves around the families of two sisters; Maggie Geyser and Evelyn Hale. The Geysers are southern farmers from Charlottesville, Virginia. The Hales own a small newspaper in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The Geysers are generally indifferent to the issue of...

Direction Jerry Hopper

Cast Sterling Hayden · Gloria Grahame · Gene Barry · Marcia Henderson

Synopsis Questioned by the police, a drunk Al Willis attacks his police questioners. He gets beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Next night, Lieut. Parks is murdered; Willis is the only suspect in the eyes of tough Chief Conroy, who pursues...

Direction Gerd Oswald

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Sterling Hayden · Raymond Burr · Fay Wray

Synopsis Barbara Stanwyck plays a not-your-average '50s woman -- an extraordinary witty advice columnist -- who sacrifices her career to help advance her new husband's (Sterling Hayden), at any cost! Kathy is a smart and tough 1950's advice columnist at a...

Direction Lewis Allen

Cast Frank Sinatra · Sterling Hayden · James Gleason · Nancy Gates

Synopsis Three paid hit-men arrive at a small California town to await the president's arrival by train for his annual fishing trip. Their plan is to assassinate him. To do so, they find a house on a hill with a great...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Jane Wyman · Sterling Hayden · Nancy Olson · Steve Forrest

Synopsis After the death of her father and the loss of his fortune, Selina takes a job teaching school in the Dutch community of New Holland. She stays with the Pool's and teaches young Roelf piano, and he has a crush...

Direction Frank Pierson

Cast Sterling Hayden · Shelley Winters · Susan Sarandon · Judd Hirsch

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Sterling Hayden · Ben Gazzara · Steve Lawrence · Robert Shaw

Synopsis Industrial tycoon Daniel Grudge has never recovered from the loss of his 22-year-old son Marley, killed in action during Christmas Eve of 1944. The embittered Grudge has only scorn for any American involvement in international affairs. But then the Ghost...