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It almost sounds like a classic Hollywood screenplay: A handsome Hollywood leading man leaves fame and fortune behind to become a real-life spy. During World War II, Sterling Hayden did exactly that. He left a promising career on the silver screen to join General William “Wild Bill” Donovan and the “glorious amateurs” of America’s ...
May 24, 1986 · Sterling Hayden, the handsome blond actor who played wholesome leading-man movie roles in the 1940's and 1950's and later weathered into a rough-hewn solid character actor in films such as...
May 23, 1986 · May 23, 1986 12 AM PT. United Press International. SAUSALITO — Sterling Hayden, actor, war hero and author who led a life of contradictions, died quietly at his home today of cancer. He was 70...
Sterling Hayden, Hollywood Actor, Viking Hero of the OSS. Actor Sterling Hayden served with distinction as a clandestine operative for the OSS during World War II. This article appears in: February 2020. By Michael D. Hull.
May 24, 1986 · May 24, 1986 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. Maverick actor Sterling Hayden, the one-time Hollywood leading man whose restlessness led him through careers as a sea captain, OSS agent and...
May 24, 1986 · Sterling Hayden, 70, a successful film star, ocean sailor and author who expressed a profound disdain for Hollywood and once took his children to the South Seas in defiance of a court order,...
Sterling Hayden, the handsome tall blond actor who played wholesome leading-man movie roles in the 1940's and 1950's and later weathered into a rough-hewn solid character actor in films such as ''Dr. Strangelove'', ''The Godfather,'' "Nine to Five" and "King of the Gypsies".