TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Sterling Hayden.
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Birthdate: March 26, 1916
Death date: May 23, 1986
Sterling Hayden
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1940s
0.6082
6
1950s
2.8095
34
1960s
1.7990
2
1970s
1.9632
9
1980s
1.5298
4
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.4513
2.4513
Sterling Hayden Movie Rankings
1
3.9812War veteran Michael Corlone returns home to find himself becoming increasingly involved with the family "business." His father, "Don" Vito Corleone, is the head of the mafia family and eventually expects Michael to take his place when he dies. ...more about Godfather
DVD from $7.18
(21 sellers)
2
3.8508Insane Gen. Jack Ripper is convinced that the U.S.S.R is conspiring to contaminate the American people and sends a fighter pilot to bomb the country. However, the Russians promise to fight back if the U.S. were to attack. ...more about Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
DVD from $3.95
(15 sellers)
3
3.2839Infimous criminal Doc Rienschneider (Sam Jaffe) has just returned from prison and already has a plan to pull off a million dollar heist with some old friends. ...more about Asphalt Jungle
DVD from $12.71
(10 sellers)
4
3.2493
After getting out of prison, Johnny Clay masterminds a complex race-track heist, but his scheme is complicated by the intervention of the wife of a teller (George Peatty) in on the scheme, the boyfriend of the wife, airport regulations, and a small dog. ...more about Killing
DVD from $5.69
(12 sellers)
5
2.8823
Chain-smoking, wisecracking private eye Philip Marlowe drives a buddy from LA to the Tijuana border and returns home to an apartment full of cops who arrest him for abetting the murder of his friend's wife. ...more about Long Goodbye
DVD from $4.72
(11 sellers)
6
2.8735
Frank Hart is a pig. He takes advantage in the grossest manner of the women who work with him. ...more about Nine to Five
DVD from $6.34
(12 sellers)
7
2.7314
Vienna has built a saloon oustide of town, and she hopes to build her own town once the railroad is put through, but the townsfolk want her gone. ...more about Johnny Guitar
- Not Available on DVD
8
2.5932
19 years after President Timothy Keegan was assassinated, his brother Nick discovers a dying man claiming to have been the gunman. ...more about Winter Kills
DVD from $3.00
(6 sellers)
9
2.5719
Margaret Elliot is a former oscar winning actress who's career is over and is completely broke. She then desperately tries to get her career and life back, while Jim and daughter, Gretchen try to get her back to reality. ...more about Star
DVD from $8.68
(11 sellers)
10
2.5350
The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. ...more about Suddenly
DVD from $4.55
(9 sellers)
13
2.2305
Three San Quentin escapees (Penny, Hastings and Morgan) kill a cop in a gas-station holdup. ...more about Crime Wave
- Not Available on DVD
14
2.1812
A routine flight turns into a major emergency as passengers and crew succumb to food poisoning - is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane? If that sounds vaguely familiar, it's because 'Airplane' was a send-up of this forerunner of the 1970s ...more about Zero Hour!
- Not Available on DVD
15
2.0396
Kathy is a smart and tough 1950's advice columnist at a San Francisco newspaper, with her name plastered on billboards all over the city. One day, Bill Doyle, a Los Angeles detective, walks into her office - it is instant attraction. ...more about Crime of Passion
DVD from $6.42
(10 sellers)
16
1.9460
Brooks Wilson is in crisis. He is torn between his wife Selma and two daughters and his mistress Grace, and also between his career as a successful illustrator and his feeling that he might still produce something worthwhile. ...more about Loving
DVD from $7.12
(7 sellers)
17
1.7291
After the death of his Nobel Prize-winning father, billionaire physicist Jerry Cornelius becomes embroiled in the search for the mysterious "Final Programme", developed by his father. ...more about Final Programme
- Not Available on DVD
23
Off on vacation, John Emmett is stranded in Jefferson when his car gives out. ...more about 5 Steps to Danger
- Not Available on DVD
26
In the Korean war, the commander of an Air Rescue helicopter team must show a hot-shot former jet pilot how important helicopter rescue work is and turn him into a team player. ...more about Battle Taxi
- Not Available on DVD
27
In the 1920s, the four McDonald brothers leave the uncertain life of carnival stunt fliers for steady jobs with the U.S. Air Mail. ...more about Blaze of Noon
- Not Available on DVD
28
Edmund O'Brien and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers sabotage the entire operation in the hopes that they can get their tracks laid first and get the money ...more about Denver and Rio Grande
- Not Available on DVD
29
Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan Jeffers, when his father, Judge Fletcher, sends him on an errand to El Paso, Texas to get the signature of Susan's father, Judge Jeffers, on a legal ...more about El Paso
- Not Available on DVD
32
A mysterious outlaw known as the Sidewinder, phantom leader of renegade Ute Indians, terrorizes the people of the Arizona Territory in the 1870s. When rancher Tex McCloud has his place burned out, he vows to find and kill the Sidewinder. ...more about Flaming Feather
- Not Available on DVD
34
Susan Anspach stars in this comedy as a news reporter who investigates a story about stolen milk causing milk and gas prices to rise. During the course of her investigation, other people become involved, culminating in a multiple car chase. ...more about Gas
- Not Available on DVD
36
Reno and Turner are partners who robbed the express in Monterey. But when Turner wants to leave the partnership, Reno shots him and leaves him for dead. But Turner is found by Maria and nursed back to health. ...more about Gun Battle at Monterey
- Not Available on DVD
37
A man is accused of spying for the confedaracy, and sentenced to the notorious Hellgate Prison. After he unsuccessfully attempts to breakout, and is sentenced to solitary confinement, he redeems himself when the prison is taken down by a plague. ...more about Hellgate
- Not Available on DVD
40
Just before the Civil War (but after the South has seceded), Southern saboteurs try to prevent railroad construction from crossing Kansas to the frontier; army captain Nelson is sent out to oppose them. ...more about Kansas Pacific
DVD from $2.95
(4 sellers)
43
Questioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners, is beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Next night, Lieut. ...more about Naked Alibi
- Not Available on DVD
46
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 on her, but it is Pervus she marries. ...more about So Big
- Not Available on DVD
47
Saloon entertainer Vermilion O'Toole and her former partner in crime Newt Cole escape from a train ride to prison and hide out in logging town Timberline. ...more about Take Me to Town
- Not Available on DVD
48
Tramp pilot Scott McBride (Sterling Hayden) goes to meet a Mr. Rodriguez who has a mission for him in the South American jungle. ...more about Ten Days to Tulara
- Not Available on DVD
49
Tim Shipman returns to his father's logging company only to find his father has been killed, money is owed, and Croft Brunner controls the railroad used to haul out the logs. ...more about Timberjack
- Not Available on DVD
50
Gunfighter Rick Martin returns to his hometown of Casper, Wyoming to learn of the fate of his mother and to warn the town of an impending raid by the Tom Quentin gang. ...more about Top Gun
- Not Available on DVD
51
John Garth (Sterling Hayden) is tried for critically wounding his wife Valerie (Anita Ekberg) and murdering her parents (John Wengraf and Iphigenie Castiglioni. ...more about Valerie
- Not Available on DVD
52
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick ...more about Variety Girl
- Not Available on DVD
53
International terrorists attempt to kidnap a wealthy couples child. Their plan comes unstuck when the boy's pet snake, a deadly Black Mamba, escapes, and the terrorists and several hostages are trapped in the boy's London home. ...more about Venom
- Not Available on DVD
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