{"id":192569,"date":"2024-03-15T10:38:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T15:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=184567"},"modified":"2024-03-15T10:38:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T15:38:13","slug":"sterling-hayden-sailor-actor-viking-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/sterling-hayden-sailor-actor-viking-spy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-17-at-2.43.45-PM-1024x820.jpg\" alt=\"3-Will-Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\" class=\"wp-image-184569\" title=\"3-Will-Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This is Matt Damon in character as super spy Jason Bourne. In real life Matt doesn&#8217;t go so much for guns.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"yoast-reading-time__wrapper\"><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__icon\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-icon=\"clock\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" style=\"display:inline-block;vertical-align:-0.1em\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" stroke-width=\"2\" d=\"M12 8v4l3 3m6-3a9 9 0 11-18 0 9 9 0 0118 0z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__spacer\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:1em\"><\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__descriptive-text\">Estimated reading time:  <\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__reading-time\">11<\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__time-unit\"> minutes<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matt Damon is one of the most successful actors in Hollywood. He is 52 years old and has already starred in 85 movies. Google claims his net worth hovers around $170 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In general, I like Matt Damon\u2019s movies.&nbsp;<em>Elysium<\/em>&nbsp;was great, as was, of course,&nbsp;<em>Saving Private Ryan. Interstellar, The Martian,&nbsp;<\/em>and the&nbsp;<em>Ocean<\/em>&nbsp;series never get old. And then there was&nbsp;<em>Bourne.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Damon just nailed that one. He played a conflicted amnesiac assassin who, throughout four full-length films, traveled the globe gratuitously killing strangers while trying to discover who he really was. Matt Damon did a superb job of taking Robert Ludlum\u2019s magnificent words and translating them into something we could experience on the big screen. I\u2019ve seen them all several times.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-yoast-seo-table-of-contents yoast-table-of-contents\"><h2>Table of contents<\/h2><ul><li><a href=\"#h-action-hero\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"sterling-hayden-sailor-actor-viking-spy\" title=\"Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\" data-level=\"2\">Action Hero<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-damon-s-idea-of-freedom-smells-fishy\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"sterling-hayden-sailor-actor-viking-spy\" title=\"Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\" data-level=\"2\">Damon&#8217;s Idea Of Freedom Smells Fishy<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-origin-story-of-sterling-hayden\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"sterling-hayden-sailor-actor-viking-spy\" title=\"Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\" data-level=\"2\">Origin Story of Sterling Hayden<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-newfound-success\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"sterling-hayden-sailor-actor-viking-spy\" title=\"Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\" data-level=\"2\">Newfound Success<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-sterling-hayden-goes-to-war\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"sterling-hayden-sailor-actor-viking-spy\" title=\"Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\" data-level=\"2\">Sterling Hayden Goes To War<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-a-strange-promotion\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"sterling-hayden-sailor-actor-viking-spy\" title=\"Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\" data-level=\"2\">A Strange Promotion<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-american-silver-star\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"sterling-hayden-sailor-actor-viking-spy\" title=\"Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\" data-level=\"2\">American Silver Star<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-short-stint-as-a-communist\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"sterling-hayden-sailor-actor-viking-spy\" title=\"Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\" data-level=\"2\">Short Stint As A Communist<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-sterling-hayden-traveled-the-world\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"sterling-hayden-sailor-actor-viking-spy\" title=\"Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\" data-level=\"2\">Sterling Hayden Traveled The World<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-the-end-for-sterling-hayden\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"sterling-hayden-sailor-actor-viking-spy\" title=\"Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\" data-level=\"2\">The End For Sterling Hayden<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-17-at-2.48.03-PM.jpg\" alt=\"3-Will-Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\" class=\"wp-image-184570\" title=\"3-Will-Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Matt Damon got pretty jacked for his last Bourne outing. In real life, it seems he&#8217;s more a lover than a fighter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-action-hero\">Action Hero<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As Jason Bourne, Matt Damon comes across as quite the bad man. His close combat skills both with weapons and without are pretty epic. Heck, he once killed a dude with a rolled-up magazine. Alas, however, that\u2019s all just fake make-believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out here in the real world, action movie star Matt Damon has little use for such stuff as private gun ownership. While interviewing in Australia, he was quoted as having said, \u201cYou guys did it here in one fell swoop and I wish that could happen in my country\u2026It&#8217;s wonderful what Australia did\u2026And nobody&#8217;s rights have been infringed, you guys are all fine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-17-at-2.49.54-PM-1024x493.jpg\" alt=\"3-Will-Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\" class=\"wp-image-184571\" title=\"3-Will-Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Australian gun confiscation is held up by many on the Left as an example we should follow. I&#8217;m not so sure that would work over here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-damon-s-idea-of-freedom-smells-fishy\">Damon&#8217;s Idea Of Freedom Smells Fishy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1996, Australia enacted sweeping gun control legislation that allowed the government to confiscate 650,000 guns from private citizens, effectively disarming most of the Australian populace. I spent some time in Australia soon thereafter back when I was a soldier. The Aussie gun nerds in uniform with whom I worked were mightily lamenting the irrevocable demise of their liberty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We sell more guns than that in America every two weeks. It\u2019s apples and oranges, Matt. Gun control in the US might have worked 350 million guns ago, but that ship has sailed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My point is simply that Matt Damon is pretty typical. Most of those tough Hollywood studs are Big Government anti-freedom Leftists. Damon, for his part, is a committed supporter of the Democratic Party, having personally hosted a fundraiser for Elizabeth Warren. Mark Ruffalo (the Hulk) and Chris Evans (Captain America) are even farther Left. However, it was not always thus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-origin-story-of-sterling-hayden\">Origin Story of Sterling Hayden<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-17-at-2.52.16-PM.jpg\" alt=\"3-Will-Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\" class=\"wp-image-184572\" title=\"3-Will-Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sterling Hayden&#8217;s was a familiar face on screens both large and small during the Golden Age of Hollywood.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sterling Hayden starred in 59 films and 18 television programs. By all accounts, his was a fabulously successful Hollywood career. However, throughout it all, he was quick to explain that acting was just a means to an end for him. Sterling Hayden climbed up onto the big screen just to support his limitless adrenaline addiction. He started young.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hayden was born Sterling Relyea Walter in 1916 in Upper Montclair, New Jersey. His dad died when he was nine, and his mom remarried. His stepdad, James Hayden, formally adopted him and changed his name to Sterling Hayden. He dropped out of school at age sixteen to take a job crewing an oceangoing schooner. He traveled all around the Americas from New London, Connecticut, to Newport Beach, California. Along the way he ran a charter yacht and crewed a steamer to Cuba and back eleven different times. His first Captaincy was the square rigger&nbsp;<em>Florence C. Robinson<\/em>. At age 22 he commanded the&nbsp;<em>Robinson<\/em>&nbsp;on a 7,700-mile voyage from Gloucester, Massachusetts, to Tahiti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-newfound-success\">Newfound Success<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon his return from Tahiti in 1938, Hayden had his photo fortuitously taken while participating in a Fisherman\u2019s Race. This image ended up on the cover of a magazine and was seen by an executive for Paramount Pictures. That earned him an invitation to screen test for the movies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-17-at-2.52.41-PM.jpg\" alt=\"3-Will-Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\" class=\"wp-image-184573\" title=\"3-Will-Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Paramount marketed Sterling Hayden as a Norse god. That&#8217;s got to do something for a guy&#8217;s ego.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hayden stood 6 feet 5 inches tall and reliably filled a room. He got the part without really trying. Paramount later marketed him as \u201cThe Beautiful Blond Viking God.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hayden had this to say about his newfound success, \u201cI was completely lost, ignorant, nervous. But the next thing I knew, Paramount made me a seven-year contract beginning at $250 a week, which was astronomical. I got my lovely old mother and bought a car, and we drove to California&#8230;I was so lost then I didn&#8217;t think to analyze it. I said, &#8216;This is nuts, but, damned, it&#8217;s pleasant.&#8217; I had only one plan in mind: to get $5,000. I knew where there was a schooner, and then I&#8217;d haul ass.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-sterling-hayden-goes-to-war\">Sterling Hayden Goes To War<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>And then the world came unglued. With World War 2 looming large, Sterling Hayden abandoned Hollywood and enlisted in the Army. He was deployed to Scotland for training but suffered a severe ankle fracture and was medically separated from the military. He then returned home and tried to buy a schooner. However, he was unable to raise the cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many guys who had been legitimately injured in military service might have just called it a day. However, that\u2019s not the way Sterling Hayden was rigged. Once his ankle healed, he enlisted in the Marine Corps under an alias, apparently to avoid being tied to his previous injury.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-17-at-3.02.58-PM-1024x800.jpg\" alt=\"3-Will-Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\" class=\"wp-image-184578\" title=\"3-Will-Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The famous actor Sterling Hayden blossomed at Paris Island during WW2. His performance there eventually earned him a commission and an invitation to join the OSS.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a-strange-promotion\">A Strange Promotion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Hayden actually thrived at Parris Island and went straight from boot camp to Officer Candidate School. Once he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant, Hayden got a curious call from Colonel William \u201cWild Bill\u201d Donovan. At the time, Donovan carried the misleading title, \u201cCoordinator of Information.\u201d With FDR\u2019s backing, Donovan eventually birthed the OSS (Office of Strategic Services). The OSS was the precursor to today\u2019s CIA. Sterling Hayden had just become a spy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still operating under the nondescript alias \u201cJohn Hamilton,\u201d Sterling Hayden&#8211;ship\u2019s captain, shadow warrior, and movie star&#8211;was deployed to the Mediterranean to take the fight to the Nazis. And this he did\u2026for the next three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hayden lived and worked in enemy-held territory. He captained a motor launch running weapons, supplies, and ammunition to Yugoslavian partisans serving under Tito. Hayden parachuted covertly into Croatia to help organize resistance cells. He fought the Germans and Italians during the Naples-Foggia campaign and organized partisans into rescue teams to repatriate downed Allied fliers. By the end of the war, Hayden was a Captain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-17-at-2.55.36-PM-827x1024.jpg\" alt=\"3-Will-Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\" class=\"wp-image-184576\" title=\"3-Will-Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This guy doesn&#8217;t look much like a Greek fisherman to me. Regardless, he successfully pulled off that role for years avoiding the Nazis while working as a spy during WW2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-american-silver-star\">American Silver Star<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Now appreciate what that meant. This towering 6 foot 5 inch giant of a man masqueraded as a fisherman, running guns under the noses of the Nazis for years. He didn\u2019t wear a uniform. At any moment he could have been discovered, captured, tortured, and killed. He earned the Bronze Arrowhead Device for parachuting behind enemy lines in combat. Josip Broz Tito recognized him with the Order of Merit for exceptional valor in action. He earned the American Silver Star for gallantry. The citation for the award read in part, \u201cLt. Hamilton displayed great courage in making hazardous sea voyages in enemy-infested waters and reconnaissance through enemy-held areas.\u201d Wow. What a stud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the war, like so many millions of American veterans, Sterling Hayden came home. His wartime service overseas left him with a deep love and appreciation for his country. During one press conference, he said, \u201cI feel a real obligation to make this a better country \u2013 and I believe the movies are the place to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-short-stint-as-a-communist\">Short Stint As A Communist<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After having served so long alongside communist partisans in combat, Hayden came home with a bit of a soft spot for the Reds. In the late 1940\u2019s and early 1950\u2019s, this was an unpopular place to be politically. He briefly joined the American Communist Party but soon became disillusioned and left. He eventually testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, this time as a reformed communist. He later said, \u201cThe FBI made it very clear to me that, if I became an &#8216;unfriendly witness&#8217;, I could damn well forget the custody of my children. I didn&#8217;t want to go to jail, that was the other thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-17-at-3.00.24-PM.jpg\" alt=\"3-Will-Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\" class=\"wp-image-184577\" title=\"3-Will-Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hayden&#8217;s General Jack D. Ripper in Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s Dr. Strangelove became one of his best-known parts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hayden found plenty of work in Hollywood. Some of his movies were better than others. In 1956, he starred in&nbsp;<em>The Killing<\/em>&nbsp;directed by Stanley Kubrick. This low-budget outing became a respected classic and eventually landed him a big part in&nbsp;<em>Dr. Strangelove<\/em>&nbsp;as the warmongering Air Force General Jack D. Ripper who tries to end the world. Throughout it all, however, Hayden acted just to pay the bills.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-17-at-2.52.58-PM-1.jpg\" alt=\"3-Will-Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\" class=\"wp-image-184575\" title=\"3-Will-Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">All the big flashy stuff Sterling Hayden did in Hollywood was just a vehicle to get him a boat and the freedom to exercise it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-sterling-hayden-traveled-the-world\">Sterling Hayden Traveled The World<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>He eventually landed that schooner,&nbsp;<em>The Wanderer,<\/em>&nbsp;and used it to travel the world on the proceeds from his movies. After a particularly acrimonious divorce wherein he was awarded custody of his children, Hayden scooped up his four kids and struck out for Tahiti, defying a court order in the process. Eventually, he remarried and fathered another two sons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/donald-pleasence-art-imitates-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"sterling-hayden-sailor-actor-viking-spy\" title=\"Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\">Dr. Dabbs \u2013 Donald Pleasence: Art Imitates Life<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like most folks who hit it big, Hayden grew introspective later in life. He eschewed Hollywood, for the most part. He came out of retirement to do&nbsp;<em>Dr. Strangelove<\/em>&nbsp;as a favor for Kubrick. Whenever he described himself in his later years he claimed to be a sailor or writer rather than an actor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-end-for-sterling-hayden\">The End For Sterling Hayden<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually, Sterling Hayden developed prostate cancer. That\u2019s an eminently treatable condition today, but back in the early 1980\u2019s, we did not have nearly so many good tools. He ultimately succumbed to the disease in 1986 at age 70.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-17-at-2.53.17-PM-1024x836.jpg\" alt=\"3-Will-Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\" class=\"wp-image-184574\" title=\"3-Will-Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sterling Hayden had everything the world might offer at his fingertips. However, he willingly traded it all for seclusion on the high seas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sterling Hayden was married to three different women. He traveled the world, faced death countless times, and then channeled a little bit of that extraordinarily manly life into his many movies. The Beautiful Blond Viking God was a Renaissance Man indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong><em>*** <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"sterling-hayden-sailor-actor-viking-spy\" title=\"Sterling Hayden: Sailor, Actor, Viking, Spy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a> ***<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the war, like so many millions of American veterans, Sterling Hayden came home. His wartime service overseas left him with a deep love and appreciation for his country. 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