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USA (1916 - 1986). Actor norteamericano, cuyo verdadero ombre es Sterling Relyea Walter, nacido el 26 de Marzo de 1916 en Montclair, Nueva Jersey, y fallecido el 23 de Mayo de 1986 en Sausalito, California. Handsome, virile star of the late 1940s and 50s. Hayden spent several years at sea before signing with Paramount in 1940, appearing in two films with future wife Madeleine Carroll before he broke contract to join the Marines. He joined the Communist party in 1946 (he left after six months), and resumed his acting career the following year. Shortly after his superb performance in THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950), Hayden was blacklisted and was unable to work in Hollywood for six months. He then privately called on the FBI to make a statement concerning his former Communist affiliations, but was subpoenaed by the HUAC in 1951 and obliged to testify in public. Hayden was then allowed to continue working, though he expressed his guilt over having named names in his 1966 autobiography, Wanderer. Ironically, in Stanley Kubrick's classic comedy DR. STRANGELOVE (1964), Hayden played the deranged General Jack D. Ripper, whose over-zealous desire to stop the Communist threat sets WWIII in motion.
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