FrameThrower · Actors · Sterling Hayden
Sterling Hayden
5 films · 311 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1954–1973
Born 26 March 1916 · Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA · died 23 May 1986
Sterling Walter Hayden was an American actor and author. He dropped out of high school at the age of 16 and hired on as mate on a schooner. He was a ship's captain at 22, and in need of cash to buy his own boat, established himself as a model in New York, discovered by Paramount Studios talent scouts and offered a contract.
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".…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 311 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1954–1973
- Silver Star
How their films are shot
Measured across 311 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Sterling takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 49% of their frames are day, 44% low key — the look of the work Sterling takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 311 frames from Sterling Hayden's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.