American actor, author, sailor, model, and soldier (1916-1986) who specialized in westerns and film noir throughout the 1950s, starring in John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle, Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar, and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing. He became noted for supporting roles in the 1960s, perhaps most memorably as General Jack D. Ripper in Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Vintage glossy 8 x 10 Warner Bros. publicity photo for the 1943 Western drama film So Big, signed and inscribed in person in fountain pen, "Pour Pierre, Sterling Hayden." Scattered surface creases and spotting, otherwise fine condition.
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