He said he joined the Communist Party for about six months in 1946 after returning from Yugoslavia, where he fought with Tito’s partisans, but he quickly realized he was not the normal party member. He won a Silver Star, then came back to Hollywood and made 51 films through 1979. The 6-foot-4, blue-eyed actor with a deep, husky voice began his movie career with ″Virginia″ and ″Bahama Passage″ in 1941.ĭuring World War II, he served with the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA, in Italy and Yugoslavia, running night missions under sail behind the lines to resistance forces. It epitomizes all that’s wrong with life,″ he said. ″I’ll go back to Hollywood to pick up a dollar, but that’s all. Between films, he took to the seas again for the merchant marine. ″Books and the sea, I discovered, had more than a little in common: both were distilled of silence and solitude,″ Hayden wrote in his 1963 autobiography, ″Wanderer.″Īfter a voyage to Tahiti, Hayden went to Hollywood in 1939 for a film career he vowed to pursue only for money. Born John Hamilton on March 26, 1916, in Montclair, N.J., the son of a New York newspaper advertising executive, Hayden went to sea at 20, serving as first mate aboard a schooner on an around-the-world voyage.
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