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Actor · 1916–1986

Sterling Hayden

Sterling Hayden was an American actor. Born on 26 March 1916, this profile follows Sterling Hayden through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include The Long Goodbye (1973). The location trail reaches Lincoln Heights Jail. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.

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Sterling Hayden
Hollywood Committee for the First Amendment members disembarking plane in Los Angeles, Calif., 1947 — Photographer not identified / Los Angeles newspaper photograph collection, UCLA Library · CC BY 4.0

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CHAPTER 02

The Long Goodbye · Lincoln Heights Jail

Sterling Hayden is credited as cast member on The Long Goodbye. The work’s existing location story leads to Lincoln Heights Jail. Lincoln Heights Jail is among the production’s documented locations. The institutional building contrasts with the enclosed hillside world where Marlowe begins.

The Long Goodbye — credits ↗︎The Long Goodbye · Lincoln Heights Jail ↗︎

THE PLACES BEHIND THE STORY

A life on the map.

Explore 1 connection. Each connection links to its evidence; outlined circles mark approximate areas, not exact buildings or camera positions.

IN THE STORY

Explore a shared connection.

Browse all people →

WORKS

Culture, connected.

Follow the work through its real places.

KEEP EXPLORING

Cities and Worlds.

CITY

Los Angeles ↗︎

Follow a scene into the hills. A song onto the Strip. A story all the way to the ocean.

WORLD · Movies

The Long Goodbye ↗︎

A hillside enclave and a former jail frame Robert Altman’s drifting, displaced Los Angeles detective story.

PEOPLE IN THE STORY

Creative connections.

Follow collaborators through their work and the real places tied to it.

Actor

Sally Field ↗︎

Sally Field is an American actress. Born on 6 November 1946, this profile follows Sally Field through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include The Long Goodbye (1973), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994). The location trail reaches Lincoln Heights Jail, Painted Ladies and Union Square, with existing stories in San Francisco. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.

Musician

John Williams ↗︎

John Williams is an American composer and conductor. Born on 8 February 1932, this profile follows John Williams through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Long Goodbye (1973), Earthquake (1974) and Home Alone — Chicago (1990). The location trail reaches RMS Queen Mary, Lincoln Heights Jail and Hollywood Reservoir · Mulholland Dam, with existing stories in Chicago. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.

Actor

Elliott Gould ↗︎

Elliott Gould is an American actor. Born on 29 August 1938, this profile follows Elliott Gould through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include MASH (1970), The Long Goodbye (1973), Friends (1994) and American History X (1998). The location trail reaches Malibu Creek State Park, Lincoln Heights Jail and Warner Bros. Studios. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.

Actor

Mark Rydell ↗︎

Mark Rydell was an American actor, film director, and producer. Born on 23 March 1929, this profile follows Mark Rydell through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include The Long Goodbye (1973). The location trail reaches Lincoln Heights Jail. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.

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