Janusz Gajos

A popular Polish actor, he starred in numerous other films and theatrical plays, notably in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors: White. He appeared in many films, among them:. He debuted in 1964 (while still in the film school) in a film for young audience "Panienka z okienka." Shortly afterwards he was cast in a role of Janek Kos in a widely popular TV WWII series "Czterej pancerni i pies" (The Tank Crew and the Dog). He died of cancer in 1986. He graduated in 1965 from the Polish Film and Theater Academy in Lodz. Both books were well received. Janusz Gajos (born September 23, 1939 in Dabrowa Gornicza in Poland) is a Polish actor. He wrote his autobiography Wanderer in 1963 and an adventure novel of the tall ships, Voyage: A Novel of 1896 in 1976.

He defied a court order once and sailed to Tahiti with his children following a divorce. He professed distaste for film acting, claiming that he did it mainly to pay for his sailing vessels. Ever after regretted this action, holding himself in enormous contempt for what he considered 'ratting'.". According to his IMDB biography (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001330/bio), "As Red Scare deepens in U.S., he cooperated with the House Un-American Activities Committee, confessing his brief Communist ties.

His admiration for the Communist partisans led to a brief involvement with the Communist Party. He won the Silver Star and a commendation from Yugoslavia's Marshall Tito. His World War 2 service included running guns through German lines to the Yugoslav partisans and parachuting into Croatia. He also joined the Marines under the name John Hamilton.

After only two film roles, however, he left Hollywood to serve as an undercover agent with the with William J. Donovan's COI office and remained after it became the OSS. His first film role starred Madeleine Carroll, with whom he fell in love and married. He became a print model and eventually was signed to a contract with Paramount Studios, who dubbed the 6' 5" (1.96 m) actor The Most Beautiful Man in the Movies and The Beautiful Blond Viking God. After serving as sailor and fireman on larger vessels, he was awarded his first command at 19, and sailed around the world several times.

He ran away to sea at 17, as a ship's boy, then later was a fisherman on the Grand Banks. Hayden was a genuine adventurer and man of action, not dissimilar from many of his movie parts. As a child, he lived in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., and Maine, where he attended Wassookeag School in Dexter, Maine. After his father died, he was adopted at the age of nine by James Hayden and renamed Sterling Walter Hayden.

Hayden's parents were George and Frances Walter, who named him Sterling Relyea Walter. He also played the Irish policeman, Captain McCluskey, who was gunned down by Al Pacino, in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather in 1972. Strangelove (1964). Ripper in Dr.

Zero Hour!(1957). Ten Days to Tulara (1958). Terror in a Texas Town (1958). Strangelove (1964).

Dr. Carol for Another Christmas TV (1964). Hard Contract (1969). Ternos Cacadores (1969).