- Father, with Ann Sothern, of actress Tisha Sterling. Father, with Anne Jeffreys, of sons Jeffrey, Dana and Tyler.
- Was a vice president and spokesman for a computer software company that implemented one of the first supermarket bar-coding and computer inventory systems.
- Sterling's movie career at MGM was interrupted by World War II, during which he served as an Army Air Forces flight instructor and was stationed in London.
- Best remembered by the public for his co-starring role as "George Kerby" in the television series, Topper (1953).
- Shortly after arriving in Hollywood in 1938, he tested for the boxing lead in Golden Boy (1939), but lost out to William Holden. He ended up with an uncredited bit in the movie. He later played a boxer in the movie Ringside Maisie (1941) where he met first wife Ann Sothern.
- His father, Walter S. Hart, played professional baseball in the Chicago Cubs' minor league farm system.
- Once considered for the title role in the classic Perry Mason (1957) series, which eventually went to Raymond Burr.
- Created a family business in the 1970s with Sterling & Sons, a Santa Monica company that manufactured custom-made golf clubs.
- Upon his death, he was cremated by the Neptune Society and his ashes were given to his widow, the actress Anne Jeffreys. When Jeffreys died on September 27, 2017, two months before what would've been Sterling's 100th birthday, she herself was promptly cremated with her ashes deposited within the same urn that held his. The urn that holds them together is now in the custody of Tisha Sterling in Idaho.
- Ex-father-in-law of Lal Baum.
- Alumnus of Stella Adler Studio of Acting.
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