Hedy Lamarr
Age: N/A | From: Vienna, Austria
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Hedy Kiesler , 海蒂·拉玛 , Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler , Хеди Ламарр , Хеди Кислер
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Vienna, Austria
Homepage: http://www.hedylamarr.com/
Movie Involvements: 41
TV Involvements: 3
Most Famous Work
Biography
Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born actress and technology inventor. She was a film star during Hollywood's Golden Age. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and secretly moved to Paris. Traveling to London, she met Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio head Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a movie contract in Hollywood. She became a film star with her performance in Algiers (1938). Her MGM films include Lady of the Tropics (1939), Boom Town (1940), H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941), and White Cargo (1942). Her greatest success was as Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille's Bible-inspired Samson and Delilah (1949). She also acted on television before the release of her final film, The Female Animal (1958). She was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. At the beginning of World War II, she and avant-garde composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers. This system later became the basis for what is now known as Bluetooth. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hedy Lamarr, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Famous Work
What's My Line?
(1950) Self - Mystery Guest
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
(1956) Consuela Bowers
Samson and Delilah
(1949) Delilah
Ecstasy
(1933) Eva Hermann
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
(2018) Self (archive footage)
Algiers
(1938) Gaby
That's Entertainment, Part II
(1976) (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
(1994) (archive footage)Acting
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2017 | Self | |
| 2009 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2006 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| 1995 | (archive footage) | |
| 1994 | (archive footage) | |
| 1984 | (archive footage) | |
| 1983 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 1982 | (archive footage) | |
| 1976 | (archive footage) | |
| 1975 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1970 | (archive footage) | |
| 1965 | (archive footage) | |
| 1958 | Vanessa Windsor | |
| 1957 | Joan of Arc | |
| 1956 | Consuela Bowers | |
| Self - Match Game Wife | ||
| 1954 | N/A | |
| Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant | ||
| Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor | ||
| 1951 | Lily Dalbray | |
| 1950 | Lisa Roselle | |
| Self | ||
| Marianne Lorress | ||
| Self - Panelist | ||
| Self - Mystery Guest | ||
| 1949 | Delilah | |
| 1948 | Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring | |
| Self | ||
| 1947 | Madeleine Damien | |
| 1946 | Jenny Hager | |
| 1945 | Princess Veronica | |
| 1944 | Allida Bederaux | |
| Irene Von Mohr | ||
| Vicky Whitley | ||
| 1943 | Self | |
| 1942 | Tondelayo | |
| Lucienne Talbot | ||
| Dolores Ramirez | ||
| 1941 | Marvin Myles Ransome | |
| Sandra Kolter | ||
| Johnny Jones | ||
| 1940 | Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie' | |
| Self | ||
| Karen Vanmeer | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Georgi Gragore | ||
| 1939 | Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim | |
| 1938 | Self | |
| Gaby | ||
| 1933 | Eva Hermann | |
| 1931 | Käthe Brandt | |
| Helene, seine Tochter | ||
| Secretary | ||
| 1930 | Young Girl at Night Club Table | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Producer | |
| 1947 | Co-Producer | |
| 1946 | Executive Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |