Martha Hyer
Age: N/A | From: Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Movie Involvements: 55
TV Involvements: 15
Most Famous Work
Biography
Martha Hyer (August 10, 1924, Fort Worth, Texas - May 31, 2014, Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an American actress. She attended Northwestern University and was a member of Pi Beta Phi fraternity. After completing her education, she next appeared in The Locket in 1946. She had roles in So Big (1953), Sabrina (1954), The Delicate Delinquent in 1956 (Jerry Lewis' first film without Dean Martin), Houseboat (1958), Ice Palace (1960), Desire in the Dust (1960), The Carpetbaggers (1964), First Men in the Moon (1964), Blood on the Arrow (1964) and The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), Night of the Grizzly (1966), among many others. She costarred with Keenan Wynn in Bikini Beach (1964), one of the Beach Party movies with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. On television, Hyer played the part of "Hannah Haley" in the episode "Incident West of Lano" on the Western series Rawhide. Her most significant role came as the love interest of Frank Sinatra in Some Came Running for director Vincente Minnelli in 1958, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Hyer was one of the actresses considered for the Janet Leigh role of the doomed Marion Crane in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Psycho. Her last film was Day of the Wolves in 1973. Hyer married producer Hal B. Wallis in 1966, and the couple remained together until his death in 1986. She died on May 31, 2014, at the age of 89 from natural causes, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she had lived for many years. Description above from the Wikipedia article Martha Hyer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Famous Work
The Virginian
(1962) Amalia Clark
Climax!
(1954) Vi Johnson
Rawhide
(1959) Hannah Haley
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
(1956) Laurie Pritchard
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
(1962) Judy Mullett
Burke's Law
(1963) Penny Allen
The Name of the Game
(1968) Billie Ramsey
Kraft Suspense Theatre
(1963) Caroline GlennActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Maggie Anderson | |
| 1970 | N/A | |
| 1969 | Jo Grinling | |
| Lee Marshall | ||
| 1968 | Billie Ramsey | |
| 1967 | Ana María | |
| Rebecca | ||
| Luisa Chiaramonte | ||
| N/A | ||
| Monica Delmonico | ||
| Kate Meredith | ||
| 1966 | Francene Shelley | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Angela Cole | ||
| Mary Fuller | ||
| 1965 | Lt. Inge Schultze | |
| Mary Gordon | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1964 | Nancy Mailer | |
| Margaret Marshall | ||
| Vivien Clements | ||
| Kate Callender | ||
| Jennie Denton | ||
| Laura Blanco | ||
| 1963 | Helen Blaine | |
| Caroline Glenn | ||
| Jerri Vaughn | ||
| Clarissa Montgomery | ||
| Gloria Vickers | ||
| Adrienne Shelton | ||
| Dr. Serena Standish | ||
| Penny Allen | ||
| N/A | ||
| Lucinda Ford | ||
| Lucy | ||
| 1962 | Fay Wilson | |
| N/A | ||
| Alice Marsden | ||
| Judy Mullett | ||
| Amalia Clark | ||
| 1961 | Peggy Kramer | |
| Anne Perry | ||
| 1960 | Melinda Marquand | |
| N/A | ||
| Karin Johanson | ||
| Karin Johanson | ||
| Dorothy Wendt Kennedy | ||
| 1959 | Barbara Lamont | |
| Herodias | ||
| Hannah Haley | ||
| 1958 | Gwen French | |
| Carolyn Gibson | ||
| Miss Amity Babb | ||
| Ann McCall | ||
| 1957 | Cordelia Bullock | |
| Martha Henshaw | ||
| Lucy Castle | ||
| Abby Vollard | ||
| Mary Hess | ||
| 1956 | Laurie Pritchard | |
| Peggy Bigelow | ||
| Caroline Murphy | ||
| 1955 | Ruth Harmon | |
| Felicia | ||
| Betsy Donevan | ||
| 1954 | Kidnapped Singer | |
| Peggy Harding | ||
| Vi Johnson | ||
| Elizabeth Tyson | ||
| Connie Anderson | ||
| Brett McClain | ||
| Lorraine Thayer | ||
| Nancy Warren | ||
| N/A | ||
| Christine | ||
| Dr. Jane Flynn | ||
| 1953 | Paula Hempel | |
| Janie Howe | ||
| 1952 | Gloria | |
| Jan | ||
| Marie Briand | ||
| Peggy Burns | ||
| Caroline (as an adult) | ||
| 1951 | Lisa | |
| Cheryl Banning | ||
| N/A | ||
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| 1950 | Mary Corbett | |
| Lois | ||
| Trudy | ||
| Jean | ||
| Ivy | ||
| Julie | ||
| Jean Martin | ||
| Caroline Tyler | ||
| Helen Thornton | ||
| Ruth Dorn | ||
| 1949 | Marcia | |
| Miss Harwick | ||
| Ruth Abbott | ||
| 1948 | Judy Davis | |
| Helen Adams | ||
| 1947 | Catherine Bailey Struthers III | |
| Mrs. Barton (uncredited) | ||
| Ellie Jorth | ||
| Maid (uncredited) | ||
| 1946 | Bridesmaid (uncredited) | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
