Martha Hyer
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Female
Birthday 1924-08-10
Deathday 2014-05-31 (89 years old)
Place of Birth Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Martha Hyer
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.
Known For
Actor
as Maggie Anderson
as Jo Grinling
as Lee Marshall
as Billie Ramsey
as Ana María
as Rebecca
as Luisa Chiaramonte
as Monica Delmonico
as Kate Meredith
as Francene Shelley
as Angela Cole
as Mary Fuller
as Lt. Inge Schultze
as Mary Gordon
as Nancy Mailer
as Vivien Clements
as Kate Callender
as Jennie Denton
as Laura Blanco
as Margaret Marshall
as Lucinda Ford
as Lucy
as Helen Blaine
as Caroline Glenn
as Jerri Vaughn
as Penny Allen
as Clarissa Montgomery
as Gloria Vickers
as Adrienne Shelton
as Dr. Serena Standish
as Fay Wilson
as Alice Marsden
as Judy Mullett
as Amalia Clark
as Peggy Kramer
as Anne Perry
as Melinda Marquand
as Karin Johanson
as Karin Johanson
as Dorothy Wendt Kennedy
as Barbara Lamont
as Herodias
as Hannah Haley
as Gwen French
as Carolyn Gibson
as Miss Amity Babb
as Ann McCall
as Cordelia Bullock
as Martha Henshaw
as Lucy Castle
as Abby Vollard
as Mary Hess
as Peggy Bigelow
as Caroline Murphy
as Laurie Pritchard
as Ruth Harmon
as Felicia
as Betsy Donevan
as Kidnapped Singer
as Peggy Harding
as Elizabeth Tyson
as Connie Anderson
as Brett McClain
as Lorraine Thayer
as Nancy Warren
as Christine
as Dr. Jane Flynn
as Vi Johnson
as Paula Hempel
as Janie Howe
as Marie Briand
as Peggy Burns
as Caroline (as an adult)
as Gloria
as Jan
as Cheryl Banning
as Lisa
as Mary Corbett
as Jean Martin
as Caroline Tyler
as Helen Thornton
as Ruth Dorn
as Lois
as Jean
as Ivy
as Julie
as Trudy
as Marcia
as Miss Harwick
as Ruth Abbott
as Judy Davis
as Helen Adams
as Catherine Bailey Struthers III
as Mrs. Barton (uncredited)
as Ellie Jorth
as Maid (uncredited)
as Bridesmaid (uncredited)
Writer
as Writer