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

1971
The Day of the Wolves

as Maggie Anderson

1969
Crossplot

as Jo Grinling

1969
1968
The Name of the Game

as Billie Ramsey

1967
Another Man's Wife

as Ana María

1967
1967
Catch As Catch Can

as Luisa Chiaramonte

1967
The Happening

as Monica Delmonico

1967
Some May Live

as Kate Meredith

1966
Picture Mommy Dead

as Francene Shelley

1966
1966
The Chase

as Mary Fuller

1965
War Italian Style

as Lt. Inge Schultze

1965
1964
Blood on the Arrow

as Nancy Mailer

1964
Bikini Beach

as Vivien Clements

1964
First Men in the Moon

as Kate Callender

1964
The Carpetbaggers

as Jennie Denton

1964
Bewitched

as Margaret Marshall

1963
Wives and Lovers

as Lucinda Ford

1963
Kraft Suspense Theatre

as Helen Blaine

1963
Kraft Suspense Theatre

as Caroline Glenn

1963
Burke's Law

as Jerri Vaughn

1963
Burke's Law

as Penny Allen

1963
Burke's Law

as Clarissa Montgomery

1963
Burke's Law

as Gloria Vickers

1963
Burke's Law

as Adrienne Shelton

1963
Burke's Law

as Dr. Serena Standish

1962
A Girl Named Tamiko

as Fay Wilson

1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Alice Marsden

1962
1962
The Virginian

as Amalia Clark

1961
1961
The Right Approach

as Anne Perry

1960
Desire in the Dust

as Melinda Marquand

1960
1960
1960
Ice Palace

as Dorothy Wendt Kennedy

1959
The Best of Everything

as Barbara Lamont

1959
The Big Fisherman

as Herodias

1959
Rawhide

as Hannah Haley

1958
Some Came Running

as Gwen French

1958
Houseboat

as Carolyn Gibson

1958
Once Upon a Horse...

as Miss Amity Babb

1958
Paris Holiday

as Ann McCall

1957
My Man Godfrey

as Cordelia Bullock

1957
The Delicate Delinquent

as Martha Henshaw

1957
Kelly and Me

as Lucy Castle

1957
Mister Cory

as Abby Vollard

1957
Battle Hymn

as Mary Hess

1956
Showdown at Abilene

as Peggy Bigelow

1956
Red Sundown

as Caroline Murphy

1956
1955
Paris Follies of 1956

as Ruth Harmon

1955
Kiss of Fire

as Felicia

1955
Francis in the Navy

as Betsy Donevan

1954
Trouble on the Trail

as Kidnapped Singer

1954
Cry Vengeance

as Peggy Harding

1954
Sabrina

as Elizabeth Tyson

1954
Down Three Dark Streets

as Connie Anderson

1954
Battle of Rogue River

as Brett McClain

1954
Lucky Me

as Lorraine Thayer

1954
Wyoming Renegades

as Nancy Warren

1954
The Scarlet Spear

as Christine

1954
Riders to the Stars

as Dr. Jane Flynn

1954
Climax!

as Vi Johnson

1953
So Big

as Paula Hempel

1952
Yukon Gold

as Marie Briand

1952
Geisha Girl

as Peggy Burns

1952
Wild Stallion

as Caroline (as an adult)

1952
1951
Oriental Evil

as Cheryl Banning

1950
The Kangaroo Kid

as Mary Corbett

1950
Frisco Tornado

as Jean Martin

1950
The Lawless

as Caroline Tyler

1950
Salt Lake Raiders

as Helen Thornton

1950
1950
1950
1950
1950
1949
Roughshod

as Marcia

1949
The Clay Pigeon

as Miss Harwick

1949
Rustlers

as Ruth Abbott

1948
Gun Smugglers

as Judy Davis

1948
The Velvet Touch

as Helen Adams

1947
The Judge Steps Out

as Catherine Bailey Struthers III

1947
The Woman on the Beach

as Mrs. Barton (uncredited)

1947
Thunder Mountain

as Ellie Jorth

1947
Born to Kill

as Maid (uncredited)

1946
The Locket

as Bridesmaid (uncredited)

Writer

1975
Rooster Cogburn

as Writer