Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 10, 1924
Died
May 31, 2014
Place of Birth
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Credits
98 titles
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
Filmography
Rooster Cogburn
Writer
The Day of the Wolves
Maggie Anderson
McCloud
Crossplot
Jo Grinling
Once You Kiss a Stranger...
Lee Marshall
The Name of the Game
Billie Ramsey
House of 1,000 Dolls
Rebecca
Another Man's Wife
Ana María
Catch As Catch Can
Luisa Chiaramonte
Judd, for the Defense
Some May Live
Kate Meredith
The Happening
Monica Delmonico
Picture Mommy Dead
Francene Shelley
Family Affair
Cuernavaca in Spring
The Night of the Grizzly
Angela Cole
The Chase
Mary Fuller
War Italian Style
Lt. Inge Schultze
The Sons of Katie Elder
Mary Gordon
Branded
Blood on the Arrow
Nancy Mailer
Bewitched
Margaret Marshall
First Men in the Moon
Kate Callender
Bikini Beach
Vivien Clements
The Carpetbaggers
Jennie Denton
Pyro... The Thing Without a Face
Laura Blanco
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Helen Blaine
Burke's Law
Jerri Vaughn
The Greatest Show on Earth
Wives and Lovers
Lucinda Ford
The Man from the Diners' Club
Lucy
A Girl Named Tamiko
Fay Wilson
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Alice Marsden
The Virginian
Amalia Clark
The Last Time I Saw Archie
Peggy Kramer
The Right Approach
Anne Perry
Desire in the Dust
Melinda Marquand
Route 66
Mistress of the World - Part II
Karin Johanson
Mistress of the World - Part I
Karin Johanson
Ice Palace
Dorothy Wendt Kennedy
The Best of Everything
Barbara Lamont
The Deputy
Joy Cartwright
The Big Fisherman
Herodias
Rawhide
Hannah Haley
Some Came Running
Gwen French
Houseboat
Carolyn Gibson
Once Upon a Horse...
Miss Amity Babb
Paris Holiday
Ann McCall