Martha Hyer
Known for: Acting
Born: August 10, 1924
Died: May 31, 2014
Place of birth: Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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.
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Filmography
75 movies · 23 TV shows, newest first
6.4
Rooster Cogburn
1975
6.8
The Day of the Wolves
1971
7.2
McCloud
1970
5.6
Crossplot
1969
4.6
Once You Kiss a Stranger...
1969
7.0
The Name of the Game
1968
5.3
House of 1,000 Dolls
1967
3.0
Another Man's Wife
1967
6.2
Catch As Catch Can
1967
7.7
Judd, for the Defense
1967
4.3
Some May Live
1967
6.3
The Happening
1967
5.7
Picture Mommy Dead
1966
6.7
Family Affair
1966
6.3
Cuernavaca in Spring
1966
5.9
The Night of the Grizzly
1966
7.1
The Chase
1966
5.0
War Italian Style
1965
7.0
The Sons of Katie Elder
1965
6.8
Branded
1965
4.4
Blood on the Arrow
1964
7.9
Bewitched
1964
6.3
First Men in the Moon
1964
5.6
Bikini Beach
1964
5.9
The Carpetbaggers
1964
5.0
Pyro... The Thing Without a Face
1964
6.5
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963
6.3
Burke's Law
19637.5
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963
4.4
Wives and Lovers
1963
5.8
The Man from the Diners' Club
1963
5.8
A Girl Named Tamiko
1962
6.9
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
7.9
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
6.5
The Virginian
1962
6.0
The Last Time I Saw Archie
1961
7.0
The Right Approach
1961
4.4
Desire in the Dust
1960
6.7
Route 66
1960
5.0
Mistress of the World - Part II
1960
6.8
Mistress of the World - Part I
1960
6.3
Ice Palace
1960
6.3
The Best of Everything
1959
6.5
The Deputy
1959
5.1
The Big Fisherman
1959
7.2
Rawhide
1959
7.0
Some Came Running
1958
6.4
Houseboat
1958
8.3
Once Upon a Horse...
1958
5.6
Paris Holiday
1958
6.5
My Man Godfrey
1957
6.4
The Delicate Delinquent
1957
9.0
Kelly and Me
1957
6.0
Mister Cory
1957
6.7
Battle Hymn
1957
6.2
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
5.3
Showdown at Abilene
1956
6.1
Red Sundown
1956
8.0
Paris Follies of 1956
1955
5.5
Kiss of Fire
1955
5.6
Francis in the Navy
1955
8.0
Trouble on the Trail
1954
6.1
Cry Vengeance
1954
3.8
Climax!
1954
5.8
Down Three Dark Streets
1954
7.5
Sabrina
1954
6.0
Battle of Rogue River
1954
6.8
Lucky Me
1954
6.1
Wyoming Renegades
1954
6.3
Public Defender
1954
6.5
The Scarlet Spear
1954
5.9
Riders to the Stars
1954
5.5
So Big
1953
5.4
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
1953
6.8
Four Star Playhouse
1952
5.0
Yukon Gold
1952
6.5
Geisha Girl
1952
6.2
Wild Stallion
1952
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
195110.0
Oriental Evil
1951
6.5
Racket Squad
1951
5.3
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
7.5
The Kangaroo Kid
19506.7
Lux Video Theatre
1950
7.5
Frisco Tornado
1950
5.9
The Lawless
1950
7.5
Salt Lake Raiders
1950
9.0
Outcasts of Black Mesa
1950
5.7
Roughshod
1949
5.7
The Clay Pigeon
1949
6.3
Rustlers
1949
6.7
Gun Smugglers
1948
6.2
The Velvet Touch
1948
6.8
The Judge Steps Out
1947
6.1
The Woman on the Beach
1947
6.0
Thunder Mountain
1947
6.7
Born to Kill
1947
6.3
The Locket
1946