Martha Hyer
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1924-08-10
Day of Death
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.
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Acting
(1971)
The Day of the Wolves
as Maggie Anderson
(1969)
Crossplot
as Jo Grinling
(1969)
Once You Kiss a Stranger...
as Lee Marshall
(1967)
House of 1,000 Dolls
as Rebecca
(1967)
The Happening
as Monica Delmonico
(1967)
Another Man's Wife
as Ana María
(1967)
Catch As Catch Can
as Luisa Chiaramonte
(1967)
Some May Live
as Kate Meredith
(1966)
The Chase
as Mary Fuller
(1966)
The Night of the Grizzly
as Angela Cole
(1966)
Picture Mommy Dead
as Francene Shelley
(1966)
(1965)
The Sons of Katie Elder
as Mary Gordon
(1965)
War Italian Style
as Lt. Inge Schultze
(1964)
Bikini Beach
as Vivien Clements
(1964)
First Men in the Moon
as Kate Callender
(1964)
The Carpetbaggers
as Jennie Denton
(1964)
Blood on the Arrow
as Nancy Mailer
(1964)
Pyro... The Thing Without a Face
as Laura Blanco
(1963)
(1963)
Wives and Lovers
as Lucinda Ford
(1962)
A Girl Named Tamiko
as Fay Wilson
(1961)
The Last Time I Saw Archie
as Peggy Kramer
(1961)
The Right Approach
as Anne Perry
(1960)
Mistress of the World - Part I
as Karin Johanson
(1960)
Ice Palace
as Dorothy Wendt Kennedy
(1960)
Mistress of the World - Part II
as Karin Johanson
(1960)
Desire in the Dust
as Melinda Marquand
(1959)
The Best of Everything
as Barbara Lamont
(1959)
The Big Fisherman
as Herodias
(1958)
Houseboat
as Carolyn Gibson
(1958)
Some Came Running
as Gwen French
(1958)
Paris Holiday
as Ann McCall
(1958)
Once Upon a Horse...
as Miss Amity Babb
(1957)
Battle Hymn
as Mary Hess
(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
(1956)
Red Sundown
as Caroline Murphy
(1956)
Showdown at Abilene
as Peggy Bigelow
(1955)
Francis in the Navy
as Betsy Donevan
(1955)
Kiss of Fire
as Felicia
(1955)
Paris Follies of 1956
as Ruth Harmon
(1954)
Sabrina
as Elizabeth Tyson
(1954)
Wyoming Renegades
as Nancy Warren
(1954)
Lucky Me
as Lorraine Thayer
(1954)
Down Three Dark Streets
as Connie Anderson
(1954)
Cry Vengeance
as Peggy Harding
(1954)
Battle of Rogue River
as Brett McClain
(1954)
Riders to the Stars
as Dr. Jane Flynn
(1954)
Trouble on the Trail
as Kidnapped Singer
(1954)
The Scarlet Spear
as Christine
(1953)
So Big
as Paula Hempel
(1953)
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
as Janie Howe
(1952)
Wild Stallion
as Caroline (as an adult)
(1952)
Yukon Gold
as Marie Briand
(1952)
Geisha Girl
as Peggy Burns
(1951)
Oriental Evil
as Cheryl Banning
(1950)
The Kangaroo Kid
as Mary Corbett
(1950)
The Lawless
as Caroline Tyler
(1950)
Salt Lake Raiders
as Helen Thornton
(1950)
Outcasts of Black Mesa
as Ruth Dorn
(1950)
Frisco Tornado
as Jean Martin
(1949)
Roughshod
as Marcia
(1949)
The Clay Pigeon
as Miss Harwick
(1949)
Rustlers
as Ruth Abbott
(1948)
The Velvet Touch
as Helen Adams
(1948)
Gun Smugglers
as Judy Davis
(1947)
Born to Kill
as Maid (uncredited)
(1947)
The Woman on the Beach
as Mrs. Barton (uncredited)
(1947)
The Judge Steps Out
as Catherine Bailey Struthers III
(1947)
Thunder Mountain
as Ellie Jorth
(1946)
The Locket
as Bridesmaid (uncredited)
Crew
(1975)
Rooster Cogburn
Writer