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Martha Hyer
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 Ph…
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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.
Filmography
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1975
Rooster Cogburn
Movie Writer
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1971
The Day of the Wolves
Movie Maggie Anderson
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1970
McCloud
TV show
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1969
Crossplot
Movie Jo Grinling
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1969
Once You Kiss a Stranger...
Movie Lee Marshall
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1968
The Name of the Game
TV show Billie Ramsey
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1967
House of 1,000 Dolls
Movie Rebecca
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1967
Another Man's Wife
Movie Ana María
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1967
Catch As Catch Can
Movie Luisa Chiaramonte
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1967
Judd, for the Defense
TV show
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1967
Some May Live
Movie Kate Meredith
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1967
The Happening
Movie Monica Delmonico
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1966
Picture Mommy Dead
Movie Francene Shelley
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1966
Family Affair
TV show
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1966
Cuernavaca in Spring
Movie
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1966
The Night of the Grizzly
Movie Angela Cole
More credits
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1966
The Chase
Movie Mary Fuller
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1965
War Italian Style
Movie Lt. Inge Schultze
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1965
The Sons of Katie Elder
Movie Mary Gordon
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1965
Branded
TV show
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1964
Blood on the Arrow
Movie Nancy Mailer
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1964
Bewitched
TV show Margaret Marshall
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1964
First Men in the Moon
Movie Kate Callender
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1964
Bikini Beach
Movie Vivien Clements
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1964
The Carpetbaggers
Movie Jennie Denton
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1964
Pyro... The Thing Without a Face
Movie Laura Blanco
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1963
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV show Helen Blaine
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1963
Burke's Law
TV show Jerri Vaughn
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1963
The Greatest Show on Earth
TV show
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1963
Wives and Lovers
Movie Lucinda Ford
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1963
The Man from the Diners' Club
Movie Lucy
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1962
A Girl Named Tamiko
Movie Fay Wilson
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1962
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV show
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1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV show Alice Marsden
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1962
The Virginian
TV show Amalia Clark
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1961
The Last Time I Saw Archie
Movie Peggy Kramer
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1961
The Right Approach
Movie Anne Perry
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1960
Desire in the Dust
Movie Melinda Marquand
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1960
Route 66
TV show
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1960
Mistress of the World - Part II
Movie Karin Johanson
