Martha Hyer
Acting
Born 1924-08-10
Died 2014-05-31
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
98 credits
Awards
Nominated for 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 nominated
- 1959 Best Supporting Actress Nominated Some Came Running
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
49 credits
Bewitched
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Virginian
Rawhide
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Burke's Law
Climax!
Four Star Playhouse
The Name of the Game
Kraft Suspense Theatre
The Deputy
Lux Video Theatre
Sabrina
The Chase
The Sons of Katie Elder
Houseboat
Some Came Running
First Men in the Moon
Crossplot
Born to Kill
Battle Hymn
The Night of the Grizzly
The Woman on the Beach
Red Sundown
Yukon Gold
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
My Man Godfrey
Frisco Tornado
Bikini Beach
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
The Carpetbaggers
The Locket
The Big Fisherman
Paris Holiday
Showdown at Abilene
Mister Cory
Picture Mommy Dead
Geisha Girl
The Clay Pigeon
Once You Kiss a Stranger...
The Man from the Diners' Club
Ice Palace
Wyoming Renegades
The Best of Everything
The Judge Steps Out
So Big
House of 1,000 Dolls
The Happening
The Delicate Delinquent
Other credits
10 credits
The Beverly Hillbillies
Route 66
McCloud
Family Affair
Branded
Judd, for the Defense
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Public Defender
Racket Squad
The Greatest Show on Earth
Writing
1 credit
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