Hedy Lamarr
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 9, 1914
- Died
- January 19, 2000 (aged 85)
- Birthplace
- Vienna, Austria
Biography
Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born actress and technology inventor. She was a film star during Hollywood's Golden Age. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and secretly moved to Paris. Traveling to London, she met Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio head Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a movie contract in Hollywood. She became a film star with her performance in Algiers (1938). Her MGM films include Lady of the Tropics (1939), Boom Town (1940), H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941), and White Cargo (1942). Her greatest success was as Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille's Bible-inspired Samson and Delilah (1949). She also acted on television before the release of her final film, The Female Animal (1958). She was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. At the beginning of World War II, she and avant-garde composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers. This system later became the basis for what is now known as Bluetooth. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hedy Lamarr, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Photos
Filmography
Beautiful Like a Poem
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star
Movie
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Movie
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
Movie · as Self
Marilyn, dernières séances
Movie · as archive footage
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
Movie
Calling Hedy Lamarr
Movie
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Casting Couch
Movie
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
Movie · as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Instant Karma
Movie · as Movie Goddess (Archival)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Movie · as (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Showbiz Goes to War
Movie · as (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie · as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Blue
Movie · as (archive footage)
Mondo Hollywood
Movie
The Female Animal
Movie · as Vanessa Windsor
The Story of Mankind
Movie · as Joan of Arc
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV · as Consuela Bowers · 1 ep
The Steve Allen Show
TV · as Self - Match Game Wife · 1 ep
Loves of Three Queens
Movie · as Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant
The Fate of Two Queens
Movie · as Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
My Favorite Spy
Movie · as Lily Dalbray
A Lady Without Passport
Movie · as Marianne Lorress
Copper Canyon
Movie · as Lisa Roselle
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV · as Self · 3 eps
What's My Line?
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Samson and Delilah
Movie · as Delilah
Let's Live a Little
Movie · as Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Dishonored Lady
Movie · as Madeleine Damien
The Strange Woman
Movie · as Jenny Hager
Her Highness and the Bellboy
Movie · as Princess Veronica
Experiment Perilous
Movie · as Allida Bederaux
The Heavenly Body
Movie · as Vicky Whitley
The Conspirators
Movie · as Irene Von Mohr
Show-Business at War
Movie · as Self
Crossroads
Movie · as Lucienne Talbot
Tortilla Flat
Movie · as Dolores Ramirez
White Cargo
Movie · as Tondelayo
Come Live with Me
Movie · as Johnny Jones
Ziegfeld Girl
Movie · as Sandra Kolter
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Movie · as Marvin Myles Ransome
Comrade X
Movie · as Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
Boom Town
Movie · as Karen Vanmeer
I Take This Woman
Movie · as Georgi Gragore
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Movie · as Self
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Movie · as Self
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Movie · as Self
Lady of the Tropics
Movie · as Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim
Algiers
Movie · as Gaby
Hollywood Goes to Town
Movie · as Self
Ecstasy
Movie · as Eva Hermann
We Need No Money
Movie · as Käthe Brandt
The Trunks of Mr. O.F.
Movie · as Helene, seine Tochter
Storm in a Water Glass
Movie · as Secretary
Money on the Street
Movie · as Young Girl at Night Club Table