Hedy Lamarr
Acting
Born: November 9, 1914 · Vienna, Austria
Died: January 19, 2000 (aged 85)
Highest Rated
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
Samson and Delilah
1949
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
2018
Ecstasy
1933
Boom Town
1940
Algiers
1938
The Strange Woman
1946
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
That's Entertainment! III
1994
Ziegfeld Girl
1941
Crossroads
1942
Experiment Perilous
1944
Come Live with Me
1941
Photos (15)
Movies (44)
Samson and Delilah
Delilah
Ziegfeld Girl
Sandra Kolter
Money on the Street
Young Girl at Night Club Table
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Dishonored Lady
Madeleine Damien
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018
The Strange Woman
Jenny Hager
Tortilla Flat
Dolores Ramirez
Instant Karma
Movie Goddess (Archival)
Boom Town
Karen Vanmeer
Comrade X
Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
My Favorite Spy
Lily Dalbray
The Story of Mankind
Joan of Arc
The Female Animal
Vanessa Windsor
Copper Canyon
Lisa Roselle
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage) (uncredited)
The Conspirators
Irene Von Mohr
Ecstasy
Eva Hermann
Lady of the Tropics
Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim
Loves of Three Queens
Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant
Her Highness and the Bellboy
Princess Veronica
Algiers
Gaby
Come Live with Me
Johnny Jones
A Lady Without Passport
Marianne Lorress
The Fate of Two Queens
Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Marvin Myles Ransome
Experiment Perilous
Allida Bederaux
The Heavenly Body
Vicky Whitley
The Casting Couch
1995
Marilyn, dernières séances
archive footage
Showbiz Goes to War
(archive footage)
I Take This Woman
Georgi Gragore
Mondo Hollywood
1967
Calling Hedy Lamarr
2006
Crossroads
Lucienne Talbot
Let's Live a Little
Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
Hollywood Blue
(archive footage)
White Cargo
Tondelayo
Hedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star
2018
We Need No Money
Käthe Brandt
The Trunks of Mr. O.F.
Helene, seine Tochter
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
2006
Storm in a Water Glass
Secretary
TV Shows (1)
Self / Appearances (17)
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self · 3 eps
What's My Line?
Self · 2 eps
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self · 1 eps
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Match Game Wife · 1 eps
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Self (archive footage)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self (archive footage)
Beautiful Like a Poem
Self (archive footage)
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Self
Hollywood Goes to Town
Self
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Self
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self
Show-Business at War
Self
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
Self (archive footage)
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
Self