Hedy Lamarr

Personal Info

Birthday

November 9, 1914

Day of Death

2000-01-19

(85 years old)

Place of Birth

Vienna, Austria

Also Known As

Hedy Kiesler

海蒂·拉玛

Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler

Хеди Ламарр

Хеди Кислер

هدی لامار

Hedy Lamarr

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.

Known For

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Samson and Delilah

Lady of the Tropics

Ecstasy

Dishonored Lady

Algiers

The Strange Woman

Copper Canyon

Filmography

2018
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
as Self (archive footage)
2017
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
as Self
2009
Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
1994
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1982
Showbiz Goes to War
as (archive footage)
1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1970
Hollywood Blue
as (archive footage)
1958
The Female Animal
as Vanessa Windsor
1957
The Story of Mankind
as Joan of Arc
1954
Loves of Three Queens
as Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant
The Fate of Two Queens
as Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
1951
My Favorite Spy
as Lily Dalbray
1950
Copper Canyon
as Lisa Roselle
A Lady Without Passport
as Marianne Lorress
1949
Samson and Delilah
as Delilah
1948
Let's Live a Little
as Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring
1947
Dishonored Lady
as Madeleine Damien
1946
The Strange Woman
as Jenny Hager
1945
Her Highness and the Bellboy
as Princess Veronica
1944
Experiment Perilous
as Allida Bederaux
The Conspirators
as Irene Von Mohr
The Heavenly Body
as Vicky Whitley
1943
Show-Business at War
as Self
1942
White Cargo
as Tondelayo
Crossroads
as Lucienne Talbot
Tortilla Flat
as Dolores Ramirez
1941
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
as Marvin Myles Ransome
Ziegfeld Girl
as Sandra Kolter
Come Live with Me
as Johnny Jones
1940
Comrade X
as Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
as Self
Boom Town
as Karen Vanmeer
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
as Self
I Take This Woman
as Georgi Gragore
1939
Lady of the Tropics
as Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim
1938
Hollywood Goes to Town
as Self
Algiers
as Gaby
1933
Ecstasy
as Eva Hermann
1931
We Need No Money
as Käthe Brandt
The Trunks of Mr. O.F.
as Helene, seine Tochter
Storm in a Water Glass
as Secretary
1930
Money on the Street
as Young Girl at Night Club Table