Hedy Lamarr

Actor · 1914–2000 · 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.

Acted in 45

2010s

2018
Hedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star
Movie
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Movie · Documentary · Made-for-TV

2000s

2008
Marilyn, dernières séances
archive footage
2006
Calling Hedy Lamarr
Movie
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
Movie

1990s

1995
The Casting Couch
Movie
1994
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1990
Instant Karma
Movie Goddess (Archival)

1980s

1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
1982
Showbiz Goes to War
(archive footage)

1970s

1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1970
Hollywood Blue
(archive footage)

1960s

1967
Mondo Hollywood
Movie

1950s

1958
The Female Animal
Vanessa Windsor
1957
The Story of Mankind
Joan of Arc
1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Consuela Bowers · 1 episode
71
1954
Loves of Three Queens
Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant
The Fate of Two Queens
Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
1951
My Favorite Spy
Lily Dalbray
1950
Copper Canyon
Lisa Roselle
60
A Lady Without Passport
Marianne Lorress