Acting · Vienna, Austria · Born November 9, 1914
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.
MovieBeautiful Like a Poem
2020
as Self (archive footage)
MovieHedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star
2018
MovieBombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
2018
as Self (archive footage)
MovieHollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018
MovieStewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
2017
as Self
MovieMarilyn, dernières séances
2008
as archive footage
MovieCalling Hedy Lamarr
2006
MovieHedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
2006
MovieCelebrity Naked Ambition
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
2001
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Casting Couch
1995
MovieThat's Entertainment! III
1994
as (archive footage)
MovieInstant Karma
1990
as Movie Goddess (Archival)
MovieGoing Hollywood: The '30s
1984
as (archive footage)
MovieHollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieShowbiz Goes to War
1982
as (archive footage)
MovieThat's Entertainment, Part II
1976
as (archive footage)
MovieBrother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
as Self (archive footage)
MovieHollywood Blue
1970
as (archive footage)
MovieMondo Hollywood
1967
MovieThe Female Animal
1958
as Vanessa Windsor
MovieThe Story of Mankind
1957
as Joan of Arc
TVDick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Consuela Bowers
TVThe Steve Allen Show
1956
as Self - Match Game Wife
MovieLoves of Three Queens
1954
as Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant
MovieThe Fate of Two Queens
1954
as Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
MovieMy Favorite Spy
1951
as Lily Dalbray
MovieCopper Canyon
1950
as Lisa Roselle
TVThe Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
as Self
MovieA Lady Without Passport
1950
as Marianne Lorress
TVWhat's My Line?
1950
as Self
MovieSamson and Delilah
1949
as Delilah
MovieLet's Live a Little
1948
as Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring
TVThe Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
MovieDishonored Lady
1947
as Madeleine Damien
MovieThe Strange Woman
1946
as Jenny Hager
MovieHer Highness and the Bellboy
1945
as Princess Veronica
MovieExperiment Perilous
1944
as Allida Bederaux
MovieThe Conspirators
1944
as Irene Von Mohr
MovieThe Heavenly Body
1944
as Vicky Whitley
MovieShow-Business at War
1943
as Self
MovieWhite Cargo
1942
as Tondelayo
MovieCrossroads
1942
as Lucienne Talbot
MovieTortilla Flat
1942
as Dolores Ramirez
MovieH.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941
as Marvin Myles Ransome
MovieZiegfeld Girl
1941
as Sandra Kolter
MovieCome Live with Me
1941
as Johnny Jones
MovieComrade X
1940
as Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
MovieA New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940
as Self
MovieBoom Town
1940
as Karen Vanmeer
MovieCavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
as Self
MovieHollywood: Style Center of the World
1940
as Self
MovieI Take This Woman
1940
as Georgi Gragore
MovieLady of the Tropics
1939
as Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim
MovieHollywood Goes to Town
1938
as Self
MovieAlgiers
1938
as Gaby
MovieEcstasy
1933
as Eva Hermann
MovieWe Need No Money
1931
as Käthe Brandt
MovieThe Trunks of Mr. O.F.
1931
as Helene, seine Tochter
MovieStorm in a Water Glass
1931
as Secretary
MovieMoney on the Street
1930
as Young Girl at Night Club Table
