Hedy Lamarr
Birthday: 1914-11-09 | Place of Birth: Vienna, AustriaHedy 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
Acting
Role
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Vanessa Windsor
as Joan of Arc
as Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant
as Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
as Lily Dalbray
as Lisa Roselle
as Marianne Lorress
as Delilah
as Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring
as Madeleine Damien
as Jenny Hager
as Princess Veronica
as Allida Bederaux
as Irene Von Mohr
as Vicky Whitley
as Dolores Ramirez
as Lucienne Talbot
as Tondelayo
as Johnny Jones
as Marvin Myles Ransome
as Sandra Kolter
as Georgi Gragore
as Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
as Karen Vanmeer
