Deborah Kerr
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 30 September 1921 · Helensburgh, Scotland, UK
- Died
- 16 October 2007
Deborah Jane Trimmer CBE (30 September 1921 – 16 October 2007), known professionally as Deborah Kerr, was a British actress. She was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress. During her international film career, Kerr won a Golden Globe Award for her performance as Anna Leonowens in the musical film The King and I (1956). Her other major and best known films and performances are The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), Black Narcissus (1947), Quo Vadis (1951), From Here to Eternity (1953), Tea and Sympathy (1956), An Affair to Remember (1957), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), Bonjour Tristesse (1958), Separate Tables (1958), The Sundowners (1960), The Innocents (1961), The Grass Is Greener (1960), and The Night of the Iguana (1964). In 1994, having already received honorary awards from the Cannes Film Festival and BAFTA, Kerr received an Academy Honorary Award with a citation recognizing her as "an artist of impeccable grace and beauty, a dedicated actress whose motion picture career has always stood for perfection, discipline and elegance".
Known for
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- 2024Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger as (archive footage)
- 2022Rat Pack as Self (archive footage)
- 2019Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast as Self - Actress (archive footage)
- 2014Discovering: Robert Mitchum as Self (archive footage)
- 2010Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff as Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2000Sir John Mills' Moving Memories as Self (archive footage)
- 1995Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King as Self (archive footage)
- 1991Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as Self
- 1991Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star as Self
- 1988John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick as Self (archive footage)
- 1988Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man as Self
- 1986Ann and Debbie as Ann
- 1985The Assam Garden as Helen
- 1985Reunion at Fairborough as Sally Wells Grant
- 1982Witness for the Prosecution as Nurse Plimsoll
- 1982A Song At Twilight as Carlotta Gray
- 1982Night of 100 Stars as Self
- 1969The Arrangement as Florence Anderson
- 1969The Gypsy Moths as Elizabeth Brandon
- 1969The Sky Divers as Self
- 1968Prudence and the Pill as Prudence Hardcastle
- 1967Casino Royale as Agent Mimi
- 1966Eye of the Devil as Catherine de Montfaucon
- 1965Marriage on the Rocks as Valerie Edwards
- 1965Uncertain Verification as (archive footage)
- 1964The Night of the Iguana as Hannah Jelkes
- 1964On the Trail of the Iguana as Self
- 1964The Chalk Garden as Miss Madrigal
- 1961The Innocents as Miss Giddens
- 1961The Naked Edge as Martha Radcliffe
- 1960The Grass Is Greener as Hilary Rhyall
- 1960The Sundowners as Ida Carmody
- 1959Beloved Infidel as Sheilah Graham
- 1959Count Your Blessings as Grace Allingham
- 1959The Journey as Diana Ashmore
- 1958Separate Tables as Sibyl Railton-Bell
- 1958Bonjour Tristesse as Anne Larson
- 1957An Affair to Remember as Terry McKay
- 1957Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison as Sister Angela
- 1956Tea and Sympathy as Laura Reynolds
- 1956The King and I as Anna Leonowens
- 1956The Proud and Profane as Lee Ashley
- 1955The End of the Affair as Sarah Miles
- 1953From Here to Eternity as Karen Holmes
- 1953Dream Wife as Effie
- 1953Julius Caesar as Portia
- 1953Young Bess as Catherine Parr
- 1952Thunder in the East as Joan Willoughby
- 1952The Prisoner of Zenda as Princess Flavia
- 1951Quo Vadis as Lygia
- 1951Rome, the Eternal City as Self
- 1950Jungle Safari as Herself (archival footage)
- 1950King Solomon's Mines as Elizabeth Curtis
- 1950Please Believe Me as Alison Kirbe
- 1949Edward, My Son as Evelyn Boult
- 1947If Winter Comes as Nona Tybar
- 1947The Hucksters as Kay Dorrance
- 1947Black Narcissus as Sister Clodagh
- 1946I See a Dark Stranger as Bridie Quilty
- 1945Perfect Strangers as Catherine Wilson
- 1943The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp as Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
- 1942The Day Will Dawn as Kari Alstad
- 1942Hatter's Castle as Mary Brodie
- 1942Penn of Pennsylvania as Gulielma Maria Springett
- 1941Love on the Dole as Sally
- 1941Major Barbara as Jenny Hill