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