Deborah Kerr
Biography
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".
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Movies (40)
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
as (archive footage)
2024
Rat Pack
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2019
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
as Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)
2010
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
as Self (archive footage)
2000
Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
as Self (archive footage)
1995
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as Self
1991
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
as Self
1991
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
as Self (archive footage)
1988
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
as Self
1988
Ann and Debbie
as Ann
1986
The Assam Garden
as Helen
1985
Reunion at Fairborough
as Sally Wells Grant
1985
Witness for the Prosecution
as Nurse Plimsoll
1982
A Song At Twilight
as Carlotta Gray
1982
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
1982
The Arrangement
as Florence Anderson
1969
The Gypsy Moths
as Elizabeth Brandon
1969
The Sky Divers
as Self
1969
Prudence and the Pill
as Prudence Hardcastle
1968
Casino Royale
as Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry
1967
Eye of the Devil
as Catherine de Montfaucon
1966
Marriage on the Rocks
as Valerie Edwards
1965
Uncertain Verification
as (archive footage)
1965
The Night of the Iguana
as Hannah Jelkes
1964
On the Trail of the Iguana
as Self
1964
The Chalk Garden
as Miss Madrigal
1964
The Innocents
as Miss Giddens
1961
The Naked Edge
as Martha Radcliffe
1961
The Grass Is Greener
as Hilary Rhyall
1960
The Sundowners
as Ida Carmody
1960
Beloved Infidel
as Sheilah Graham
1959
Count Your Blessings
as Grace Allingham
1959
The Journey
as Diana Ashmore
1959
Separate Tables
as Sibyl Railton-Bell
1958
Bonjour Tristesse
as Anne Larson
1958
An Affair to Remember
as Terry McKay
1957
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
as Sister Angela
1957
Tea and Sympathy
as Laura Reynolds
1956
The King and I
as Anna Leonowens
1956
TV Shows (10)
Talking Pictures
as Self (archive footage)
2013
Hold the Dream
as Emma Harte
1986
A Woman of Substance
as Emma Harte
1985
Entertainment Tonight
as Self
1981
Dinah!
as Self
1974
Playhouse
as Carlotta Gray
1974
V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self
1971
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
Small World
as Self
1958