Deborah Kerr
Born: 1921-09-30 in Helensburgh, Scotland, UK
Died: 2007-10-16
Known For: Acting
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".
Filmography
2024
- Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger as (archive footage)
2022
- Rat Pack as Self (archive footage)
2019
- Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2013
- Talking Pictures as Self (archive footage)
2010
- Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff as Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)
2000
- Sir John Mills' Moving Memories as Self (archive footage)
1995
- Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King as Self (archive footage)
1991
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as Self
- Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star as Self
1988
- Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man as Self
- John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick as Self (archive footage)
1987
- Hold the Dream as Emma Harte
1986
- Ann and Debbie as Ann
1985
- A Woman of Substance as Older Emma Harte
- The Assam Garden as Helen
- Reunion at Fairborough as Sally Wells Grant
1982
- Night of 100 Stars as Self
- Witness for the Prosecution as Nurse Plimsoll
- A Song At Twilight as Carlotta Gray
1981
- Entertainment Tonight as Self
1971
- V.I.P. Schaukel as Self
1969
- The Arrangement as Florence Anderson
- The Gypsy Moths as Elizabeth Brandon
- The Sky Divers as Self
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Prudence and the Pill as Prudence Hardcastle
1967
- Casino Royale as Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry
1966
- Eye of the Devil as Catherine de Montfaucon
1965
- Marriage on the Rocks as Valerie Edwards
- Uncertain Verification as (archive footage)
1964
- The Night of the Iguana as Hannah Jelkes
- The Chalk Garden as Miss Madrigal
- On the Trail of the Iguana as Self
1962
1961
- The Innocents as Miss Giddens
- The Naked Edge as Martha Radcliffe
1960
- The Sundowners as Ida Carmody
- The Grass Is Greener as Hilary Rhyall
1959
- The Journey as Diana Ashmore
- Beloved Infidel as Sheilah Graham
- Count Your Blessings as Grace Allingham
1958
- Small World as Self
- Bonjour Tristesse as Anne Larson
- Separate Tables as Sibyl Railton-Bell
1957
- An Affair to Remember as Terry McKay
- Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison as Sister Angela
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Host / Presenter
- The Steve Allen Show as Self - Recipient
- Cinépanorama as Self
- The King and I as Anna Leonowens
- Tea and Sympathy as Laura Reynolds
- The Proud and Profane as Lee Ashley
1955
- The End of the Affair as Sarah Miles
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- From Here to Eternity as Karen Holmes
- Julius Caesar as Portia
- Young Bess as Catherine Parr
- Dream Wife as Effie
1952
- The Prisoner of Zenda as Princess Flavia
- Thunder in the East as Joan Willoughby
1951
- Quo Vadis as Lygia
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Miss Plimsoll
- Rome, the Eternal City as Self
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- King Solomon's Mines as Elizabeth Curtis
- Please Believe Me as Alison Kirbe
- Jungle Safari as Herself (archival footage)
1949
- Edward, My Son as Evelyn Boult
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1947
- Black Narcissus as Sister Clodagh
- The Hucksters as Kay Dorrance
- If Winter Comes as Nona Tybar
1946
- I See a Dark Stranger as Bridie Quilty
1945
- Perfect Strangers as Catherine Wilson
1943
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp as Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
1942
- Hatter's Castle as Mary Brodie
- Penn of Pennsylvania as Gulielma Maria Springett
- The Day Will Dawn as Kari Alstad
1941
- Major Barbara as Jenny Hill
- Love on the Dole as Sally