Known For
Acting
Born
Sep 30, 1921
Died
Oct 16, 2007
Place of Birth
Helensburgh, Scotland, UK
Credits
83 titles
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".
Known For
Filmography
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
(archive footage)
Rat Pack
Self (archive footage)
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Talking Pictures
Self (archive footage)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Self (archive footage)
Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
Self (archive footage)
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Self
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Self
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Self (archive footage)
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Self
Hold the Dream
Emma Harte
Ann and Debbie
Ann
The Assam Garden
Helen
Reunion at Fairborough
Sally Wells Grant
A Woman of Substance
Older Emma Harte
Witness for the Prosecution
Nurse Plimsoll
A Song At Twilight
Carlotta Gray
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Entertainment Tonight
Self
Dinah!
Self
Playhouse
Carlotta Gray
Film '72
Self
V.I.P. Schaukel
Self
The Arrangement
Florence Anderson
The Gypsy Moths
Elizabeth Brandon
The Sky Divers
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
Prudence and the Pill
Prudence Hardcastle
Casino Royale
Agent Mimi
Eye of the Devil
Catherine de Montfaucon
Marriage on the Rocks
Valerie Edwards
Uncertain Verification
(archive footage)
The Night of the Iguana
Hannah Jelkes
On the Trail of the Iguana
Self
The Chalk Garden
Miss Madrigal
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Innocents
Miss Giddens
The Naked Edge
Martha Radcliffe
The Grass Is Greener
Hilary Rhyall
The Sundowners
Ida Carmody
Beloved Infidel
Sheilah Graham
Count Your Blessings
Grace Allingham
The Journey
Diana Ashmore
Separate Tables
Sibyl Railton-Bell
Small World
Self
Bonjour Tristesse
Anne Larson
An Affair to Remember
Terry McKay
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Sister Angela
Tea and Sympathy
Laura Reynolds