Deborah Kerr

Deborah Kerr

9/30/1921 – 10/16/2007Helensburgh, 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 (83 titles)

Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger7.7Movie

Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

(archive footage) · 2024

Rat Pack9.0Movie

Rat Pack

Self (archive footage) · 2022

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast5.0Movie

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast

Self - Actress (archive footage) · 2019

Talking Pictures6.2Show

Talking Pictures

Self (archive footage) · 2013

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff6.6Movie

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited) · 2010

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories7.0Movie

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

Self (archive footage) · 2000

Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King8.5Movie

Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King

Self (archive footage) · 1995

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker8.0Movie

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

Self · 1991

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star7.5Movie

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

Self · 1991

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick6.0Movie

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

Self (archive footage) · 1988

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man7.0Movie

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

Self · 1988

Hold the Dream4.4Show

Hold the Dream

Emma Harte · 1987

Ann and Debbie2.0Movie

Ann and Debbie

Ann · 1986

The Assam Garden7.3Movie

The Assam Garden

Helen · 1985

Reunion at Fairborough5.8Movie

Reunion at Fairborough

Sally Wells Grant · 1985

A Woman of Substance7.6Show

A Woman of Substance

Older Emma Harte · 1985

Witness for the Prosecution6.5Movie

Witness for the Prosecution

Nurse Plimsoll · 1982

A Song At Twilight7.0Movie

A Song At Twilight

Carlotta Gray · 1982

Night of 100 Stars5.8Movie

Night of 100 Stars

Self · 1982

Entertainment Tonight4.3Show

Entertainment Tonight

Self · 1981

Dinah!7.0Show

Dinah!

Self · 1974

Playhouse7.0Show

Playhouse

Carlotta Gray · 1974

4.7Show

Film '72

Self · 1971

8.0Show

V.I.P. Schaukel

Self · 1971

The Arrangement6.6Movie

The Arrangement

Florence Anderson · 1969

The Gypsy Moths6.1Movie

The Gypsy Moths

Elizabeth Brandon · 1969

The Sky Divers6.0Movie

The Sky Divers

Self · 1969

The Dick Cavett Show6.8Show

The Dick Cavett Show

Self - Guest · 1968

Prudence and the Pill5.7Movie

Prudence and the Pill

Prudence Hardcastle · 1968

Casino Royale5.3Movie

Casino Royale

Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry · 1967