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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
September 30, 1921
Place of Birth:
Helensburgh, Scotland, UK
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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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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger | (archive footage) |
| 2022 | Rat Pack | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast | Self - Actress (archive footage) |
| 2014 | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) |
| 2010 | Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff | Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2000 | Sir John Mills' Moving Memories | Self (archive footage) |
| 1995 | Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King | Self (archive footage) |
| 1991 | Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star | Self |
| 1991 | Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | Self |
| 1988 | John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick | Self (archive footage) |
| 1988 | Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man | Self |
| 1986 | Ann and Debbie | Ann |
| 1985 | The Assam Garden | Helen |
| 1985 | Reunion at Fairborough | Sally Wells Grant |
| 1982 | Witness for the Prosecution | Nurse Plimsoll |
| 1982 | A Song At Twilight | Carlotta Gray |
| 1982 | Night of 100 Stars | Self |
| 1969 | The Gypsy Moths | Elizabeth Brandon |
| 1969 | The Arrangement | Florence Anderson |
| 1969 | The Sky Divers | Self |
| 1968 | Prudence and the Pill | Prudence Hardcastle |
| 1967 | Casino Royale | Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry |
| 1966 | Eye of the Devil | Catherine de Montfaucon |
| 1965 | Marriage on the Rocks | Valerie Edwards |
| 1965 | Uncertain Verification | (archive footage) |
| 1964 | The Night of the Iguana | Hannah Jelkes |
| 1964 | The Chalk Garden | Miss Madrigal |
| 1964 | On the Trail of the Iguana | Self |
| 1961 | The Innocents | Miss Giddens |
| 1961 | The Naked Edge | Martha Radcliffe |
| 1960 | The Grass Is Greener | Hilary Rhyall |
| 1960 | The Sundowners | Ida Carmody |
| 1959 | The Journey | Diana Ashmore |
| 1959 | Beloved Infidel | Sheilah Graham |
| 1959 | Count Your Blessings | Grace Allingham |
| 1958 | Bonjour Tristesse | Anne Larson |
| 1958 | Separate Tables | Sibyl Railton-Bell |
| 1957 | An Affair to Remember | Terry McKay |
| 1957 | Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison | Sister Angela |
| 1956 | The Proud and Profane | Lee Ashley |
| 1956 | Tea and Sympathy | Laura Reynolds |
| 1956 | The King and I | Anna Leonowens |
| 1955 | The End of the Affair | Sarah Miles |
| 1953 | Julius Caesar | Portia |
| 1953 | From Here to Eternity | Karen Holmes |
| 1953 | Young Bess | Catherine Parr |
| 1953 | Dream Wife | Effie |
| 1952 | The Prisoner of Zenda | Princess Flavia |
| 1952 | Thunder in the East | Joan Willoughby |
| 1951 | Quo Vadis | Lygia |
| 1951 | Rome, the Eternal City | Self |
| 1950 | King Solomon's Mines | Elizabeth Curtis |
| 1950 | Please Believe Me | Alison Kirbe |
| 1949 | Edward, My Son | Evelyn Boult |
| 1947 | Black Narcissus | Sister Clodagh |
| 1947 | The Hucksters | Kay Dorrance |
| 1947 | If Winter Comes | Nona Tybar |
| 1946 | I See a Dark Stranger | Bridie Quilty |
| 1945 | Perfect Strangers | Catherine Wilson |
| 1943 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon |
| 1942 | The Day Will Dawn | Kari Alstad |
| 1942 | Hatter's Castle | Mary Brodie |
| 1942 | Penn of Pennsylvania | Gulielma Maria Springett |
| 1941 | Major Barbara | Jenny Hill |
| 1941 | Love on the Dole | Sally |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Talking Pictures | Self (archive footage) |
| 1986 | Hold the Dream | Emma Harte |
| 1985 | A Woman of Substance | Emma Harte |
| 1981 | Entertainment Tonight | Self |
| 1974 | Dinah! | Self |
| 1971 | V.I.P. Schaukel | Self |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self |
| 1956 | The Steve Allen Show | Self - Recipient |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Host / Presenter |
| 1956 | Cinépanorama | Self |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Miss Plimsoll |
| 1950 | What's My Line? | Self - Panelist |
| 1950 | What's My Line? | Self |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show | Self |