Deborah Kerr
Acting
1921-09-30 · Helensburgh, 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
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
2024 · Movie
Rat Pack
2022 · Movie
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019 · Movie
Discovering: Robert Mitchum
2014 · Movie
Talking Pictures
2013 · Series
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010 · Movie
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000 · Movie
Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
1995 · Movie
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991 · Movie
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991 · Movie
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988 · Movie
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988 · Movie
Hold the Dream
1987 · Series
Ann and Debbie
1986 · Movie
The Assam Garden
1985 · Movie
Reunion at Fairborough
1985 · Movie
A Woman of Substance
1985 · Series
Witness for the Prosecution
1982 · Movie
A Song At Twilight
1982 · Movie
Night of 100 Stars
1982 · Movie
Entertainment Tonight
1981 · Series
Dinah!
1974 · Series
Playhouse
1974 · Series
Film '72
1971 · Series
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971 · Series
The Arrangement
1969 · Movie
The Gypsy Moths
1969 · Movie
The Sky Divers
1969 · Movie
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Series
Prudence and the Pill
1968 · Movie
Casino Royale
1967 · Movie
Eye of the Devil
1966 · Movie
Marriage on the Rocks
1965 · Movie
Uncertain Verification
1965 · Movie
The Night of the Iguana
1964 · Movie
On the Trail of the Iguana
1964 · Movie
The Chalk Garden
1964 · Movie
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series
The Innocents
1961 · Movie
The Naked Edge
1961 · Movie
The Grass Is Greener
1960 · Movie
The Sundowners
1960 · Movie
Beloved Infidel
1959 · Movie
Count Your Blessings
1959 · Movie
The Journey
1959 · Movie
Separate Tables
1958 · Movie
Small World
1958 · Series
Bonjour Tristesse
1958 · Movie
An Affair to Remember
1957 · Movie
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
1957 · Movie
Tea and Sympathy
1956 · Movie
The King and I
1956 · Movie
The Steve Allen Show
1956 · Series
The Proud and Profane
1956 · Movie
Tony Awards
1956 · Series
Cinépanorama
1956 · Series
The End of the Affair
1955 · Movie
From Here to Eternity
1953 · Movie
Dream Wife
1953 · Movie
Julius Caesar
1953 · Movie
Young Bess
1953 · Movie
The Oscars
1953 · Series
Thunder in the East
1952 · Movie
The Prisoner of Zenda
1952 · Movie
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Series
Quo Vadis
1951 · Movie
Rome, the Eternal City
1951 · Movie
Jungle Safari
1950 · Movie
King Solomon's Mines
1950 · Movie
Please Believe Me
1950 · Movie
What's My Line?
1950 · Series
Edward, My Son
1949 · Movie
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Series
If Winter Comes
1947 · Movie
The Hucksters
1947 · Movie
Black Narcissus
1947 · Movie
I See a Dark Stranger
1946 · Movie
Perfect Strangers
1945 · Movie
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943 · Movie
The Day Will Dawn
1942 · Movie
Hatter's Castle
1942 · Movie
Penn of Pennsylvania
1942 · Movie
Love on the Dole
1941 · Movie
Major Barbara
1941 · Movie