Deborah Kerr
Acting
Born September 30, 1921 · 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".
Films (65)
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
2024
Rat Pack
2022
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000
Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
1995
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988
Ann and Debbie
1986
The Assam Garden
1985
Reunion at Fairborough
1985
Witness for the Prosecution
1982
A Song At Twilight
1982
Night of 100 Stars
1982
The Arrangement
1969
The Gypsy Moths
1969
The Sky Divers
1969
Prudence and the Pill
1968
Casino Royale
1967
Eye of the Devil
1966
Marriage on the Rocks
1965
Uncertain Verification
1965
The Night of the Iguana
1964
On the Trail of the Iguana
1964
The Chalk Garden
1964
The Innocents
1961
The Naked Edge
1961
The Grass Is Greener
1960
The Sundowners
1960
Beloved Infidel
1959
Count Your Blessings
1959
The Journey
1959
Separate Tables
1958
Bonjour Tristesse
1958
An Affair to Remember
1957
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
1957
Tea and Sympathy
1956
The King and I
1956
The Proud and Profane
1956
The End of the Affair
1955
From Here to Eternity
1953
Dream Wife
1953
Julius Caesar
1953
Young Bess
1953
Thunder in the East
1952
The Prisoner of Zenda
1952
Quo Vadis
1951
Rome, the Eternal City
1951
Jungle Safari
1950
King Solomon's Mines
1950
Please Believe Me
1950
Edward, My Son
1949
If Winter Comes
1947
The Hucksters
1947
Black Narcissus
1947
I See a Dark Stranger
1946
Perfect Strangers
1945
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943
The Day Will Dawn
1942
Hatter's Castle
1942
Penn of Pennsylvania
1942
Love on the Dole
1941
Major Barbara
1941