Deborah Kerr
Acting
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
Acting83
movieMade in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
2024
(archive footage)
movieRat Pack
2022
Self (archive footage)
movieNice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019
Self - Actress (archive footage)
tvTalking Pictures
2013
Self (archive footage)
movieCameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010
Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieSir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000
Self (archive footage)
movieYul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
1995
Self (archive footage)
movieJohn Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988
Self (archive footage)
tvHold the Dream
1987
Emma Harte
movieReunion at Fairborough
1985
Sally Wells Grant
tvA Woman of Substance
1985
Older Emma Harte
movieWitness for the Prosecution
1982
Nurse Plimsoll
movieA Song At Twilight
1982
Carlotta Gray
tvDinah!
1974
Self
tvPlayhouse
1974
Carlotta Gray
movieThe Arrangement
1969
Florence Anderson
movieThe Gypsy Moths
1969
Elizabeth Brandon
tvThe Dick Cavett Show
1968
Self - Guest
moviePrudence and the Pill
1968
Prudence Hardcastle
movieCasino Royale
1967
Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry
movieEye of the Devil
1966
Catherine de Montfaucon
movieMarriage on the Rocks
1965
Valerie Edwards
movieUncertain Verification
1965
(archive footage)
movieThe Night of the Iguana
1964
Hannah Jelkes
movieThe Chalk Garden
1964
Miss Madrigal
movieThe Innocents
1961
Miss Giddens
movieThe Naked Edge
1961
Martha Radcliffe
movieThe Grass Is Greener
1960
Hilary Rhyall
movieThe Sundowners
1960
Ida Carmody
movieBeloved Infidel
1959
Sheilah Graham
movieCount Your Blessings
1959
Grace Allingham
movieThe Journey
1959
Diana Ashmore
movieSeparate Tables
1958
Sibyl Railton-Bell
movieBonjour Tristesse
1958
Anne Larson
movieAn Affair to Remember
1957
Terry McKay
movieHeaven Knows, Mr. Allison
1957
Sister Angela
movieTea and Sympathy
1956
Laura Reynolds
movieThe King and I
1956
Anna Leonowens
tvThe Steve Allen Show
1956
Self - Recipient
movieThe Proud and Profane
1956
Lee Ashley
tvTony Awards
1956
Self - Host / Presenter
movieThe End of the Affair
1955
Sarah Miles
movieFrom Here to Eternity
1953
Karen Holmes
movieDream Wife
1953
Effie
movieJulius Caesar
1953
Portia
movieYoung Bess
1953
Catherine Parr
tvThe Oscars
1953
Self
movieThunder in the East
1952
Joan Willoughby
movieThe Prisoner of Zenda
1952
Princess Flavia
tvHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Miss Plimsoll
movieQuo Vadis
1951
Lygia
movieJungle Safari
1950
Herself (archival footage)
movieKing Solomon's Mines
1950
Elizabeth Curtis
moviePlease Believe Me
1950
Alison Kirbe
movieEdward, My Son
1949
Evelyn Boult
movieIf Winter Comes
1947
Nona Tybar
movieThe Hucksters
1947
Kay Dorrance
movieBlack Narcissus
1947
Sister Clodagh
movieI See a Dark Stranger
1946
Bridie Quilty
moviePerfect Strangers
1945
Catherine Wilson
movieThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943
Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
movieThe Day Will Dawn
1942
Kari Alstad
movieHatter's Castle
1942
Mary Brodie
moviePenn of Pennsylvania
1942
Gulielma Maria Springett
movieMajor Barbara
1941
Jenny Hill