Deborah Kerr
Known for: Acting
Born: September 30, 1921
Died: October 16, 2007
Place of birth: 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".
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Filmography
66 movies · 18 TV shows, newest first
7.7
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
2024
9.0
Rat Pack
2022
5.3
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019
NR
Discovering: Robert Mitchum
2014
6.2
Talking Pictures
2013
6.6
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010
7.0
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000
8.5
Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
1995
8.0
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
7.5
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991
6.0
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988
7.0
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988
4.4
Hold the Dream
1987
2.0
Ann and Debbie
1986
7.3
The Assam Garden
1985
5.8
Reunion at Fairborough
1985
7.6
A Woman of Substance
1985
6.6
Witness for the Prosecution
1982
7.0
A Song At Twilight
1982
5.8
Night of 100 Stars
1982
4.3
Entertainment Tonight
1981
7.0
Dinah!
1974
7.0
Playhouse
19745.1
Film '72
19718.0
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971
6.5
The Arrangement
1969
6.0
The Gypsy Moths
1969
6.0
The Sky Divers
1969
6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
5.7
Prudence and the Pill
1968
5.2
Casino Royale
1967
6.1
Eye of the Devil
1966
5.8
Marriage on the Rocks
1965
6.6
Uncertain Verification
1965
7.2
The Night of the Iguana
1964
6.5
On the Trail of the Iguana
1964
7.2
The Chalk Garden
1964
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
7.5
The Innocents
1961
6.3
The Naked Edge
1961
6.4
The Grass Is Greener
1960
6.7
The Sundowners
1960
6.0
Beloved Infidel
1959
4.8
Count Your Blessings
1959
6.3
The Journey
1959
7.0
Separate Tables
19587.3
Small World
1958
6.7
Bonjour Tristesse
1958
7.4
An Affair to Remember
1957
7.0
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
1957
7.0
Tea and Sympathy
1956
7.1
The King and I
1956
6.2
The Steve Allen Show
1956
6.5
The Proud and Profane
1956
NR
Tony Awards
1956
8.7
Cinépanorama
1956
5.8
The End of the Affair
1955
7.3
From Here to Eternity
1953
5.4
Dream Wife
1953
7.1
Julius Caesar
1953
5.8
Young Bess
1953
7.0
The Oscars
1953
5.6
Thunder in the East
1952
6.9
The Prisoner of Zenda
1952
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
7.1
Quo Vadis
1951
NR
Rome, the Eternal City
1951
4.0
Jungle Safari
1950
6.5
King Solomon's Mines
1950
5.1
Please Believe Me
1950
7.0
What's My Line?
1950
6.5
Edward, My Son
1949
6.8
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
6.7
If Winter Comes
1947
7.0
The Hucksters
1947
7.5
Black Narcissus
1947
6.5
I See a Dark Stranger
1946
6.6
Perfect Strangers
1945
7.5
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943
6.0
The Day Will Dawn
1942
5.8
Hatter's Castle
1942
6.5
Penn of Pennsylvania
1942
5.9
Love on the Dole
1941
6.8
Major Barbara
1941