Deborah Kerr
Known for: 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".
Filmography
Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Series
What's My Line?
Self
1950
Series
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Series
Tony Awards
Self - Host / Presenter
1956
Series
Dinah!
Self
1974
Series
Playhouse
Carlotta Gray
1974
Series
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Series
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Recipient
1956
Film '72
Self
1971
Series
The Oscars
Self
1953
Series
Cinépanorama
Self
1956
Series
Entertainment Tonight
Self
1981
V.I.P. Schaukel
Self
1971
Series
Talking Pictures
Self (archive footage)
2013
Series
A Woman of Substance
Older Emma Harte
1985
Film
Casino Royale
Agent Mimi
1967
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Miss Plimsoll
1951
Small World
Self
1958
Film
The King and I
Anna Leonowens
1956
Film
From Here to Eternity
Karen Holmes
1953
Film
Quo Vadis
Lygia
1951
Film
An Affair to Remember
Terry McKay
1957
Film
Julius Caesar
Portia
1953
Film
King Solomon's Mines
Elizabeth Curtis
1950
Film
The Innocents
Miss Giddens
1961
Series
Hold the Dream
Emma Harte
1987
Film
Black Narcissus
Sister Clodagh
1947
Film
The Arrangement
Florence Anderson
1969
Film
The Night of the Iguana
Hannah Jelkes
1964
Film
Separate Tables
Sibyl Railton-Bell
1958
Film
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Sister Angela
1957
Film
Tea and Sympathy
Laura Reynolds
1956
Film
The Gypsy Moths
Elizabeth Brandon
1969
Film
The Grass Is Greener
Hilary Rhyall
1960
Film
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
1943
Film
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)
2010
Film
Witness for the Prosecution
Nurse Plimsoll
1982
Film
Young Bess
Catherine Parr
1953
Film
Eye of the Devil
Catherine de Montfaucon
1966
Film
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Self
1988
Film
The Prisoner of Zenda
Princess Flavia
1952
Film
Bonjour Tristesse
Anne Larson
1958
Film
The Proud and Profane
Lee Ashley
1956
Film
Marriage on the Rocks
Valerie Edwards
1965
Film
Night of 100 Stars
Self
1982
Film
Beloved Infidel
Sheilah Graham
1959
Film
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
(archive footage)
2024
Film
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Self
1991
Film
Rat Pack
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
The Journey
Diana Ashmore
1959
Film
The End of the Affair
Sarah Miles
1955
Film
Dream Wife
Effie
1953
Film
On the Trail of the Iguana
Self
1964
Film
If Winter Comes
Nona Tybar
1947
Film
The Sundowners
Ida Carmody
1960
Film
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Self - Actress (archive footage)
2019
Film
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Self (archive footage)
1988
Film
The Naked Edge
Martha Radcliffe
1961
Film
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Self
1991
Film
The Hucksters
Kay Dorrance
1947
Film
The Day Will Dawn
Kari Alstad
1942
Film
The Chalk Garden
Miss Madrigal
1964
Film
A Song At Twilight
Carlotta Gray
1982
Film
Thunder in the East
Joan Willoughby
1952
Film
I See a Dark Stranger
Bridie Quilty
1946
Film
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Self (archive footage)
2000
Film
Prudence and the Pill
Prudence Hardcastle
1968
Film
Count Your Blessings
Grace Allingham
1959
Film
Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
Self (archive footage)
1995
Film
The Assam Garden
Helen
1985
Film
Perfect Strangers
Catherine Wilson
1945
Film
Jungle Safari
Herself (archival footage)
1950
Film
Edward, My Son
Evelyn Boult
1949
Film
Please Believe Me
Alison Kirbe
1950
Film
Love on the Dole
Sally
1941
Film
Reunion at Fairborough
Sally Wells Grant
1985
Film
Discovering: Robert Mitchum
Self (archive footage)
2014
Film
Major Barbara
Jenny Hill
1941
Film
The Sky Divers
Self
1969
Film
Hatter's Castle
Mary Brodie
1942
Film
Rome, the Eternal City
Self
1951
Film
Penn of Pennsylvania
Gulielma Maria Springett
1942
Film
Uncertain Verification
(archive footage)
1965
Film
Ann and Debbie
Ann
1986