Deborah Kerr
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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Deborah Kerr, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Credits
- 2024 · Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger as (archive footage)
- 2022 · Rat Pack as Self (archive footage)
- 2014 · And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
- 2013 · Talking Pictures as Self (archive footage)
- 2010 · Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff as Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2000 · Sir John Mills' Moving Memories as Self (archive footage)
- 1995 · Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King as Self (archive footage)
- 1991 · Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as Self
- 1991 · Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star as Self
- 1989 · John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick as Self (archive footage)
- 1988 · Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man as Self
- 1986 · Hold the Dream as Emma Harte
- 1986 · Ann and Debbie as Ann
- 1985 · The Assam Garden as Helen
- 1985 · Reunion at Fairborough as Sally Wells Grant
- 1985 · A Woman of Substance as Emma Harte
- 1982 · Witness for the Prosecution as Nurse Plimsoll
- 1982 · A Song At Twilight as Carlotta Gray
- 1982 · Night of 100 Stars as Self
- 1981 · Entertainment Tonight as Self
- 1974 · Dinah! as Self
- 1971 · V.I.P. Schaukel as Self
- 1969 · The Arrangement as Florence Anderson
- 1969 · The Gypsy Moths as Elizabeth Brandon
- 1969 · The Sky Divers as Self
- 1968 · The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- 1968 · Prudence and the Pill as Prudence Hardcastle
- 1967 · Casino Royale as Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry
- 1966 · Eye of the Devil as Catherine de Montfaucon
- 1965 · Marriage on the Rocks as Valerie Edwards
- 1965 · Uncertain Verification as (archive footage)
- 1964 · The Night of the Iguana as Hannah Jelkes
- 1964 · On the Trail of the Iguana as Self
- 1964 · The Chalk Garden as Miss Madrigal
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1961 · The Innocents as Miss Giddens
- 1961 · The Naked Edge as Martha Radcliffe
- 1960 · The Grass Is Greener as Hilary Rhyall
- 1960 · The Sundowners as Ida Carmody
- 1959 · Beloved Infidel as Sheilah Graham
- 1959 · Count Your Blessings as Grace Allingham
- 1959 · The Journey as Diana Ashmore
- 1958 · Separate Tables as Sibyl Railton-Bell
- 1958 · Bonjour Tristesse as Anne Larson
- 1957 · An Affair to Remember as Terry McKay
- 1957 · Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison as Sister Angela
- 1956 · Tea and Sympathy as Laura Reynolds
- 1956 · The King and I as Anna Leonowens
- 1956 · The Steve Allen Show as Self - Recipient
- 1956 · The Proud and Profane as Lee Ashley
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Host / Presenter
- 1956 · Cinépanorama as Self
- 1955 · The End of the Affair as Sarah Miles
- 1953 · From Here to Eternity as Karen Holmes
- 1953 · Dream Wife as Effie
- 1953 · Julius Caesar as Portia
- 1953 · Young Bess as Catherine Parr
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1952 · Thunder in the East as Joan Willoughby
- 1952 · The Prisoner of Zenda as Princess Flavia
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Miss Plimsoll
- 1951 · Quo Vadis as Lygia
- 1951 · Rome, the Eternal City as Self
- 1950 · King Solomon's Mines as Elizabeth Curtis
- 1950 · Please Believe Me as Alison Kirbe
- 1950 · What's My Line? as Self - Panelist
- 1950 · What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- 1949 · Edward, My Son as Evelyn Boult
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Self (archive footage)
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- 1947 · If Winter Comes as Nona Tybar
- 1947 · The Hucksters as Kay Dorrance
- 1947 · Black Narcissus as Sister Clodagh
- 1946 · I See a Dark Stranger as Bridie Quilty
- 1945 · Perfect Strangers as Catherine Wilson
- 1943 · The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp as Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
- 1942 · The Day Will Dawn as Kari Alstad
- 1942 · Hatter's Castle as Mary Brodie
- 1942 · Penn of Pennsylvania as Gulielma Maria Springett
- 1941 · Love on the Dole as Sally
- 1941 · Major Barbara as Jenny Hill