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Deborah Kerr

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".

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Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

2024

as (archive footage)

Rat Pack

2022

as Self (archive footage)

And the Oscar Goes To...

2014

as Self (archive footage)

Talking Pictures

2013

as Self (archive footage)

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

2010

as Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

2000

as Self (archive footage)

Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King

1995

as Self (archive footage)

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

1991

as Self

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

1991

as Self

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

1989

as Self (archive footage)

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

1988

as Self

Hold the Dream

1986

as Emma Harte

Ann and Debbie

1986

as Ann

The Assam Garden

1985

as Helen

Reunion at Fairborough

1985

as Sally Wells Grant

A Woman of Substance

1985

as Emma Harte

Witness for the Prosecution

1982

as Nurse Plimsoll

A Song At Twilight

1982

as Carlotta Gray

Night of 100 Stars

1982

as Self

Dinah!

1974

as Self

The Arrangement

1969

as Florence Anderson

The Gypsy Moths

1969

as Elizabeth Brandon

The Sky Divers

1969

as Self

Prudence and the Pill

1968

as Prudence Hardcastle

Casino Royale

1967

as Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry

Eye of the Devil

1966

as Catherine de Montfaucon

Marriage on the Rocks

1965

as Valerie Edwards

Uncertain Verification

1965

as (archive footage)

The Night of the Iguana

1964

as Hannah Jelkes

On the Trail of the Iguana

1964

as Self

The Chalk Garden

1964

as Miss Madrigal

The Innocents

1961

as Miss Giddens

The Naked Edge

1961

as Martha Radcliffe

The Grass Is Greener

1960

as Hilary Rhyall

The Sundowners

1960

as Ida Carmody

Beloved Infidel

1959

as Sheilah Graham

Count Your Blessings

1959

as Grace Allingham

The Journey

1959

as Diana Ashmore

Separate Tables

1958

as Sibyl Railton-Bell

Bonjour Tristesse

1958

as Anne Larson

An Affair to Remember

1957

as Terry McKay

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

1957

as Sister Angela

Tea and Sympathy

1956

as Laura Reynolds

The King and I

1956

as Anna Leonowens

The Steve Allen Show

1956

as Self - Recipient

The Proud and Profane

1956

as Lee Ashley

Tony Awards

1956

as Self - Host / Presenter

The End of the Affair

1955

as Sarah Miles

From Here to Eternity

1953

as Karen Holmes

Dream Wife

1953

as Effie

Julius Caesar

1953

as Portia

Young Bess

1953

as Catherine Parr

The Oscars

1953

as Self

Thunder in the East

1952

as Joan Willoughby

The Prisoner of Zenda

1952

as Princess Flavia

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Miss Plimsoll

Quo Vadis

1951

as Lygia

Rome, the Eternal City

1951

as Self

King Solomon's Mines

1950

as Elizabeth Curtis

Please Believe Me

1950

as Alison Kirbe

What's My Line?

1950

as Self - Panelist

What's My Line?

1950

as Self - Mystery Guest

Edward, My Son

1949

as Evelyn Boult

If Winter Comes

1947

as Nona Tybar

The Hucksters

1947

as Kay Dorrance

Black Narcissus

1947

as Sister Clodagh

I See a Dark Stranger

1946

as Bridie Quilty

Perfect Strangers

1945

as Catherine Wilson

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

1943

as Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon

The Day Will Dawn

1942

as Kari Alstad

Hatter's Castle

1942

as Mary Brodie

Penn of Pennsylvania

1942

as Gulielma Maria Springett

Love on the Dole

1941

as Sally

Major Barbara

1941

as Jenny Hill