Acting · Helensburgh, Scotland, UK · Born September 30, 1921
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".
MovieMade in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
2024
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MovieRat Pack
2022
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MovieNice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019
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TVTalking Pictures
2013
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MovieCameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010
as Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieSir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000
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MovieYul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
1995
as Self (archive footage)
MoviePreminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
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MovieRobert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991
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MovieJohn Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988
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MovieCary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988
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TVHold the Dream
1987
as Emma Harte
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1986
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MovieThe Assam Garden
1985
as Helen
MovieReunion at Fairborough
1985
as Sally Wells Grant
TVA Woman of Substance
1985
as Older Emma Harte
MovieWitness for the Prosecution
1982
as Nurse Plimsoll
MovieA Song At Twilight
1982
as Carlotta Gray
MovieNight of 100 Stars
1982
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TVEntertainment Tonight
1981
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TVDinah!
1974
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TVPlayhouse
1974
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Film '72
1971
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V.I.P. Schaukel
1971
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MovieThe Arrangement
1969
as Florence Anderson
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1969
as Elizabeth Brandon
MovieThe Sky Divers
1969
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TVThe Dick Cavett Show
1968
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1968
as Prudence Hardcastle
MovieCasino Royale
1967
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MovieEye of the Devil
1966
as Catherine de Montfaucon
MovieMarriage on the Rocks
1965
as Valerie Edwards
MovieUncertain Verification
1965
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MovieThe Night of the Iguana
1964
as Hannah Jelkes
MovieOn the Trail of the Iguana
1964
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MovieThe Chalk Garden
1964
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TVThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
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MovieThe Innocents
1961
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1961
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MovieThe Grass Is Greener
1960
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1960
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1959
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MovieCount Your Blessings
1959
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1959
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1958
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Small World
1958
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MovieBonjour Tristesse
1958
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MovieAn Affair to Remember
1957
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1957
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1956
as Laura Reynolds
MovieThe King and I
1956
as Anna Leonowens
TVThe Steve Allen Show
1956
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MovieThe Proud and Profane
1956
as Lee Ashley
TVTony Awards
1956
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TVCinépanorama
1956
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MovieThe End of the Affair
1955
as Sarah Miles
MovieFrom Here to Eternity
1953
as Karen Holmes
MovieDream Wife
1953
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1953
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1953
as Catherine Parr
TVThe Oscars
1953
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MovieThunder in the East
1952
as Joan Willoughby
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1952
as Princess Flavia
TVHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Miss Plimsoll
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1951
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1951
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MovieJungle Safari
1950
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1950
as Elizabeth Curtis
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1950
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TVWhat's My Line?
1950
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MovieEdward, My Son
1949
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TVThe Ed Sullivan Show
1948
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MovieIf Winter Comes
1947
as Nona Tybar
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1947
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1947
as Sister Clodagh
MovieI See a Dark Stranger
1946
as Bridie Quilty
MoviePerfect Strangers
1945
as Catherine Wilson
MovieThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943
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1942
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1942
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1942
as Gulielma Maria Springett
MovieLove on the Dole
1941
as Sally
MovieMajor Barbara
1941
as Jenny Hill
