Deborah Kerr
Known for Acting · 83 credits
- Born
- 1921-09-30
- Died
- 2007-10-16
- Place of birth
- Helensburgh, Scotland, UK
- Also known as
- 데보라 커 · Дебора Керр · دبورا کار
Biography
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".
Known For
TV Shows (18)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
What's My Line?
1950
as Self
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Host / Presenter
Playhouse
1974
as Carlotta Gray
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
Dinah!
1974
as Self
The Steve Allen Show
1956
as Self - Recipient
Film '72
1971
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Cinépanorama
1956
as Self
Entertainment Tonight
1981
as Self
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971
as Self
A Woman of Substance
1985
as Older Emma Harte
Talking Pictures
2013
as Self (archive footage)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Miss Plimsoll
Small World
1958
as Self
Hold the Dream
1987
as Emma Harte
Movies (65)
Casino Royale
1967
as Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry
From Here to Eternity
1953
as Karen Holmes
Quo Vadis
1951
as Lygia
The King and I
1956
as Anna Leonowens
Black Narcissus
1947
as Sister Clodagh
The Night of the Iguana
1964
as Hannah Jelkes
The Innocents
1961
as Miss Giddens
Julius Caesar
1953
as Portia
An Affair to Remember
1957
as Terry McKay
Eye of the Devil
1966
as Catherine de Montfaucon
Bonjour Tristesse
1958
as Anne Larson
The Prisoner of Zenda
1952
as Princess Flavia
King Solomon's Mines
1950
as Elizabeth Curtis
The Journey
1959
as Diana Ashmore
Tea and Sympathy
1956
as Laura Reynolds
Jungle Safari
1950
as Herself (archival footage)
Prudence and the Pill
1968
as Prudence Hardcastle
The Proud and Profane
1956
as Lee Ashley
A Song At Twilight
1982
as Carlotta Gray
Marriage on the Rocks
1965
as Valerie Edwards
Separate Tables
1958
as Sibyl Railton-Bell
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
1957
as Sister Angela
The Sundowners
1960
as Ida Carmody
The Arrangement
1969
as Florence Anderson
Beloved Infidel
1959
as Sheilah Graham
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943
as Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
Witness for the Prosecution
1982
as Nurse Plimsoll
Perfect Strangers
1945
as Catherine Wilson
The Grass Is Greener
1960
as Hilary Rhyall
The Hucksters
1947
as Kay Dorrance
The Naked Edge
1961
as Martha Radcliffe
Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
Dream Wife
1953
as Effie
The Chalk Garden
1964
as Miss Madrigal
The Assam Garden
1985
as Helen
I See a Dark Stranger
1946
as Bridie Quilty
The End of the Affair
1955
as Sarah Miles
The Sky Divers
1969
as Self
Reunion at Fairborough
1985
as Sally Wells Grant
Edward, My Son
1949
as Evelyn Boult
The Gypsy Moths
1969
as Elizabeth Brandon
Love on the Dole
1941
as Sally
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
as Self
Please Believe Me
1950
as Alison Kirbe
Ann and Debbie
1986
as Ann
Young Bess
1953
as Catherine Parr
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010
as Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988
as Self (archive footage)
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
2024
as (archive footage)
Rat Pack
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000
as Self (archive footage)
Count Your Blessings
1959
as Grace Allingham
Uncertain Verification
1965
as (archive footage)
The Day Will Dawn
1942
as Kari Alstad
Major Barbara
1941
as Jenny Hill
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988
as Self
If Winter Comes
1947
as Nona Tybar
Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
1995
as Self (archive footage)
On the Trail of the Iguana
1964
as Self
Thunder in the East
1952
as Joan Willoughby
Rome, the Eternal City
1951
as Self
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991
as Self
Penn of Pennsylvania
1942
as Gulielma Maria Springett
Hatter's Castle
1942
as Mary Brodie
About 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 Affai… With 83 credits spanning from 1941 to 2024, Deborah Kerr has appeared in 65 films and 18 TV shows.
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Most Popular Deborah Kerr Movies
- Casino Royale (1967) — as Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry
- From Here to Eternity (1953) — as Karen Holmes
- Quo Vadis (1951) — as Lygia
- The King and I (1956) — as Anna Leonowens
- Black Narcissus (1947) — as Sister Clodagh
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