1921-09-30 Helensburgh, Scotland, UK
Deborah Jane Trimmer CBE, 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 | (archive footage) | 2024-05-10 |
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Rat Pack | Self (archive footage) | 2022-01-11 |
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Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast | Self - Actress (archive footage) | 2019-02-27 |
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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff | Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2010-05-05 |
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Sir John Mills' Moving Memories | Self (archive footage) | 2000-08-01 |
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Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King | Self (archive footage) | 1995-01-01 |
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | Self | 1991-10-28 |
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Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star | Self | 1991-03-10 |
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John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick | Self (archive footage) | 1988-10-24 |
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Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man | Self | 1988-06-05 |
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Ann and Debbie | Ann | 1986-01-01 |
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Reunion at Fairborough | Sally Wells Grant | 1985-05-12 |
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The Assam Garden | Helen | 1985-06-04 |
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Night of 100 Stars | Self | 1982-03-08 |
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A Song At Twilight | Carlotta Gray | 1982-07-09 |
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Witness for the Prosecution | Nurse Plimsoll | 1982-12-04 |
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The Sky Divers | Self | 1969-01-01 |
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The Arrangement | Florence Anderson | 1969-11-18 |
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The Gypsy Moths | Elizabeth Brandon | 1969-08-29 |
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Prudence and the Pill | Prudence Hardcastle | 1968-05-23 |
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Casino Royale | Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry | 1967-04-13 |
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Eye of the Devil | Catherine de Montfaucon | 1966-11-18 |
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La verifica incerta | (archive footage) | 1965-04-30 |
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Marriage on the Rocks | Valerie Edwards | 1965-09-24 |
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On the Trail of the Iguana | Self | 1964-04-30 |
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The Night of the Iguana | Hannah Jelkes | 1964-08-06 |
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The Chalk Garden | Miss Madrigal | 1964-04-02 |
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The Naked Edge | Martha Radcliffe | 1961-06-28 |
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The Innocents | Miss Giddens | 1961-12-15 |
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The Sundowners | Ida Carmody | 1960-12-08 |
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The Grass Is Greener | Hilary Rhyall | 1960-12-23 |
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Count Your Blessings | Grace Allingham | 1959-04-23 |
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Beloved Infidel | Sheilah Graham | 1959-11-17 |
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The Journey | Diana Ashmore | 1959-02-11 |
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Bonjour Tristesse | Anne Larson | 1958-01-15 |
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Separate Tables | Sibyl Railton-Bell | 1958-12-18 |
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Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison | Sister Angela | 1957-03-13 |
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An Affair to Remember | Terry McKay | 1957-07-11 |
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Tea and Sympathy | Laura Reynolds | 1956-09-27 |
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The Proud and Profane | Lee Ashley | 1956-06-13 |
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The King and I | Anna Leonowens | 1956-06-29 |
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The End of the Affair | Sarah Miles | 1955-02-24 |
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Dream Wife | Effie | 1953-06-19 |
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Young Bess | Catherine Parr | 1953-05-29 |
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From Here to Eternity | Karen Holmes | 1953-08-28 |
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Julius Caesar | Portia | 1953-06-04 |
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Thunder in the East | Joan Willoughby | 1952-12-04 |
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The Prisoner of Zenda | Princess Flavia | 1952-11-04 |
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Rome, the Eternal City | Self | 1951-01-21 |
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Quo Vadis | Lygia | 1951-11-08 |
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Please Believe Me | Alison Kirbe | 1950-05-12 |
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King Solomon's Mines | Elizabeth Curtis | 1950-11-09 |
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Edward, My Son | Evelyn Boult | 1949-03-01 |
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Black Narcissus | Sister Clodagh | 1947-05-26 |
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The Hucksters | Kay Dorrance | 1947-07-17 |
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If Winter Comes | Nona Tybar | 1947-12-31 |
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I See a Dark Stranger | Bridie Quilty | 1946-07-04 |
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Perfect Strangers | Catherine Wilson | 1945-10-15 |
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon | 1943-07-26 |
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Penn of Pennsylvania | Gulielma Maria Springett | 1942-01-24 |
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Hatter's Castle | Mary Brodie | 1942-02-02 |
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The Day Will Dawn | Kari Alstad | 1942-06-08 |
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Major Barbara | Jenny Hill | 1941-05-14 |
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Love on the Dole | Sally | 1941-06-28 |
