Deborah Kerr
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".
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Eye of the Devil
as Catherine de Montfaucon
1966
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
as Self (archive footage)
1988
Bonjour Tristesse
as Anne Larson
1958
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
as Self (archive footage)
2000
Julius Caesar
as Portia
1953
Witness for the Prosecution
as Nurse Plimsoll
1982
From Here to Eternity
as Karen Holmes
1953
Quo Vadis
as Lygia
1951
An Affair to Remember
as Terry McKay
1957
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
as Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
1943
Casino Royale
as Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry
1967
The Grass Is Greener
as Hilary Rhyall
1960
I See a Dark Stranger
as Bridie Quilty
1946
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Princess Flavia
1952
The Night of the Iguana
as Hannah Jelkes
1964
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
as Sister Angela
1957
The Sundowners
as Ida Carmody
1960
The Proud and Profane
as Lee Ashley
1956
Separate Tables
as Sibyl Railton-Bell
1958
King Solomon's Mines
as Elizabeth Curtis
1950
TV Appearances
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Miss Plimsoll
1951
The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Recipient
1956
The Oscars
as Self
1953
Talking Pictures
as Self (archive footage)
2013
Hold the Dream
as Emma Harte
1987
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self
1971
Dinah!
as Self
1974
Entertainment Tonight
as Self
1981
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968