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".

Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Tony Awards

What's My Line?

The Dick Cavett Show

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Oscars

Playhouse

The Steve Allen Show

All Movies (65)

• Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger2024 · as (archive footage)
• Rat Pack2022 · as Self (archive footage)
• Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast2019 · as Self - Actress (archive footage)
• Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff2010 · as Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Sir John Mills' Moving Memories2000 · as Self (archive footage)
• Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King1995 · as Self (archive footage)
• Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker1991 · as Self
• Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star1991 · as Self
• John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick1988 · as Self (archive footage)
• Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man1988 · as Self
• Ann and Debbie1986 · as Ann
• The Assam Garden1985 · as Helen
• Reunion at Fairborough1985 · as Sally Wells Grant
• Witness for the Prosecution1982 · as Nurse Plimsoll
• A Song At Twilight1982 · as Carlotta Gray
• Night of 100 Stars1982 · as Self
• The Arrangement1969 · as Florence Anderson
• The Gypsy Moths1969 · as Elizabeth Brandon
• The Sky Divers1969 · as Self
• Prudence and the Pill1968 · as Prudence Hardcastle
• Casino Royale1967 · as Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry
• Eye of the Devil1966 · as Catherine de Montfaucon
• Marriage on the Rocks1965 · as Valerie Edwards
• Uncertain Verification1965 · as (archive footage)
• The Night of the Iguana1964 · as Hannah Jelkes
• On the Trail of the Iguana1964 · as Self
• The Chalk Garden1964 · as Miss Madrigal
• The Innocents1961 · as Miss Giddens
• The Naked Edge1961 · as Martha Radcliffe
• The Grass Is Greener1960 · as Hilary Rhyall
• The Sundowners1960 · as Ida Carmody
• Beloved Infidel1959 · as Sheilah Graham
• Count Your Blessings1959 · as Grace Allingham
• The Journey1959 · as Diana Ashmore
• Separate Tables1958 · as Sibyl Railton-Bell
• Bonjour Tristesse1958 · as Anne Larson
• An Affair to Remember1957 · as Terry McKay
• Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison1957 · as Sister Angela
• Tea and Sympathy1956 · as Laura Reynolds
• The King and I1956 · as Anna Leonowens
• The Proud and Profane1956 · as Lee Ashley
• The End of the Affair1955 · as Sarah Miles
• From Here to Eternity1953 · as Karen Holmes
• Dream Wife1953 · as Effie
• Julius Caesar1953 · as Portia
• Young Bess1953 · as Catherine Parr
• Thunder in the East1952 · as Joan Willoughby
• The Prisoner of Zenda1952 · as Princess Flavia
• Quo Vadis1951 · as Lygia
• Rome, the Eternal City1951 · as Self
• Jungle Safari1950 · as Herself (archival footage)
• King Solomon's Mines1950 · as Elizabeth Curtis
• Please Believe Me1950 · as Alison Kirbe
• Edward, My Son1949 · as Evelyn Boult
• If Winter Comes1947 · as Nona Tybar
• The Hucksters1947 · as Kay Dorrance
• Black Narcissus1947 · as Sister Clodagh
• I See a Dark Stranger1946 · as Bridie Quilty
• Perfect Strangers1945 · as Catherine Wilson
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943 · as Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
• The Day Will Dawn1942 · as Kari Alstad
• Hatter's Castle1942 · as Mary Brodie
• Penn of Pennsylvania1942 · as Gulielma Maria Springett
• Love on the Dole1941 · as Sally
• Major Barbara1941 · as Jenny Hill

All TV Shows (17)

• Talking Pictures2013 · as Self (archive footage)
• Hold the Dream1987 · as Emma Harte
• A Woman of Substance1985 · as Older Emma Harte
• Entertainment Tonight1981 · as Self
• Dinah!1974 · as Self
• Playhouse1974 · as Carlotta Gray
• V.I.P. Schaukel1971 · as Self
• The Dick Cavett Show1968 · as Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self
• Small World1958 · as Self
• The Steve Allen Show1956 · as Self - Recipient
• Tony Awards1956 · as Self - Host / Presenter
• Cinépanorama1956 · as Self
• The Oscars1953 · as Self
• Hallmark Hall of Fame1951 · as Miss Plimsoll
• What's My Line?1950 · as Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show1948 · as Self