
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 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".
82 acting credits
Acting · 82

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

Tony Awards
1956

What's My Line?
1950

Playhouse
1974

The Dick Cavett Show
1968

The Oscars
1953

Dinah!
1974

The Steve Allen Show
1956

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948

Cinépanorama
1956

Entertainment Tonight
1981
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971

The Innocents
1961

A Woman of Substance
1985

Casino Royale
1967

Talking Pictures
2013

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

Quo Vadis
1951

Hold the Dream
1987
Small World
1958

The King and I
1956

From Here to Eternity
1953

Night of 100 Stars
1982

Julius Caesar
1953

An Affair to Remember
1957

Bonjour Tristesse
1958

King Solomon's Mines
1950

Black Narcissus
1947

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019

The Night of the Iguana
1964

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010

The Sundowners
1960

Witness for the Prosecution
1982

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988

The Journey
1959

The End of the Affair
1955

Beloved Infidel
1959

Major Barbara
1941

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943

Separate Tables
1958

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
1957

The Prisoner of Zenda
1952

The Arrangement
1969

Tea and Sympathy
1956

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991

The Hucksters
1947

The Grass Is Greener
1960

Perfect Strangers
1945

The Gypsy Moths
1969

Dream Wife
1953

Thunder in the East
1952

Young Bess
1953

Please Believe Me
1950

Count Your Blessings
1959

Rat Pack
2022

Eye of the Devil
1966

Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
2024

The Naked Edge
1961

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000

The Chalk Garden
1964

I See a Dark Stranger
1946

Marriage on the Rocks
1965

Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
1995

Uncertain Verification
1965

Prudence and the Pill
1968

Edward, My Son
1949

The Proud and Profane
1956

On the Trail of the Iguana
1964

The Day Will Dawn
1942

Penn of Pennsylvania
1942

The Assam Garden
1985

If Winter Comes
1947

Reunion at Fairborough
1985

Love on the Dole
1941

Hatter's Castle
1942

Rome, the Eternal City
1951

Jungle Safari
1950

The Sky Divers
1969

A Song At Twilight
1982

Ann and Debbie
1986