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