Deborah Kerr

Known for ActingBorn 1921-09-30Died 2007-10-16Helensburgh, Scotland, UK

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".Read more

Movies & web series

Rat Pack

Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Cinépanorama

Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

A Woman of Substance

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

V.I.P. Schaukel

The Assam Garden

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Innocents

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

Black Narcissus

An Affair to Remember

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

Small World

The Night of the Iguana

From Here to Eternity

A Song At Twilight

The Chalk Garden

Dinah!

Playhouse

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

The King and I

Julius Caesar

Quo Vadis

Separate Tables

The Hucksters

Night of 100 Stars

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

Tea and Sympathy

What's My Line?

The Oscars

The Dick Cavett Show

The Prisoner of Zenda

The Sundowners

Talking Pictures

The Ed Sullivan Show

Witness for the Prosecution

On the Trail of the Iguana

Bonjour Tristesse

Uncertain Verification

The Arrangement

Major Barbara

If Winter Comes

Perfect Strangers