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Deborah Kerr
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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),…
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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".
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Deborah Kerr's Filmography
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Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
as (archive footage)
Rat Pack
as Self (archive footage)
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Discovering: Robert Mitchum
as Self (archive footage)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
as Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
as Self (archive footage)
Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
as Self (archive footage)
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as Self
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
as Self
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
as Self (archive footage)
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
as Self
Ann and Debbie
as Ann
The Assam Garden
as Helen
Reunion at Fairborough
as Sally Wells Grant
Witness for the Prosecution
as Nurse Plimsoll
A Song At Twilight
as Carlotta Gray
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
The Arrangement
as Florence Anderson
The Gypsy Moths
as Elizabeth Brandon
The Sky Divers
as Self
Prudence and the Pill
as Prudence Hardcastle
Casino Royale
as Agent Mimi
Eye of the Devil
as Catherine de Montfaucon
Marriage on the Rocks
as Valerie Edwards
Uncertain Verification
as (archive footage)
The Night of the Iguana
as Hannah Jelkes
On the Trail of the Iguana
as Self
The Chalk Garden
as Miss Madrigal
The Innocents
as Miss Giddens
The Naked Edge
as Martha Radcliffe
The Grass Is Greener
as Hilary Rhyall
The Sundowners
as Ida Carmody
Beloved Infidel
as Sheilah Graham
Count Your Blessings
as Grace Allingham
The Journey
as Diana Ashmore
Separate Tables
as Sibyl Railton-Bell
Bonjour Tristesse
as Anne Larson
An Affair to Remember
as Terry McKay
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
as Sister Angela
Tea and Sympathy
as Laura Reynolds
The King and I
as Anna Leonowens
The Proud and Profane
as Lee Ashley
The End of the Affair
as Sarah Miles
From Here to Eternity
as Karen Holmes
Dream Wife
as Effie
Julius Caesar
as Portia
Young Bess
as Catherine Parr
Thunder in the East
as Joan Willoughby
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Princess Flavia
Quo Vadis
as Lygia
Rome, the Eternal City
as Self
Jungle Safari
as Herself (archival footage)
King Solomon's Mines
as Elizabeth Curtis
Please Believe Me
as Alison Kirbe
Edward, My Son
as Evelyn Boult
If Winter Comes
as Nona Tybar
The Hucksters
as Kay Dorrance
Black Narcissus
as Sister Clodagh
I See a Dark Stranger
as Bridie Quilty
Perfect Strangers
as Catherine Wilson
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
as Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
The Day Will Dawn
as Kari Alstad
Hatter's Castle
as Mary Brodie
Penn of Pennsylvania
as Gulielma Maria Springett
Love on the Dole
as Sally
Major Barbara
as Jenny Hill