Deborah Kerr
Born September 30, 1921 (Age: 104)
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Helensburgh, Scotland, UK
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".
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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Filmography
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 78
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
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as Self
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Age: 70
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991
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as Self
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Age: 69
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 67
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988
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as Self
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Age: 66
The Assam Garden
1985
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as Helen
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Age: 63
Reunion at Fairborough
1985
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as Sally Wells Grant
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Age: 63
The Arrangement
1969
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as Florence Anderson
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Age: 48
The Gypsy Moths
1969
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as Elizabeth Brandon
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Age: 47
The Sky Divers
1969
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as Self
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Age: 47
Marriage on the Rocks
1965
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as Valerie Edwards
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Age: 43
Uncertain Verification
1965
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as (archive footage)
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Age: 43
The Night of the Iguana
1964
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as Hannah Jelkes
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Age: 42
On the Trail of the Iguana
1964
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as Self
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Age: 42
The Chalk Garden
1964
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as Miss Madrigal
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Age: 42
The Innocents
1961
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as Miss Giddens
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Age: 40
The Naked Edge
1961
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as Martha Radcliffe
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Age: 39
The Grass Is Greener
1960
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as Hilary Rhyall
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Age: 39
The Sundowners
1960
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as Ida Carmody
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Age: 39
Beloved Infidel
1959
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as Sheilah Graham
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Age: 38
Count Your Blessings
1959
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as Grace Allingham
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Age: 37
The Journey
1959
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as Diana Ashmore
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Age: 37
Separate Tables
1958
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as Sibyl Railton-Bell
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Age: 37
Bonjour Tristesse
1958
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as Anne Larson
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Age: 36
Tea and Sympathy
1956
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as Laura Reynolds
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Age: 34
The King and I
1956
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as Anna Leonowens
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Age: 34
The Proud and Profane
1956
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as Lee Ashley
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Age: 34
The End of the Affair
1955
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as Sarah Miles
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Age: 33
From Here to Eternity
1953
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as Karen Holmes
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Age: 31
Dream Wife
1953
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as Effie
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Age: 31
Julius Caesar
1953
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as Portia
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Age: 31
Young Bess
1953
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as Catherine Parr
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Age: 31
Jungle Safari
1950
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as Herself (archival footage)
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Age: 29
King Solomon's Mines
1950
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as Elizabeth Curtis
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Age: 29
Please Believe Me
1950
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as Alison Kirbe
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Age: 28
Perfect Strangers
1945
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as Catherine Wilson
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Age: 24
The Day Will Dawn
1942
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as Kari Alstad
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Age: 20
Hatter's Castle
1942
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as Mary Brodie
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Age: 20
Penn of Pennsylvania
1942
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as Gulielma Maria Springett
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Age: 20
Love on the Dole
1941
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as Sally
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Age: 19
Major Barbara
1941
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as Jenny Hill
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Age: 19