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Deborah Kerr
Helensburgh, 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…
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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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2024
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
Movie (archive footage)
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2022
Rat Pack
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Movie Self - Actress (archive footage)
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2014
Discovering: Robert Mitchum
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2013
Talking Pictures
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2010
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Movie Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2000
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1995
Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Movie Self
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1991
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Movie Self
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1988
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1988
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Movie Self
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1987
Hold the Dream
TV show Emma Harte
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1986
Ann and Debbie
Movie Ann
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1985
The Assam Garden
Movie Helen
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1985
Reunion at Fairborough
Movie Sally Wells Grant
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1985
A Woman of Substance
TV show Older Emma Harte
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1982
Witness for the Prosecution
Movie Nurse Plimsoll
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1982
A Song At Twilight
Movie Carlotta Gray
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1982
Night of 100 Stars
Movie Self
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1981
Entertainment Tonight
TV show Self
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1974
Dinah!
TV show Self
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1974
Playhouse
TV show Carlotta Gray
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1971
Film '72
TV show Self
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1971
V.I.P. Schaukel
TV show Self
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1969
The Arrangement
Movie Florence Anderson
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1969
The Gypsy Moths
Movie Elizabeth Brandon
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1969
The Sky Divers
Movie Self
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1968
The Dick Cavett Show
TV show Self - Guest
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1968
Prudence and the Pill
Movie Prudence Hardcastle
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1967
Casino Royale
Movie Agent Mimi
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1966
Eye of the Devil
Movie Catherine de Montfaucon
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1965
Marriage on the Rocks
Movie Valerie Edwards
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1965
Uncertain Verification
Movie (archive footage)
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1964
The Night of the Iguana
Movie Hannah Jelkes
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1964
On the Trail of the Iguana
Movie Self
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1964
The Chalk Garden
Movie Miss Madrigal
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1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV show Self
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1961
The Innocents
Movie Miss Giddens
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1961
The Naked Edge
Movie Martha Radcliffe
