Deborah Kerr
Birthday: 1921-09-30
Place of Birth: 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".
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Eye of the Devil
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John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
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Bonjour Tristesse
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Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
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Julius Caesar
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Witness for the Prosecution
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From Here to Eternity
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Quo Vadis
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An Affair to Remember
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
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Casino Royale
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The Grass Is Greener
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I See a Dark Stranger
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The Prisoner of Zenda
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The Night of the Iguana
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Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
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The Sundowners
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The Proud and Profane
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Separate Tables
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King Solomon's Mines
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Young Bess
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Tea and Sympathy
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The Innocents
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The King and I
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Black Narcissus
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Major Barbara
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The Chalk Garden
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The Arrangement
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Love on the Dole
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Dream Wife
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The Journey
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Please Believe Me
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The End of the Affair
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The Hucksters
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Perfect Strangers
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Count Your Blessings
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The Assam Garden
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Rat Pack
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The Sky Divers
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A Song At Twilight
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On the Trail of the Iguana
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Ann and Debbie
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Night of 100 Stars
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Jungle Safari
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