Biography
Deborah Jane Trimmer CBE, 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 (195...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
2024
as (archive footage)
Martin Scorsese presents this very personal and insightful new feature-length documentary about British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburg...

Rat Pack
2022
as Self (archive footage)
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bish...

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert Mitchum (1917-97) to let himself be filmed simply...

And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy ...

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010
as Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first...

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000
as Self (archive footage)
A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors. Compiled from inter...

Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
1995
as Self (archive footage)
There is only one Yul Brynner. No other actor had his looks, his range of talents, his energy and his capacity to draw others into the spell of his ch...

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
as Self
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such me...

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991
as Self
A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scenes from his films and the actor himself.

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988
as Self (archive footage)
Biography of risk-taker and raconteur John Huston from his childhood to become one of the most highly respected filmmakers in the world.

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988
as Self
A retrospective of the life and career of actor Cary Grant, including clips from his films and interviews with his friends and co-workers.

Ann and Debbie
1986
as Ann
Two friends, Ann and Debbie, meet for drinks to discuss marriage difficulties.

The Assam Garden
1985
as Helen
An insecure, aggressive widow of a tea garden manager reluctantly develops an affectionate relationship with an Indian housewife and her family.

Reunion at Fairborough
1985
as Sally Wells Grant
World War II vets travel to England for a reunion at their old base. Stars Judi Trott, Barry Morse, Red Buttons, Deborah Kerr, Shane Rimmer, Robert Mi...

Witness for the Prosecution
1982
as Nurse Plimsoll
Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months following his heart attack. Returning to the prac...

A Song At Twilight
1982
as Carlotta Gray
Enormously successful writer Sir Hugo Latymer has a tryst with the past not altogether to his liking. This bittersweet comedy is the story of a cosmop...

Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City ...

The Arrangement
1969
as Florence Anderson
An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown.

The Gypsy Moths
1969
as Elizabeth Brandon
Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend.
The Sky Divers
1969
as Self
A behind-the-scenes, promotional short about the making of the feature film The Gypsy Moths (1969), which extensively features free fall skydiving.

Prudence and the Pill
1968
as Prudence Hardcastle
Prudence Hardcastle is on the pill. So is her sister-in-law, but someone has been swapping aspirin for their pills. Is it the teenage niece, the maid,...

Casino Royale
1967
as Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be...

Eye of the Devil
1966
as Catherine de Montfaucon
A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.

Marriage on the Rocks
1965
as Valerie Edwards
Ad-agency president Dan Edwards goes to Mexico to celebrate his nineteenth wedding anniversary and winds up getting divorced by mistake, whereupon his...

Uncertain Verification
1965
as (archive footage)
A short film containing a collection of clips from various Hollywood movies.

The Night of the Iguana
1964
as Hannah Jelkes
A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunt...

On the Trail of the Iguana
1964
as Self
Behind the scenes documentary of the filming of Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana.

The Chalk Garden
1964
as Miss Madrigal
The peculiar antics of Laurel, an emotionally troubled young girl, are the focus of The Chalk Garden – a stately household drama set on the cliffs of ...

The Innocents
1961
as Miss Giddens
A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.

The Naked Edge
1961
as Martha Radcliffe
Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the cri...

The Grass Is Greener
1960
as Hilary Rhyall
Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their castle. But Charles Delacro, a millionai...

The Sundowners
1960
as Ida Carmody
In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to set...

Beloved Infidel
1959
as Sheilah Graham
In the late 1930s, Sheilah Graham’s Hollywood column quickly becomes popular for its biting tone. At a party, she meets author F. Scott Fitzgerald, an...

Count Your Blessings
1959
as Grace Allingham
Englishwoman Grace Allingham marries Frenchman Charles Edouard de Valhubert, but their marriage quickly becomes unusual. Because Charles cheats on her...

The Journey
1959
as Diana Ashmore
A Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary.

Separate Tables
1958
as Sibyl Railton-Bell
The lives of a disparate group of unfulfilled people converge at a small, seaside English hotel in this adaptation of Terence Rattigan's classic play.

Bonjour Tristesse
1958
as Anne Larson
A spoiled teenager spends the summer at the French Riviera with her rich, widower, playboy father, but when his old flame resurfaces, she resolves to ...

An Affair to Remember
1957
as Terry McKay
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
1957
as Sister Angela
A Roman Catholic nun and a hard-bitten US Marine are stranded together on a Japanese-occupied island in the South Pacific during World War II. Under c...

Tea and Sympathy
1956
as Laura Reynolds
A sensitive young man recalls his time in boarding school when the only person who seemed compassionate towards with him was his housemaster's wife.

The King and I
1956
as Anna Leonowens
Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna an...

The Proud and Profane
1956
as Lee Ashley
In this romantic drama, beautiful Red Cross volunteer Lee Ashley arrives on the South Pacific island of New Caledonia to learn more about the circumst...

The End of the Affair
1955
as Sarah Miles
During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles, whom he interviews for a book....

From Here to Eternity
1953
as Karen Holmes
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.

Dream Wife
1953
as Effie
Clemson Reade, a business tycoon with marriage on his mind, and Effie, a U.S. diplomat, are a modern couple. Unfortunately there seems to be too much ...

Julius Caesar
1953
as Portia
The assassination of the would-be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and for the republic.

Young Bess
1953
as Catherine Parr
The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Je...

Thunder in the East
1952
as Joan Willoughby
During India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plane in Ghandahar province hoping to get rich. Pacifi...

The Prisoner of Zenda
1952
as Princess Flavia
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king ...

Quo Vadis
1951
as Lygia
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadershi...

Rome, the Eternal City
1951
as Self
A Traveltalk style documentary look at Rome.

King Solomon's Mines
1950
as Elizabeth Curtis
Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing husband lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being p...

Please Believe Me
1950
as Alison Kirbe
A woman in London unexpectedly inherits a Texas ranching fortune, and takes a transatlantic voyage to collect her fortune, not suspecting two men aboa...

Edward, My Son
1949
as Evelyn Boult
Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills.

If Winter Comes
1947
as Nona Tybar
The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark, unhappily married to the shrewish Mabel, cultivates a friend...

The Hucksters
1947
as Kay Dorrance
A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.

Black Narcissus
1947
as Sister Clodagh
A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed...

I See a Dark Stranger
1946
as Bridie Quilty
Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits h...

Perfect Strangers
1945
as Catherine Wilson
After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943
as Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered ...

The Day Will Dawn
1942
as Kari Alstad
Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat ...

Hatter's Castle
1942
as Mary Brodie
The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle, embra...

Penn of Pennsylvania
1942
as Gulielma Maria Springett
Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Hen...

Love on the Dole
1941
as Sally
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally c...

Major Barbara
1941
as Jenny Hill
Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvat...