Deborah Kerr
Age: 86 | From: Helensburgh, Scotland, UK
Person Details
Birthday: 1921-09-30 16:19:59
Death: 2007-10-16 16:19:59
Aliases: 데보라 커
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Helensburgh, Scotland, UK
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Movie Involvements: 49
TV Involvements: 6
Most Famous Work
Biography
Born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer in Scotland in 1921, she was the daughter of a soldier who had been gassed in World War I. A shy, insecure child, she found an outlet for expressing her feelings in acting. Her aunt, a radio star, got her some stage work when she was a teenager, and she came to the attention of British film producer Gabriel Pascal, who cast her in his film of George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara" (Major Barbara (1941)) and Love on the Dole (1941). She quickly became a star of the British cinema, playing such diverse roles as the three women in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) and the nun in Black Narcissus (1947). In 1947 she "crossed the pond" and came to MGM, where she found success in films like The Hucksters (1947), Edward, My Son (1949) and Quo Vadis (1951). After a while, however, she tired of playing prim-and-proper English ladies, so she made the most of the role of the adulteress who romps on the beach with Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity (1953). The film was a success, and Kerr received her second Oscar nomination. She also achieved success on the Broadway stage in "Tea and Sympathy," reprising her role in the 1956 film version (Tea and Sympathy (1956)). That same year she played one of her best-remembered screen roles, "Mrs. Anna" in The King and I (1956). More success followed in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), An Affair to Remember (1957), Separate Tables (1958), The Sundowners (1960), The Innocents (1961) and The Night of the Iguana (1964). Then in 1968 she suddenly quit movies, appalled by the explicit sex and violence of the day. After some stage and TV work in the 1970s and 1980s and swan song performances in The Assam Garden (1985) and Hold the Dream (1986), she retired from acting altogether. Kerr holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations for Best Actress without a win (six), but that was made up for in 1994, when she was given an Honorary Oscar for her screen achievements. Date of Death 16 October 2007, Botesdale, Suffolk, England (complications from Parkinson's disease)
Most Famous Work
What's My Line?
(1950) Self - Mystery Guest
Tony Awards
(1956) Self - Host / Presenter
Quo Vadis
(1951) Lygia
The Oscars
(1953) Self
Black Narcissus
(1947) Sister Clodagh
Bonjour Tristesse
(1958) Anne Larson
From Here to Eternity
(1953) Karen Holmes
The Innocents
(1961) Miss GiddensActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2014 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2013 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2010 | Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 2000 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1991 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| 1989 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1986 | Emma Harte | |
| Ann | ||
| 1985 | Helen | |
| Sally Wells Grant | ||
| Emma Harte | ||
| 1982 | Nurse Plimsoll | |
| Carlotta Gray | ||
| Self | ||
| 1971 | Self | |
| 1969 | Florence Anderson | |
| Elizabeth Brandon | ||
| Self | ||
| 1968 | Self - Guest | |
| Prudence Hardcastle | ||
| 1967 | Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry | |
| 1966 | Catherine de Montfaucon | |
| 1965 | Valerie Edwards | |
| (archive footage) | ||
| 1964 | Hannah Jelkes | |
| Self | ||
| Miss Madrigal | ||
| 1962 | Self | |
| 1961 | Miss Giddens | |
| Martha Radcliffe | ||
| 1960 | Hilary Rhyall | |
| Ida Carmody | ||
| 1959 | Sheilah Graham | |
| Grace Allingham | ||
| Diana Ashmore | ||
| 1958 | Sibyl Railton-Bell | |
| Anne Larson | ||
| 1957 | Terry McKay | |
| Sister Angela | ||
| 1956 | Laura Reynolds | |
| Anna Leonowens | ||
| Self - Recipient | ||
| Lee Ashley | ||
| Self - Host / Presenter | ||
| Self | ||
| 1955 | Sarah Miles | |
| 1953 | Karen Holmes | |
| Effie | ||
| Portia | ||
| Catherine Parr | ||
| Self | ||
| 1952 | Joan Willoughby | |
| Princess Flavia | ||
| 1951 | Miss Plimsoll | |
| Lygia | ||
| Self | ||
| 1950 | Elizabeth Curtis | |
| Alison Kirbe | ||
| Self - Panelist | ||
| Self - Mystery Guest | ||
| 1949 | Evelyn Boult | |
| 1948 | Self | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 1947 | Nona Tybar | |
| Kay Dorrance | ||
| Sister Clodagh | ||
| 1946 | Bridie Quilty | |
| 1945 | Catherine Wilson | |
| 1943 | Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon | |
| 1942 | Kari Alstad | |
| Mary Brodie | ||
| Gulielma Maria Springett | ||
| 1941 | Sally | |
| Jenny Hill | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
