Deborah Kerr
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".
Filmography (84 Appearances)
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
Rat Pack
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Discovering: Robert Mitchum
Talking Pictures
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Hold the Dream
Ann and Debbie
The Assam Garden
Reunion at Fairborough
A Woman of Substance
Witness for the Prosecution
A Song At Twilight
Night of 100 Stars
Entertainment Tonight
Dinah!
Playhouse
Film '72
V.I.P. Schaukel
The Arrangement
The Gypsy Moths
The Sky Divers
The Dick Cavett Show
Prudence and the Pill
Casino Royale
Eye of the Devil
Marriage on the Rocks
Uncertain Verification
The Night of the Iguana
On the Trail of the Iguana
The Chalk Garden
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Innocents
The Naked Edge
The Grass Is Greener
The Sundowners
Beloved Infidel
Count Your Blessings
The Journey
Separate Tables
Small World
Bonjour Tristesse
An Affair to Remember
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Tea and Sympathy
The King and I
The Steve Allen Show
The Proud and Profane
Tony Awards
Cinépanorama
The End of the Affair
From Here to Eternity
Dream Wife
Julius Caesar
Young Bess
The Oscars
Thunder in the East
The Prisoner of Zenda
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Quo Vadis
Rome, the Eternal City
Jungle Safari
King Solomon's Mines
Please Believe Me
What's My Line?
Edward, My Son
The Ed Sullivan Show
If Winter Comes
The Hucksters
Black Narcissus
I See a Dark Stranger
Perfect Strangers
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Day Will Dawn
Hatter's Castle
Penn of Pennsylvania
Love on the Dole
Major Barbara