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Deborah Kerr
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".
As actor
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
Rat Pack
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Ann and Debbie
The Assam Garden
Reunion at Fairborough
Witness for the Prosecution
A Song At Twilight
Night of 100 Stars
The Gypsy Moths
The Arrangement
The Sky Divers
Prudence and the Pill
Casino Royale
Eye of the Devil
Marriage on the Rocks
Uncertain Verification
The Night of the Iguana
The Chalk Garden
On the Trail of the Iguana
The Innocents
The Naked Edge
The Grass Is Greener