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Deborah Kerr

Deborah Jane Trimmer, known professionally as Deborah Kerr was admired in the industry for her talent and professionalism, and with her ability to portray everything from nuns to slaves, Kerr emerged as one of the finest and classiest leading ladies of her day.

English
Filmography

Casino Royale

1967
as Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

2000
as Deborah Kerr

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

1991
as Deborah Kerr

If Winter Comes

1947
as Nona Tybar

Bonjour Tristesse

1958
as Anne Larson

Dream Wife

1953
as Effie

The End of the Affair

1955
as Sarah Miles

Ann and Debbie

1986
as Ann

From Here to Eternity

1953
as Karen Holmes

The Assam Garden

1985
as Helen

Count Your Blessings

1959
as Grace Allingham

I See a Dark Stranger

1946
as Bridie Quilty

King Solomon's Mines

1950
as Elizabeth Curtis

Quo Vadis

1951
as Lygia

Beloved Infidel

1959
as Sheilah Graham

A Woman of Substance

1984
as Emma Harte

The Naked Edge

1961
as Martha Radcliffe

Perfect Strangers

1945
as Catherine Wilson

Tea and Sympathy

1956
as Laura Reynolds

Edward, My Son

1949
as Evelyn Boult

Hatter's Castle

1942
as Mary Brodie

Black Narcissus

1947
as Sister Clodagh

The Arrangement

1969
as Florence Anderson

On the Trail of the Iguana

1964
as Deborah Kerr

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

1991
as Deborah Kerr

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

1943
as Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon

The Chalk Garden

1964
as Miss Madrigal

The Gypsy Moths

1969
as Elizabeth Brandon

The Journey

1959
as Diana Ashmore

Verifica incerta - Disperse Exclamatory Phase

1965
as (archive footage)

The Hucksters

1947
as Kay Dorrance

An Affair to Remember

1957
as Terry McKay

Julius Caesar

1953
as Portia

The Sundowners

1960
as Ida Carmody

The Grass Is Greener

1960
as Lady Hilary Rhyall

Thunder in the East

1952
as Joan Willoughby

Love on the Dole

1941
as Sally

Reunion at Fairborough

1985
as Sally Wells Grant

Separate Tables

1958
as Sibyl Railton-Bell

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

1957
as Sister Angela

Please Believe Me

1950
as Alison Kirbe

Witness for the Prosecution

1982
as Nurse Plimsoll

Hold the Dream

1986
as Emma Harte

The Day Will Dawn

1942
as Kari Alstad

Secret Voices of Hollywood

2013
as Deborah Kerr

The Innocents

1961
as Miss Giddens

The King and I

1956
as Anna Leonowens

Prudence and the Pill

1968
as Prudence Hardcastle

Young Bess

1953
as Catherine Parr

The Lady with the Torch

1999
as Deborah Kerr

Major Barbara

1941
as Jenny Hill

Penn of Pennsylvania

1942
as Gulielma

Robert Mitchum, le mauvais garçon d'Hollywood

2017
as Self (archive footage)

The Proud and Profane

1956
as Lee Ashley

Eye of the Devil

1966
as Catherine de Montfaucon

The Night of the Iguana

1964
as Hannah Jelkes

Marriage on the Rocks

1965
as Valerie Edwards

The Prisoner of Zenda

1952
as Princess Flavia

Guest Star

Episode Tony Awards
The 26th Annual Tony Awards 		1972
Episode A Woman of Substance
Hold the Dream 1 		1985
Episode A Woman of Substance
Hold the Dream 2 		1985
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Henry Fonda, Deborah Kerr, Sandy Duncan, Alexander Cohen 		1972
Episode A Woman of Substance
Hold the Dream 3 		1985
Episode A Woman of Substance
Hold the Dream 4 		1985
Episode Discovering Film
Discovering Deborah Kerr 		2014
Episode What's My Line?
Deborah Kerr 		1953