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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

A Woman of Substance

1984
as Emma Harte

An Affair to Remember

1957
as Terry McKay

Ann and Debbie

1986
as Ann

Beloved Infidel

1959
as Sheilah Graham

Black Narcissus

1947
as Sister Clodagh

Bonjour Tristesse

1958
as Anne Larson

Casino Royale

1967
as Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry

Count Your Blessings

1959
as Grace Allingham

Dream Wife

1953
as Effie

Edward, My Son

1949
as Evelyn Boult

Eye of the Devil

1966
as Catherine de Montfaucon

From Here to Eternity

1953
as Karen Holmes

Hatter's Castle

1942
as Mary Brodie

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

1957
as Sister Angela

Hold the Dream

1986
as Emma Harte

I See a Dark Stranger

1946
as Bridie Quilty

If Winter Comes

1947
as Nona Tybar

Julius Caesar

1953
as Portia

King Solomon's Mines

1950
as Elizabeth Curtis

Love on the Dole

1941
as Sally

Major Barbara

1941
as Jenny Hill

Marriage on the Rocks

1965
as Valerie Edwards

On the Trail of the Iguana

1964
as Deborah Kerr

Penn of Pennsylvania

1942
as Gulielma

Perfect Strangers

1945
as Catherine Wilson

Please Believe Me

1950
as Alison Kirbe

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

1991
as Deborah Kerr

Prudence and the Pill

1968
as Prudence Hardcastle

Quo Vadis

1951
as Lygia

Reunion at Fairborough

1985
as Sally Wells Grant

Robert Mitchum, le mauvais garçon d'Hollywood

2017
as Self (archive footage)

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

1991
as Deborah Kerr

Secret Voices of Hollywood

2013
as Deborah Kerr

Separate Tables

1958
as Sibyl Railton-Bell

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

2000
as Deborah Kerr

Tea and Sympathy

1956
as Laura Reynolds

The Arrangement

1969
as Florence Anderson

The Assam Garden

1985
as Helen

The Chalk Garden

1964
as Miss Madrigal

The Day Will Dawn

1942
as Kari Alstad

The End of the Affair

1955
as Sarah Miles

The Grass Is Greener

1960
as Lady Hilary Rhyall

The Gypsy Moths

1969
as Elizabeth Brandon

The Hucksters

1947
as Kay Dorrance

The Innocents

1961
as Miss Giddens

The Journey

1959
as Diana Ashmore

The King and I

1956
as Anna Leonowens

The Lady with the Torch

1999
as Deborah Kerr

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

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

The Naked Edge

1961
as Martha Radcliffe

The Night of the Iguana

1964
as Hannah Jelkes

The Prisoner of Zenda

1952
as Princess Flavia

The Proud and Profane

1956
as Lee Ashley

The Sundowners

1960
as Ida Carmody

Thunder in the East

1952
as Joan Willoughby

Verifica incerta - Disperse Exclamatory Phase

1965
as (archive footage)

Witness for the Prosecution

1982
as Nurse Plimsoll

Young Bess

1953
as Catherine Parr

Guest Star

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