Biography: life and films
Deborah Kerr was a Scottish actress whose birth name was Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer. She was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, UK on 30th September 1921 and died in Botesdale, Suffolk, England, UK on 16th October 2007, aged 86.Her best films as an actor include Michael Powell's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), Black Narcissus (1947), Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity (1953), Walter Lang's The King and I (1956) and Jack Clayton's thriller The Innocents (1961).
Deborah Kerr appeared in 49 films.
She has most frequently worked with the following directors: Stanley Donen (2 films), Michael Powell (2), Lance Comfort (2), John Huston (2) and Fred Zinnemann (2).
Her most frequent genres include: drama (29 films), romance (11), comedy (8), War (8), comedy-romance (7), Thriller (6), comedy-drama (4), history (2), comedy-thriller (2) and Horror (2).
Our average rating for Deborah Kerr over all films is: 3.2
Filmography
Key: a = actor
Love on the Dole (1941) [a]
Major Barbara (1941) [a]
Hatter's Castle (1942) [a]
Penn of Pennsylvania (1942) [a]
The Day Will Dawn (1942) [a]
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) [a]
Perfect Strangers (1945) [a]
I See a Dark Stranger (1946) [a]
If Winter Comes (1947) [a]
The Hucksters (1947) [a]
Edward, My Son (1949) [a]
King Solomon's Mines (1950) [a]
Please Believe Me (1950) [a]
Quo Vadis (1951) [a]
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952) [a]
Thunder in the East (1952) [a]
Dream Wife (1953) [a]
From Here to Eternity (1953) [a]
Julius Caesar (1953) [a]
Young Bess (1953) [a]
The End of the Affair (1955) [a]
The Proud and Profane (1956) [a]
An Affair to Remember (1957) [a]
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) [a]
Kiss Them for Me (1957) [a]
Bonjour tristesse (1958) [a]
Separate Tables (1958) [a]
Beloved Infidel (1959) [a]
Count Your Blessings (1959) [a]
The Journey (1959) [a]
The Grass Is Greener (1960) [a]
The Sundowners (1960) [a]
The Naked Edge (1961) [a]
The Chalk Garden (1964) [a]
The Night of the Iguana (1964) [a]
Marriage on the Rocks (1965) [a]
Prudence and the Pill (1968) [a]
The Arrangement (1969) [a]
The Gypsy Moths (1969) [a]
The Assam Garden (1985) [a]
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991) [a]
L.A. Confidential (1997) [a]
Trumbo (2015) [a]
Kafka's tortuous trial of love
The silent era of French cinema
The very best French thrillers
