On one occasion she gave my mother a 10 tip, and that was a lot of money in those days.. [16] This was immediately followed by her appearance in the religious epic Quo Vadis (1951), shot at Cinecitt in Rome, in which she played the indomitable Lygia, a first-century Christian. "It was impossible to stop because the camera was shooting on Mr Culver and I couldn't break the scene. One of the most-cited performers never to win a competitive Oscar, Miss Kerr (pronounced "car") was nominated six times before belatedly receiving an honorary statuette in 1994. The following year they moved south to Alford. Kerr had a younger brother, Edmund ("Teddy"), who became a journalist. . She received six Academy Award nominations for best actress and was awarded an honorary lifetime achievement Oscar in 1993. Born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer on September 30, 1921, in Helensburgh, Scotland, she trained in ballet before moving . An Affair to Remember is a 1957 American romance film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. I don't mean to belittle acting but I'm like a child when I'm out there performingshocking the grownups, enchanting them, making them laugh or cry. Her second Academy Award nomination was for From Here to Eternity in 1953. Neither film was much of a hit. House where The King and I star Deborah Kerr first learned to dance goes on sale for 1.85million. State superintendent candidate Deborah Kerr solicited clients and organized branding for her private consulting business through her public school district email address, including several times during work hours, prior to her retirement as Brown Deer School District superintendent last year. A copy of her birth certificate confirmed that her birthplace was Glasgow. Weve updated the security on the site. Failed to report flower. It was very popular as was An Affair to Remember (1957) opposite Cary Grant. Alexander Korda cast her opposite Robert Donat in Perfect Strangers (1945). They had two daughters, Melanie Jane (born 27 December 1947) and Francesca Ann (born 18 December 1951, who married to the actor John Shrapnel). Deborah Kerr holds a candle in a scene from the film 'Black Narcissus', 1947. cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. excellence and international renown in their chosen professional fields, . Deborah Kerr has died at the age of 86 after a seven-year battle with Parkinson's disease. Kerr announced her retirement in 1969, though she continued to make occasional appearances onstage and in feature and TV movies. Kerr played three women in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943). The film was directed by Fred Zinnemann,. To avoid confusion over pronunciation, Louis B. Mayer, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer billed her as "Kerr rhymes with Star!" In 1965, the producers of Carry On Screaming! Her death, in Suffolk, England, was announced on Thursday by her. Having established herself as a film actress in the meantime, she made her Broadway debut in 1953, appearing in Robert Anderson's Tea and Sympathy, for which she received a Tony Award nomination. Deborah Jane Trimmer, mer knd som Deborah Kerr, fdd 30 september 1921 i Glasgow i Skottland, [1] [2] dd 16 oktober 2007 i Botesdale i Suffolk, var en brittisk skdespelare.Bland Kerrs filmer mrks Det brjade i Berlin (1943), Svart narcissus (1947), Kung Salomos skatt (1950), Quo Vadis (1951), Hrifrn till evigheten (1953), Kungen och jag (1956), Allt om krlek (1957), Vem vet, Mr . [25], Within three weeks of her death, her husband Peter Viertel died of cancer on 4 November. 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). Identikit and personal data Name Deborah Last name Kerr Born September 30, 1921 in Glasgow Died October 16, 2007 in Botesdale, Suffolk based on information from your browser. Thereafter, Kerr's career choices would make her known in Hollywood for her versatility as an actress. Deborah Kerr CBE (born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer; 30 September 1921 - 16 October 2007) was a Scottish-born film, theater and television actress. ACTRESS Deborah Kerr, star of From Here To Eternity and The King And I, has died aged 86 in Suffolk. The plan was that Jack, Col and little Deborah should follow after Jack had worked out his contract with Sir William Arrol, and in 1923 they moved to Ardencaple Quadrant, where homes had been built for those wounded in the war. Fred Zinnemann's Academy Award-winning . Try again later. Her father, known to all as Jack, and mother, known as Col or Colleen, moved to Helensburgh because of Jacks peacetime work as a civil engineer, and lived for three years with Jacks parents, Arthur Kerr Trimmer and his wife Mary Jane, at Nithsdale in West King Street. She then went to the Sadler's Wells ballet school and in 1938 made her dbut in the corps de ballet in Prometheus. Appeared in her first film, the 1941 production of George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara." Deborah Kerr is one of the two actresses in history who was nominated six time for Oscar Award but could never win the award. Previously sponsored memorials or famous memorials will not have this option. Near the end of the Second World War, she also toured Holland, France, and Belgium for ENSA as Mrs Manningham in Gaslight (retitled Angel Street), and Britain (with Stewart Granger). She first performed at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London. Although nominated six times as Best Actress, Kerr never won a competitive Oscar. Deborah Kerr died from the effects of Parkinson's disease on 16 October 2007 at the age of 86 in the English village of Botesdale, Suffolk. One day she came home from work and was very excited. No other actress - not Audrey Hepburn, Doris Day nor Elizabeth Taylor - enjoyed more popular success in the second half of the 1950s than Miss Kerr. In 1955, Kerr won the Sarah Siddons Award for her performance in Chicago during a national tour of the play. Her husband, however, continued to live in Marbella. ", Until recently it was thought that she never came back to Helensburgh, although she once said in an interview for the Helensburgh Advertiser: How kind of them to remember me after all this time.. After changing careers, she soon found success as an actress. "[21], Kerr died aged 86 on 16 October 2007 at Botesdale, a village in the county of Suffolk, England, from the effects of Parkinson's disease. Who was Deborah Kerr's husband? After various walk-on parts in Shakespeare productions at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London, she joined the Oxford Playhouse repertory company in 1940, playing, inter alia, "Margaret" in Dear Brutus and "Patty Moss" in The Two Bouquets.[8]. She was another governess in The Chalk Garden (1964) and worked with John Huston again in The Night of the Iguana (1964). Kerr, Deborah. Her last visit to Glasgow was in 1990, when she was a member of the international jury at the European Film Awards. In 1947 she moved to Hollywood where she acted in The Hucksters in 1947, King Solomons Mines in 1950 and Quo Vadis in 1951. Deborah Kerr, 86, the cultivated Scottish rose beloved in such 1950s blockbusters as. 1923). She was 86. Doctors decided that his leg had to be amputated, and he was so ill that his mother and his fiance Col were sent for. 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State superintendent candidate Jill Underly raised 16 times more than opponent Deborah Kerr in the latest period ahead of the April 6 election, according to campaign finance reports filed Monday. After changing careers, she soon found success as an actress. Deborah Kerr was a Scottish film and television actress. In 1944 she was in the Clyde area on location, filming 'Perfect Strangers' with actor Roland Culver. Though the alabaster-skinned redhead was honored that evening for her "impeccable grace and beauty," the secret of Miss Kerr's singular appeal was her devil-may-care peccability. Deborah Kerr died age of 86 in Suffolk, England, on October 16, 2007, due to complications arising out of Parkinsons disease. Deborah Jane Trimmer was born on 30 September 1921 in Glasgow, Scotland, the daughter of Captain Arthur Kerr Trimmer. Kerr's first stage appearance was at Weston-super-Mare in 1937, as "Harlequin" in the mime play Harlequin and Columbine. Use Escape keyboard button or the Close button to close the carousel. She was the first performer to win the New York Film Critics Circle Award for "Best Actress" three times (1947, 1957 and 1960). He died, aged 78, in a road rage incident in 2004. After various walk-on parts in Shakespeare productions at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London, she joined the Oxford Playhouse repertory company in 1940, playing, inter alia, "Margaret" in Dear Brutus and "Patty Moss" in The Two Bouquets. Kerr performed the same role in Vincente Minnelli's film adaptation released in 1956; her stage partner John Kerr (no relation) also appeared. Kerr's first film role was in the British production Contraband (US: Blackout, 1940), aged 18 or 19, but her scenes were cut. Resend Activation Email. Discovering an interest in acting, Kerr began playing bit parts in various Shakespeare productions. After divorcing Anthony she married a writer, Peter Viertel. Roland was expressing his adoration and I suddenly felt a tremendous stinging sensation, like pins and needles, on my behind! She was 86. Kerr trained as a dancer in her aunt's drama school in Bristol, England. She started taking ballet lessons from the age of five and enrolled at the St. WASHINGTON - Deborah Kerr, 86, a Scottish-born actress who set the standard for white-gloved elegance in such 1950s films as "The King and I . [33] She was also honoured in Hollywood, where she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1709 Vine Street for her contributions to the motion picture industry. She then went to the Sadler's Wells ballet school and in 1938 made her dbut in the corps de ballet in Prometheus. Kerr's first film role was in the British production Contraband (US: Blackout, 1940), aged 18 or 19, but her scenes were cut. Try again later. Less than three weeks later, on 4 November, her husband Peter Viertel died of cancer. Filmed in CinemaScope, it was distributed by 20th Century Fox. Other TV roles included Ann and Debbie (1986) and Hold the Dream (1986), the latter a sequel to A Woman of Substance. After moving south with her parents when she was just a few years old, Kerr was educated in Bristol and. Kerr was reunited with Mitchum in The Sundowners (1960) shot in Australia, then The Grass Is Greener (1960), co-starring Cary Grant. She acted on London stage in The Corn Is Green in 1985. Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, better known as Deborah Kerr (born 30 September 1921 in Glasgow - dead 16 October 2007 in Botesdale, Suffolk), was a British film, stage and TV actress from Scotland. Andrew, Penelope. When Miss Kerr tore into director John Huston after a sequence shot in the water, the actor was so shocked that he nearly drowned laughing. 1. Her flutelike voice was also unique. Kerr, nevertheless, used any opportunity to discard her cool exterior. Use the links under See more to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. Edit a memorial you manage or suggest changes to the memorial manager. TRIBUTES have been paid to legendary actress Deborah Kerr, who has died at her home in north Suffolk at the age of 86. She was the female lead in Penn of Pennsylvania (1941) which was little seen; however Hatter's Castle (1942), in which she starred with Robert Newton and James Mason, was very successful. Marni Nixon sang for Deborah Kerr in "The King and I," Audrey Hepburn in "My Fair Lady," and Natalie Wood in "West Side Story." Drew Seeley did the singing for Zac Efron's character in the first "High School Musical" movie. [10], Kerr's first stage appearance was at Weston-super-Mare in 1937, as "Harlequin" in the mime play Harlequin and Columbine. So too was the spy comedy drama I See a Dark Stranger (1946), in which she gave a breezy, amusing performance that dominated the action and overshadowed her co-star Trevor Howard. Her role as a troubled nun in the Powell and Pressburger production of Black Narcissus (1947) brought her to the attention of Hollywood producers. cemeteries found in Alfold, Waverley Borough, Surrey, England will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Kerr's first film for MGM in Hollywood was a mature satire of the burgeoning advertising industry, The Hucksters (1947) with Clark Gable and Ava Gardner. [8][9] She adopted the name Deborah Kerr on becoming a film actress ("Kerr" was a family name going back to the maternal grandmother of her grandfather Arthur Kerr Trimmer). The actress, whose screen kiss with Burt Lancaster is regularly voted the greatest of all time, was. Thanks for your help! In Hollywood, Kerr's British accent and manner led to a succession of roles portraying refined, reserved, and "proper" English ladies. Kerr was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1998, but was unable to accept the honour in person because of ill health. She acted in television movies A Song at Twilight in 1973. Oops, we were unable to send the email. Deborah Kerr, the sophisticated, Scottish-born actress who was nominated for six Oscars, died Tuesday in Suffolk, England, after many years of failing health. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. Although she never won a BAFTA or Cannes Film Festival award in a competitive category, both organisations gave Kerr honorary awards: a Cannes Film Festival Tribute in 1984 and a BAFTA Special Award in 1991. Deborah wrote: "We were sitting on top of a hill overlooking the Clyde, filming a scene. This is a carousel with slides. "Finally the scene was over and I leapt to my feet and screamed I found I had been sitting on an ants nest! Deborah Jane Trimmer CBE (30 September 1921 16 October 2007), known professionally as Deborah Kerr, was a British actress. Failed to delete memorial. Arthur Charles Kerr Trimmer, a World War I veteran and pilot who lost a leg at the Battle of the Somme and later became a naval architect and civil engineer. She said that Deborah Kerr was staying with Mrs Kirkwood Brown and was a relative of hers. In September 2021, Kerr's grandsons, Joe and Lex Shrapnel, unveiled a memorial plaque at the former family home in Weston-super-Mare. Peter Viertel died of cancer on 4 November 2007, less than three weeks later. She had two daughters from this marriage - Melanie and Francesca. Your new password must contain one or more uppercase and lowercase letters, and one or more numbers or special characters. She made The Arrangement (1969) with Elia Kazan, her director from the stage production of Tea and Sympathy. Deborah came to Helensburgh twice during our two years in the town, the first time for five days. Deborah Kerr is British by birth. Both flopped, as did Beloved Infidel (1959) with Gregory Peck. See a Kerr filmography and more photos via http://go.philly.com/kerr EndText, California residents do not sell my data request. During her career, she won a Golden Globe for her performance as Anna Leonowens in the motion picture The King and I (1956) and the Sarah Siddons Award for her performance as Laura Reynolds in the . Please ensure you have given Find a Grave permission to access your location in your browser settings. English She relocated to Hollywood and was under contract to MGM. Deborah Kerr Photo: 20th Century Fox Today Deborah Kerr would be 100 years old. Indeed, Leo McCarey 's CinemaScope and DeLuxe remake of his own 1939 best picture nominee was voted the fifth most romantic screen love story by the American Film Institute. As an unhappily married woman having a torrid affair with an army officer shortly before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Deborah Kerr is equally powerful in one of her best-remembered movies, From Here to Eternity (1953), stealing the romantic melodrama from her male co-stars. Both flopped, as did Beloved Infidel (1959) with Gregory Peck. Kerr experienced a career resurgence on television in the early 1980s when she played the role of the nurse (played by Elsa Lanchester in the 1957 film of the same name) in Witness for the Prosecution, with Sir Ralph Richardson. Concern about the parts being offered to her, as well as the increasing amount of nudity included in films, led her to abandon the medium at the end of the 1960s, with one exception in 1985, in favour of television and theatre work. She eventually caught the eye of MGM's Louis B. Mayer and in late 1946 joined the studio. Sorry! According to agent Anne Hutton, Kerr died on . Born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer in Helensburgh, Scotland. She adopted the name Deborah Kerr on becoming a film actress ("Kerr" was a family name going back to the maternal grandmother of her grandfather Arthur Kerr Trimmer). Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. You see, Kerr had a very strict grandmother who concocted a somewhat cruel form of therapy for her. HELENSBURGH people have long embraced Deborah Kerr as their very own film star, but the time she spent in the town was very short. Part 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 appeared on September 16, 17, 18, 19 and 22 respectively. An Affair to Remember (1957) Coming between Dream Wife (1953) and The Grass Is Greener (1960), this is the pick of Kerr's collaborations with Cary Grant. Also in 1953 Kerr made an acclaimed debut on Broadway in Tea and Sympathy with her sensitive portrayal of a schoolteachers wife who has an affair with a young student insecure about his sexuality. Stewart Granger claimed in his autobiography that in 1945 she had approached him romantically in the back of his chauffeur-driven car at the time he was making Caesar and Cleopatra. She played ladies who didn't mind if their tramp showed. She won a nomination for the BAFTA Award for the film Tea and Sympathy in 1956. She played a nun in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) opposite her long-time friend Robert Mitchum, directed by John Huston. I don't mean to belittle acting but I'm like a child when I'm out there performingshocking the grownups, enchanting them, making them laugh or cry. Trained as a ballet dancer, she began acting on stage as a teenager and performed in stage productions at the Open Air Theatre in London and the Cambridge Theatre. Deborah Kerr (Photo credit: Wikipedia). The film is as yet (2010) unreleased. 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). Likewise Burt Lancaster claimed that he was romantically involved with her during the filming of From Here to Eternity (1953). This was immediately followed by her appearance in the religious epic Quo Vadis (1951), shot at Cinecitt in Rome, in which she played the indomitable Lygia, a first-century Christian. Said critic James Agate of Love on the Dole, "is not within a mile of Wendy Hiller's in the theatre, but it is a charming piece of work by a very pretty and promising beginner, so pretty and so promising that there is the usual yapping about a new star". The Famous People. she is one of famous film and television actress (1921-2007) with the age years old group. Are you sure that you want to report this flower to administrators as offensive or abusive? Deborah Kerr movies: with Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity. She replaced Kim Novak in Eye of the Devil (1966) with Niven, and was reteamed with Niven in the comedy Casino Royale (1967), achieving the distinction of being, at 45, the oldest "Bond Girl" in any James Bond film, until Monica Bellucci, at the age of 50, in Spectre (2015). She is buried in a family plot at Alfold Cemetery, Alfold, Surrey. She appeared in Gary Cooper's last film The Naked Edge (1961) and starred in The Innocents (1961) where she plays a governess tormented by apparitions. She was also honoured in Hollywood, where she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1709 Vine Street for her contributions to the motion picture industry. Won the New York Film Critics' Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of a nun in "Black Narcissus" (1947). Deborah Kerr was 24 but looked 18; Robert Donat was 40 but looked 50. Search above to list available cemeteries. King Solomon's Mines (1950) was shot on location in Africa with Stewart Granger and Richard Carlson. British exhibitors voted her the eighth-most popular local star at the box-office in 1947. She made two films at MGM: The Journey (1959) reunited her with Brynner; Count Your Blessings (1959), was a comedy. She played the repressed wife in The End of the Affair (1955), shot in England with Van Johnson. When she was 5 the family moved to Bristol, England, where the famously shy girl studied dance at her aunt's academy. . While she continued to play prim-and-proper, cultured, or virtuous women, such as the governess Anna in the film adaptation of Rodgers and Hammersteins hit musical The King and I (1956), a nun again in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, and a spirited unmarried artist in Tennessee Williamss Night of the Iguana (1964), she demonstrated her versatility with such passionate portrayals as her romantic role in the tearjerker An Affair to Remember (1957) and her moving performance as an Australian sheepherders wife in The Sundowners. She took on the role of the older Emma Harte, a tycoon, in the adaptation of Barbara Taylor Bradford's A Woman of Substance (1984). The American Film Institute acknowledged the iconic status of the scene from that film in which Burt Lancaster and she romped illicitly and passionately amidst crashing waves on a Hawaiian beach. When asked about this revelation, Kerr's response was, "What a gallant man he is!". According to Powell, his affair with Kerr ended when she made it clear to him that she would accept an offer to go to Hollywood if one were made. 1 September 2021 - Weston Town Council with Weston-super-Mare Civic Society put up a blue plaque dedicated to actress Deborah Kerr CBE at 47 Elmsleigh Road, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, UK. Born in Glasgow in 1921, Deborah was a ballet dancer (appearing at Sadler's Wells no less) before switching to acting when she became too tall. Deborah displayed a penchant for dramatics at a very early age when she would stage presentations for her family. For many years she had battled Parkinson's disease with the dignified grace and quiet wit she brought to her many roles. Try again later. However varied her Hollywood roles, she delivered performances of greater nuance and depth in the European-made films The End of the Affair (1955) - again, as a conscience-stricken adulteress - and Bonjour, Tristesse (1958), as a fashion designer provoked by her lover's daughter. Kerr made her British TV debut in "Three Roads to Rome" (1963). Kerr won a third New York Film Critics Award and a sixth Academy Award nomination in 1960 and a BAFTA Award nomination in 1961 for the film Sundowners. Her training there may account for her dancer's way of sailing through space. graphics - January 9, 2014. We hope you enjoy it! Her first appearance on the West End stage was as Ellie Dunn in "Heartbreak House" at the Cambridge Theatre in 1943. Trained as a ballet dancer, she began acting on stage as a teenager and performed in stage productions at the Open Air Theatre in London and the Cambridge Theatre. Kerr departed from typecasting with a performance that brought out her sensuality, as "Karen Holmes", the embittered military wife in Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity (1953), for which she received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. After 1947 Kerr established herself in Hollywood, typecast by MGMin what Kerr referred to as tiara rolesas a well-bred young British matron. Full Real Name. In 1977, she came back to the West End, playing the title role in a production of George Bernard Shaw's Candida. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. Please try again later. Deborah Kerr was one of the most famous English actresses of her time. Family members linked to this person will appear here. Although she never won a BAFTA or Cannes Film Festival award in a competitive category, both organisations gave Kerr honorary awards: a Cannes Film Festival Tribute in 1984[35] and a BAFTA Special Award in 1991.[8]. 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