However the operation was successful, and the long hard road to recovery began. Powell hoped to reunite Kerr and lead actor Roger Livesey in his next film, A Canterbury Tale (1944), but her agent had sold her contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Kerr, who suffered from Parkinson's disease, died Tuesday in Suffolk in eastern England, her agent, Anne Hutton, said Thursday. 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. They were the genteel girl and the brassy babe vying for Clark Gable's attention. Deborah Kerr died on 16 October 2007 in Botesdale, a village in Suffolk, England, from the effects of Parkinson's disease. [2], Deborah Jane Trimmer[1] was born on 30 September 1921 in Hillhead, Glasgow,[3] the only daughter of Kathleen Rose (ne Smale) and Capt. In 1955 she got a nomination for the BAFTA Award for The End of the Affair. D Deborah Kerr Media in category "Deborah Kerr" The process of development from a romantic, silly girl to a hard, disillusioned woman in three hours was moving and convincing". Deborah Kerr was born Deborah Jane Kerr Trimmer on September 30, 1921 in Helensburgh, Scotland to Arthur Charles ("Jack") Trimmer, a civil engineer and his wife Colleen. The expectant mum was taken to a private nursing home at 7 St James Terrace, Hillhead, Glasgow, where her first child, Deborah Jane Trimmer, was born at 7.40am on September 30 1921, and her father registered the birth in the city on October 21. Deborah Kerr, original name Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, (born September 30, 1921, Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, Scotlanddied October 16, 2007, Suffolk, England), British film and stage actress known for the poise and serenity she exhibited in portraying complex characters. There was an error deleting this problem. In 1945 she toured Europe with the play Gaslight to entertain the British Troops. Deborah Kerr died age of 86 in Suffolk, England, on October 16, 2007, due to complications arising out of Parkinsons disease. Deborah Kerr (Photo credit: Wikipedia). Kerr was educated at the independent Northumberland House School, Henleaze in Bristol, and at Rossholme School, Weston-super-Mare. 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 a widow in love with William Holden in The Proud and Profane (1956), directed by George Seaton. Won the New York Film Critics' Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of a nun in "Black Narcissus" (1947). Deborah wrote: "We were sitting on top of a hill overlooking the Clyde, filming a scene. In a contentious race that has drummed up millions of dollars for campaigning and attack ads, Deborah Kerr and Jill Underly will face off April 6 for the top position overseeing K-12 . 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. 1:07. She is tied with Thelma Ritter and Amy Adams as the actresses with the second most nominations without winning, surpassed only by Glenn Close, who has been nominated eight times without winning. Please reset your password. Kerr originally trained as a ballet dancer, first appearing on stage at Sadler's Wells in 1938. She joined Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra in a love triangle for a romantic comedy, Marriage on the Rocks (1965). Her zodiac sign is Libra. cemeteries found in Alfold, Waverley Borough, Surrey, England will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Fred Zinnemann's Academy Award-winning . After changing careers, she soon found success as an actress. A victim of Parkinsons disease, Deborah Kerr CBE died peacefully at Botesdale, Suffolk, on Tuesday October 16 2007, a couple of weeks after her 86th birthday. Peter Viertel died of cancer on 4 November 2007, less than three weeks later. Family members linked to this person will appear here. Are you sure that you want to report this flower to administrators as offensive or abusive? In between Paramount borrowed her to appear in Thunder in the East (1951) with Alan Ladd. 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 flutelike voice was also unique. Deborah Kerr is British by birth. In the 1980's she was well received on the television screen in, among other films, "A Woman Of Substance" (1983) and "Reunion at Fairborough" (1985) which reunited her with longtime friend and costar of several films, Robert Mitchum. The process of development from a romantic, silly girl to a hard, disillusioned woman in three hours was moving and convincing". British director Michael Powell gave her a role in film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp in 1943 in which she appeared thrice. Deborah Kerr Photo: 20th Century Fox 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. Horoscope and astrology data of Deborah Kerr born on 30 September 1921 Helensburgh, Scotland, with biography. Her training there may account for her dancer's way of sailing through space. Identikit and personal data Name Deborah Last name Kerr Born September 30, 1921 in Glasgow Died October 16, 2007 in Botesdale, Suffolk Pressure of competition from younger, upcoming actresses made her agree to appear nude in John Frankenheimer's The Gypsy Moths (1969), the only nude scene in her career. Scottish film and television actress (1921-2007) - Deborah Kerr was born in Helensburgh (town in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK) on September 30th, 1921 and died in Suffolk (county of England) on October 16th, 2007 at the age of 86. Deborah Kerr has died at the age of 86 after a seven-year battle with Parkinson's disease. In 1953, Kerr "showed her theatrical mettle" as Portia in Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar. Contribute Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr - Dating, Gossip, News, Photos list. After her first London success in 1943, she toured England and Scotland in Heartbreak House. Her parents were Kathleen ne Small and Arthur Kerr-Trimmer. 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. British Actress Deborah Kerr was born Deborah Jane Trimmer on 30th September, 1921 in Helensburgh, Scotland and passed away on 16th Oct 2007 Suffolk, England, UK aged 86. 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. It was very popular as was An Affair to Remember (1957) opposite Cary Grant. Actress. Alternate titles: Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer. Are you sure that you want to delete this photo? Deborah Kerr received professional training as a ballet dancer and first appeared on stage in the year 1938 at Sadler's Wells, a performing arts venue in England. Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in a scene from 'From Here to Eternity', Halona Cove, Oahu, Hawaii, 1953. The email does not appear to be a valid email address. Kerr won a Golden Globe Award for "Best Actress Motion Picture Musical or Comedy" for The King and I in 1957 and a Henrietta Award for "World Film Favorite Female". She was 86. In 1975, she returned to Broadway, creating the role of Nancy in Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Seascape. She then played Princess Flavia in a remake of The Prisoner of Zenda (1952) with Granger and Mason. Remove advertising from a memorial by sponsoring it for just $5. Verify and try again. For memorials with more than one photo, additional photos will appear here or on the photos tab. Deborah Kerr had to wear the padded bras because that was the other fashion of the 50s. The Kerr-Bartley marriage was troubled, owing to Bartley's jealousy of his wife's fame and financial success, and because her career often took her away from home. Kerr was educated at the independent Northumberland House School, Henleaze in Bristol, and at Rossholme School, Weston-super-Mare. Scottish-born actress Deborah Kerr, who starred in Hollywood films including An Affair to Remember and The King And I, has died.. She was aged 86. Her second marriage was to author Peter Viertel on 23 July 1960. It was only after replacing Joan Crawford as the sex-starved army wife in From Here to Eternity that Miss Kerr made an American film equal to her British work. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. She was another governess in The Chalk Garden (1964) and worked with John Huston again in The Night of the Iguana (1964). 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[10], Kerr returned to the London stage in many productions including the old-fashioned, The Day After the Fair (Lyric, 1972), a Peter Ustinov comedy, Overheard (Haymarket, 1981) and a revival of Emlyn Williams's The Corn is Green. In 1944 she was in the Clyde area on location, filming 'Perfect Strangers' with actor Roland Culver. Kerr originally trained as a ballet dancer, first appearing on stage at Sadler's Wells in 1938. You are only allowed to leave one flower per day for any given memorial. Failed to remove flower. She acted in television movies A Song at Twilight in 1973. She acted in The Innocents and also in the BBC production Three Roads to Rome in 1961. She and Walter Pidgeon were cast in If Winter Comes (1947). Please try again later. Discovering an interest in acting, Kerr began playing bit parts in various Shakespeare productions. 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. Richard Stirling pieces together the glamourous life of screen actress Deborah Kerr "Deborah Kerr - it rhymes with star!" screamed MGM of its latest acquisition in 1946. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. 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 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. Failed to delete memorial. She received the first of her Oscar nominations for Edward, My Son (1949), a drama set and filmed in England co-starring Spencer Tracy. Failed to report flower. Deborah Kerr died age of 86 in Suffolk, England, on October 16, 2007, due to complications arising out of Parkinson's disease. Deborah 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. Kerr starred in two films with David Niven: Bonjour Tristesse (1958), directed by Otto Preminger, and Separate Tables (1958), directed by Delbert Mann; the latter movie was particularly well received. This film was a production of the team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. When asked about this revelation, Kerr's response was, "What a gallant man he is!". Deborah Kerr (19212007) was a British actress who holds the record - six - for most Best Actress Oscar nominations without a win. Deborah, who died at home in Suffolk of Parkinson's disease, was born in Helensburgh, near Glasgow, an engineer's daughter. Are you sure that you want to delete this memorial? British exhibitors voted her the eighth-most popular local star at the box-office in 1947. Kerr made her British TV debut in "Three Roads to Rome" (1963). Yet despite family in Sweden and two decades in Los Angeles, she settled in New York City, becoming as famous a New Yorker as she was a movie star. Deborah Kerr was a Scottish actress who is best known for her role in the King and I.. Childhood and Early Life. To use this feature, use a newer browser. In 1941 she made her British film debut in a supporting role as a Salvation Army volunteer in the film adaptation of George Bernard Shaws Major Barbara. 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". Very romantic! Other TV roles included Ann and Debbie (1986) and Hold the Dream (1986), the latter a sequel to A Woman of Substance. Kerr had a younger brother, Edmund ("Teddy"), who became a journalist. Deborah Kerr won the New York Film Critics Award in 1947 for Black Narcissus and was voted one of the top earning English stars by Motion Picture Herald poll. 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". The older you get, the easier it should be but it isn't.[8]. . Appeared in her first film, the 1941. The scene from that film of Kerr and her costar Burt Lancaster making love on the beach as waves crash against them has become a classic Hollywood image and remains one of the steamiest in film history. Beyond demonstrated Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, daughter of a Scottish naval officer who served in World War I, was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, in 1921. Oct. 18, 2007 Deborah Kerr, a versatile actress who long projected the quintessential image of the proper, tea-sipping Englishwoman but who was also indelible in one of the most sexually. She won a scholarship to Sadlers Wells ballet school and at age 17 made her professional dancing debut in London in the corps de ballet of Prometheus. In between Paramount borrowed her to appear in Thunder in the East (1951) with Alan Ladd. She is most remembered for From Here to Eternity. Although nominated six times as Best Actress, Kerr never won a competitive Oscar. The film is as yet (2010) unreleased. [1][13] She played the repressed wife in The End of the Affair (1955), shot in England with Van Johnson. "[13] Although the British Army refused to co-operate with the producersand Winston Churchill thought the film would ruin wartime moraleColonel Blimp confounded critics when it proved to be an artistic and commercial success. She received six Academy Award nominations for best actress and was awarded an honorary lifetime achievement Oscar in 1993. ", Audrey Hepburn - Film Legend, Fashion Icon, Humanitarian Great, Vivien Leigh - "Too British" to play Scarlett O'Hara. "It was impossible to stop because the camera was shooting on Mr Culver and I couldn't break the scene. There he married Col in St Marys Parish Church. She acted in the film Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison opposite Robert Mitchum in 1957. Some of Kerr's leading men have stated in their autobiographies that they had an affair or romantic fling with her. Kerr, nevertheless, used any opportunity to discard her cool exterior. If you notice a problem with the translation, please send a message to [emailprotected] and include a link to the page and details about the problem. Trimmer and Smale married, both aged 28, on 21 August 1919 in Smale's hometown of Lydney, Gloucestershire. This flower has been reported and will not be visible while under review. Deborah Jane Trimmer, better known by her stage name Deborah Kerr (30 September 1921-16 October 2007), was a British actress who appeared in movies, plays, and television. Showing her versatility and range, she played three roles in Michael Powell's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), which, along with her extraordinary performance as the nun in Powell's Black Narcissus, got Hollywood's attention. She won the Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago performance as Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy, a role which she originated on Broadway, a Golden Globe Award for the motion picture The King and I, and was a three-time winner of the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. Kerr trained as a dancer in her aunts drama school in Bristol, England. The film was directed by Fred Zinnemann,. Kerr's first marriage was to Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Anthony Bartley on 29 November 1945. She was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and holds the record for most Best Actress Oscar nominations without a win. After moving south with her parents when she was just a few years old, Kerr was educated in Bristol and. Thereafter, Kerr's career choices would make her known in Hollywood for her versatility as an actress. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. The film was a hit in the US, as well as the UK, and Kerr won the New York Film Critics Award as Actress of the Year. Neither film was much of a hit. Deborah Kerr, who shared one of Hollywood's most famous kisses while portraying an Army officer's unhappy wife in From Here to Eternity and danced with the Siamese monarch in The King and I has . Updates? She died onTuesday. She won the Golden Globe Award and her third Academy Award nomination for the film The King and I in 1956. Her training there may account for her dancer's way of sailing through space. Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, daughter of a Scottish naval officer who served in World War I, was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, in 1921. she is one of famous film and television actress (1921-2007) with the age years old group. In 1938 she danced with a ballet group in Prometheus produced by the Sadlers Wells Theater School. Despite these more adventurous roles, the image of Miss Kerr as prude persisted. Kerr performed the same role in Vincente Minnelli's film adaptation released in 1956; her stage partner John Kerr (no relation) also appeared. In 1975, she returned to Broadway, creating the role of Nancy in Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Seascape. She subsequently performed with the Oxford Repertory Company 1939-40. 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]. After changing careers, she soon found success as an actress. Kerr's first film role was in the British production Contraband (US: Blackout, 1940), aged 18 or 19, but her scenes were cut. But she was not Helensburgh-born. "She has the rare gift", wrote critic Beverley Baxter, "of thinking her lines, not merely remembering them. The actor Stewart Granger claimed that Kerr seduced him in the back of his chauffeur-driven car at the time he was making Caesar and Cleopatra (1945). This is a carousel with slides. Alexander Korda cast her opposite Robert Donat in Perfect Strangers (1945). In 1955 she acted in the film version of Graham Greenes The End of the Affair. Her husband, however, continued to live in Marbella. Also Known As Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer Birth Place Helensburgh, Scotland Born September 30, 1921 Died October 16, 2007 Cause of Death Parkinson's Disease Biography Read More Known as "The English Rose," lovely, red-haired Deborah Kerr - "It Rhymes with Star!" There is no independent corroboration of either actor's claims. Kerr starred in two films with David Niven: Bonjour Tristesse (1958), directed by Otto Preminger, and Separate Tables (1958), directed by Delbert Mann; the latter movie was particularly well received. [12], Powell hoped to reunite Kerr and lead actor Roger Livesey in his next film, A Canterbury Tale (1944), but her agent had sold her contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Try again later. 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. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. 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). Deborah Jane Trimmer CBE (30 September 1921 16 October 2007), known professionally as Deborah Kerr, was a British actress. He said: My mother worked as a housekeeper for Mrs Jane Kirkwood Brown, who lived in a large mansion in Charlotte Street and who had returned with her husband from Ceylon where he worked in the tea industry. & quot ; We were sitting on top of a hill overlooking the Clyde on! 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