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Acting

Deborah Kerr

Career: Active from 1941 to 2024, with a break from 1988 to 2023, busiest in 1953 with 4 main titles.

Leading roles: 48
top three billing

Average score: 66/100

Highest rated: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
87/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 44 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Deborah Kerr Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
1.8, average 5.4
Crime
2.3, average 3.6
Pop Culture
0.9, average 2.2
Adrenaline
3.5, average 4.8

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character Study 7
Historical Drama 5
Character-Driven 4
Romance 4
Strong Performances 3
Period Piece 3
Political Intrigue 3
Historical Setting 3
Moral Ambiguity 3
Melodrama 3
Intriguing Mystery 2
Melancholy Atmosphere 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

56

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

1 title · average score 86

Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

86

as (archive footage)

2010s

1 title · average score 71

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

71

as Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)

1980s

7 titles · average score 67

Hold the Dream

54

TV show · as Emma Harte

Ann and Debbie

as Ann

A Woman of Substance

75

TV show · as Older Emma Harte

Reunion at Fairborough

75

as Sally Wells Grant

The Assam Garden

69

as Helen

Witness for the Prosecution

64

as Nurse Plimsoll

A Song At Twilight

as Carlotta Gray

1970s

1 title

Playhouse

TV show · as Carlotta Gray

1960s

13 titles · average score 59

The Arrangement

35

as Florence Anderson

The Gypsy Moths

55

as Elizabeth Brandon

Prudence and the Pill

53

as Prudence Hardcastle

Casino Royale

46

as Agent Mimi

Eye of the Devil

61

as Catherine de Montfaucon

Marriage on the Rocks

54

as Valerie Edwards

The Night of the Iguana

75

as Hannah Jelkes

The Chalk Garden

60

as Miss Madrigal

The Innocents

85

as Miss Giddens

The Naked Edge

60

as Martha Radcliffe

The Grass Is Greener

59

as Hilary Rhyall

The Sundowners

65

as Ida Carmody

1950s

21 titles · average score 68

The Journey

69

as Diana Ashmore

Bonjour Tristesse

76

as Anne Larson

Separate Tables

61

as Sibyl Railton-Bell

An Affair to Remember

71

as Terry McKay

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

79

as Sister Angela

The King and I

78

as Anna Leonowens

Tea and Sympathy

76

as Laura Reynolds

The Proud and Profane

67

as Lee Ashley

From Here to Eternity

81

as Karen Holmes

The Prisoner of Zenda

66

as Princess Flavia

Quo Vadis

73

as Lygia

King Solomon's Mines

64

as Elizabeth Curtis

1940s

12 titles · average score 67

Edward, My Son

59

as Evelyn Boult

Black Narcissus

85

as Sister Clodagh

The Hucksters

62

as Kay Dorrance

If Winter Comes

62

as Nona Tybar

I See a Dark Stranger

75

as Bridie Quilty

Perfect Strangers

66

as Catherine Wilson

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

87

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

The Day Will Dawn

57

as Kari Alstad

Hatter's Castle

64

as Mary Brodie

Penn of Pennsylvania

as Gulielma Maria Springett

Love on the Dole

63

as Sally

Major Barbara

65

as Jenny Hill