FrameThrower · Actors · Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr
6 films · 374 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1943–2024
Born 30 September 1921 · Helensburgh, Scotland, UK · died 16 October 2007
Deborah Jane Trimmer CBE, known professionally as Deborah Kerr, was a British actress. 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). 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.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 374 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1943–2024
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy1956
- David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress1959
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Academy Honorary Award1993
- Special Award, BAFTA1991
- Henrietta Award1958
- Donaldson Awards
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 374 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Deborah takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 46% of their frames are day — the look of the work Deborah takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
The Innocents
1961 · Miss Giddens
Black Narcissus
1947 · Sister Clodagh
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943 · Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
2024 · (archive footage)
Casino Royale (1967)
1967 · Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry
Julius Caesar
1953 · Portia
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 374 frames from Deborah Kerr's 6 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.