Kerr Family History & Genealogy

Mary Mary (Elizabeth) Kerr Reutinger of Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mary Reutinger.

Robert Louis Kerr was born on May 13, 1929. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Robert "Bob" Louis Kerr.

Minnie Maye Maye (Pitzer) Kerr was born on December 28, 1904. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Minnie Maye (Pitzer) Kerr.

Mary E (Kerr) Reutinger of Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, CA was born on February 3, 1939, and died at age 60 years old on March 14, 1999.

Deborah Kerr, CBE Born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer 30 September 1921 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland Died 16 October 2007 (aged 86) Botesdale, Suffolk, England Resting place Alfold Cemetery near Guildford Occupation Actress Years active 1940–1986 Spouse(s) Tony Bartley (m. 1945; div. 1959) Peter Viertel (m. 1960) Children 2 Melanie and Francesca. Relatives Lex Shrapnel (grandson) Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer CBE (/kɑːr/; 30 September 1921 – 16 October 2007), known professionally as Deborah Kerr, was a Scottish film, theatre, and television actress. During her career, she won a Golden Globe Award for her performance as Anna Leonowens in the musical film The King and I (1956) and a Sarah Siddons Award for her performance as Laura Reynolds in the play Tea and Sympathy (a role she originated on Broadway). She was also a three-time winner of the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. Kerr was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, more than any other actress without ever winning. In 1994, however, having already received honorary awards from the Cannes Film Festival and BAFTA, she 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". As well as The King and I (1956), her films include An Affair to Remember, From Here to Eternity, Quo Vadis, The Innocents, Black Narcissus, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, King Solomon's Mines, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Sundowners, and Separate Tables. Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer was born in Glasgow, the only daughter of Kathleen Rose (née Smale) and Capt. Arthur Charles Kerr-Trimmer, a World War I veteran who lost a leg at the Battle of the Somme and later became a naval architect and civil engineer; She spent the first three years of her life in the nearby town of Helensburgh, where her parents lived with Deborah's grandparents in a house on West King Street. Kerr had a younger brother, Edmund ("Teddy"), who became a journalist. He was killed in a road rage incident in 2004. Kerr was educated at the independent Northumberland House School, Henleaze in Bristol, and at Rossholme School, Weston-super-Mare. Kerr originally trained as a ballet dancer, first appearing on stage at Sadler's Wells in 1938. After changing careers, she soon found success as an actress. Her first acting teacher was her aunt, Phyllis Smale, who ran the Hicks-Smale Drama School in Bristol. 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). Kerr's first stage appearance was at Weston-super-Mare in 1937, as "Harlequin" in the mime play Harlequin and Columbine. She then went to the Sadler's Wells ballet school and in 1938 made her début in the corps de ballet in Prometheus. 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 returned to the London stage 29 years later, 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. After her first London success in 1943, she toured England and Scotland in Heartbreak House. Near the end of the Second World War, she also toured Holland, France, and Belgium for ENSA as "Mrs Manningham" in Angel Street, and Britain (with Stewart Granger) in Gaslight. 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. Kerr repeated her role along with her stage partner John Kerr (no relation) in Vincente Minnelli's film adaptation of the drama. In 1955, Kerr won the Sarah Siddons Award for her performance in Chicago during a national tour of the play. After her Broadway début in 1953, she toured the United States with Tea and Sympathy. In 1975, she returned to Broadway, creating the role of Nancy in Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Seascape. I do it because it's exactly like dressing up for the grown-ups. I don't mean to belittle acting but I'm like a child when I'm out there performing—shocking the grownups, enchanting them, making them laugh or cry. It's an unbelievable terror, a kind of masochistic madness. The older you get, the easier it should be but it isn't it? Kerr's first film role was in the British production Contraband in 1940, but her scenes were edited out. With her next two British films—Major Barbara and Love on the Dole (both 1941)—her screen future seemed assured and her performance, said 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". She went on to make Hatter's Castle (1942), in which she starred opposite Robert Newton and James Mason, and then played a Norwegian resistance fighter in The Day Will Dawn (1942). She was an immediate hit with the public: British exhibitors voted her the most popular local female star at the box office. In 1943, she played three women in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. During the filming, according to Powell's autobiography, Powell and she became lovers: "I realized that Deborah was both the ideal and the flesh-and-blood woman whom I had been searching for".Kerr made clear that her surname should be pronounced the same as "car". To avoid confusion over the pronunciation, Louis B. Mayer of MGM billed her as "Kerr rhymes with Star!" Although the British Army refused to co-operate with the producers—and Winston Churchill thought the film would ruin wartime morale—Colonel Blimp confounded critics when it proved to be an artistic and commercial success. 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 MGM. 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. Her role as a troubled nun in the Powell and Pressburger production of Black Narcissus in 1947 did indeed bring her to the attention of Hollywood producers. 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. British exhibitors voted her the eighth-most popular local star at the box office. Soon she received the first of her Academy Award nominations for Edward, My Son, a 1949 drama set in England that co-starred Spencer Tracy. In Hollywood, Kerr's British accent and manner led to a succession of roles portraying refined, reserved, and "proper" English ladies. Kerr, nevertheless, used any opportunity to discard her cool exterior. She starred in the 1950 adventure film King Solomon's Mines, shot on location in Africa with Stewart Granger and Richard Carlson. This was immediately followed by her appearance in the religious epic Quo Vadis? (1951), shot at Cinecittà in Rome, in which she played the indomitable Lygia, a first-century Christian. She then played Princess Flavia in a remake of The Prisoner of Zenda (1952). In 1953, Kerr "showed her theatrical mettle" as Portia in Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar. She then 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. 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. The organization ranked it 20th in its list of the 100 most romantic films of all time.

Charles Kerr of Camberwell Australia was born in 1858 in Emerald Hl, and died at age 85 years old on June 24, 1944 in Camberwell. Charles Kerr was buried at Box Hill Cemetery 395 Middleborough Rd, in Box Hill, Whitehorse City County, VIC.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mary Annie (Kerr) Cunningham.

Richard Earl Kerr was born on December 28, 1931. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Richard Earl Kerr.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Gerry Kerr.

The Hamilton Spectator, 24th September 1878. I am sorry to hear that Dr. Kerr, who married Miss Hillas, and is now gone to Sydney in quest of health, is about to go home to Scotland, and relinquish his practice here, his health being, as it is said, irremediably gone beyond recall of any voice in the faculty.

Callie L (Kerr) Brockman of Columbia, Adair County, KY was born on October 22, 1891, and died at age 97 years old on February 28, 1989.

Margaret Ann (Kerr) Monteleone was born on March 1, 1933 in Torrance, California United States, and died on January 14 in Thousand Oaks. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Margaret Ann (Kerr) Monteleone.

The Seymour Express. Victoria. 29th May 1885. - SEYMOUR POLICE COURT. SLY GROG SELLING. Margaret Pout, wife of George Pout, was charged on the information of Constable O'Connell, with sly grog selling at White Heads Creek, on 25th April. Mr. Wilkinson appeared for defendant, who denied the offence. Susan Blum, wife of Peter Blum, selector, of Whiteheads Creek, said on the 25th April, she went to Mrs. Pout's for a bottle of gin. Mrs. George Pout gave her the liquor, for which she paid 5s. Mr. Reynolds, who was stopping at her place, drank the gin. Reynolds has since died, and an inquest held on him. Defendant keeps a General store at Whiteheads Creek, about a mile where she ( witness ) lived. " My husband sells posts and rails, but not 'sheoak.' I used to sell beer on my premises about three months ago; but I don't now.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Martha Louise Kerr.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Jack Kerr.

Jimmy Allen Altes Kerr was born on October 24, 1986 at Blyth hospital in Blythe, Ca.

James Kerr was born on August 22, 1804 in Ireland, and died at age 61 years old on February 26, 1866 in Latrobe, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember James Kerr.

Jennie Mae (Smith) Kerr of Twinsburg, Ohio United States was born in KY. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Jennie Mae (Smith).

Miranda May Kerr was born on April 20, 1983 in Sydney, NSW Australia. She married Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom on July 22, 2010 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California United States and they later divorced in 2013 in Los Angeles United States. They had a child Flynn Christopher Blanchard Copeland Bloom. She married Evan Thomas Spiegel on May 27, 2017 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County United States. They had children Hart Spiegel and Myles Spiegel. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Miranda May Kerr.

Mary Selina Kerr was born on June 27, 1875 in Ballarat, Ballarat City County, VIC Australia, and died on June 28, 1875. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mary Selina Graham Kerr.