Annette Kerr

Annette Kerr (born July 2, 1920 in Elderslie , Renfrewshire , † September 23, 2013 in London ) was a British actress in film and television and theater. She played various roles in British cinema productions in the 1950s and 1960s. Including in films like Four Women and a Murder , The Pill Was to Blame for Everything , Accidents in Space and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes .

Life

Annette Kerr began her acting career in the 1940s and 1950s with roles in various British theaters. Kerr is frequently mentioned in this context in The Kenneth Williams Diaries by Russell Davies. Kenneth Williams and Annette Kerr have worked together on a number of theater productions.

In 1959, she played her first supporting role in a movie in Montgomery Tully's crime film The Price of Silence . In the mid-1960s she appeared on screen in George Pollock's Agatha Christie thriller Four Women and a Murder in the role of Dorothy. In 1968 she starred in the David Niven , Deborah Kerr comedy directed by Fielder Cook and Ronald Neame , The Pill was to blame for everything . In 1969 and 1970 she had minor supporting roles in the cinema productions Accident in Space and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

In 1959 she had also turned to television. There she had numerous TV appearances in British series in 40 years from 1959 to 1999. There she played in episodes of Emergency-Ward 10 (1959–1961), No Hiding Place (1961–1965), Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone (1962), Z Cars (1968), UFO (1970), Whodunnit? (1973), A Kind of Loving (1982), A Kind of Loving (1982) or One Foot in the Grave (1992-1995). In the television series 2point4 Children (1991-1999) she embodied the character of Dora Grimes in 11 episodes.

Annette Kerr died on September 23, 2013 at the age of 93.

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

• 1959: The Price of Silence
• 1961: So Evil, So Young
• 1961: The Third Alibi
• 1964: Four Women and One Murder (Murder Most Foul)
• 1968: The pill was to blame for everything (Prudence and the Pill)
• 1969: Accident in space (doppelganger)
• 1970: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes)

watch TV

• 1959–1961: Emergency Ward 10 (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 1960–1965: No Hiding Place (TV series, 4 episodes)
• 1960: Inside Story (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1960: Target Luna (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 1960: Boyd QC (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1961–1966: ITV Play of the Week (TV series, 4 episodes)
• 1961: A Life of Bliss (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1961: Harpers West One (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1961: Home Tonight (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1962: With umbrella, charm and bowler hat (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1963: Suspense (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1963: Smugglers' Cove (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1963: The Odd Man (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1964: Crossroads (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1965: Summertime Ends Tonight (TV movie)
• 1965: Mysteries and Miracles (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1965–1971: Public Eye (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 1966: Out of the Unknown (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1966: The Wednesday Play (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 1967: The Golden Age (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1968: Z Cars (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1968: Mystery and Imagination (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1968–1969: ITV Playhouse (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 1970: UFO (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1971–1972: ITV Saturday Night Theater (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 1972: Pardon My Genie (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1973: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1973: The Roses of Eyam (TV movie)
• 1973: Whodunnit? (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1974: Dial M for Murder (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1977: The Upchat Line (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1982: A Kind of Loving (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1982: All for Love (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1990: Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1992: London's Burning (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1992–1995: One Foot in the Grave (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 1998: Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 1991–1999: 2point4 Children (TV series, 11 episodes as Dora Grimes)

literature

• Annette Kerr in: Armchair Theater: The Lost Years , by Leonard White, Kelly Publications, 2003, p. 153

Web links

• Annette Kerr in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Filmography by Annette Kerr in: The New York Times

Individual evidence

1. ^ Annette Kerr in: Plays and Players , editions 470-477, Hansom Books, 1993, p. 23
2. ^ Annette Kerr in: The Kenneth Williams letters , by Kenneth Williams, HarperCollins, 1995, p. 4
3. ^ Obituary for Annette Kerr in: The Telegraph