Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Elizabeth Taylor
1932-02-27
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Hampstead, London, England, UK
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a European British-American actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. As one of the world's most famous film stars, Taylor was recognized for her acting ability and for her glamorous lifestyle, beauty and distinctive violet eyes. National Velvet (1944) was Taylor's first success, and she starred in Father of the Bride (1950), A Place in the Sun (1951), Giant (1956), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for BUtterfield 8 (1960), played the title role in Cleopatra (1963), and married her co-star Richard Burton. They appeared together in 11 films, including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), for which Taylor won a second Academy Award. From the mid-1970s, she appeared less frequently in film, and made occasional appearances in television and theatre. Her much publicized personal life included eight marriages and several life-threatening illnesses. From the mid-1980s, Taylor championed HIV and AIDS programs; she co-founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research in 1985, and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1993. She received the Presidential Citizens Medal, the Legion of Honour, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and a Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, who named her seventh on their list of the "Greatest American Screen Legends". Taylor died of congestive heart failure at the age of 79.
Filmography
I Can't Give You Anything But Love: The Jimmy McHugh Story
2024 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
2024 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Brasiliana: The Black Musical That Introduced Brazil to the World
2024 · Movie
as Herself (archive footage)
Elizabeth Taylor - Rebel Superstar
2024 · TV Show
as Self (archive footage)
Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
2023 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Commitment to Life
2023 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Paul Newman: The Restless
2023 · Movie
as Self
Rat Pack
2022 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Freddie Mercury: The Final Act
2022 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Mythos Côte d'Azur - Liebe, Luxus, Leidenschaft
2021 · Movie
Superstar
2021 · TV Show
as Self (archive footage)
A Life in Ten Pictures
2021 · TV Show
as Self (archive footage)
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
2019 · Movie
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019 · Movie
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Chavela
2017 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017 · Movie
as Self (archive)
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
2017 · Movie
as Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Andy Warhol, Fluorescent
2016 · Movie
The End of a Beautiful Epoch
2015 · Movie
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Children of 'Giant'
2015 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Destins secrets d’étoiles - Grace, Jackie, Liz, Marilyn…
2015 · Movie
The Battle of Amfar
2013 · Movie
as self
Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored
2011 · Movie
as (archive footage)
Hollywood Invasion
2011 · Movie
as archive footage
Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop?
2010 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored
2009 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Judy Garland: By Myself
2004 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
A Letter to True
2004 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Michael Jackson's Private Home Movies
2003 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Searching for Debra Winger
2002 · Movie
as Self (uncredited)
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002 · Movie
as (archive footage), Self (archive footage)
Heart of the Festival
2002 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
These Old Broads
2001 · Movie
as Beryl Mason
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
2001 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration
2001 · Movie
as Self
George Stevens and His Place In The Sun
2001 · Movie
as Self
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Bride of Trailer Camp
2001 · Movie
as (archive footage)
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand
2001 · Movie
as self
Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration
2000 · Movie
as Self
God, the Devil and Bob
2000 · TV Show
as Sarah (voice)
Discovering Bedrock
1999 · Movie
as Self
Memories of Giant
1998 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
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Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
1997 · Movie
as Self
Return to 'Giant'
1996 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
E! True Hollywood Story
1996 · TV Show
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
1995 · Movie
as Self
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
James Dean: A Portrait
1995 · Movie
as Self (Archive footage)
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Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell
1995 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
High Society
1995 · TV Show
as Elizabeth Taylor (voice)
Can't Hurry Love
1995 · TV Show
as Elizabeth Taylor
The Flintstones
1994 · Movie
as Pearl Slaghoople
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The Jackson Family Honors
1994 · Movie
as Self
That's Entertainment! III
1994 · Movie
as (archive footage)
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
1993 · Movie
as Self
Michael Jackson Talks... to Oprah
1993 · Movie
as Self
Intimate Portrait
1993 · TV Show
as Self
The Nanny
1993 · TV Show
as Elizabeth Taylor
The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert
1992 · Movie
as Self
Marilyn: Something's Got to Give
1990 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
1990 · TV Show
as Mrs. Andrews
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
1989 · Movie
as Self - Introduction Speaker
Sweet Bird of Youth
1989 · Movie
as Alexandra Del Lago
The Simpsons
1989 · TV Show
as Maggie Simpson (voice), Elizabeth Taylor (voice)
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988 · Movie
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Young Toscanini
1988 · Movie
as Nadina Bulichoff
Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues
1988 · Movie
as Self
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
1988 · Movie
as Self (Archive Footage)
Murphy Brown
1988 · TV Show
as Elizabeth Taylor
Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star
1987 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Poker Alice
1987 · Movie
as Alice Moffit
There Must Be a Pony
1986 · Movie
as Marguerite Sydney
Super Duper Bloopers
1986 · Movie
as Self
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986 · Movie
as Self
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An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
1986 · Movie
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
1985 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Malice in Wonderland
1985 · Movie
as Louella Parsons
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985 · Movie
as (archive footage)
North and South
1985 · TV Show
as Madam Conti, Madame Conti
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983 · Movie
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Between Friends
1983 · Movie
as Deborah Shapiro
Genocide
1982 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Night of 100 Stars
1982 · Movie
as Self
Hotel
1982 · TV Show
The Mirror Crack'd
1980 · Movie
as Marina Rudd
Winter Kills
1979 · Movie
as Lola Comante (uncredited)
A Death in Canaan
1978 · Movie
as Self (voice) (uncredited)
Return Engagement
1978 · Movie
as Dr. Emily Loomis
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978 · TV Show
as Self
A Little Night Music
1977 · Movie
as Desiree Armfeldt
Victory at Entebbe
1976 · Movie
as Edra Vilnofsky
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
1976 · Movie
as Self
The Blue Bird
1976 · Movie
as Queen of Light/Mother/Witch/Maternal Love
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · Movie
as (archive footage)
Hooray for Hollywood
1976 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Elizabeth Taylor: An Intimate Portrait
1975 · Movie
as Self
Identikit
1974 · Movie
as Lise
That's Entertainment!
1974 · Movie
as Self - Host / Narrator
Night Watch
1973 · Movie
as Ellen Wheeler
Ash Wednesday
1973 · Movie
as Barbara Sawyer
Divorce His, Divorce Hers
1973 · TV Show
as Jane Reynolds
Under Milk Wood
1972 · Movie
as Rosie Probert
Hammersmith Is Out
1972 · Movie
as Jimmie Jean Jackson
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Zee and Co.
1972 · Movie
as Zee Blakeley
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Film '72
1971 · TV Show
as Self
The Only Game in Town
1970 · Movie
as Fran Walker
Anne of the Thousand Days
1969 · Movie
as Masked Courtesan (uncredited)
Secret Ceremony
1968 · Movie
as Leonora
Boom!
1968 · Movie
as Flora 'Sissy' Goforth
Around the World of Mike Todd
1968 · Movie
as Self
On Location: Where Eagles Dare
1968 · Movie
as Self (uncredited)
Here's Lucy
1968 · TV Show
as Elizabeth Taylor
Reflections in a Golden Eye
1967 · Movie
as Leonora Penderton
The Taming of the Shrew
1967 · Movie
as Katharina
The Comedians
1967 · Movie
as Martha Pineda
Doctor Faustus
1967 · Movie
as Helen of Troy
The Comedians in Africa
1967 · Movie
as Self (uncredited)
Mondo Hollywood
1967 · Movie
Omnibus
1967 · TV Show
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966 · Movie
as Martha
The Sandpiper
1965 · Movie
as Laura Reynolds
The Big Sur
1965 · Movie
as Self
A Statue for "The Sandpiper"
1965 · Movie
as Self
Becket
1964 · Movie
as Blonde Village Woman (uncredited)
On the Trail of the Iguana
1964 · Movie
as Self
Cleopatra
1963 · Movie
as Cleopatra
The V.I.P.s
1963 · Movie
as Frances Andros
Elizabeth Taylor in London
1963 · Movie
as Herself
Lykke og krone
1962 · Movie
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · TV Show
as Self, Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
BUtterfield 8
1960 · Movie
as Gloria Wandrous
Scent of Mystery
1960 · Movie
as Woman of Mystery
Suddenly, Last Summer
1959 · Movie
as Catherine Holly
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958 · Movie
as Maggie
Raintree County
1957 · Movie
as Susanna Drake Shawnessy
Operation Raintree
1957 · Movie
as Self
Giant
1956 · Movie
as Leslie Lynnton Benedict
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
1956 · Movie
as Self
Tony Awards
1956 · TV Show
as Self - Nominee / Presenter
Beau Brummell
1954 · Movie
as Lady Patricia
Elephant Walk
1954 · Movie
as Ruth Wiley
The Last Time I Saw Paris
1954 · Movie
as Helen Ellswirth
Rhapsody
1954 · Movie
as Louise Durant
A Star Is Born World Premiere
1954 · Movie
as Self
The Girl Who Had Everything
1953 · Movie
as Jean Latimer
The Oscars
1953 · TV Show
as Self
Ivanhoe
1952 · Movie
as Rebecca
Love Is Better Than Ever
1952 · Movie
as Anastacia (Stacie) Macaboy
Father's Little Dividend
1951 · Movie
as Kay Dunstan
A Place in the Sun
1951 · Movie
as Angela Vickers
Quo Vadis
1951 · Movie
as Christian Prisoner in Arena (uncredited)
Callaway Went Thataway
1951 · Movie
as Elizabeth Taylor (uncredited)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · TV Show
as Dr. Emily Loomis
Father of the Bride
1950 · Movie
as Kay Banks
The Big Hangover
1950 · Movie
as Mary Belney
What's My Line?
1950 · TV Show
as Self
Little Women
1949 · Movie
as Amy
Conspirator
1949 · Movie
as Melinda Greyton
Julia Misbehaves
1948 · Movie
as Susan Packett
A Date with Judy
1948 · Movie
as Carol Pringle
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · TV Show
as Self
Bambi
1948 · TV Show
as Self
Life with Father
1947 · Movie
as Mary Skinner
Cynthia
1947 · Movie
as Cynthia Bishop
Courage of Lassie
1946 · Movie
as Kathie Eleanor Merrick
National Velvet
1945 · Movie
as Velvet Brown
The White Cliffs of Dover
1944 · Movie
as Betsy Kenney at Age 10 (uncredited)
Twenty Years After
1944 · Movie
as (archive footage)
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · TV Show
as Self - Presenter / Winner
Lassie Come Home
1943 · Movie
as Priscilla
Jane Eyre
1943 · Movie
as Helen Burns
There's One Born Every Minute
1942 · Movie
as Gloria Twine
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Gloss and Grit: The Man Who Made Art Pop
· Movie
as Self (archive footage)
