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Elizabeth Taylor
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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 o…
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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.
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2025
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
Brasiliana: The Black Musical That Introduced Brazil to the World
Movie Herself (archive footage)
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2024
Elizabeth Taylor - Rebel Superstar
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2024
I Can't Give You Anything But Love: The Jimmy McHugh Story
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2023
Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2023
Paul Newman: The Restless
Movie Self
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2023
Commitment to Life
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2022
Freddie Mercury: The Final Act
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2022
Rat Pack
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2021
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2021
Superstar
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2021
A Life in Ten Pictures
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2019
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
Movie Self - Actress (archive footage)
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2019
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Movie Self - Actress (archive footage)
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2017
Chavela
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2017
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Movie Self (archive)
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2016
Andy Warhol, Fluorescent
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- 2015
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2015
The End of a Beautiful Epoch
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2015
Children of 'Giant'
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2013
The Battle of Amfar
Movie self
- 2011
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2011
Hollywood Invasion
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2011
Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored
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2010
Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop?
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2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty
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2009
Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2004
Judy Garland: By Myself
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2004
A Letter to True
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2003
Michael Jackson's Private Home Movies
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2002
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
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2002
Searching for Debra Winger
Movie Self (uncredited)
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2002
Heart of the Festival
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2001
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2001
George Stevens and His Place In The Sun
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2001
Bride of Trailer Camp
Movie (archive footage)
- 2001
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2001
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2001
These Old Broads
Movie Beryl Mason
