Biography: life and films
Elizabeth Taylor was an English actress and producer whose birth name was Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor. She was born in Hampstead, London, England, UK on 27th February 1932 and died in Los Angeles, California, USA on 23rd March 2011, aged 79.Her best films as an actor include Clarence Brown's National Velvet (1944), George Stevens's A Place in the Sun (1951), Giant (1956), Mike Nichols's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) and Franco Zeffirelli's The Taming of the Shrew (1967).
Elizabeth Taylor appeared in 56 films.
She has most frequently worked with the following directors: Vincente Minnelli (3 films), Richard Thorpe (3), George Stevens (3), Richard Brooks (2), Joseph Losey (2), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (2), Fred M. Wilcox (2), Franco Zeffirelli (2) and Brian G. Hutton (2).
Her most frequent genres include: drama (35 films), romance (11), comedy (10), comedy-romance (6), Documentary (6), comedy-drama (4), Thriller (4), Biography (3), history (2), War (2) and Horror (2).
Our average rating for Elizabeth Taylor over all films is: 3.2
Filmography
Key: a = actor; w = writer
Whose Wife? (1917) [a]
There's One Born Every Minute (1942) [a]
Lassie Come Home (1943) [a]
National Velvet (1944) [a]
Courage of Lassie (1946) [a]
Cynthia (1947) [a]
Life with Father (1947) [a]
A Date with Judy (1948) [a]
Julia Misbehaves (1948) [a]
Conspirator (1949) [a]
Little Women (1949) [a]
Father of the Bride (1950) [a]
The Big Hangover (1950) [a]
Father's Little Dividend (1951) [a]
Ivanhoe (1952) [a]
Love Is Better Than Ever (1952) [a]
The Girl Who Had Everything (1953) [a]
Beau Brummell (1954) [a]
Elephant Walk (1954) [a]
Rhapsody (1954) [a]
The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) [a]
Giant (1956) [a]
Raintree County (1957) [a]
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) [a]
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) [a]
BUtterfield 8 (1960) [a]
Cleopatra (1963) [a]
The V.I.P.s (1963) [a]
The Sandpiper (1965) [a]
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) [a]
Doctor Faustus (1967) [a]
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) [a]
The Comedians (1967) [a]
The Taming of the Shrew (1967) [a]
Boom (1968) [a]
Secret Ceremony (1968) [a]
The Only Game in Town (1970) [a]
Hammersmith Is Out (1972) [a]
Under Milk Wood (1972) [a]
Zee and Co. (1972) [a]
Ash Wednesday (1973) [a]
Night Watch (1973) [a]
Identikit (1974) [a]
That's Entertainment! (1974) [a]
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976) [a]
The Blue Bird (1976) [a]
A Little Night Music (1977) [a]
Ken Murray Shooting Stars (1979) [a]
Genocide (1982) [a]
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984) [a]
La Hora bruja (1985) [a]
Il Giovane Toscanini (1988) [a]
The Flintstones (1994) [a]
James Dean: Forever Young (2005) [a]
Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont (2005) [w]
Angel (2007) [w]
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