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Birthdate: February 27, 1932
Elizabeth Taylor
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1940s
2.8022
10
1950s
3.0370
18
1960s
2.0880
15
1970s
2.2794
11
1980s
1.4465
4
1990s
1.0642
1
2000s
No Reviews
1
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.7680
2.7680
Elizabeth Taylor Movie Rankings
1
3.1323Mi Taylor was a young wanderer and opportunist whose father had given him "all the roads in the Kingdom" to travel. One of the roads, and a notation in his father's journal, leads him to the quiet English country-side home of the Brown family. ...more about National Velvet
DVD from $1.96
(16 sellers)
2
3.0995Texan rancher Bick Benedict visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse. Whilst there he meets and falls in love with the owner's daughter Leslie, they are married immediately and return to his ranch. ...more about Giant
DVD from $9.89
(19 sellers)
3
3.0629It really looks like George Eastman can at last have his place in the sun. A chance meeting with a long lost uncle has led to a job with a future and the beautiful and well bred Angela Vickers is just as infatuated with him as he is with her. ...more about Place in the Sun
DVD from $3.90
(12 sellers)
4
3.0194
New Biology instructor Nick and his wife Honey visit the campus home of burned-out History professor George and his viperish wife Martha. ...more about Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best British Actress
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actress
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Actress
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actress
DVD from $17.27
(12 sellers)
5
3.0193
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way. ...more about Father of the Bride
DVD from $4.60
(14 sellers)
6
2.9740
In late nineteenth century New York a Wall Street broker likes to think his house runs his way, but finds himself constantly bemused at how much of what happens is down to his wife. ...more about Life with Father
DVD from $5.99
(6 sellers)
7
2.8934
The film is the historical and poetical drama of Queen Cleopatra of Egypt who wants to stabilize her power by using the tensions in the Roman Empire. ...more about Cleopatra
DVD from $11.36
(9 sellers)
8
2.8429
Based on the play by Tennessee Williams: A party is planned for the 65th birthday of family patriarch 'Big Daddy', but not everyone is in a festive mood. ...more about Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actress
DVD from $8.68
(15 sellers)
9
2.8233
Hard times came for Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog to the rich Duke of Rudling. However, Lassie, the dog, is unwilling to leave the young Carraclough boy and sets out on the long and dangerous journey in order to rejoin him. ...more about Lassie Come Home
DVD from $8.63
(8 sellers)
10
2.7177
In New Orleans in 1937, a rich widow, Mrs. Venable, plans to fund a hospital building for a state asylum, if Dr. Cukrowicz will perform a lobotomy on her niece Catherine. Mrs. ...more about Suddenly
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama
DVD from $13.34
(9 sellers)
11
2.6658
Colonial tea planter John Wiley, visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth and takes her home to Elephant Walk, Ceylon, where the local elephants have a grudge against the plantation. ...more about Elephant Walk
DVD from $7.18
(10 sellers)
12
2.6172
MGM musical numbers from the introduction of sound in the late '20s through to the 1950s, possibly with Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and Judy Garland getting the most coverage. ...more about That's Entertainment!
DVD from $4.05
(15 sellers)
13
2.6126
In the centre of this Walter Scott classic fiction inspired film the chivalrousness and the daring stand. Ivanhoe, the disowned knight join to the bravehearted and high-minded Robin Hood, the valiant of Forest Sherwood. ...more about Ivanhoe
DVD from $12.71
(9 sellers)
14
2.6050
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie. The year is 1953. The small English village of St. ...more about Mirror Crack'd
DVD from $6.97
(9 sellers)
15
2.5932
19 years after President Timothy Keegan was assassinated, his brother Nick discovers a dying man claiming to have been the gunman. ...more about Winter Kills
DVD from $3.00
(6 sellers)
16
2.5754
This is a delightful if peculiar story of a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called "Llareggub" (read it backwards). We meet a host of curious characters (and ghosts) through the 'eyes' of Blind Captain cat. ...more about Under Milk Wood
DVD from $10.13
(7 sellers)
17
2.4108
London, 1949. A young American beauty, Melinda Greyton, flighty and immature, falls in love with a dashing but solitary and lonely English major, Michael Curragh, and he with her. His aged aunt, his only family, urges him to marry her, and he does. ...more about Conspirator
- Not Available on DVD
18
2.3812
Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. ...more about Little Women
DVD from $13.30
(8 sellers)
19
2.2724
Burton and Taylor play Petrucio and Catherine in a fairly rigorous attempt to stay with both the Shakespearian language and script, while still adding a three dimensional, outdoor flavor to this screen adaptation. ...more about Taming of the Shrew
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best British Actress
DVD from $3.95
(9 sellers)
20
2.2255
The Flintstones and the Rubbles are modern stone-age families. Fred and Barney work at Slate and Company, mining rock. Fred gives Barney some money so he and Betty can adopt a baby. ...more about Flintstones
Actor Awards
- Razzie Awards - Worst Supporting Actress
DVD from $8.00
(13 sellers)
21
2.2252
Bill's separated from his litter and grows up on an island, making friends with the wild creatures until he's found and adopted by young Kathie, who nurses and cares of him until he's grown. ...more about Courage of Lassie
DVD from $4.60
(11 sellers)
22
2.1606
Fredrik EGerman is very happy in his marriage to a seventeen-year-old virgin, Anne. Only she's been a virgin for the whole eleven months of the marriage, and being a bit restless, Fredrik goes to see an old flame, the famous actress Desiree Armfeldt. ...more about Little Night Music
DVD from $15.97
(8 sellers)
23
2.1303
Gloria Wandrous is a call girl with a disturbing past. Weston Liggett is a philandering lawyer unhappily married into a wealthy family. ...more about BUtterfield 8
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama
DVD from $9.76
(12 sellers)
24
2.1104
Charles returns to Paris to reminisce about the life he led in Paris after it was liberated. He worked on "Stars and Stripes" when he met Marion and Helen. ...more about Last Time I Saw Paris
DVD from $1.99
(9 sellers)
25
2.0898
Idealist John Wickliff Shawnessy (Montgomery Clift) drifts away from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither (Eva Marie Saint) and enters into a passionate, but loveless, marriage with Susanna Drake (Elizabeth Taylor) a wealthy New Orleans belle. ...more about Raintree County
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Not Available on DVD
26
2.0456
Developed from a radio program which began in 1941, hyperactive teenager Judy challenges and is challeged by her overly proper parents, pest of a brother Randolph and boyfriend Oogie. ...more about Date with Judy
- Not Available on DVD
27
2.0053
The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient (Burton) offers the innocent orderly (Bridges) vast riches if he'll help him escape. ...more about Hammersmith Is Out
Actor Awards
- Berlin International Film Festival - Best Actress
- Not Available on DVD
30
1.9407
Stanley Banks is finally recovering from his daughter's wedding when he learns she is going to have a baby. He is strongly opposed at first, and disputes arise between maternal and paternal grandparents. ...more about Father's Little Dividend
DVD from $2.95
(11 sellers)
32
1.7359
This film recounts the lives and deaths of various victims of AIDS who are commemorated in the AIDS quilt. ...more about Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
DVD from $16.17
(5 sellers)
33
1.7337
A law school graduate is hired by a top law firm but doesn't tell them about a problem he has--he's so allergic to alcohol that one whiff of it and he passes out like a light. ...more about Big Hangover
- Not Available on DVD
34
1.6918
Zee and Robert Blakeley are members of swinging London's upper crust whose unique love-hate marriage heads towards destruction when Robert falls in love with a beautiful young widow named Stella, and Zee goes through a series of scheming adventures to ...more about Zee and Co.
Actor Awards
- David di Donatello Awards - Best Foreign Actress (Migliore Attrice Straniera)
- Not Available on DVD
35
1.6894
English dancehall actress Julia Packett hasn't seen her daughter since Susan was a few months old, having given her up to be raised by her respectable and wealthy father William (whom Julia never divorced. ...more about Julia Misbehaves
- Not Available on DVD
37
1.5834
Set in the Haiti of "Papa Doc" Duvalier, The Comedians tells the story of a sardonic white hotel owner and his encroaching fatalism as he watches Haiti sink into barbarism. ...more about Comedians
DVD from $31.95
(8 sellers)
38
1.5350
Ellen Wheeler, a rich widow, is recovering from a nervous breakdown. One day, while staring out the window, she witnesses a murder. ...more about Night Watch
- Not Available on DVD
40
1.2519
Barbara gets secret plastic surgery in Switzerland in an attempt to save her marriage to Mark, but he doesn't seem interested in meeting her. She checks in to a ski resort to wait for Mark, and begins getting attention from young men. ...more about Ash Wednesday
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama
- Not Available on DVD
41
0.9967
On a U.S. Army post circa 1948, a major who is an impotent, latent homosexual is married to an infantile birdbrain who never misses an opportunity to ridicule his masculine failings. ...more about Reflections in a Golden Eye
DVD from $38.35
(12 sellers)
42
0.7166
The incredibly rich writer Sissy Goforth lives alone with her servants and nurses on the top of a Mediterranean island, on which she makes her own rules. Her days consist of dictating her autobiography and begging for injections. ...more about Boom
- Not Available on DVD
43
0.4879
A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. ...more about Blue Bird
- Not Available on DVD
45
Captain George Brummel is an upper-class dandy. He has to leave the army after having insulted the crown prince. This only gives him time to start a smear-campaign against the prince. ...more about Beau Brummell
- Not Available on DVD
46
This promotional short for _Sandpiper, The (1965)_ (qv) visits the coastal area known as The Big Sur, in Monterey County, California, where the movie was filmed. ...more about Big Sur
- Not Available on DVD
47
Wednesday, May 10th 2000. Dozens of stars, hundreds of journalists and thousands of fans have come together in the south of France. Amongst them is Markus. He is an autograph collector who has come here to get signatures from the famous. ...more about Cannes: Through the Eyes of the Hunter
- Not Available on DVD
49
Attorney's daughter falls for one of his gangster clients. ...more about Girl Who Had Everything
- Not Available on DVD
51
The dancing teacher Anastasia falls in love with the smart theatre agent Jud. He likes her, too, but does not want to give up his solo life at all. Thus she plans a trap for him... ...more about Love Is Better Than Ever
- Not Available on DVD
55
A rich, young woman, Louise Durant, follows the man she loves and hopes to marry to Zurich where he plans to finish his study of violin at the conservatory. A piano student at the conservatory falls madly in love with Louise. ...more about Rhapsody
- Not Available on DVD
57
Some sculptors use marble as a medium to create beauty; 'Edmund Kara' (qv) uses large redwood tree stumps. Kara has been commissioned to create a statue of 'Elizabeth Taylor (I)' (qv), which will be featured in _Sandpiper, The (1965)_ (qv). ...more about Statue for 'The Sandpiper'
- Not Available on DVD
58
The advertising slogans of Jimmy Hanagan (Tom Brown) and the lab reports reveal that the patented prepared pudding invented by Lemuel P. Twine (Hugh Herbert) has a treasure of Vitamin Z and is full of Zumph. ...more about There's One Born Every Minute
- Not Available on DVD
60
0.0001
Young Danny Reynolds and his mother Laura (Elizabeth Taylor) live an idyllic life near California's Big Sur. Laura teaches Danny at home. After Danny shoots a deer, authorities take the boy away to live and study in a parochial orphanage/school. ...more about Sandpiper
DVD from $31.95
(8 sellers)
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