Career: Taylor made the transition from child star to adult success thanks to roles in such hits as Raintree County, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Suddenly Last Summer, for which she received Academy Award nominations. She later won the Best Actress Academy Award for Butterfield 8 and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? She became the first actress to be paid $1million for a film role in 1963 historical epic Cleopatra, where she met future husband Richard Burton. She received an honorary Academy Award in 1993 and was made a Dame in 2000. Symptoms related to heart failure led to her being admitted into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in February 2011. She remained there until her death at the age of 79 on March 23, 2011.

Career: Caine worked on stage and appeared in small roles on TV, often struggling to make ends meet. He was good friends with Terence Stamp during the early 1960s, before either became famous, and they often shared digs. Caine decided if he wasn't successful by the age of 30 he'd quit acting. Days before this milestone he landed the role in Zulu which made his name. The Harry Palmer spy movies, The Italian Job and Alfie secured his star status. Since then, he's made many films, many forgettable and, by his own admission, done for the money. Highlights include Get Carter, Sleuth (plus a remake), The Man Who Would Be King, Educating Rita, Little Voice, Mona Lisa, Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Harry Brown and Interstellar. He won Oscars for Hannah and Her Sisters and The Cider House Rules. He claims he will retire from showbusiness when he's 90.