Carroll Baker
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 28, 1931 (age 95)
- Birthplace
- Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography
Carroll Baker (born May 28, 1931) is a former American actress who has enjoyed popularity as both a serious dramatic actress and, particularly in the 1960s, as a movie sex symbol. After studying under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Baker began performing on Broadway in 1954. From there, she was recruited by director Elia Kazan to play the lead in the adaptation of two Tennessee Williams plays into the film Baby Doll in 1956. In the mid-1960s, as a contract player for Paramount Pictures, Baker became a sex symbol after appearing as a hedonistic widow in The Carpetbaggers (1964). The film's producer, Joseph E. Levine, cast her in Sylvia before giving her the role of Jean Harlow in the biopic Harlow (1965). Despite significant prepublicity, Harlow was a critical failure, and Baker relocated to Italy in 1966 amid a legal dispute over her contract with Paramount and Levine's overseeing of her career. In Europe, she spent the next 10 years starring in hard-edged giallo and horror films, including Romolo Guerrieri's The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968), a series of four films with Umberto Lenzi beginning with Orgasmo (1969) and ending with Knife of Ice (1972), and Corrado Farina's Baba Yaga (1973). Baker appeared in supporting roles in several acclaimed dramas in the 1980s, including the drama Star 80 (1983) as the mother of murder victim Dorothy Stratten, and the racial drama Native Son (1986), based on the novel by Richard Wright. Through the 1990s Baker had guest roles in several television series, such as Murder, She Wrote; L.A. Law, and Roswell. She formally retired from acting in 2003.
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Filmography
Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
Movie · as Self
The Making of the Greatest Story Ever Told
Movie · as Self
Hollywood Scandals
Movie · as Self
Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
Movie · as Self
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Movie · as Self
Baby Doll: See No Evil
Movie · as Self
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
Movie · as Self
The Lyon's Den
TV · as Jack's Mother · 1 ep
Cinerama Adventure
Movie · as Self
Heart of the Festival
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Another Woman's Husband
Movie · as Laurel’s mother
Roswell
TV · as Claudia Parker · 1 ep
Nowhere to Go
Movie · as Nana
Rag and Bone
Movie · as Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt
Memories of Giant
Movie · as Self
The Game
Movie · as Ilsa
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Movie · as Self
Skeletons
Movie · as Nancy Norton
North Shore Fish
Movie · as Arlyne
Heart Full of Rain
Movie · as Edith Pearl Dockett
Dalva
Movie · as Naomi
Return to 'Giant'
Movie · as Self
Just Your Luck
Movie · as Momie
La signora della città
Movie · as Martha Sheppard
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
Movie · as Self
E! True Hollywood Story
TV · 1 ep
Storie di seduzione
Movie · as Diana's Mother
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Movie · as Self
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
Movie · as Self
In the Flesh
Movie · as Elaine Mitchelson
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Movie · as Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage)
Chicago Hope
TV · as Sylvie Tannen · 1 ep
A Kiss to Die For
Movie · as Mrs. Graham
Men Don't Tell
Movie · as Ruth
Judgment Day: The John List Story
Movie · as Alma List
Cyber Eden
Movie · as Madame
Blonde Fist
Movie · as Lovell Summers
P.S. I Luv U
TV · as Victoria · 1 ep
Kindergarten Cop
Movie · as Eleanor Crisp
Gipsy Angel
Movie · as Pheobe
Grand
TV · as Viva · 3 eps
Tales from the Crypt
TV · as Mother Paloma ("segment "The Trap") · 1 ep
Ironweed
Movie · as Annie Phelan
Hollywood Uncensored
Movie · as Self
On Fire
Movie · as Maureen Leary
Native Son
Movie · as Mrs. Dalton
L.A. Law
TV · as Rae Morrison · 3 eps
What Mad Pursuit
Movie · as Louise Steinhauser
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Movie · as Gerda Hoffman
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
Movie · as Mama Freud
Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Sibella Stone · 1 ep
Sharing Time
TV · as Fran Haley · 1 ep
Star 80
Movie · as Dorothy's Mum
Red Monarch
Movie · as Ellen Brown
American Playhouse
TV · as Mrs. Dalton · 1 ep
The Watcher in the Woods
Movie · as Helen Curtis
Nobody's Perfect
TV · as Phyllis Nash · 1 ep
The World Is Full of Married Men
Movie · as Linda Cooper
Cyclone
Movie · as Sheila
Bad
Movie · as Hazel Aiken
Blackmail Chase
Movie · as Polly Pott
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
Movie · as Laura
Shattered Dreams
Movie · as Carol
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
Movie · as Lucia
The Sky is Falling
Movie · as Treasure
The Private Lesson
Movie · as Laura Formenti
James Dean: The First American Teenager
Movie · as Self
The Next Victim
Movie · as Sandy Marshall
The Body
Movie · as Madeliene
Baba Yaga
Movie · as Baba Yaga
The Flower with Petals of Steel
Movie · as Evelyne Graffi
Thriller
TV · as Sandy Marshall · 1 ep
Knife of Ice
Movie · as Martha Caldwell
The Fourth Victim
Movie · as Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin
The Devil with Seven Faces
Movie · as Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison
Captain Apache
Movie · as Maude
A Quiet Place to Kill
Movie · as Helen
Paranoia
Movie · as Kathryn West
So Sweet... So Perverse
Movie · as Nicole Perrier
W. Somerset Maugham
TV · as Sadie Thompson · 1 ep
The Sweet Body of Deborah
Movie · as Deborah
The Harem
Movie · as Margherita
Jack of Diamonds
Movie · as Carroll Baker
Lionpower from MGM
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Movie · as Veronica
Sylvia
Movie · as Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle)
Mister Moses
Movie · as Julie Anderson
Harlow
Movie · as Jean Harlow
Cheyenne Autumn
Movie · as Deborah Wright
The Carpetbaggers
Movie · as Rina Marlowe Cord
Station Six-Sahara
Movie · as Catherine
The Paradise Suite
Movie · as Lena Roland
How the West Was Won
Movie · as Eve Prescott Rawlings
The Merv Griffin Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Something Wild
Movie · as Mary Ann Robinson
Bridge to the Sun
Movie · as Gwen Terasaki
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
But Not for Me
Movie · as Ellie Brown / Borden
The Miracle
Movie · as Teresa
The Big Country
Movie · as Patricia Terrill
Fun in the Big Country
Movie · as Self
Giant
Movie · as Luz Benedict II
Baby Doll
Movie · as Baby Doll Meighan
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
Movie · as Self
Cinépanorama
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Armchair Theatre
TV · as Lena Roland · 1 ep
Easy to Love
Movie · as Clarice
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 2 eps
What's My Line?
TV · as Self - Mystery Guest · 2 eps