Carroll Baker
Actor
Born May 28, 1931 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
Filmography
Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
Self
Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
Self
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Self
Baby Doll: See No Evil
Self
The Lyon's Den
Jack's Mother
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
Self
Cinerama Adventure
Self
Heart of the Festival
Self (archive footage)
Another Woman's Husband
Laurel’s mother
Roswell
Claudia Parker
Memories of Giant
Self
Rag and Bone
Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt
Heart Full of Rain
Edith Pearl Dockett
The Game
Ilsa
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Self
Skeletons
Nancy Norton
North Shore Fish
Arlyne
Just Your Luck
Momie
Return to 'Giant'
Self
E! True Hollywood Story
La signora della città
Martha Sheppard
Dalva
Naomi
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
Self
Storie di seduzione
Diana's Mother
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Self
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
Self
In the Flesh
Elaine Mitchelson
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage)
Chicago Hope
Sylvie Tannen
A Kiss to Die For
Mrs. Graham
Men Don't Tell
Ruth
Judgment Day: The John List Story
Alma List
Cyber Eden
Madame
Blonde Fist
Lovell Summers
P.S. I Luv U
Victoria
Kindergarten Cop
Eleanor Crisp
Gipsy Angel
Pheobe
Grand
Viva
Tales from the Crypt
Mother Paloma ("segment "The Trap")
Ironweed
Annie Phelan
Hollywood Uncensored
Self
On Fire
Maureen Leary
Native Son
Mrs. Dalton
L.A. Law
Rae Morrison
What Mad Pursuit
Louise Steinhauser
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Gerda Hoffman
Murder, She Wrote
Sibella Stone
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
Mama Freud
Star 80
Dorothy's Mum
Red Monarch
Ellen Brown
American Playhouse
Mrs. Dalton
The Watcher in the Woods
Helen Curtis
The World Is Full of Married Men
Linda Cooper
Cyclone
Sheila
Bad
Hazel Aiken
Shattered Dreams
Carol
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
Laura
Blackmail Chase
Polly Pott
The Sky is Falling
Treasure
The Private Lesson
Laura Formenti
James Dean: The First American Teenager
Self
The Next Victim
Sandy Marshall
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
Lucia
The Body
Madeliene
The Flower with Petals of Steel
Evelyne Graffi
Baba Yaga
Baba Yaga
Thriller
Sandy Marshall
Knife of Ice
Martha Caldwell
The Devil with Seven Faces
Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison
Captain Apache
Maude
The Fourth Victim
Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin
A Quiet Place to Kill
Helen
So Sweet... So Perverse
Nicole Perrier
Paranoia
Kathryn West
The Sweet Body of Deborah
Deborah
Jack of Diamonds
Carroll Baker
The Harem
Margherita
Lionpower from MGM
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Harlow
Jean Harlow
Mister Moses
Julie Anderson
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Veronica
Sylvia
Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle)
Cheyenne Autumn
Deborah Wright
The Carpetbaggers
Rina Marlowe Cord
Station Six-Sahara
Catherine
How the West Was Won
Eve Prescott Rawlings
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
Something Wild
Mary Ann Robinson
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
Bridge to the Sun
Gwen Terasaki
The Miracle
Teresa
But Not for Me
Ellie Brown / Borden
The Big Country
Patricia Terrill
Fun in the Big Country
Self
Baby Doll
Baby Doll Meighan
Giant
Luz Benedict II
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
Self
Armchair Theatre
Lena Roland
Cinépanorama
Self
Easy to Love
Clarice
The Oscars
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What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest