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Carroll Baker

Known for acting · Born 28 May 1931 · 95 · Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA

108 credits

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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Known for

The Game

1997

Kindergarten Cop

1990

How the West Was Won

1962

The Big Country

1958

The Greatest Story Ever Told

1965

Giant

1956

Cheyenne Autumn

1964

Ironweed

1987

Baby Doll

1956

Baba Yaga

1973

Paranoia

1969

Knife of Ice

1972

Acting (108)

2017Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady GlamourSelfFilm
2011Hollywood ScandalsSelfFilm
2009Western Legenden - Made in HollywoodSelfFilm
2008You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. StorySelfFilm
2006Baby Doll: See No EvilSelfFilm
2003The Lyon's DenJack's MotherSeries
2003Time Machine: When Cowboys Were KingSelfFilm
2002Cinerama AdventureSelfFilm
2002Heart of the FestivalSelf (archive footage)Film
2000Another Woman's HusbandLaurel’s motherFilm
1999RoswellClaudia ParkerSeries
1998Rag and BoneSister Marie, Tony's AuntFilm
1998Nowhere to GoNanaFilm
1998Memories of GiantSelfFilm
1997The GameIlsaFilm
1997SkeletonsNancy NortonFilm
1997Heart Full of RainEdith Pearl DockettFilm
1997Big Guns Talk: The Story of the WesternSelfFilm
1997North Shore FishArlyneFilm
1996E! True Hollywood StorySeries
1996Just Your LuckMomieFilm
1996DalvaNaomiFilm
1996Return to 'Giant'SelfFilm
1996La signora della cittàMartha SheppardFilm
1996Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and HandsomeSelfFilm
1995Roger Moore: A Matter of ClassSelfFilm
1995Charlton Heston: For All SeasonsSelfFilm
1995Storie di seduzioneDiana's MotherFilm
1995In the FleshElaine MitchelsonFilm
1994Chicago HopeSylvie TannenSeries
1994Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American StageBaby Doll Meighan (archive footage)Film
1993Men Don't TellRuthFilm
1993A Kiss to Die ForMrs. GrahamFilm
1993Judgment Day: The John List StoryAlma ListFilm
1992Cyber EdenMadameFilm
1991Blonde FistLovell SummersFilm
1991P.S. I Luv UVictoriaSeries
1990Kindergarten CopEleanor CrispFilm
1990Gipsy AngelPheobeFilm
1990GrandViva · 3 episodesSeries
1989Tales from the CryptMother Paloma ("segment "The Trap")Series
1987IronweedAnnie PhelanFilm
1987Hollywood UncensoredSelfFilm
1987On FireMaureen LearyFilm
1986L.A. LawRae Morrison · 3 episodesSeries
1986Native SonMrs. DaltonFilm
1985Hitler's SS: Portrait in EvilGerda HoffmanFilm
1985What Mad PursuitLouise SteinhauserFilm
1984Murder, She WroteSibella StoneSeries
1984The Secret Diary of Sigmund FreudMama FreudFilm
1984Sharing TimeFran HaleySeries
1983Star 80Dorothy's MumFilm
1983Red MonarchEllen BrownFilm
1982American PlayhouseMrs. DaltonSeries
1980The Watcher in the WoodsHelen CurtisFilm
1980Nobody's PerfectPhyllis NashSeries
1979The World Is Full of Married MenLinda CooperFilm
1978CycloneSheilaFilm
1977BadHazel AikenFilm
1976Confessions of a Frustrated HousewifeLauraFilm
1976Shattered DreamsCarolFilm
1976Blackmail ChasePolly PottFilm
1975Valentina... The Virgin WifeLuciaFilm
1975The Private LessonLaura FormentiFilm
1975The Sky is FallingTreasureFilm
1975James Dean: The First American TeenagerSelfFilm
1975The Next VictimSandy MarshallFilm
1974The BodyMadelieneFilm
1973Baba YagaBaba YagaFilm
1973ThrillerSandy MarshallSeries
1973The Flower with Petals of SteelEvelyne GraffiFilm
1972Knife of IceMartha CaldwellFilm
1971Captain ApacheMaudeFilm
1971The Devil with Seven FacesJulie Harrison / Mary HarrisonFilm
1971The Fourth VictimJulie Spencer / Lillian MartinFilm
1970A Quiet Place to KillHelenFilm
1969ParanoiaKathryn WestFilm
1969So Sweet... So PerverseNicole PerrierFilm
1969W. Somerset MaughamSadie ThompsonSeries
1968The Sweet Body of DeborahDeborahFilm
1967The HaremMargheritaFilm
1967Jack of DiamondsCarroll BakerFilm
1967Lionpower from MGMSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)Film
1965The Greatest Story Ever ToldVeronicaFilm
1965HarlowJean HarlowFilm
1965SylviaSylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle)Film
1965Mister MosesJulie AndersonFilm
1964Cheyenne AutumnDeborah WrightFilm
1964The CarpetbaggersRina Marlowe CordFilm
1963Station Six-SaharaCatherineFilm
1963The Paradise SuiteLena RolandFilm
1962How the West Was WonEve Prescott RawlingsFilm
1962The Merv Griffin ShowSelfSeries
1961Something WildMary Ann RobinsonFilm
1961Bridge to the SunGwen TerasakiFilm
1961The Mike Douglas ShowSelfSeries
1959But Not for MeEllie Brown / BordenFilm
1959The MiracleTeresaFilm
1958The Big CountryPatricia TerrillFilm
1958Fun in the Big CountrySelfFilm
1956GiantLuz Benedict IIFilm
1956Baby DollBaby Doll MeighanFilm
1956Armchair TheatreLena RolandSeries
1956CinépanoramaSelfSeries
1956New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'SelfFilm
1953The OscarsSelf · 2 episodesSeries
1953Easy to LoveClariceFilm
1950What's My Line?Self - Mystery Guest · 2 episodesSeries