Carroll Baker
Acting
Born: May 28, 1931 (age 95) · Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
The Game
1997
Kindergarten Cop
1990
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Giant
1956
How the West Was Won
1962
Roswell
1999
Murder, She Wrote
1984
The Big Country
1958
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
The Watcher in the Woods
1980
Cheyenne Autumn
1964
Ironweed
1987
Photos (5)
Movies (67)
The Game
Ilsa
Giant
Luz Benedict II
How the West Was Won
Eve Prescott Rawlings
Kindergarten Cop
Eleanor Crisp
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Veronica
The Big Country
Patricia Terrill
Bad
Hazel Aiken
The Watcher in the Woods
Helen Curtis
The Private Lesson
Laura Formenti
Cheyenne Autumn
Deborah Wright
Ironweed
Annie Phelan
So Sweet... So Perverse
Nicole Perrier
Cyclone
Sheila
Star 80
Dorothy's Mum
Baby Doll
Baby Doll Meighan
Paranoia
Kathryn West
The Carpetbaggers
Rina Marlowe Cord
Mister Moses
Julie Anderson
Dalva
Naomi
Captain Apache
Maude
Rag and Bone
Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt
The Sweet Body of Deborah
Deborah
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
Laura
Shattered Dreams
Carol
Baba Yaga
Baba Yaga
A Quiet Place to Kill
Helen
The Devil with Seven Faces
Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage)
But Not for Me
Ellie Brown / Borden
Something Wild
Mary Ann Robinson
Easy to Love
Clarice
Knife of Ice
Martha Caldwell
Station Six-Sahara
Catherine
Harlow
Jean Harlow
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
Lucia
Blonde Fist
Lovell Summers
Native Son
Mrs. Dalton
Just Your Luck
Momie
Jack of Diamonds
Carroll Baker
Judgment Day: The John List Story
Alma List
On Fire
Maureen Leary
A Kiss to Die For
Mrs. Graham
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Gerda Hoffman
The Miracle
Teresa
Heart Full of Rain
Edith Pearl Dockett
The Fourth Victim
Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin
Red Monarch
Ellen Brown
North Shore Fish
Arlyne
The World Is Full of Married Men
Linda Cooper
Skeletons
Nancy Norton
Cyber Eden
Madame
The Harem
Margherita
In the Flesh
Elaine Mitchelson
Sylvia
Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle)
Men Don't Tell
Ruth
Storie di seduzione
Diana's Mother
Bridge to the Sun
Gwen Terasaki
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
Mama Freud
The Flower with Petals of Steel
Evelyne Graffi
The Body
Madeliene
The Sky is Falling
Treasure
Gipsy Angel
Pheobe
What Mad Pursuit
Louise Steinhauser
Another Woman's Husband
Laurel’s mother
Blackmail Chase
Polly Pott
The Next Victim
Sandy Marshall
La signora della città
Martha Sheppard
TV Shows (12)
Murder, She Wrote
Sibella Stone · 1 eps
Chicago Hope
Sylvie Tannen · 1 eps
American Playhouse
Mrs. Dalton · 1 eps
L.A. Law
Rae Morrison · 3 eps
Tales from the Crypt
Mother Paloma ("segment "The Trap") · 1 eps
Roswell
Claudia Parker · 1 eps
Thriller
Sandy Marshall · 1 eps
The Lyon's Den
Jack's Mother · 1 eps
P.S. I Luv U
Victoria · 1 eps
Grand
Viva · 3 eps
E! True Hollywood Story
1 eps
Armchair Theatre
Lena Roland · 1 eps
Self / Appearances (23)
The Mike Douglas Show
Self · 1 eps
The Merv Griffin Show
Self · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 2 eps
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest · 2 eps
Cinépanorama
Self · 1 eps
Heart of the Festival
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Uncensored
Self
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Self
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Self
Lionpower from MGM
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
Self
James Dean: The First American Teenager
Self
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Self
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
Self
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
Self
Cinerama Adventure
Self
Fun in the Big Country
Self
Return to 'Giant'
Self
Baby Doll: See No Evil
Self
Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
Self
Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
Self
Memories of Giant
Self
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
Self