Carroll Baker
Acting
Born May 28, 1931 · 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.
Films (88)
Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
2017
Hollywood Scandals
2011
Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
2009
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008
Baby Doll: See No Evil
2006
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
2003
Cinerama Adventure
2002
Heart of the Festival
2002
Another Woman's Husband
2000
Memories of Giant
1998
Nowhere to Go
1998
Rag and Bone
1998
Heart Full of Rain
1997
The Game
1997
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997
Skeletons
1997
North Shore Fish
1997
Just Your Luck
1996
Return to 'Giant'
1996
La signora della città
1996
Dalva
1996
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
1996
Storie di seduzione
1995
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
1995
In the Flesh
1995
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
A Kiss to Die For
1993
Men Don't Tell
1993
Judgment Day: The John List Story
1993
Cyber Eden
1992
Blonde Fist
1991
Kindergarten Cop
1990
Gipsy Angel
1990
Ironweed
1987
Hollywood Uncensored
1987
On Fire
1987
Native Son
1986
What Mad Pursuit
1985
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
1984
Star 80
1983
Red Monarch
1983
The Watcher in the Woods
1980
The World Is Full of Married Men
1979
Cyclone
1978
Bad
1977
Shattered Dreams
1976
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
1976
Blackmail Chase
1976
The Sky is Falling
1975
The Private Lesson
1975
James Dean: The First American Teenager
1975
The Next Victim
1975
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
1975
The Body
1974
The Flower with Petals of Steel
1973
Baba Yaga
1973
Knife of Ice
1972
The Devil with Seven Faces
1971
Captain Apache
1971
The Fourth Victim
1971
A Quiet Place to Kill
1970
So Sweet... So Perverse
1969
Paranoia
1969
The Sweet Body of Deborah
1968
Jack of Diamonds
1967
The Harem
1967
Lionpower from MGM
1967
Harlow
1965
Mister Moses
1965
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
Sylvia
1965
Cheyenne Autumn
1964
The Carpetbaggers
1964
The Paradise Suite
1963
Station Six-Sahara
1963
How the West Was Won
1962
Something Wild
1961
Bridge to the Sun
1961
The Miracle
1959
But Not for Me
1959
The Big Country
1958
Fun in the Big Country
1958
Baby Doll
1956
Giant
1956
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
1956
Easy to Love
1953