
Carroll Baker
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.
104 acting credits
Acting · 104

Murder, She Wrote
1984

The Mike Douglas Show
1961

Chicago Hope
1994

L.A. Law
1986

The Merv Griffin Show
1962

Tales from the Crypt
1989

Roswell
1999

The Oscars
1953

What's My Line?
1950

Thriller
1973

Cinépanorama
1956

The Lyon's Den
2003

The Game
1997

Grand
1990

Giant
1956

The Private Lesson
1975

P.S. I Luv U
1991

How the West Was Won
1962

The Big Country
1958

Kindergarten Cop
1990

The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965

Armchair Theatre
1956

E! True Hollywood Story
1996

Ironweed
1987

Star 80
1983

Harlow
1965

Cheyenne Autumn
1964

The Devil with Seven Faces
1971

Baby Doll
1956

The Watcher in the Woods
1980

Something Wild
1961

Cyclone
1978

Native Son
1986

Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
1976

Red Monarch
1983

Valentina... The Virgin Wife
1975

So Sweet... So Perverse
1969

The Miracle
1959

Baba Yaga
1973

Lionpower from MGM
1967

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994

On Fire
1987

Bridge to the Sun
1961

Sylvia
1965

Captain Apache
1971

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008

Another Woman's Husband
2000

James Dean: The First American Teenager
1975

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985

Hollywood Uncensored
1987

Heart of the Festival
2002

Knife of Ice
1972

But Not for Me
1959

Skeletons
1997

The Sweet Body of Deborah
1968

Paranoia
1969

The Carpetbaggers
1964

The Body
1974

The Harem
1967
Nowhere to Go
1998

Blonde Fist
1991

The World Is Full of Married Men
1979

Men Don't Tell
1993

Easy to Love
1953

Jack of Diamonds
1967

Bad
1977

Station Six-Sahara
1963

Cyber Eden
1992

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997

A Kiss to Die For
1993

Mister Moses
1965

The Fourth Victim
1971

A Quiet Place to Kill
1970

Judgment Day: The John List Story
1993

Just Your Luck
1996

Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
2003

Return to 'Giant'
1996

Blackmail Chase
1976

La signora della città
1996

Dalva
1996

Memories of Giant
1998

Cinerama Adventure
2002

The Sky is Falling
1975

Storie di seduzione
1995

Heart Full of Rain
1997

Rag and Bone
1998

Fun in the Big Country
1958

The Flower with Petals of Steel
1973

North Shore Fish
1997

What Mad Pursuit
1985

In the Flesh
1995

Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
1995

The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
1984

New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
1956

The Next Victim
1975

Gipsy Angel
1990
Hollywood Scandals
2011

Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
1996
The Paradise Suite
1963

Shattered Dreams
1976

Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
2009

Baby Doll: See No Evil
2006

Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
2017