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