Carroll Baker
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
Eleanor Crisp
Kindergarten Cop
Luz Benedict II
Giant
Veronica
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Ilsa
The Game
Helen Curtis
The Watcher in the Woods
Dorothy's Mum
Star 80
Eve Prescott Rawlings
How the West Was Won
Patricia Terrill
The Big Country
Baby Doll Meighan
Baby Doll
Annie Phelan
Ironweed
Deborah Wright
Cheyenne Autumn
Martha Caldwell
Il coltello di ghiaccio
Sheila
Cyclone
Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin
La última señora Anderson
Rina Marlowe Cord
The Carpetbaggers
Self
Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
Kathryn West
Orgasmo
Hazel Aiken
Bad
Self
Hollywood Uncensored
Self
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Self
Hollywood Skandale
Mary Ann Robinson
Something Wild
Diana's Mother
Storie di seduzione
Baba Yaga
Baba Yaga
Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison
Il diavolo a sette facce
Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle)
Sylvia
Ellen Brown
Red Monarch
Self
Fun in the Big Country
Ellie Brown / Borden
But Not for Me
Margherita
L'Harem
Maude
Captain Apache
Helen
Paranoia
Mrs. Dalton
Native Son
Madame
Jackpot
Carroll Baker
Jack of Diamonds
Mrs. Graham
A Kiss to Die For
Ruth
Men Don't Tell
Teresa
The Miracle
Gwen Terasaki
Bridge to the Sun
Lucia
La moglie vergine
Catherine
Station Six-Sahara
Alma List
Judgment Day: The John List Story
Lovell Summers
Blonde Fist
Self
Cinerama Adventure
Treasure
Las flores del vicio
Julie Anderson
Mister Moses
Nana
Nowhere to Go
Laura Formenti
Lezioni private
Polly Pott
Ab morgen sind wir reich und ehrlich
Laura
La moglie di mio padre
Naomi
Dalva
Carol
Zerschossene Träume
Maureen Leary
On Fire
Nancy Norton
Skeletons
Self
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Self
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
Self
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
Linda Cooper
The World Is Full of Married Men
Lena Roland
The Paradise Suite
Pheobe
Gipsy Angel
Louise Steinhauser
What Mad Pursuit
Jean Harlow
Harlow
Madeliene
Il corpo
Elaine Mitchelson
Im Sog des Bösen
Gerda Hoffman
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Self
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt
Rag and Bone
Mama Freud
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
Self
James Dean: The First American Teenager
Laurel’s mother
Another Woman's Husband
Self
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
Self
Return to 'Giant'
Momie
Just Your Luck
Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage)
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Self
Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
Clarice
Easy to Love
Nicole Perrier
Così dolce... così perversa
Deborah
Il dolce corpo di Deborah
Evelyne Graffi
Il fiore dai petali d'acciaio
Arlyne
North Shore Fish
Martha Sheppard
La signora della città
Self
Baby Doll: See No Evil
Sandy Marshall
The Next Victim
Edith Pearl Dockett
Heart Full of Rain
Self
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
Histoires de festival
Lionpower from MGM
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
87
Gender
Female
Birthday
1931-05-28
Place of Birth
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
Carrol Baker