Carroll Baker
Known for: Acting
Born: May 28, 1931
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
88 movies · 19 TV shows, newest first
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Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
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Hollywood Scandals
2011
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Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
2009
8.5
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008
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Baby Doll: See No Evil
2006
8.8
The Lyon's Den
2003
9.0
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
2003
7.7
Cinerama Adventure
2002
6.7
Heart of the Festival
2002
4.0
Another Woman's Husband
2000
7.7
Roswell
1999
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Memories of Giant
19987.0
Nowhere to Go
1998
4.0
Rag and Bone
1998
5.3
Heart Full of Rain
1997
7.6
The Game
1997
7.0
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997
4.2
Skeletons
1997
9.0
North Shore Fish
1997
4.8
Just Your Luck
1996
6.7
Return to 'Giant'
1996
8.1
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
10.0
La signora della città
1996
4.0
Dalva
1996
9.0
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
1996
4.0
Storie di seduzione
1995
7.7
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995
5.0
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
1995
9.0
In the Flesh
1995
9.0
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
7.2
Chicago Hope
1994
4.6
A Kiss to Die For
1993
6.9
Men Don't Tell
1993
5.7
Judgment Day: The John List Story
1993
5.3
Cyber Eden
1992
4.6
Blonde Fist
1991
6.4
P.S. I Luv U
1991
6.1
Kindergarten Cop
1990
4.5
Gipsy Angel
1990
6.7
Grand
1990
8.0
Tales from the Crypt
1989
6.3
Ironweed
1987
5.4
Hollywood Uncensored
1987
9.0
On Fire
1987
5.2
Native Son
1986
7.1
L.A. Law
1986
10.0
What Mad Pursuit
1985
4.9
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
1984
4.6
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
1984NR
Sharing Time
1984
6.5
Star 80
1983
5.4
Red Monarch
1983
6.6
American Playhouse
1982
5.9
The Watcher in the Woods
1980
5.0
The World Is Full of Married Men
1979
5.2
Cyclone
1978
6.5
Bad
1977
7.5
Shattered Dreams
1976
6.2
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
1976
9.0
Blackmail Chase
1976
4.7
The Sky is Falling
1975
5.4
The Private Lesson
1975
7.5
James Dean: The First American Teenager
1975
8.0
The Next Victim
1975
5.1
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
1975
4.8
The Body
1974
5.4
The Flower with Petals of Steel
1973
5.5
Baba Yaga
1973
7.0
Thriller
1973
6.1
Knife of Ice
1972
4.8
The Devil with Seven Faces
1971
4.7
Captain Apache
1971
6.0
The Fourth Victim
1971
6.6
A Quiet Place to Kill
1970
5.6
So Sweet... So Perverse
1969NR
W. Somerset Maugham
1969
5.9
Paranoia
1969
5.6
The Sweet Body of Deborah
1968
4.7
Jack of Diamonds
1967
5.5
The Harem
1967
6.3
Lionpower from MGM
1967
5.6
Harlow
1965
5.0
Mister Moses
1965
6.4
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
6.3
Sylvia
1965
6.7
Cheyenne Autumn
1964
5.9
The Carpetbaggers
1964NR
The Paradise Suite
1963
5.9
Station Six-Sahara
1963
7.0
How the West Was Won
1962
6.8
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
6.2
Something Wild
1961
5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
6.9
Bridge to the Sun
1961
6.7
The Miracle
1959
6.3
But Not for Me
1959
7.6
The Big Country
1958
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Fun in the Big Country
1958
7.0
Baby Doll
1956
7.6
Giant
1956
6.0
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
1956
6.0
Armchair Theatre
1956
8.7
Cinépanorama
1956
6.2
Easy to Love
1953
7.0
The Oscars
1953
7.0
What's My Line?
1950