Carroll Baker
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 28, 1931 (age 95)
- Place of birth
- Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Credits
- 108
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
The Game
1997Movie
Ilsa
Kindergarten Cop
1990Movie
Eleanor Crisp
Tales from the Crypt
1989TV
Mother Paloma ("segment "The Trap")
Giant
1956Movie
Luz Benedict II
How the West Was Won
1962Movie
Eve Prescott Rawlings
Roswell
1999TV
Claudia Parker
Filmography
Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
2017Movie
Self
Hollywood Scandals
2011Movie
Self
Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
2009Movie
Self
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008Movie
Self
Baby Doll: See No Evil
2006Movie
Self
The Lyon's Den
2003TV
Jack's Mother
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
2003Movie
Self
Cinerama Adventure
2002Movie
Self
Heart of the Festival
2002Movie
Self (archive footage)
Another Woman's Husband
2000Movie
Laurel’s mother
Roswell
1999TV
Claudia Parker
Memories of Giant
1998Movie
Self
Nowhere to Go
1998Movie
Nana
Rag and Bone
1998Movie
Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt
Heart Full of Rain
1997Movie
Edith Pearl Dockett
The Game
1997Movie
Ilsa
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997Movie
Self
Skeletons
1997Movie
Nancy Norton
North Shore Fish
1997Movie
Arlyne
Just Your Luck
1996Movie
Momie
Return to 'Giant'
1996Movie
Self
E! True Hollywood Story
1996TV
La signora della città
1996Movie
Martha Sheppard
Dalva
1996Movie
Naomi
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
1996Movie
Self
Storie di seduzione
1995Movie
Diana's Mother
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995Movie
Self
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
1995Movie
Self
In the Flesh
1995Movie
Elaine Mitchelson
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994Movie
Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage)
Chicago Hope
1994TV
Sylvie Tannen
A Kiss to Die For
1993Movie
Mrs. Graham
Men Don't Tell
1993Movie
Ruth
Judgment Day: The John List Story
1993Movie
Alma List
Cyber Eden
1992Movie
Madame
Blonde Fist
1991Movie
Lovell Summers
P.S. I Luv U
1991TV
Victoria
Kindergarten Cop
1990Movie
Eleanor Crisp
Gipsy Angel
1990Movie
Pheobe
Grand
1990TV
Viva
Tales from the Crypt
1989TV
Mother Paloma ("segment "The Trap")
Ironweed
1987Movie
Annie Phelan
Hollywood Uncensored
1987Movie
Self
On Fire
1987Movie
Maureen Leary
Native Son
1986Movie
Mrs. Dalton
L.A. Law
1986TV
Rae Morrison
What Mad Pursuit
1985Movie
Louise Steinhauser
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985Movie
Gerda Hoffman
Murder, She Wrote
1984TV
Sibella Stone
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
1984Movie
Mama Freud
Sharing Time
1984TV
Fran Haley
Star 80
1983Movie
Dorothy's Mum
Red Monarch
1983Movie
Ellen Brown
American Playhouse
1982TV
Mrs. Dalton
Nobody's Perfect
1980TV
Phyllis Nash
The Watcher in the Woods
1980Movie
Helen Curtis
The World Is Full of Married Men
1979Movie
Linda Cooper
Cyclone
1978Movie
Sheila
Bad
1977Movie
Hazel Aiken
Shattered Dreams
1976Movie
Carol
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
1976Movie
Laura
Blackmail Chase
1976Movie
Polly Pott
The Sky is Falling
1975Movie
Treasure
The Private Lesson
1975Movie
Laura Formenti
James Dean: The First American Teenager
1975Movie
Self
The Next Victim
1975Movie
Sandy Marshall
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
1975Movie
Lucia
The Body
1974Movie
Madeliene
The Flower with Petals of Steel
1973Movie
Evelyne Graffi
Baba Yaga
1973Movie
Baba Yaga
Thriller
1973TV
Sandy Marshall
Knife of Ice
1972Movie
Martha Caldwell
The Devil with Seven Faces
1971Movie
Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison
Captain Apache
1971Movie
Maude
The Fourth Victim
1971Movie
Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin
A Quiet Place to Kill
1970Movie
Helen
So Sweet... So Perverse
1969Movie
Nicole Perrier
W. Somerset Maugham
1969TV
Sadie Thompson
Paranoia
1969Movie
Kathryn West
The Sweet Body of Deborah
1968Movie
Deborah
Jack of Diamonds
1967Movie
Carroll Baker
The Harem
1967Movie
Margherita
Lionpower from MGM
1967Movie
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Harlow
1965Movie
Jean Harlow
Mister Moses
1965Movie
Julie Anderson
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965Movie
Veronica
Sylvia
1965Movie
Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle)
Cheyenne Autumn
1964Movie
Deborah Wright
The Carpetbaggers
1964Movie
Rina Marlowe Cord
The Paradise Suite
1963Movie
Lena Roland
Station Six-Sahara
1963Movie
Catherine
How the West Was Won
1962Movie
Eve Prescott Rawlings
The Merv Griffin Show
1962TV
Self
Something Wild
1961Movie
Mary Ann Robinson
The Mike Douglas Show
1961TV
Self
Bridge to the Sun
1961Movie
Gwen Terasaki
The Miracle
1959Movie
Teresa
But Not for Me
1959Movie
Ellie Brown / Borden
The Big Country
1958Movie
Patricia Terrill
Fun in the Big Country
1958Movie
Self
Baby Doll
1956Movie
Baby Doll Meighan
Giant
1956Movie
Luz Benedict II
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
1956Movie
Self
Armchair Theatre
1956TV
Lena Roland
Cinépanorama
1956TV
Self
Easy to Love
1953Movie
Clarice
The Oscars
1953TV
Self
What's My Line?
1950TV
Self - Mystery Guest