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.
Known for
Murder, She Wrote
Sibella Stone
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
L.A. Law
Rae Morrison
Chicago Hope
Sylvie Tannen
Tales from the Crypt
Mother Paloma ("segment "The Trap")
Roswell
Claudia Parker
The Body
Madeliene
The Oscars
Self
The Game
Ilsa
Thriller
Sandy Marshall
The Lyon's Den
Jack's Mother
P.S. I Luv U
Victoria
E! True Hollywood Story
Grand
Viva
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
Laura
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Veronica
Giant
Luz Benedict II
Kindergarten Cop
Eleanor Crisp
How the West Was Won
Eve Prescott Rawlings
Cheyenne Autumn
Deborah Wright
Ironweed
Annie Phelan
Star 80
Dorothy's Mum
The Big Country
Patricia Terrill
Baby Doll
Baby Doll Meighan
The Watcher in the Woods
Helen Curtis
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Gerda Hoffman
The Private Lesson
Laura Formenti
Harlow
Jean Harlow
The Carpetbaggers
Rina Marlowe Cord
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Self
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Self
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
Lucia
Native Son
Mrs. Dalton
Hollywood Uncensored
Self
Sylvia
Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle)
Another Woman's Husband
Laurel’s mother
Something Wild
Mary Ann Robinson
Bad
Hazel Aiken
Fun in the Big Country
Self
Skeletons
Nancy Norton
Blonde Fist
Lovell Summers
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage)
But Not for Me
Ellie Brown / Borden
The Miracle
Teresa
Station Six-Sahara
Catherine
The Fourth Victim
Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Self
Red Monarch
Ellen Brown
Judgment Day: The John List Story
Alma List
Men Don't Tell
Ruth
Cyclone
Sheila
So Sweet... So Perverse
Nicole Perrier
North Shore Fish
Arlyne
Just Your Luck
Momie
The Sweet Body of Deborah
Deborah
Bloodbath
Treasure
In the Flesh
Elaine Mitchelson
Jack of Diamonds
Carroll Baker
Captain Apache
Maude
Hollywood Scandals
Self
Rag and Bone
Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt
On Fire
Maureen Leary
Easy to Love
Clarice
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
Mama Freud
Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
Self
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
Self
Cinerama Adventure
Self
A Kiss to Die For
Mrs. Graham
Dalva
Naomi
James Dean: The First American Teenager
Self
Paranoia
Kathryn West
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
Self
Baba Yaga
Baba Yaga
The Next Victim
Sandy Marshall
The World Is Full of Married Men
Linda Cooper
Bridge to the Sun
Gwen Terasaki
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
Self
The Devil with Seven Faces
Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison
A Quiet Place to Kill
Helen
Mister Moses
Julie Anderson
The Harem
Margherita
Cyber Eden
Madame
Return to 'Giant'
Self
Blackmail Chase
Polly Pott
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
Self
The Flower with Petals of Steel
Evelyne Graffi
Knife of Ice
Martha Caldwell
What Mad Pursuit
Louise Steinhauser
La signora della città
Martha Sheppard
Gipsy Angel
Pheobe
Nowhere to Go
Nana
Baby Doll: See No Evil
Self
The Paradise Suite
Lena Roland
Shattered Dreams
Carol
Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
Self
Heart Full of Rain
Edith Pearl Dockett
Storie di seduzione
Diana's Mother
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
Cinépanorama
Self