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