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