Acting
Carroll Baker
Biography
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.
Movies with Carroll Baker
The Game
1997
Giant
1956
How the West Was Won
1962
Kindergarten Cop
1990
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
The Big Country
1958
Bad
1977
The Private Lesson
1975
Cyclone
1978
Cheyenne Autumn
1964
Hollywood Uncensored
1987
Dalva
1996
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
1976
Baby Doll
1956
Ironweed
1987
Star 80
1983
Blonde Fist
1991
Baba Yaga
1973
Just Your Luck
1996
North Shore Fish
1997
Something Wild
1961
So Sweet... So Perverse
1969
The Watcher in the Woods
1980
The Miracle
1959
But Not for Me
1959
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
1975
The Carpetbaggers
1964
Paranoia
1969
Mister Moses
1965
Station Six-Sahara
1963
Heart of the Festival
2002
Captain Apache
1971
Shattered Dreams
1976
Native Son
1986
Heart Full of Rain
1997
Rag and Bone
1998
Easy to Love
1953
A Quiet Place to Kill
1970
Lionpower from MGM
1967
The Sweet Body of Deborah
1968
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997
Men Don't Tell
1993
On Fire
1987
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985
Bridge to the Sun
1961
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995
Harlow
1965
What Mad Pursuit
1985
The Harem
1967
Judgment Day: The John List Story
1993
Red Monarch
1983
In the Flesh
1995
The Body
1974
Skeletons
1997
A Kiss to Die For
1993
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008
Return to 'Giant'
1996
Storie di seduzione
1995
Jack of Diamonds
1967
Nowhere to Go
1998
Fun in the Big Country
1958
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
Sylvia
1965
Another Woman's Husband
2000
The Devil with Seven Faces
1971
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
2003
Gipsy Angel
1990
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
1956
Baby Doll: See No Evil
2006
Cyber Eden
1992
Knife of Ice
1972
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
1996
James Dean: The First American Teenager
1975
The Next Victim
1975
The Fourth Victim
1971
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
1995
Cinerama Adventure
2002
The Paradise Suite
1963
The World Is Full of Married Men
1979
Blackmail Chase
1976
La signora della città
1996
The Flower with Petals of Steel
1973
The Sky is Falling
1975
Hollywood Scandals
2011
Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
2009
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
1984
Memories of Giant
1998
Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
2017
TV Shows with Carroll Baker
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Chicago Hope
1994
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
L.A. Law
1986
Tales from the Crypt
1989
What's My Line?
1950
Roswell
1999
The Oscars
1953
Thriller
1973
Cinépanorama
1956
The Lyon's Den
2003
Grand
1990
W. Somerset Maugham
1969
P.S. I Luv U
1991
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Armchair Theatre
1956
Sharing Time
1984