Carroll Baker
Acting
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
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tvThe Lyon's Den
2003
Jack's Mother
movieHeart of the Festival
2002
Self (archive footage)
movieAnother Woman's Husband
2000
Laurel’s mother
tvRoswell
1999
Claudia Parker
movieRag and Bone
1998
Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt
movieHeart Full of Rain
1997
Edith Pearl Dockett
movieSkeletons
1997
Nancy Norton
movieLa signora della città
1996
Martha Sheppard
movieDalva
1996
Naomi
movieStorie di seduzione
1995
Diana's Mother
movieIn the Flesh
1995
Elaine Mitchelson
movieTennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage)
tvChicago Hope
1994
Sylvie Tannen
movieA Kiss to Die For
1993
Mrs. Graham
movieCyber Eden
1992
Madame
movieBlonde Fist
1991
Lovell Summers
tvP.S. I Luv U
1991
Victoria
movieKindergarten Cop
1990
Eleanor Crisp
movieGipsy Angel
1990
Pheobe
tvGrand
1990
Viva
tvTales from the Crypt
1989
Mother Paloma ("segment "The Trap")
movieIronweed
1987
Annie Phelan
movieOn Fire
1987
Maureen Leary
movieNative Son
1986
Mrs. Dalton
tvL.A. Law
1986
Rae Morrison
movieWhat Mad Pursuit
1985
Louise Steinhauser
movieHitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985
Gerda Hoffman
tvMurder, She Wrote
1984
Sibella Stone
Sharing Time
1984
Fran Haley
movieStar 80
1983
Dorothy's Mum
movieRed Monarch
1983
Ellen Brown
tvAmerican Playhouse
1982
Mrs. Dalton
movieThe Watcher in the Woods
1980
Helen Curtis
movieThe World Is Full of Married Men
1979
Linda Cooper
movieCyclone
1978
Sheila
movieBad
1977
Hazel Aiken
movieBlackmail Chase
1976
Polly Pott
movieThe Sky is Falling
1975
Treasure
movieThe Private Lesson
1975
Laura Formenti
movieThe Next Victim
1975
Sandy Marshall
movieThe Body
1974
Madeliene
movieThe Flower with Petals of Steel
1973
Evelyne Graffi
movieBaba Yaga
1973
Baba Yaga
tvThriller
1973
Sandy Marshall
movieKnife of Ice
1972
Martha Caldwell
movieThe Devil with Seven Faces
1971
Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison
movieThe Fourth Victim
1971
Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin
movieSo Sweet... So Perverse
1969
Nicole Perrier
W. Somerset Maugham
1969
Sadie Thompson
movieParanoia
1969
Kathryn West
movieJack of Diamonds
1967
Carroll Baker
movieThe Harem
1967
Margherita
movieLionpower from MGM
1967
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieHarlow
1965
Jean Harlow
movieMister Moses
1965
Julie Anderson
movieSylvia
1965
Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle)
movieCheyenne Autumn
1964
Deborah Wright
movieThe Carpetbaggers
1964
Rina Marlowe Cord
movieStation Six-Sahara
1963
Catherine
movieHow the West Was Won
1962
Eve Prescott Rawlings
movieSomething Wild
1961
Mary Ann Robinson
movieBridge to the Sun
1961
Gwen Terasaki
movieThe Miracle
1959
Teresa
movieBut Not for Me
1959
Ellie Brown / Borden
movieThe Big Country
1958
Patricia Terrill
movieBaby Doll
1956
Baby Doll Meighan
movieGiant
1956
Luz Benedict II
tvArmchair Theatre
1956
Lena Roland
movieEasy to Love
1953
Clarice
tvThe Oscars
1953
Self
tvWhat's My Line?
1950
Self - Mystery Guest