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: Acting

Born: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA, 1931-05-28

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	Easy to Love	Clarice	61
2	1956	New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'	Self	60
3	1956	Giant	Luz Benedict II	76
4	1956	Baby Doll	Baby Doll Meighan	71
5	1958	Fun in the Big Country	Self	0
6	1958	The Big Country	Patricia Terrill	76
7	1959	But Not for Me	Ellie Brown / Borden	60
8	1959	The Miracle	Teresa	67
9	1961	Bridge to the Sun	Gwen Terasaki	68
10	1961	Something Wild	Mary Ann Robinson	62
11	1962	How the West Was Won	Eve Prescott Rawlings	70
12	1963	Station Six-Sahara	Catherine	59
13	1963	The Paradise Suite	Lena Roland	0
14	1964	The Carpetbaggers	Rina Marlowe Cord	58
15	1964	Cheyenne Autumn	Deborah Wright	67
16	1965	Sylvia	Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle)	62
17	1965	The Greatest Story Ever Told	Veronica	64
18	1965	Mister Moses	Julie Anderson	40
19	1965	Harlow	Jean Harlow	54
20	1967	The Harem	Margherita	54
21	1967	Jack of Diamonds	Carroll Baker	42
22	1968	The Sweet Body of Deborah	Deborah	54
23	1969	Paranoia	Kathryn West	59
24	1969	So Sweet... So Perverse	Nicole Perrier	55
25	1970	A Quiet Place to Kill	Helen	65
26	1971	The Fourth Victim	Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin	58
27	1971	Captain Apache	Maude	45
28	1971	The Devil with Seven Faces	Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison	47
29	1972	Knife of Ice	Martha Caldwell	60
30	1973	Baba Yaga	Baba Yaga	54
31	1973	The Flower with Petals of Steel	Evelyne Graffi	55
32	1974	The Body	Madeliene	44
33	1975	Valentina... The Virgin Wife	Lucia	51
34	1975	The Next Victim	Sandy Marshall	0
35	1975	James Dean: The First American Teenager	Self	60
36	1975	The Private Lesson	Laura Formenti	56
37	1975	Bloodbath	Treasure	41
38	1976	Blackmail Chase	Polly Pott	0
39	1976	Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife	Laura	64
40	1976	Shattered Dreams	Carol	80
41	1977	Bad	Hazel Aiken	63
42	1978	Cyclone	Sheila	51
43	1979	The World Is Full of Married Men	Linda Cooper	53
44	1980	The Watcher in the Woods	Helen Curtis	59
45	1983	Red Monarch	Ellen Brown	50
46	1983	Star 80	Dorothy's Mum	64
47	1984	The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud	Mama Freud	40
48	1985	Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil	Gerda Hoffman	49
49	1985	What Mad Pursuit	Louise Steinhauser	0
50	1986	Native Son	Mrs. Dalton	52
51	1987	On Fire	Maureen Leary	0
52	1987	Hollywood Uncensored	Self	55
53	1987	Ironweed	Annie Phelan	63
54	1990	Gipsy Angel	Pheobe	35
55	1990	Kindergarten Cop	Eleanor Crisp	61
56	1991	Blonde Fist	Lovell Summers	46
57	1992	Cyber Eden	Madame	47
58	1993	Judgment Day: The John List Story	Alma List	45
59	1993	Men Don't Tell	Ruth	68
60	1993	A Kiss to Die For	Mrs. Graham	44
61	1994	Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage	Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage)	0
62	1995	In the Flesh	Elaine Mitchelson	0
63	1995	Charlton Heston: For All Seasons	Self	50
64	1995	Roger Moore: A Matter of Class	Self	60
65	1995	Storie di seduzione	Diana's Mother	0
66	1996	Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome	Self	0
67	1996	Dalva	Naomi	33
68	1996	La signora della città	Martha Sheppard	0
69	1996	Return to 'Giant'	Self	61
70	1996	Just Your Luck	Momie	35
71	1997	North Shore Fish	Arlyne	0
72	1997	Skeletons	Nancy Norton	41
73	1997	Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western	Self	0
74	1997	The Game	Ilsa	76
75	1997	Heart Full of Rain	Edith Pearl Dockett	40
76	1998	Rag and Bone	Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt	33
77	1998	Nowhere to Go	Nana	0
78	2000	Another Woman's Husband	Laurel’s mother	38
79	2002	Heart of the Festival		40
80	2002	Cinerama Adventure	Self	76
81	2003	Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King	Self	0
82	2006	Baby Doll: See No Evil	Self	0
83	2008	You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story	Self	85
84	2009	Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood	Self	0
85	2011	Hollywood Scandals	Self	0
86	2017	Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour	Self	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Mystery Guest	69
2	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
3	1956	Cinépanorama	Self	80
4	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
5	1973	Thriller	Sandy Marshall	66
6	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Sibella Stone	75
7	1986	L.A. Law	Rae Morrison	71
8	1989	Tales from the Crypt	Mother Paloma ("segment "The Trap")	80
9	1990	Grand	Viva	55
10	1991	P.S. I Luv U	Victoria	58
11	1994	Chicago Hope	Sylvie Tannen	72
12	1996	E! True Hollywood Story		81
13	1999	Roswell	Claudia Parker	77
14	2003	The Lyon's Den	Jack's Mother	93

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