Acting
Carroll Baker
Born May 28, 1931 · Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
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Acting
The Making of the Greatest Story Ever Told
2017
Documentary
Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
2017
Documentary
Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
2009
Documentary
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008
Documentary
Baby Doll: See No Evil
2006
Documentary
The Lyon's Den
2003
Drama
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
2003
Documentary · Western
Cinerama Adventure
2002
Documentary
Heart of the Festival
2002
Documentary
Another Woman's Husband
2000
Drama · Romance · TV Movie
Roswell
1999
Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Drama
Memories of Giant
1998
Documentary
Rag and Bone
1998
Drama · Thriller · Fantasy
Heart Full of Rain
1997
TV Movie · Drama
The Game
1997
Drama · Thriller · Mystery
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997
Documentary · TV Movie
Skeletons
1997
Horror · Thriller · Drama
North Shore Fish
1997
Drama · TV Movie · Romance
Just Your Luck
1996
Comedy
Return to 'Giant'
1996
Documentary
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Documentary
La signora della città
1996
Drama
Dalva
1996
Drama · Romance · TV Movie
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
1996
Documentary
Storie di seduzione
1995
Drama · Romance
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995
Documentary
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
1995
Documentary
In the Flesh
1995
Thriller
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
Documentary
Chicago Hope
1994
Soap · Drama
A Kiss to Die For
1993
Thriller · Crime · Mystery
Men Don't Tell
1993
Drama · TV Movie
Judgment Day: The John List Story
1993
Drama · Crime · TV Movie
Cyber Eden
1992
Science Fiction · Adventure · Comedy
Blonde Fist
1991
Comedy · Action · Drama
P.S. I Luv U
1991
Crime · Drama
Kindergarten Cop
1990
Comedy
Gipsy Angel
1990
Music · Romance · Thriller
Grand
1990
Comedy
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Comedy · Mystery · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Ironweed
1987
Drama
Hollywood Uncensored
1987
Documentary
On Fire
1987
Action · Drama · TV Movie
Native Son
1986
Drama
L.A. Law
1986
Drama · War & Politics
What Mad Pursuit
1985
TV Movie · Drama
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985
TV Movie · Drama · War
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Mystery · Crime · Drama
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
1984
Comedy · Drama
Star 80
1983
Drama
Red Monarch
1983
Comedy
American Playhouse
1982
Drama · Comedy
The Watcher in the Woods
1980
Fantasy · Horror · Thriller
The World Is Full of Married Men
1979
Drama · Romance
Cyclone
1978
Horror
Bad
1977
Horror · Comedy · Crime
Shattered Dreams
1976
Crime · Drama
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
1976
Drama
Blackmail Chase
1976
Comedy · Crime
The Sky is Falling
1975
Drama · Fantasy · Horror
The Private Lesson
1975
Comedy
James Dean: The First American Teenager
1975
Documentary
The Next Victim
1975
Crime · Drama · Fantasy
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
1975
Comedy
The Body
1974
Drama · Thriller
The Flower with Petals of Steel
1973
Thriller · Horror
Baba Yaga
1973
Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Thriller
1973
Drama · Crime · Mystery
Knife of Ice
1972
Mystery · Thriller · Crime
The Devil with Seven Faces
1971
Thriller · Crime · Mystery
Captain Apache
1971
Western
The Fourth Victim
1971
Thriller · Horror · Mystery
A Quiet Place to Kill
1970
Drama · Thriller
So Sweet... So Perverse
1969
Thriller · Crime · Mystery
Paranoia
1969
Romance · Thriller · Horror
The Sweet Body of Deborah
1968
Drama · Mystery · Thriller
Jack of Diamonds
1967
Crime · Drama
The Harem
1967
Comedy · Crime · Drama
Lionpower from MGM
1967
Documentary
Harlow
1965
Drama
Mister Moses
1965
Adventure
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
Drama · History
Sylvia
1965
Drama · Thriller · Romance
Cheyenne Autumn
1964
Western
The Carpetbaggers
1964
Drama
Station Six-Sahara
1963
Drama
How the West Was Won
1962
Western
Something Wild
1961
Drama
Bridge to the Sun
1961
Drama · Romance · War
The Miracle
1959
Drama
But Not for Me
1959
Comedy · Romance
The Big Country
1958
Drama · Western · Romance
Fun in the Big Country
1958
Documentary
Baby Doll
1956
Drama
Giant
1956
Drama · Western
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
1956
Documentary · History · TV Movie
Armchair Theatre
1956
Drama
Easy to Love
1953
Comedy · Romance