Carroll Baker
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 28, 1931
- Birthplace
- 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.
Filmography
The Making of the Greatest Story Ever Told 2017
as Self
Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour 2017
as Self
- Hollywood Scandals
Hollywood Scandals 2011
as Self
Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood 2009
as Self
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story 2008
as Self
Baby Doll: See No Evil 2006
as Self
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King 2003
as Self
Cinerama Adventure 2002
as Self
Heart of the Festival 2002
as Self (archive footage)
Another Woman's Husband 2000
as Laurel’s mother
Memories of Giant 1998
as Self
- Nowhere to Go
Nowhere to Go 1998
as Nana
Rag and Bone 1998
as Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt
Heart Full of Rain 1997
as Edith Pearl Dockett
The Game 1997
as Ilsa
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western 1997
as Self
Skeletons 1997
as Nancy Norton
North Shore Fish 1997
as Arlyne
Just Your Luck 1996
as Momie
Return to 'Giant' 1996
as Self
La signora della città 1996
as Martha Sheppard
Dalva 1996
as Naomi
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome 1996
as Self
Storie di seduzione 1995
as Diana's Mother
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class 1995
as Self
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons 1995
as Self
In the Flesh 1995
as Elaine Mitchelson
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage 1994
as Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage)
A Kiss to Die For 1993
as Mrs. Graham
Men Don't Tell 1993
as Ruth
Judgment Day: The John List Story 1993
as Alma List
Cyber Eden 1992
as Madame
Blonde Fist 1991
as Lovell Summers
Kindergarten Cop 1990
as Eleanor Crisp
Gipsy Angel 1990
as Pheobe
Ironweed 1987
as Annie Phelan
Hollywood Uncensored 1987
as Self
On Fire 1987
as Maureen Leary
Native Son 1986
as Mrs. Dalton
What Mad Pursuit 1985
as Louise Steinhauser
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil 1985
as Gerda Hoffman
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud 1984
as Mama Freud
Star 80 1983
as Dorothy's Mum
Red Monarch 1983
as Ellen Brown
The Watcher in the Woods 1980
as Helen Curtis
The World Is Full of Married Men 1979
as Linda Cooper
Cyclone 1978
as Sheila
Bad 1977
as Hazel Aiken
Shattered Dreams 1976
as Carol
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife 1976
as Laura
Blackmail Chase 1976
as Polly Pott
The Sky is Falling 1975
as Treasure
The Private Lesson 1975
as Laura Formenti
James Dean: The First American Teenager 1975
as Self
The Next Victim 1975
as Sandy Marshall
Valentina... The Virgin Wife 1975
as Lucia
The Body 1974
as Madeliene
The Flower with Petals of Steel 1973
as Evelyne Graffi
Baba Yaga 1973
as Baba Yaga
Knife of Ice 1972
as Martha Caldwell
The Devil with Seven Faces 1971
as Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison
Captain Apache 1971
as Maude
The Fourth Victim 1971
as Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin
A Quiet Place to Kill 1970
as Helen
So Sweet... So Perverse 1969
as Nicole Perrier
Paranoia 1969
as Kathryn West
The Sweet Body of Deborah 1968
as Deborah
Jack of Diamonds 1967
as Carroll Baker
The Harem 1967
as Margherita
Lionpower from MGM 1967
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Harlow 1965
as Jean Harlow
Mister Moses 1965
as Julie Anderson
The Greatest Story Ever Told 1965
as Veronica
Sylvia 1965
as Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle)
Cheyenne Autumn 1964
as Deborah Wright
The Carpetbaggers 1964
as Rina Marlowe Cord
- The Paradise Suite
The Paradise Suite 1963
as Lena Roland
Station Six-Sahara 1963
as Catherine
How the West Was Won 1962
as Eve Prescott Rawlings
Something Wild 1961
as Mary Ann Robinson
Bridge to the Sun 1961
as Gwen Terasaki
The Miracle 1959
as Teresa
But Not for Me 1959
as Ellie Brown / Borden
The Big Country 1958
as Patricia Terrill
Fun in the Big Country 1958
as Self
Baby Doll 1956
as Baby Doll Meighan
Giant 1956
as Luz Benedict II
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant' 1956
as Self
Easy to Love 1953
as Clarice
Credits from TMDB.