Carroll Baker
Acting • Born 1931-05-28
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.
Filmography
103 credits
Kindergarten Cop
Movie • 1990
Eleanor Crisp
Giant
Movie • 1956
Luz Benedict II
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Movie • 1965
Veronica
The Game
Movie • 1997
Ilsa
The Watcher in the Woods
Movie • 1980
Helen Curtis
Star 80
Movie • 1983
Dorothy's Mum
How the West Was Won
Movie • 1962
Eve Prescott Rawlings
The Big Country
Movie • 1958
Patricia Terrill
Baby Doll
Movie • 1956
Baby Doll Meighan
Ironweed
Movie • 1987
Annie Phelan
Knife of Ice
Movie • 1972
Martha Caldwell
Cheyenne Autumn
Movie • 1964
Deborah Wright
Cyclone
Movie • 1978
Sheila
The Fourth Victim
Movie • 1971
Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin
The Carpetbaggers
Movie • 1964
Rina Marlowe Cord
Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
Movie • 2017
Self
Paranoia
Movie • 1969
Kathryn West
Bad
Movie • 1977
Hazel Aiken
Hollywood Uncensored
Movie • 1987
Self
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Movie • 1997
Self
Hollywood Scandals
Movie • 2011
Self
Something Wild
Movie • 1961
Mary Ann Robinson
Storie di seduzione
Movie • 1995
Diana's Mother
Baba Yaga
Movie • 1973
Baba Yaga
The Devil with Seven Faces
Movie • 1971
Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison
Sylvia
Movie • 1965
Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle)
Red Monarch
Movie • 1983
Ellen Brown
Fun in the Big Country
Movie • 1958
Self
But Not for Me
Movie • 1959
Ellie Brown / Borden
The Harem
Movie • 1967
Margherita
Captain Apache
Movie • 1971
Maude
A Quiet Place to Kill
Movie • 1970
Helen
Native Son
Movie • 1986
Mrs. Dalton
Cyber Eden
Movie • 1992
Madame
Jack of Diamonds
Movie • 1967
Carroll Baker
A Kiss to Die For
Movie • 1993
Mrs. Graham
Men Don't Tell
Movie • 1993
Ruth
The Miracle
Movie • 1959
Teresa
Bridge to the Sun
Movie • 1961
Gwen Terasaki
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
Movie • 1975
Lucia
Station Six-Sahara
Movie • 1963
Catherine
Judgment Day: The John List Story
Movie • 1993
Alma List
Blonde Fist
Movie • 1991
Lovell Summers
Cinerama Adventure
Movie • 2002
Self
The Sky is Falling
Movie • 1975
Treasure
Mister Moses
Movie • 1965
Julie Anderson
Nowhere to Go
Movie • 1998
Nana
The Private Lesson
Movie • 1975
Laura Formenti
Blackmail Chase
Movie • 1976
Polly Pott
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
Movie • 1976
Laura
Dalva
Movie • 1996
Naomi
Shattered Dreams
Movie • 1976
Carol
On Fire
Movie • 1987
Maureen Leary
Skeletons
Movie • 1997
Nancy Norton
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Movie • 1995
Self
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
Movie • 2003
Self
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
Movie • 1995
Self
The World Is Full of Married Men
Movie • 1979
Linda Cooper
The Paradise Suite
Movie • 1963
Lena Roland
Gipsy Angel
Movie • 1990
Pheobe
What Mad Pursuit
Movie • 1985
Louise Steinhauser
Harlow
Movie • 1965
Jean Harlow
The Body
Movie • 1974
Madeliene
In the Flesh
Movie • 1995
Elaine Mitchelson
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Movie • 1985
Gerda Hoffman
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Movie • 2008
Self
Rag and Bone
Movie • 1998
Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
Movie • 1984
Mama Freud
James Dean: The First American Teenager
Movie • 1975
Self
Another Woman's Husband
Movie • 2000
Laurel’s mother
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
Movie • 1956
Self
Return to 'Giant'
Movie • 1996
Self
Just Your Luck
Movie • 1996
Momie
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Movie • 1994
Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage)
Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
Movie • 2009
Self
Easy to Love
Movie • 1953
Clarice
So Sweet... So Perverse
Movie • 1969
Nicole Perrier
The Sweet Body of Deborah
Movie • 1968
Deborah
The Flower with Petals of Steel
Movie • 1973
Evelyne Graffi
North Shore Fish
Movie • 1997
Arlyne
La signora della città
Movie • 1996
Martha Sheppard
Baby Doll: See No Evil
Movie • 2006
Self
The Next Victim
Movie • 1975
Sandy Marshall
Heart Full of Rain
Movie • 1997
Edith Pearl Dockett
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
Movie • 1996
Self
Lionpower from MGM
Movie • 1967
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Memories of Giant
Movie • 1998
Heart of the Festival
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Sibella Stone
Thriller
TV • 1973
Sandy Marshall
L.A. Law
TV • 1986
Rae Morrison
E! True Hollywood Story
TV • 1996
Roswell
TV • 1999
Claudia Parker
The Lyon's Den
TV • 2003
Jack's Mother
Chicago Hope
TV • 1994
Sylvie Tannen
P.S. I Luv U
TV • 1991
Victoria
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Tales from the Crypt
TV • 1989
Mother Paloma ("segment "The Trap")
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Mystery Guest
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
Cinépanorama
TV • 1956
Self
Grand
TV • 1990
Viva
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self