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