Carroll Baker
Born
May 28, 1931 (94 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
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.
Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
Self
2017
Hollywood Scandals
Self
2011

Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
Self
2009

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Self
2008

Baby Doll: See No Evil
Self
2006

The Lyon's Den
Jack's Mother · (1 episode)
2003

Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
Self
2003

Cinerama Adventure
Self
2002

Another Woman's Husband
Laurel’s mother
2000

Roswell
Claudia Parker · (1 episode)
1999
Nowhere to Go
Nana
1998

Rag and Bone
Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt
1998

Heart Full of Rain
Edith Pearl Dockett
1997

The Game
Ilsa
1997

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Self
1997

Skeletons
Nancy Norton
1997

North Shore Fish
Arlyne
1997

Just Your Luck
Momie
1996

Return to 'Giant'
Self
1996

E! True Hollywood Story
(1 episode)
1996

La signora della città
Martha Sheppard
1996

Dalva
Naomi
1996

Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
Self
1996

Storie di seduzione
Diana's Mother
1995

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Self
1995

Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
Self
1995

In the Flesh
Elaine Mitchelson
1995

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage)
1994

Chicago Hope
Sylvie Tannen · (1 episode)
1994

A Kiss to Die For
Mrs. Graham
1993

Men Don't Tell
Ruth
1993

Judgment Day: The John List Story
Alma List
1993

Cyber Eden
Madame
1992

Blonde Fist
Lovell Summers
1991

P.S. I Luv U
Victoria · (1 episode)
1991

Kindergarten Cop
Eleanor Crisp
1990

Gipsy Angel
Pheobe
1990

Grand
Viva · (3 episodes)
1990

Tales from the Crypt
Mother Paloma ("segment "The Trap") · (1 episode)
1989

Ironweed
Annie Phelan
1987

Hollywood Uncensored
Self
1987

On Fire
Maureen Leary
1987

Native Son
Mrs. Dalton
1986

L.A. Law
Rae Morrison · (3 episodes)
1986

What Mad Pursuit
Louise Steinhauser
1985

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Gerda Hoffman
1985

Murder, She Wrote
Sibella Stone · (1 episode)
1984

The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
Mama Freud
1984

Star 80
Dorothy's Mum
1983

Red Monarch
Ellen Brown
1983

The Watcher in the Woods
Helen Curtis
1980

The World Is Full of Married Men
Linda Cooper
1979

Cyclone
Sheila
1978

Bad
Hazel Aiken
1977

Shattered Dreams
Carol
1976

Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
Laura
1976

Blackmail Chase
Polly Pott
1976

Bloodbath
Treasure
1975

The Private Lesson
Laura Formenti
1975

James Dean: The First American Teenager
Self
1975

The Next Victim
Sandy Marshall
1975

Valentina... The Virgin Wife
Lucia
1975

The Body
Madeliene
1974

The Flower with Petals of Steel
Evelyne Graffi
1973

Baba Yaga
Baba Yaga
1973

Thriller
Sandy Marshall · (1 episode)
1973

Knife of Ice
Martha Caldwell
1972

The Devil with Seven Faces
Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison
1971

Captain Apache
Maude
1971

The Fourth Victim
Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin
1971

A Quiet Place to Kill
Helen
1970

So Sweet... So Perverse
Nicole Perrier
1969

Paranoia
Kathryn West
1969

The Sweet Body of Deborah
Deborah
1968

Jack of Diamonds
Carroll Baker
1967

The Harem
Margherita
1967

Harlow
Jean Harlow
1965

Mister Moses
Julie Anderson
1965

The Greatest Story Ever Told
Veronica
1965

Sylvia
Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle)
1965

Cheyenne Autumn
Deborah Wright
1964

The Carpetbaggers
Rina Marlowe Cord
1964
The Paradise Suite
Lena Roland
1963

Station Six-Sahara
Catherine
1963

How the West Was Won
Eve Prescott Rawlings
1962

Something Wild
Mary Ann Robinson
1961

The Mike Douglas Show
Self · (1 episode)
1961

Bridge to the Sun
Gwen Terasaki
1961

The Miracle
Teresa
1959

But Not for Me
Ellie Brown / Borden
1959

The Big Country
Patricia Terrill
1958

Fun in the Big Country
Self
1958

Baby Doll
Baby Doll Meighan
1956

Giant
Luz Benedict II
1956

New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
Self
1956

Cinépanorama
Self · (1 episode)
1956

Easy to Love
Clarice
1953

The Oscars
Self · (2 episodes)
1953

What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest · (2 episodes)
1950