Carroll Baker
Acting
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.
TV Shows(16)
The Lyon's Den
Jack's Mother
2003
Roswell
Claudia Parker
1999
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Chicago Hope
Sylvie Tannen
1994
P.S. I Luv U
Victoria
1991
Grand
Viva
1990
Tales from the Crypt
Mother Paloma ("segment "The Trap")
1989
L.A. Law
Rae Morrison
1986
Murder, She Wrote
Sibella Stone
1984
Thriller
Sandy Marshall
1973
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Armchair Theatre
Lena Roland
1956
Cinépanorama
Self
1956
The Oscars
Self
1953
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
1950
Movies(88)
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
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
Self
2003
Cinerama Adventure
Self
2002
Heart of the Festival
Self (archive footage)
2002
Another Woman's Husband
Laurel’s mother
2000
Memories of Giant
Self
1998
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
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
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
Kindergarten Cop
Eleanor Crisp
1990
Gipsy Angel
Pheobe
1990
Ironweed
Annie Phelan
1987
Hollywood Uncensored
Self
1987
On Fire
Maureen Leary
1987
Native Son
Mrs. Dalton
1986
What Mad Pursuit
Louise Steinhauser
1985
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Gerda Hoffman
1985
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
The Sky is Falling
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
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
Lionpower from MGM
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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
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
Easy to Love
Clarice
1953