Acting · Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA · Born May 28, 1931
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.
MovieCarroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
2017
as Self
Hollywood Scandals
2011
as Self
MovieWestern Legenden - Made in Hollywood
2009
as Self
MovieYou Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008
as Self
MovieBaby Doll: See No Evil
2006
as Self
TVThe Lyon's Den
2003
as Jack's Mother
MovieTime Machine: When Cowboys Were King
2003
as Self
MovieCinerama Adventure
2002
as Self
MovieHeart of the Festival
2002
as Self (archive footage)
MovieAnother Woman's Husband
2000
as Laurel’s mother
TVRoswell
1999
as Claudia Parker
MovieMemories of Giant
1998
as Self
Nowhere to Go
1998
as Nana
MovieRag and Bone
1998
as Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt
MovieHeart Full of Rain
1997
as Edith Pearl Dockett
MovieThe Game
1997
as Ilsa
MovieBig Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997
as Self
MovieSkeletons
1997
as Nancy Norton
MovieNorth Shore Fish
1997
as Arlyne
MovieJust Your Luck
1996
as Momie
MovieReturn to 'Giant'
1996
as Self
TVE! True Hollywood Story
1996
MovieLa signora della città
1996
as Martha Sheppard
MovieDalva
1996
as Naomi
MovieClark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
1996
as Self
MovieStorie di seduzione
1995
as Diana's Mother
MovieRoger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995
as Self
MovieCharlton Heston: For All Seasons
1995
as Self
MovieIn the Flesh
1995
as Elaine Mitchelson
MovieTennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
as Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage)
TVChicago Hope
1994
as Sylvie Tannen
MovieA Kiss to Die For
1993
as Mrs. Graham
MovieMen Don't Tell
1993
as Ruth
MovieJudgment Day: The John List Story
1993
as Alma List
MovieCyber Eden
1992
as Madame
MovieBlonde Fist
1991
as Lovell Summers
TVP.S. I Luv U
1991
as Victoria
MovieKindergarten Cop
1990
as Eleanor Crisp
MovieGipsy Angel
1990
as Pheobe
TVGrand
1990
as Viva
TVTales from the Crypt
1989
as Mother Paloma ("segment "The Trap")
MovieIronweed
1987
as Annie Phelan
MovieHollywood Uncensored
1987
as Self
MovieOn Fire
1987
as Maureen Leary
MovieNative Son
1986
as Mrs. Dalton
TVL.A. Law
1986
as Rae Morrison
MovieWhat Mad Pursuit
1985
as Louise Steinhauser
MovieHitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985
as Gerda Hoffman
TVMurder, She Wrote
1984
as Sibella Stone
MovieThe Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
1984
as Mama Freud
Sharing Time
1984
as Fran Haley
MovieStar 80
1983
as Dorothy's Mum
MovieRed Monarch
1983
as Ellen Brown
TVAmerican Playhouse
1982
as Mrs. Dalton
MovieThe Watcher in the Woods
1980
as Helen Curtis
MovieThe World Is Full of Married Men
1979
as Linda Cooper
MovieCyclone
1978
as Sheila
MovieBad
1977
as Hazel Aiken
MovieShattered Dreams
1976
as Carol
MovieConfessions of a Frustrated Housewife
1976
as Laura
MovieBlackmail Chase
1976
as Polly Pott
MovieThe Sky is Falling
1975
as Treasure
MovieThe Private Lesson
1975
as Laura Formenti
MovieJames Dean: The First American Teenager
1975
as Self
MovieThe Next Victim
1975
as Sandy Marshall
MovieValentina... The Virgin Wife
1975
as Lucia
MovieThe Body
1974
as Madeliene
MovieThe Flower with Petals of Steel
1973
as Evelyne Graffi
MovieBaba Yaga
1973
as Baba Yaga
TVThriller
1973
as Sandy Marshall
MovieKnife of Ice
1972
as Martha Caldwell
MovieThe Devil with Seven Faces
1971
as Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison
MovieCaptain Apache
1971
as Maude
MovieThe Fourth Victim
1971
as Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin
MovieA Quiet Place to Kill
1970
as Helen
MovieSo Sweet... So Perverse
1969
as Nicole Perrier
W. Somerset Maugham
1969
as Sadie Thompson
MovieParanoia
1969
as Kathryn West
MovieThe Sweet Body of Deborah
1968
as Deborah
MovieJack of Diamonds
1967
as Carroll Baker
MovieThe Harem
1967
as Margherita
MovieLionpower from MGM
1967
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieHarlow
1965
as Jean Harlow
MovieMister Moses
1965
as Julie Anderson
MovieThe Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
as Veronica
MovieSylvia
1965
as Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle)
MovieCheyenne Autumn
1964
as Deborah Wright
MovieThe Carpetbaggers
1964
as Rina Marlowe Cord
The Paradise Suite
1963
as Lena Roland
MovieStation Six-Sahara
1963
as Catherine
MovieHow the West Was Won
1962
as Eve Prescott Rawlings
TVThe Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
MovieSomething Wild
1961
as Mary Ann Robinson
TVThe Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
MovieBridge to the Sun
1961
as Gwen Terasaki
MovieThe Miracle
1959
as Teresa
MovieBut Not for Me
1959
as Ellie Brown / Borden
MovieThe Big Country
1958
as Patricia Terrill
MovieFun in the Big Country
1958
as Self
MovieBaby Doll
1956
as Baby Doll Meighan
MovieGiant
1956
as Luz Benedict II
MovieNew York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
1956
as Self
TVArmchair Theatre
1956
as Lena Roland
TVCinépanorama
1956
as Self
MovieEasy to Love
1953
as Clarice
TVThe Oscars
1953
as Self
TVWhat's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest
