Carroll Baker

Acting · 2.0 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: May 28, 1931
From: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA

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.

Works

88 films

The Game

19977.6

Giant

19567.6

How the West Was Won

19627.0

Kindergarten Cop

19906.1

The Private Lesson

19755.4

The Big Country

19587.6

The Greatest Story Ever Told

19656.4

Cyclone

19785.2

Star 80

19836.4

Ironweed

19876.3

Baby Doll

19567.0

The Watcher in the Woods

19805.9

Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife

19766.2

Bad

19776.5

Cheyenne Autumn

19646.7

Heart of the Festival

20026.5

Easy to Love

19536.1

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

19957.7

Lionpower from MGM

19676.3

Valentina... The Virgin Wife

19755.2

Paranoia

19695.9

Blonde Fist

19914.6

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

19854.9

So Sweet... So Perverse

19695.6

Hollywood Uncensored

19875.4

Mister Moses

19655.0

The Miracle

19596.7

Captain Apache

19714.7

A Quiet Place to Kill

19706.6

Another Woman's Husband

20004.0

Station Six-Sahara

19635.9

Shattered Dreams

19767.5

Baba Yaga

19735.5

The Carpetbaggers

19645.9

The Sweet Body of Deborah

19685.6

But Not for Me

19596.3

Judgment Day: The John List Story

19935.7

Something Wild

19616.2

The World Is Full of Married Men

19795.0

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

20088.5

Dalva

19964.0

Native Son

19865.3

Harlow

19655.6

Storie di seduzione

19954.0

The Devil with Seven Faces

19714.8

Red Monarch

19835.4

Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

20039.0

North Shore Fish

19979.0

The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud

19844.6

Heart Full of Rain

19975.3

Knife of Ice

19726.1

Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome

19969.0

What Mad Pursuit

198510.0

New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'

19566.0

Skeletons

19974.2

Rag and Bone

19984.0

The Fourth Victim

19716.0

The Harem

19675.5

Cyber Eden

19925.3

Charlton Heston: For All Seasons

19955.0

Fun in the Big Country

1958

A Kiss to Die For

19934.6

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

19977.0

Sylvia

19656.3

Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood

2009

The Flower with Petals of Steel

19735.4

In the Flesh

19959.0

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

19949.0

The Sky is Falling

19754.7

Men Don't Tell

19936.9

Just Your Luck

19964.8

Blackmail Chase

19769.0

Cinerama Adventure

20027.7

Gipsy Angel

19904.5

The Body

19744.8

James Dean: The First American Teenager

19757.5

Jack of Diamonds

19675.0

Bridge to the Sun

19616.9

The Next Victim

19758.0

Return to 'Giant'

19966.7

On Fire

19879.0

Baby Doll: See No Evil

2006

Nowhere to Go

19987.0

La signora della città

199610.0

The Paradise Suite

1963

Memories of Giant

1998

Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour

2017

Hollywood Scandals

2011