Carroll Baker
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.
Fotos
Películas (89)
The Making of the Greatest Story Ever Told
2017 · Self
Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
2017 · Self
Hollywood Scandals
2011 · Self
Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
2009 · Self
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008 · Self
Baby Doll: See No Evil
2006 · Self
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
2003 · Self
Cinerama Adventure
2002 · Self
Heart of the Festival
2002 · Self (archive footage)
Another Woman's Husband
2000 · Laurel’s mother
Memories of Giant
1998 · Self
Nowhere to Go
1998 · Nana
Rag and Bone
1998 · Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt
Heart Full of Rain
1997 · Edith Pearl Dockett
The Game
1997 · Ilsa
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997 · Self
Skeletons
1997 · Nancy Norton
North Shore Fish
1997 · Arlyne
Just Your Luck
1996 · Momie
Return to 'Giant'
1996 · Self
La signora della città
1996 · Martha Sheppard
Dalva
1996 · Naomi
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
1996 · Self
Storie di seduzione
1995 · Diana's Mother
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995 · Self
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
1995 · Self
In the Flesh
1995 · Elaine Mitchelson
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994 · Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage)
A Kiss to Die For
1993 · Mrs. Graham
Men Don't Tell
1993 · Ruth
Judgment Day: The John List Story
1993 · Alma List
Cyber Eden
1992 · Madame
Blonde Fist
1991 · Lovell Summers
Kindergarten Cop
1990 · Eleanor Crisp
Gipsy Angel
1990 · Pheobe
Ironweed
1987 · Annie Phelan
Hollywood Uncensored
1987 · Self
On Fire
1987 · Maureen Leary
Native Son
1986 · Mrs. Dalton
What Mad Pursuit
1985 · Louise Steinhauser
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985 · Gerda Hoffman
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
1984 · Mama Freud
Star 80
1983 · Dorothy's Mum
Red Monarch
1983 · Ellen Brown
The Watcher in the Woods
1980 · Helen Curtis
The World Is Full of Married Men
1979 · Linda Cooper
Cyclone
1978 · Sheila
Bad
1977 · Hazel Aiken
Shattered Dreams
1976 · Carol
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
1976 · Laura
Blackmail Chase
1976 · Polly Pott
The Sky is Falling
1975 · Treasure
The Private Lesson
1975 · Laura Formenti
James Dean: The First American Teenager
1975 · Self
The Next Victim
1975 · Sandy Marshall
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
1975 · Lucia
The Body
1974 · Madeliene
The Flower with Petals of Steel
1973 · Evelyne Graffi
Baba Yaga
1973 · Baba Yaga
Knife of Ice
1972 · Martha Caldwell
The Devil with Seven Faces
1971 · Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison
Captain Apache
1971 · Maude
The Fourth Victim
1971 · Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin
A Quiet Place to Kill
1970 · Helen
So Sweet... So Perverse
1969 · Nicole Perrier
Paranoia
1969 · Kathryn West
The Sweet Body of Deborah
1968 · Deborah
Jack of Diamonds
1967 · Carroll Baker
The Harem
1967 · Margherita
Lionpower from MGM
1967 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Harlow
1965 · Jean Harlow
Mister Moses
1965 · Julie Anderson
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965 · Veronica
Sylvia
1965 · Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle)
Cheyenne Autumn
1964 · Deborah Wright
The Carpetbaggers
1964 · Rina Marlowe Cord
The Paradise Suite
1963 · Lena Roland
Station Six-Sahara
1963 · Catherine
How the West Was Won
1962 · Eve Prescott Rawlings
Something Wild
1961 · Mary Ann Robinson
Bridge to the Sun
1961 · Gwen Terasaki
The Miracle
1959 · Teresa
But Not for Me
1959 · Ellie Brown / Borden
The Big Country
1958 · Patricia Terrill
Fun in the Big Country
1958 · Self
Baby Doll
1956 · Baby Doll Meighan
Giant
1956 · Luz Benedict II
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
1956 · Self
Easy to Love
1953 · Clarice
Series (20)
The Lyon's Den
2003 · Jack's Mother
Roswell
1999 · Claudia Parker
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Chicago Hope
1994 · Sylvie Tannen
P.S. I Luv U
1991 · Victoria
Grand
1990 · Viva
Tales from the Crypt
1989 · Mother Paloma ("segment "The Trap")
L.A. Law
1986 · Rae Morrison
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Sibella Stone
Sharing Time
1984 · Fran Haley
American Playhouse
1982 · Mrs. Dalton
Nobody's Perfect
1980 · Phyllis Nash
Thriller
1973 · Sandy Marshall
W. Somerset Maugham
1969 · Sadie Thompson
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Lena Roland
Cinépanorama
1956 · Self
The Oscars
1953 · Self
What's My Line?
1950 · Self - Mystery Guest