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Carroll Baker
Acting

Carroll Baker
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1931-05-28,Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Gender
Female
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.

Filmography

Kindergarten Cop

6.104

Kindergarten Cop
1990-12-21

7.6

Giant
1956-11-08

The Greatest Story Ever Told

6.4

The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965-04-09

7.566

The Game
1997-09-12

The Watcher in the Woods

5.946

The Watcher in the Woods
1980-04-17

6.5

Star 80
1983-11-10

How the West Was Won

7

How the West Was Won
1962-11-02

The Big Country

7.6

The Big Country
1958-09-30

7.1

Baby Doll
1956-12-29

6.3

Ironweed
1987-12-18

Cheyenne Autumn

6.722

Cheyenne Autumn
1964-10-15

6.1

Knife of Ice
1972-08-24

5.038

Cyclone
1978-07-21

The Fourth Victim

6.1

The Fourth Victim
1971-03-10

The Carpetbaggers

5.8

The Carpetbaggers
1964-04-08

Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour

0

Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
2017-01-01

5.9

Paranoia
1969-02-07

6.4

Bad
1977-05-04

Hollywood Uncensored

5.5

Hollywood Uncensored
1987-12-01

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

0

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997-07-27

Hollywood Scandals

0

Hollywood Scandals
2011-04-02

6.2

Something Wild
1961-12-23

Storie di seduzione

0

Storie di seduzione
1995-12-12

5.5

Baba Yaga
1973-09-20

The Devil with Seven Faces

4.7

The Devil with Seven Faces
1971-12-09

6.2

Sylvia
1965-02-10

5

Red Monarch
1983-06-16

Fun in the Big Country

0

Fun in the Big Country
1958-01-01

6

But Not for Me
1959-08-19

5.5

The Harem
1967-10-06

4.6

Captain Apache
1971-10-27

A Quiet Place to Kill

6.5

A Quiet Place to Kill
1970-02-20

5.6

Native Son
1986-12-24

5.6

Cyber Eden
1992-12-23

Jack of Diamonds

4.2

Jack of Diamonds
1967-11-10

A Kiss to Die For

4.4

A Kiss to Die For
1993-12-06

6.4

Men Don't Tell
1993-03-14

6.7

The Miracle
1959-11-12

Bridge to the Sun

6.8

Bridge to the Sun
1961-10-17

Valentina... The Virgin Wife

5.1

Valentina... The Virgin Wife
1975-06-06

Station Six-Sahara

5.9

Station Six-Sahara
1963-01-11

Judgment Day: The John List Story

4.5

Judgment Day: The John List Story
1993-02-23

4.6

Blonde Fist
1991-11-01

Cinerama Adventure

7.636

Cinerama Adventure
2002-08-30

4.1

Bloodbath
1975-11-29

4

Mister Moses
1965-05-12

0

Nowhere to Go
1998-03-09

The Private Lesson

5.3

The Private Lesson
1975-11-03

Blackmail Chase

0

Blackmail Chase
1976-04-02

Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife

6.386

Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
1976-08-04

3.3

Dalva
1996-03-03

Shattered Dreams

8

Shattered Dreams
1976-08-27

0

On Fire
1987-01-05

4.5

Skeletons
1997-04-04

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

6

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995-11-16

Charlton Heston: For All Seasons

5

Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
1995-03-20

Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

0

Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
2003-01-01

The World Is Full of Married Men

5.3

The World Is Full of Married Men
1979-06-03

The Paradise Suite

0

The Paradise Suite
1963-02-24

3.5

Gipsy Angel
1990-06-03

What Mad Pursuit

0

What Mad Pursuit
1985-11-24

5.4

Harlow
1965-06-23

4.4

The Body
1974-03-06

0

In the Flesh
1995-01-01

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

4.5

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985-02-17

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

8.5

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008-05-15

3.3

Rag and Bone
1998-01-01

The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud

4

The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
1984-01-01

James Dean: The First American Teenager

6

James Dean: The First American Teenager
1975-09-30

Another Woman's Husband

3.8

Another Woman's Husband
2000-03-06

New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'

6

New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
1956-10-09

Return to 'Giant'

6.1

Return to 'Giant'
1996-09-21

4.3

Just Your Luck
1996-11-29

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

0

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994-12-19

Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood

0

Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
2009-03-21

6.1

Easy to Love
1953-11-26

So Sweet... So Perverse

5.6

So Sweet... So Perverse
1969-10-31

The Sweet Body of Deborah

5.4

The Sweet Body of Deborah
1968-03-20

The Flower with Petals of Steel

5.5

The Flower with Petals of Steel
1973-11-13

North Shore Fish

0

North Shore Fish
1997-02-20

La signora della città

0

La signora della città
1996-06-04

Baby Doll: See No Evil

0

Baby Doll: See No Evil
2006-05-02

The Next Victim

0

The Next Victim
1975-09-23

Heart Full of Rain

4

Heart Full of Rain
1997-10-05

Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome

0

Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
1996-02-04

Murder, She Wrote

7.5

Murder, She Wrote
1984-09-30

6.6

Thriller
1973-04-14

7.1

L.A. Law
1986-09-15

E! True Hollywood Story

8.1

E! True Hollywood Story
1996-08-21

7.692

Roswell
1999-10-06

9.3

The Lyon's Den
2003-09-28

7.2

Chicago Hope
1994-09-18

5.8

P.S. I Luv U
1991-09-15

6.9

The Oscars
1953-03-19

Tales from the Crypt

7.956

Tales from the Crypt
1989-06-10

What's My Line?

6.8

What's My Line?
1950-02-02

The Mike Douglas Show

5.1

The Mike Douglas Show
1961-12-11

8

Cinépanorama
1956-02-04

5.5

Grand
1990-01-18