Carroll Baker
Acting
- Born:
- 1931-05-28
- Place of birth:
- 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.
Known For
Filmography
Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
Hollywood Scandals
Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Baby Doll: See No Evil
The Lyon's Den
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
Cinerama Adventure
Heart of the Festival
Another Woman's Husband
Roswell
Memories of Giant
Nowhere to Go
Rag and Bone
Heart Full of Rain
The Game
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Skeletons
North Shore Fish
Just Your Luck
Return to 'Giant'
E! True Hollywood Story
La signora della città
Dalva
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
Storie di seduzione
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
In the Flesh
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Chicago Hope
A Kiss to Die For
Men Don't Tell
Judgment Day: The John List Story
Cyber Eden
Blonde Fist
P.S. I Luv U
Kindergarten Cop
Gipsy Angel
Grand
Tales from the Crypt
Ironweed
Hollywood Uncensored
On Fire
Native Son
L.A. Law
What Mad Pursuit
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Murder, She Wrote
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
Sharing Time
Star 80
Red Monarch
American Playhouse
Nobody's Perfect
The Watcher in the Woods
The World Is Full of Married Men
Cyclone
Bad
Shattered Dreams
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
Blackmail Chase
The Sky is Falling
The Private Lesson
James Dean: The First American Teenager
The Next Victim
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
The Body
The Flower with Petals of Steel
Baba Yaga
Thriller
Knife of Ice
The Devil with Seven Faces
Captain Apache
The Fourth Victim
A Quiet Place to Kill
So Sweet... So Perverse
W. Somerset Maugham
Paranoia
The Sweet Body of Deborah
Jack of Diamonds
The Harem
Lionpower from MGM
Harlow
Mister Moses
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Sylvia
Cheyenne Autumn
The Carpetbaggers
The Paradise Suite
Station Six-Sahara
How the West Was Won
The Merv Griffin Show
Something Wild
The Mike Douglas Show
Bridge to the Sun
The Miracle
But Not for Me
The Big Country
Fun in the Big Country
Baby Doll
Giant
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
Armchair Theatre
Cinépanorama
Easy to Love
The Oscars
What's My Line?