Carroll Baker

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

103

Gender

Female

Birthday

1931-05-28 (94 years old)

Place of Birth

Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA

Carroll Baker

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

  • The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

  • Murder, She Wrote

    Murder, She Wrote

  • L.A. Law

    L.A. Law

  • Chicago Hope

    Chicago Hope

  • What's My Line?

    What's My Line?

  • The Merv Griffin Show

    The Merv Griffin Show

  • The Oscars

    The Oscars

  • Roswell

    Roswell

  • Tales from the Crypt

    Tales from the Crypt

  • Red Monarch

    Red Monarch

  • The Miracle

    The Miracle

  • The Harem

    The Harem

  • Giant

    Giant

  • The Game

    The Game

  • Cinépanorama

    Cinépanorama

  • In the Flesh

    In the Flesh

  • Thriller

    Thriller

  • Shattered Dreams

    Shattered Dreams

  • Bad

    Bad

  • A Quiet Place to Kill

    A Quiet Place to Kill

  • Skeletons

    Skeletons

  • Charlton Heston: For All Seasons

    Charlton Heston: For All Seasons

  • Easy to Love

    Easy to Love

  • Just Your Luck

    Just Your Luck

  • Rag and Bone

    Rag and Bone

  • The Lyon's Den

    The Lyon's Den

  • Paranoia

    Paranoia

  • What Mad Pursuit

    What Mad Pursuit

  • So Sweet... So Perverse

    So Sweet... So Perverse

  • The Private Lesson

    The Private Lesson

  • How the West Was Won

    How the West Was Won

  • Grand

    Grand

  • The Greatest Story Ever Told

    The Greatest Story Ever Told

  • Fun in the Big Country

    Fun in the Big Country

  • Mister Moses

    Mister Moses

  • The Big Country

    The Big Country

  • P.S. I Luv U

    P.S. I Luv U

  • Kindergarten Cop

    Kindergarten Cop

  • The Carpetbaggers

    The Carpetbaggers

  • Storie di seduzione

    Storie di seduzione

  • North Shore Fish

    North Shore Fish

  • But Not for Me

    But Not for Me

  • Blonde Fist

    Blonde Fist

  • Hollywood Uncensored

    Hollywood Uncensored

  • Cyclone

    Cyclone

  • Star 80

    Star 80

  • Cheyenne Autumn

    Cheyenne Autumn

  • E! True Hollywood Story

    E! True Hollywood Story

  • Ironweed

    Ironweed

  • New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'

    New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'

  • Baby Doll

    Baby Doll

  • Dalva

    Dalva

  • Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife

    Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife

  • The Watcher in the Woods

    The Watcher in the Woods

  • Native Son

    Native Son

  • Valentina... The Virgin Wife

    Valentina... The Virgin Wife

  • Captain Apache

    Captain Apache

  • Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

    Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

  • Something Wild

    Something Wild

  • Sylvia

    Sylvia

  • You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

    You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

  • Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

    Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

  • Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

    Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

  • Harlow

    Harlow

  • Another Woman's Husband

    Another Woman's Husband

  • Station Six-Sahara

    Station Six-Sahara

  • The Sweet Body of Deborah

    The Sweet Body of Deborah

  • Judgment Day: The John List Story

    Judgment Day: The John List Story

  • Cyber Eden

    Cyber Eden

  • Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

    Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

  • A Kiss to Die For

    A Kiss to Die For

  • Baba Yaga

    Baba Yaga

  • Heart of the Festival

    Heart of the Festival

  • Bridge to the Sun

    Bridge to the Sun

  • Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome

    Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome

  • Lionpower from MGM

    Lionpower from MGM

  • The Fourth Victim

    The Fourth Victim

  • Knife of Ice

    Knife of Ice

  • The Sky is Falling

    The Sky is Falling

  • Men Don't Tell

    Men Don't Tell

  • The Body

    The Body

  • On Fire

    On Fire

  • The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud

    The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud

  • The Paradise Suite

    The Paradise Suite

  • The Next Victim

    The Next Victim

  • Jack of Diamonds

    Jack of Diamonds

  • Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

    Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

  • The Devil with Seven Faces

    The Devil with Seven Faces

  • Memories of Giant

    Memories of Giant

  • Heart Full of Rain

    Heart Full of Rain

  • Return to 'Giant'

    Return to 'Giant'

  • The World Is Full of Married Men

    The World Is Full of Married Men

  • Baby Doll: See No Evil

    Baby Doll: See No Evil

  • Cinerama Adventure

    Cinerama Adventure

  • Nowhere to Go

    Nowhere to Go

  • Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood

    Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood

  • Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour

    Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour

  • Blackmail Chase

    Blackmail Chase

  • Gipsy Angel

    Gipsy Angel

  • The Flower with Petals of Steel

    The Flower with Petals of Steel

  • James Dean: The First American Teenager

    James Dean: The First American Teenager

  • La signora della città

    La signora della città

  • Hollywood Scandals

    Hollywood Scandals