Carroll Baker

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

102

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

  • The Merv Griffin Show

    The Merv Griffin Show

  • Chicago Hope

    Chicago Hope

  • What's My Line?

    What's My Line?

  • Tales from the Crypt

    Tales from the Crypt

  • L.A. Law

    L.A. Law

  • Roswell

    Roswell

  • The Oscars

    The Oscars

  • How the West Was Won

    How the West Was Won

  • Thriller

    Thriller

  • Cinépanorama

    Cinépanorama

  • Grand

    Grand

  • The Game

    The Game

  • Station Six-Sahara

    Station Six-Sahara

  • The Big Country

    The Big Country

  • The Private Lesson

    The Private Lesson

  • Giant

    Giant

  • Judgment Day: The John List Story

    Judgment Day: The John List Story

  • You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

    You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

  • Harlow

    Harlow

  • The Lyon's Den

    The Lyon's Den

  • The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud

    The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud

  • Baby Doll

    Baby Doll

  • Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

    Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

  • Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood

    Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood

  • Captain Apache

    Captain Apache

  • Hollywood Scandals

    Hollywood Scandals

  • The Sky is Falling

    The Sky is Falling

  • Sylvia

    Sylvia

  • On Fire

    On Fire

  • Cinerama Adventure

    Cinerama Adventure

  • Star 80

    Star 80

  • Nowhere to Go

    Nowhere to Go

  • Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife

    Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife

  • The Next Victim

    The Next Victim

  • Blackmail Chase

    Blackmail Chase

  • Valentina... The Virgin Wife

    Valentina... The Virgin Wife

  • The Harem

    The Harem

  • The Carpetbaggers

    The Carpetbaggers

  • Cyclone

    Cyclone

  • Charlton Heston: For All Seasons

    Charlton Heston: For All Seasons

  • The Greatest Story Ever Told

    The Greatest Story Ever Told

  • Jack of Diamonds

    Jack of Diamonds

  • Gipsy Angel

    Gipsy Angel

  • A Quiet Place to Kill

    A Quiet Place to Kill

  • P.S. I Luv U

    P.S. I Luv U

  • Ironweed

    Ironweed

  • Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

    Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

  • The Miracle

    The Miracle

  • Cyber Eden

    Cyber Eden

  • Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour

    Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour

  • But Not for Me

    But Not for Me

  • Kindergarten Cop

    Kindergarten Cop

  • Native Son

    Native Son

  • So Sweet... So Perverse

    So Sweet... So Perverse

  • What Mad Pursuit

    What Mad Pursuit

  • Shattered Dreams

    Shattered Dreams

  • A Kiss to Die For

    A Kiss to Die For

  • Bridge to the Sun

    Bridge to the Sun

  • In the Flesh

    In the Flesh

  • The Watcher in the Woods

    The Watcher in the Woods

  • Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

    Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

  • Another Woman's Husband

    Another Woman's Husband

  • The Body

    The Body

  • Fun in the Big Country

    Fun in the Big Country

  • Bad

    Bad

  • Storie di seduzione

    Storie di seduzione

  • Cheyenne Autumn

    Cheyenne Autumn

  • E! True Hollywood Story

    E! True Hollywood Story

  • Memories of Giant

    Memories of Giant

  • Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

    Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

  • Just Your Luck

    Just Your Luck

  • Skeletons

    Skeletons

  • Red Monarch

    Red Monarch

  • The Sweet Body of Deborah

    The Sweet Body of Deborah

  • North Shore Fish

    North Shore Fish

  • The Fourth Victim

    The Fourth Victim

  • New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'

    New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'

  • Paranoia

    Paranoia

  • The Devil with Seven Faces

    The Devil with Seven Faces

  • Easy to Love

    Easy to Love

  • Return to 'Giant'

    Return to 'Giant'

  • Rag and Bone

    Rag and Bone

  • Baba Yaga

    Baba Yaga

  • The World Is Full of Married Men

    The World Is Full of Married Men

  • Knife of Ice

    Knife of Ice

  • Blonde Fist

    Blonde Fist

  • La signora della città

    La signora della città

  • Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome

    Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome

  • Hollywood Uncensored

    Hollywood Uncensored

  • Heart Full of Rain

    Heart Full of Rain

  • Lionpower from MGM

    Lionpower from MGM

  • Men Don't Tell

    Men Don't Tell

  • Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

    Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

  • Something Wild

    Something Wild

  • Dalva

    Dalva

  • Mister Moses

    Mister Moses

  • James Dean: The First American Teenager

    James Dean: The First American Teenager

  • Baby Doll: See No Evil

    Baby Doll: See No Evil

  • The Flower with Petals of Steel

    The Flower with Petals of Steel

  • The Paradise Suite

    The Paradise Suite