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

  • Murder, She Wrote

    Murder, She Wrote

  • The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

  • Chicago Hope

    Chicago Hope

  • The Merv Griffin Show

    The Merv Griffin Show

  • L.A. Law

    L.A. Law

  • Tales from the Crypt

    Tales from the Crypt

  • Roswell

    Roswell

  • What's My Line?

    What's My Line?

  • The Oscars

    The Oscars

  • How the West Was Won

    How the West Was Won

  • Cinépanorama

    Cinépanorama

  • The Game

    The Game

  • You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

    You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

  • The Private Lesson

    The Private Lesson

  • Thriller

    Thriller

  • Baby Doll

    Baby Doll

  • Hollywood Scandals

    Hollywood Scandals

  • Giant

    Giant

  • The Harem

    The Harem

  • Captain Apache

    Captain Apache

  • Star 80

    Star 80

  • The Miracle

    The Miracle

  • Harlow

    Harlow

  • A Quiet Place to Kill

    A Quiet Place to Kill

  • Cinerama Adventure

    Cinerama Adventure

  • The Carpetbaggers

    The Carpetbaggers

  • Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife

    Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife

  • The Lyon's Den

    The Lyon's Den

  • The Greatest Story Ever Told

    The Greatest Story Ever Told

  • Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour

    Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour

  • The Big Country

    The Big Country

  • Shattered Dreams

    Shattered Dreams

  • Cheyenne Autumn

    Cheyenne Autumn

  • Cyclone

    Cyclone

  • Native Son

    Native Son

  • Bad

    Bad

  • Skeletons

    Skeletons

  • Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

    Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

  • Grand

    Grand

  • Valentina... The Virgin Wife

    Valentina... The Virgin Wife

  • Mister Moses

    Mister Moses

  • Kindergarten Cop

    Kindergarten Cop

  • Red Monarch

    Red Monarch

  • Another Woman's Husband

    Another Woman's Husband

  • Judgment Day: The John List Story

    Judgment Day: The John List Story

  • P.S. I Luv U

    P.S. I Luv U

  • Paranoia

    Paranoia

  • The Sweet Body of Deborah

    The Sweet Body of Deborah

  • The Watcher in the Woods

    The Watcher in the Woods

  • Blonde Fist

    Blonde Fist

  • Blackmail Chase

    Blackmail Chase

  • The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud

    The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud

  • Hollywood Uncensored

    Hollywood Uncensored

  • The Fourth Victim

    The Fourth Victim

  • Bridge to the Sun

    Bridge to the Sun

  • But Not for Me

    But Not for Me

  • Jack of Diamonds

    Jack of Diamonds

  • The Sky is Falling

    The Sky is Falling

  • Station Six-Sahara

    Station Six-Sahara

  • Return to 'Giant'

    Return to 'Giant'

  • What Mad Pursuit

    What Mad Pursuit

  • Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood

    Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood

  • Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

    Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

  • Ironweed

    Ironweed

  • Easy to Love

    Easy to Love

  • The Next Victim

    The Next Victim

  • Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

    Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

  • The Devil with Seven Faces

    The Devil with Seven Faces

  • Nowhere to Go

    Nowhere to Go

  • La signora della città

    La signora della città

  • Men Don't Tell

    Men Don't Tell

  • Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

    Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

  • A Kiss to Die For

    A Kiss to Die For

  • The World Is Full of Married Men

    The World Is Full of Married Men

  • Storie di seduzione

    Storie di seduzione

  • New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'

    New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'

  • Baba Yaga

    Baba Yaga

  • In the Flesh

    In the Flesh

  • E! True Hollywood Story

    E! True Hollywood Story

  • So Sweet... So Perverse

    So Sweet... So Perverse

  • Rag and Bone

    Rag and Bone

  • Just Your Luck

    Just Your Luck

  • Knife of Ice

    Knife of Ice

  • Charlton Heston: For All Seasons

    Charlton Heston: For All Seasons

  • Memories of Giant

    Memories of Giant

  • North Shore Fish

    North Shore Fish

  • Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome

    Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome

  • On Fire

    On Fire

  • Something Wild

    Something Wild

  • Cyber Eden

    Cyber Eden

  • James Dean: The First American Teenager

    James Dean: The First American Teenager

  • Sylvia

    Sylvia

  • The Flower with Petals of Steel

    The Flower with Petals of Steel

  • Dalva

    Dalva

  • Heart Full of Rain

    Heart Full of Rain

  • Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

    Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

  • The Paradise Suite

    The Paradise Suite

  • The Body

    The Body

  • Gipsy Angel

    Gipsy Angel

  • Fun in the Big Country

    Fun in the Big Country

  • Baby Doll: See No Evil

    Baby Doll: See No Evil

  • Lionpower from MGM

    Lionpower from MGM