Carroll Baker
Carroll Baker 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.
Acted in
Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
2017
as Self
Hollywood Scandals
2011
as Self
Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
2009
as Self
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008
as Self
Baby Doll: See No Evil
2006
as Self
The Lyon's Den
2003
as Jack's Mother
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
2003
as Self
Cinerama Adventure
2002
as Self
Another Woman's Husband
2000
as Laurel’s mother
Roswell
1999
as Claudia Parker
Nowhere to Go
1998
as Nana
Rag and Bone
1998
as Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt
Heart Full of Rain
1997
as Edith Pearl Dockett
The Game
1997
as Ilsa
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997
as Self
Skeletons
1997
as Nancy Norton
North Shore Fish
1997
as Arlyne
Just Your Luck
1996
as Momie
Return to 'Giant'
1996
as Self
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
La signora della città
1996
as Martha Sheppard
Dalva
1996
as Naomi
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
1996
as Self
Storie di seduzione
1995
as Diana's Mother
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995
as Self
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
1995
as Self
In the Flesh
1995
as Elaine Mitchelson
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
as Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage)
Chicago Hope
1994
as Sylvie Tannen
A Kiss to Die For
1993
as Mrs. Graham
Men Don't Tell
1993
as Ruth
Judgment Day: The John List Story
1993
as Alma List
Cyber Eden
1992
as Madame
Blonde Fist
1991
as Lovell Summers
P.S. I Luv U
1991
as Victoria
Kindergarten Cop
1990
as Eleanor Crisp
Gipsy Angel
1990
as Pheobe
Grand
1990
as Viva
Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Mother Paloma
Ironweed
1987
as Annie Phelan
Hollywood Uncensored
1987
as Self
On Fire
1987
as Maureen Leary
Native Son
1986
as Mrs. Dalton
L.A. Law
1986
as Rae Morrison
What Mad Pursuit
1985
as Louise Steinhauser
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985
as Gerda Hoffman
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Sibella Stone
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
1984
as Mama Freud
Star 80
1983
as Dorothy's Mum
Red Monarch
1983
as Ellen Brown
The Watcher in the Woods
1980
as Helen Curtis
The World Is Full of Married Men
1979
as Linda Cooper
Cyclone
1978
as Sheila
Bad
1977
as Hazel Aiken
Shattered Dreams
1976
as Carol
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
1976
as Laura
Blackmail Chase
1976
as Polly Pott
Bloodbath
1975
as Treasure
The Private Lesson
1975
as Laura Formenti
James Dean: The First American Teenager
1975
as Self
The Next Victim
1975
as Sandy Marshall
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
1975
as Lucia
The Body
1974
as Madeliene
The Flower with Petals of Steel
1973
as Evelyne Graffi
Baba Yaga
1973
as Baba Yaga
Thriller
1973
as Sandy Marshall
Knife of Ice
1972
as Martha Caldwell
The Devil with Seven Faces
1971
as Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison
Captain Apache
1971
as Maude
The Fourth Victim
1971
as Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin
A Quiet Place to Kill
1970
as Helen
So Sweet... So Perverse
1969
as Nicole Perrier
Paranoia
1969
as Kathryn West
The Sweet Body of Deborah
1968
as Deborah
Jack of Diamonds
1967
as Carroll Baker
The Harem
1967
as Margherita
Harlow
1965
as Jean Harlow
Mister Moses
1965
as Julie Anderson
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
as Veronica
Sylvia
1965
as Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle)
Cheyenne Autumn
1964
as Deborah Wright
The Carpetbaggers
1964
as Rina Marlowe Cord
The Paradise Suite
1963
as Lena Roland
Station Six-Sahara
1963
as Catherine
How the West Was Won
1962
as Eve Prescott Rawlings
Something Wild
1961
as Mary Ann Robinson
Bridge to the Sun
1961
as Gwen Terasaki
The Miracle
1959
as Teresa
But Not for Me
1959
as Ellie Brown / Borden
The Big Country
1958
as Patricia Terrill
Fun in the Big Country
1958
as Self
Baby Doll
1956
as Baby Doll Meighan
Giant
1956
as Luz Benedict II
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
1956
as Self
Easy to Love
1953
as Clarice
The Oscars
1953
as Self
What's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest