Carroll Baker
69 movies · 15 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 28, 1931 (age 95)
- Place of birth
- Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Also known as
- Carrol Baker · Karolina Piekarski · کارول بیکر
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.
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Known for
Carroll Baker: movies and TV shows
Acting (84)
- 2003
- 2000 Another Woman's Husband
as Laurel’s mother
- 1999
- 1998 Nowhere to Go
as Nana
- 1998 Rag and Bone
as Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt
- 1997 Heart Full of Rain
as Edith Pearl Dockett
- 1997 The Game
as Ilsa
- 1997 Skeletons
as Nancy Norton
- 1997 North Shore Fish
as Arlyne
- 1996 Just Your Luck
as Momie
- 1996
- 1996 La signora della città
as Martha Sheppard
- 1996 Dalva
as Naomi
- 1995 Storie di seduzione
as Diana's Mother
- 1995 In the Flesh
as Elaine Mitchelson
- 1994 Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage)
- 1994
- 1993 A Kiss to Die For
as Mrs. Graham
- 1993 Men Don't Tell
as Ruth
- 1993 Judgment Day: The John List Story
as Alma List
- 1992 Cyber Eden
as Madame
- 1991 Blonde Fist
as Lovell Summers
- 1991
- 1990 Kindergarten Cop
as Eleanor Crisp
- 1990 Gipsy Angel
as Pheobe
- 1990
- 1989
- 1987 Ironweed
as Annie Phelan
- 1987 On Fire
as Maureen Leary
- 1986 Native Son
as Mrs. Dalton
- 1986
- 1985 What Mad Pursuit
as Louise Steinhauser
- 1985 Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
as Gerda Hoffman
- 1984
- 1984 The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
as Mama Freud
- 1984
- 1983 Star 80
as Dorothy's Mum
- 1983 Red Monarch
as Ellen Brown
- 1982
- 1980
- 1980 The Watcher in the Woods
as Helen Curtis
- 1979 The World Is Full of Married Men
as Linda Cooper
- 1978 Cyclone
as Sheila
- 1977 Bad
as Hazel Aiken
- 1976 Shattered Dreams
as Carol
- 1976
- 1976 Blackmail Chase
as Polly Pott
- 1975 The Sky is Falling
as Treasure
- 1975 The Private Lesson
as Laura Formenti
- 1975 The Next Victim
as Sandy Marshall
- 1975 Valentina... The Virgin Wife
as Lucia
- 1974 The Body
as Madeliene
- 1973 The Flower with Petals of Steel
as Evelyne Graffi
- 1973 Baba Yaga
as Baba Yaga
- 1973
- 1972 Knife of Ice
as Martha Caldwell
- 1971 The Devil with Seven Faces
as Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison
- 1971 Captain Apache
as Maude
- 1971 The Fourth Victim
as Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin
- 1970 A Quiet Place to Kill
as Helen
- 1969 So Sweet... So Perverse
as Nicole Perrier
- 1969
- 1969 Paranoia
as Kathryn West
- 1968 The Sweet Body of Deborah
as Deborah
- 1967 Jack of Diamonds
as Carroll Baker
- 1967 The Harem
as Margherita
- 1965 Harlow
as Jean Harlow
- 1965 Mister Moses
as Julie Anderson
- 1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told
as Veronica
- 1965 Sylvia
as Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle)
- 1964 Cheyenne Autumn
as Deborah Wright
- 1964 The Carpetbaggers
as Rina Marlowe Cord
- 1963 The Paradise Suite
as Lena Roland
- 1963 Station Six-Sahara
as Catherine
- 1962 How the West Was Won
as Eve Prescott Rawlings
- 1961 Something Wild
as Mary Ann Robinson
- 1961 Bridge to the Sun
as Gwen Terasaki
- 1959 The Miracle
as Teresa
- 1959 But Not for Me
as Ellie Brown / Borden
- 1958 The Big Country
as Patricia Terrill
- 1956 Baby Doll
as Baby Doll Meighan
- 1956 Giant
as Luz Benedict II
- 1956
- 1953 Easy to Love
as Clarice
Talk shows and appearances (24)
- 2017
- 2011
- 2009
- 2008
- 2006
- 2003
- 2002
- 2002
- 1998
- 1997
- 1996
- 1996
- 1995
- 1995
- 1987
- 1975
- 1967
- 1962 The Merv Griffin Show
1 episode
- 1961 The Mike Douglas Show
1 episode
- 1958
- 1956
- 1956 Cinépanorama
1 episode
- 1953 The Oscars
2 episodes
- 1950 What's My Line?
2 episodes