Acting
Carroll Baker
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.
Filmography
Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
Film · 2017
Hollywood Scandals
Film · 2011
Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
Film · 2009
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Film · 2008
Baby Doll: See No Evil
Film · 2006
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
Film · 2003
The Lyon's Den
Series · 2003
Cinerama Adventure
Film · 2002
Heart of the Festival
Film · 2002
Another Woman's Husband
Film · 2000
Roswell
Series · 1999
Nowhere to Go
Film · 1998
Rag and Bone
Film · 1998
Memories of Giant
Film · 1998
The Game
Film · 1997
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Film · 1997
Skeletons
Film · 1997
North Shore Fish
Film · 1997
Heart Full of Rain
Film · 1997
Dalva
Film · 1996
Return to 'Giant'
Film · 1996
Just Your Luck
Film · 1996
La signora della città
Film · 1996
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
Film · 1996
E! True Hollywood Story
Series · 1996
Storie di seduzione
Film · 1995
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Film · 1995
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
Film · 1995
In the Flesh
Film · 1995
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Film · 1994
Chicago Hope
Series · 1994
A Kiss to Die For
Film · 1993
Men Don't Tell
Film · 1993
Judgment Day: The John List Story
Film · 1993
Cyber Eden
Film · 1992
Blonde Fist
Film · 1991
P.S. I Luv U
Series · 1991
Kindergarten Cop
Film · 1990
Gipsy Angel
Film · 1990
Grand
Series · 1990
Tales from the Crypt
Series · 1989
Ironweed
Film · 1987
Hollywood Uncensored
Film · 1987
On Fire
Film · 1987
Native Son
Film · 1986
L.A. Law
Series · 1986
What Mad Pursuit
Film · 1985
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Film · 1985
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
Film · 1984
Murder, She Wrote
Series · 1984
Sharing Time
Series · 1984
Star 80
Film · 1983
Red Monarch
Film · 1983
American Playhouse
Series · 1982
The Watcher in the Woods
Film · 1980
Nobody's Perfect
Series · 1980
The World Is Full of Married Men
Film · 1979
Cyclone
Film · 1978
Bad
Film · 1977
Blackmail Chase
Film · 1976
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
Film · 1976
Shattered Dreams
Film · 1976
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
Film · 1975
The Sky is Falling
Film · 1975
The Private Lesson
Film · 1975
James Dean: The First American Teenager
Film · 1975
The Next Victim
Film · 1975
The Body
Film · 1974
Baba Yaga
Film · 1973
The Flower with Petals of Steel
Film · 1973
Thriller
Series · 1973
Knife of Ice
Film · 1972
The Fourth Victim
Film · 1971
The Devil with Seven Faces
Film · 1971
Captain Apache
Film · 1971
A Quiet Place to Kill
Film · 1970
Paranoia
Film · 1969
So Sweet... So Perverse
Film · 1969
W. Somerset Maugham
Series · 1969
The Sweet Body of Deborah
Film · 1968
The Harem
Film · 1967
Jack of Diamonds
Film · 1967
Lionpower from MGM
Film · 1967
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Film · 1965
Sylvia
Film · 1965
Mister Moses
Film · 1965
Harlow
Film · 1965
Cheyenne Autumn
Film · 1964
The Carpetbaggers
Film · 1964
Station Six-Sahara
Film · 1963
The Paradise Suite
Film · 1963
How the West Was Won
Film · 1962
The Merv Griffin Show
Series · 1962
Something Wild
Film · 1961
Bridge to the Sun
Film · 1961
The Mike Douglas Show
Series · 1961
But Not for Me
Film · 1959
The Miracle
Film · 1959
The Big Country
Film · 1958
Fun in the Big Country
Film · 1958
Giant
Film · 1956
Baby Doll
Film · 1956
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
Film · 1956
Cinépanorama
Series · 1956
Armchair Theatre
Series · 1956
Easy to Love
Film · 1953
The Oscars
Series · 1953
What's My Line?
Series · 1950