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Carroll Baker

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1931-05-28 (Age: 95)

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.

Filmography (88)

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Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour

2017
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Hollywood Scandals

2011
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Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood

2009
⭐ 8.5 Role: Self

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

2008
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Baby Doll: See No Evil

2006
⭐ 9.0 Role: Self

Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

2003
⭐ 7.7 Role: Self

Cinerama Adventure

2002
⭐ 6.5 Role: Self (archive footage)

Heart of the Festival

2002
⭐ 4.0 Role: Laurel’s mother

Another Woman's Husband

2000
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Memories of Giant

1998
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⭐ 7.0 Role: Nana

Nowhere to Go

1998
⭐ 4.0 Role: Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt

Rag and Bone

1998
⭐ 5.3 Role: Edith Pearl Dockett

Heart Full of Rain

1997
⭐ 7.6 Role: Ilsa

The Game

1997
⭐ 7.0 Role: Self

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

1997