Carroll Baker
Acting
Born: May 28, 1931
From: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Credits: 30 titles
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 …
Filmography
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour | Self | 2017 | — |
| Hollywood Scandals | Self | 2011 | — |
| The Game | Ilsa | 1997 | 7.571 |
| Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western | Self | 1997 | 7.0 |
| Storie di seduzione | Diana's Mother | 1995 | — |
| Kindergarten Cop | Eleanor Crisp | 1990 | 6.119 |
| Ironweed | Annie Phelan | 1987 | 6.3 |
| Hollywood Uncensored | Self | 1987 | 5.4 |
| Star 80 | Dorothy's Mum | 1983 | 6.467 |
| Red Monarch | Ellen Brown | 1983 | 5.364 |
| The Watcher in the Woods | Helen Curtis | 1980 | 5.918 |
| Cyclone | Sheila | 1978 | 5.148 |
| Bad | Hazel Aiken | 1977 | 6.453 |
| Baba Yaga | Baba Yaga | 1973 | 5.519 |
| Knife of Ice | Martha Caldwell | 1972 | 6.09 |
| The Fourth Victim | Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin | 1971 | 6.031 |
| The Devil with Seven Faces | Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison | 1971 | 4.75 |
| Paranoia | Kathryn West | 1969 | 5.918 |
| The Harem | Margherita | 1967 | 5.458 |
| The Greatest Story Ever Told | Veronica | 1965 | 6.415 |
| Sylvia | Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle) | 1965 | 6.333 |
| Cheyenne Autumn | Deborah Wright | 1964 | 6.685 |
| The Carpetbaggers | Rina Marlowe Cord | 1964 | 5.859 |
| How the West Was Won | Eve Prescott Rawlings | 1962 | 6.991 |
| Something Wild | Mary Ann Robinson | 1961 | 6.203 |
| But Not for Me | Ellie Brown / Borden | 1959 | 6.333 |
| The Big Country | Patricia Terrill | 1958 | 7.582 |
| Fun in the Big Country | Self | 1958 | — |
| Giant | Luz Benedict II | 1956 | 7.604 |
| Baby Doll | Baby Doll Meighan | 1956 | 7.043 |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1931 |
| From | Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA |