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Carroll Baker
ActorBorn May 28, 1931 (93 years)
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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Filmography
| 2020 | Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation · as Baby Doll |
| 2013 | John Ford et Monument Valley · as Cast |
| 2003 | The Lyon's Den (TV Series) · as Jack's Mother |
| 2000 | Another Woman's Husband · as Laurel’s Mother |
| 1999 | Roswell (TV Series) · as Claudia Parker |
| 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 | North Shore Fish · as Arlyne |
| 1997 | Skeletons · as Nancy Norton |
| 1996 | Just Your Luck · as Momie |
| 1996 | E! True Hollywood Story (TV Series) |
| 1996 | Dalva · as Naomi |
| 1995 | Storie di seduzione · as Diana's Mother |
| 1995 | In the Flesh · as Elaine Mitchelson |
| 1994 | Chicago Hope (TV Series) · as Sylvie Tannen |
| 1993 | A Kiss to Die For · as Mrs. Graham |
| 1993 | South of Sunset (TV Series) · as Mrs. Weston |
| 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 | P.S.I. Luv U (TV Series) · as Victoria |
| 1991 | Davis Rules (TV Series) · as Helen |
| 1990 | Kindergarten Cop · as Eleanor Crisp |
| 1990 | Gipsy Angel · as Pheobe |
| 1990 | Grand (TV Series) · as Viva |
| 1989 | Tales from the Crypt (TV Series) · as Mother Paloma ("segment "the Trap") |
| 1987 | Ironweed · as Annie Phelan |
| 1986 | Native Son · as Mrs. Dalton |
| 1986 | L.A. Law (TV Series) · as Rae Morrison |
| 1985 | What Mad Pursuit? · as Louise Steinhauser |
| 1985 | Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil · as Gerda Hoffman |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) · as Sibella Stone |
| 1984 | The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud · as Mama Freud |
| 1983 | Red Monarch · as Ellen Brown |
| 1983 | Star 80 · as Dorothy's Mum |
| 1981 | Sixty Years of Seduction · as Cast |
| 1980 | The Watcher in the Woods · as Helen Curtis |
| 1979 | The World Is Full of Married Men · as Linda Cooper |
| 1978 | |
| 1977 | |
| 1976 | Bait · as Carol |
| 1976 | My Father's Wife · as Laura |
| 1976 | As of Tomorrow · as Polly Pott |
| 1975 | Valentina ...The Virgin Wife · as Lucia |
| 1975 | Bloodbath · as Treasure |
| 1975 | The Private Lesson · as Laura Formenti |
| 1974 | The Body · as Madeliene |
| 1973 | The Flower with the Deadly Sting · as Evelyne Graffi |
| 1973 | |
| 1973 | Thriller (1973) (TV Series) · as Sandy Marshall |
| 1973 | Wide World of Mystery (TV Series) · as Sandy Marshall |
| 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 | Paranoia · as Kathryn West |
| 1968 | The Sweet Body of Deborah · as Deborah |
| 1967 | The Harem · as Margherita |
| 1965 | Harlow · as Jean Harlow |
| 1965 | The Greatest Story Ever Told · as Veronica |
| 1965 | Mister Moses · as Julie Anderson |
| 1965 | Sylvia · as Sylvia: West (karoki, Kay, Carlyle) |
| 1964 | The Carpetbaggers · as Rina Marlowe Cord |
| 1964 | Cheyenne Autumn · as Deborah Wright |
| 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 | Armchair Theatre (TV Series) · as Lena Roland |
| 1953 | Easy to Love · as Clarice |
| 1950 | Danger (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1950 | The Web (1950) (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1948 | Studio One (TV Series) · as Jennie |