Carroll Baker
Carroll Baker 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.
Kindergarten Cop
(Eleanor Crisp)
Giant
(Luz Benedict II)
The Greatest Story Ever Told
(Veronica)
The Game
(Ilsa)
The Watcher in the Woods
(Helen Curtis)
Star 80
(Dorothy's Mum)
How the West Was Won
(Eve Prescott Rawlings)
The Big Country
(Patricia Terrill)
Baby Doll
(Baby Doll Meighan)
Ironweed
(Annie Phelan)
Cheyenne Autumn
(Deborah Wright)
Knife of Ice
(Martha Caldwell)
Cyclone
(Sheila)
The Fourth Victim
(Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin)
The Carpetbaggers
(Rina Marlowe Cord)
Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
(Self)
Paranoia
(Kathryn West)
Bad
(Hazel Aiken)
Hollywood Uncensored
(Self)
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
(Self)
Hollywood Scandals
(Self)
Something Wild
(Mary Ann Robinson)
Storie di seduzione
(Diana's Mother)
Baba Yaga
(Baba Yaga)
The Devil with Seven Faces
(Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison)
Sylvia
(Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle))
Red Monarch
(Ellen Brown)
Fun in the Big Country
(Self)
But Not for Me
(Ellie Brown / Borden)
The Harem
(Margherita)
Captain Apache
(Maude)
A Quiet Place to Kill
(Helen)
Native Son
(Mrs. Dalton)
Cyber Eden
(Madame)
Jack of Diamonds
(Carroll Baker)
A Kiss to Die For
(Mrs. Graham)
Men Don't Tell
(Ruth)
The Miracle
(Teresa)
Bridge to the Sun
(Gwen Terasaki)
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
(Lucia)
Station Six-Sahara
(Catherine)
Judgment Day: The John List Story
(Alma List)
Blonde Fist
(Lovell Summers)
Cinerama Adventure
(Self)
Bloodbath
(Treasure)
Mister Moses
(Julie Anderson)
Nowhere to Go
(Nana)
The Private Lesson
(Laura Formenti)
Blackmail Chase
(Polly Pott)
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
(Laura)
Dalva
(Naomi)
Shattered Dreams
(Carol)
On Fire
(Maureen Leary)
Skeletons
(Nancy Norton)
Roger Moore: A Matter Of Class
(Self)
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
(Self)
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
(Self)
The World Is Full of Married Men
(Linda Cooper)
The Paradise Suite
(Lena Roland)
Gipsy Angel
(Pheobe)
What Mad Pursuit
(Louise Steinhauser)
Harlow
(Jean Harlow)
The Body
(Madeliene)
In the Flesh
(Elaine Mitchelson)
Hitler's SS : Portrait In Evil
(Gerda Hoffman)
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
(Self)
Rag and Bone
(Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt)
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
(Mama Freud)
James Dean: The First American Teenager
(Self)
Another Woman's Husband
(Laurel’s mother)
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
(Self)
Return to 'Giant'
(Self)
Just Your Luck
(Momie)
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
(Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage))
Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
(Self)
Easy to Love
(Clarice)
So Sweet... So Perverse
(Nicole Perrier)
The Sweet Body of Deborah
(Deborah)
The Flower with Petals of Steel
(Evelyne Graffi)
North Shore Fish
(Arlyne)
La signora della città
(Martha Sheppard)
Baby Doll: See No Evil
(Self)
The Next Victim
(Sandy Marshall)
Heart Full of Rain
(Edith Pearl Dockett)
Murder, She Wrote
(Sibella Stone)
Thriller
(Sandy Marshall)
L.A. Law
(Rae Morrison)
E! True Hollywood Story
Roswell
(Claudia Parker)
The Lyon's Den
(Jack's Mother)
Chicago Hope
(Sylvie Tannen)
P.S. I Luv U
(Victoria)
The Oscars
(Self)
Tales from the Crypt
(Mother Paloma)
What's My Line?
(Self - Mystery Guest)
The Mike Douglas Show
(Self)
Cinépanorama
(Self)
Grand
(Viva)