Carroll Baker

DOB: 1931-05-28

DOD: -

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.

Starred In

1990
Movie

Kindergarten Cop

1956
Movie

Giant

1997
Movie

The Game

1983
Movie

Star 80

1958
Movie

The Big Country

1956
Movie

Baby Doll

1987
Movie

Ironweed

1972
Movie

Knife of Ice

1964
Movie

Cheyenne Autumn

1978
Movie

Cyclone

1971
Movie

The Fourth Victim

1964
Movie

The Carpetbaggers

1969
Movie

Paranoia

1977
Movie

Bad

2011
Movie

Hollywood Scandals

1961
Movie

Something Wild

1973
Movie

Baba Yaga

1965
Movie

Sylvia

1983
Movie

Red Monarch

1959
Movie

But Not for Me

1967
Movie

The Harem

1971
Movie

Captain Apache

1986
Movie

Native Son

1992
Movie

Cyber Eden

1967
Movie

Jack of Diamonds

1993
Movie

A Kiss to Die For

1993
Movie

Men Don't Tell

1959
Movie

The Miracle

1961
Movie

Bridge to the Sun

1963
Movie

Station Six-Sahara

1991
Movie

Blonde Fist

2002
Movie

Cinerama Adventure

1975
Movie

Bloodbath

1965
Movie

Mister Moses

1998
Movie

Nowhere to Go

1975
Movie

The Private Lesson

1976
Movie

Blackmail Chase

1996
Movie

Dalva

1976
Movie

Shattered Dreams

1987
Movie

On Fire

1997
Movie

Skeletons

1963
Movie

The Paradise Suite

1990
Movie

Gipsy Angel

1985
Movie

What Mad Pursuit

1965
Movie

Harlow

1974
Movie

The Body

1995
Movie

In the Flesh

1998
Movie

Rag and Bone

1996
Movie

Return to 'Giant'

1996
Movie

Just Your Luck

1953
Movie

Easy to Love

1997
Movie

North Shore Fish

1975
Movie

The Next Victim

1997
Movie

Heart Full of Rain

1967
Movie

Lionpower from MGM

1973
Tv

Thriller

1986
Tv

L.A. Law

1999
Tv

Roswell

1994
Tv

Chicago Hope

1991
Tv

P.S. I Luv U

1953
Tv

The Oscars

1956
Tv

Cinépanorama

1990
Tv

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