Carroll Baker
Born May 28, 1931 (Age: 94)
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Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
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
Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
2017
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as Self
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Age: 85
No Image
Hollywood Scandals
2011
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as Self
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Age: 79
Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
2009
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as Self
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Age: 77
Baby Doll: See No Evil
2006
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as Self
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Age: 74
Cinerama Adventure
2002
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as Self
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Age: 71
Another Woman's Husband
2000
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as Laurel’s mother
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Age: 68
No Image
Memories of Giant
1998
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as
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Age: 66
No Image
Nowhere to Go
1998
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as Nana
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Age: 66
Rag and Bone
1998
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as Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt
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Age: 66
Heart Full of Rain
1997
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as Edith Pearl Dockett
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Age: 66
The Game
1997
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as Ilsa
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Age: 66
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997
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as Self
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Age: 66
Skeletons
1997
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as Nancy Norton
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Age: 65
North Shore Fish
1997
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as Arlyne
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Age: 65
Just Your Luck
1996
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as Momie
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Age: 65
Return to 'Giant'
1996
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as Self
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Age: 65
La signora della città
1996
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as Martha Sheppard
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Age: 65
Dalva
1996
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as Naomi
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Age: 64
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
1996
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as Self
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Age: 64
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
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as Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage)
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Age: 63
A Kiss to Die For
1993
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as Mrs. Graham
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Age: 62
Men Don't Tell
1993
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as Ruth
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Age: 61
Judgment Day: The John List Story
1993
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as Alma List
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Age: 61
Cyber Eden
1992
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as Madame
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Age: 61
Blonde Fist
1991
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as Lovell Summers
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Age: 60
Kindergarten Cop
1990
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as Eleanor Crisp
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Age: 59
Gipsy Angel
1990
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as Pheobe
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Age: 59
Ironweed
1987
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as Annie Phelan
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Age: 56
Hollywood Uncensored
1987
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as Self
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Age: 56
On Fire
1987
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as Maureen Leary
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Age: 55
Native Son
1986
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as Mrs. Dalton
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Age: 55
What Mad Pursuit
1985
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as Louise Steinhauser
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Age: 54
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985
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as Gerda Hoffman
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Age: 53
Star 80
1983
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as Dorothy's Mum
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Age: 52
The Watcher in the Woods
1980
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as Helen Curtis
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Age: 48
Cyclone
1978
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as Sheila
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Age: 47
The Body
1974
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as Madeliene
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Age: 42
The Flower with Petals of Steel
1973
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as Evelyne Graffi
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Age: 42
Baba Yaga
1973
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as Baba Yaga
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Age: 42
So Sweet... So Perverse
1969
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as Nicole Perrier
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Age: 38
Paranoia
1969
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as Kathryn West
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Age: 37
Harlow
1965
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as Jean Harlow
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Age: 34
Mister Moses
1965
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as Julie Anderson
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Age: 33
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
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as Veronica
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Age: 33
Sylvia
1965
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as Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle)
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Age: 33
Cheyenne Autumn
1964
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as Deborah Wright
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Age: 33
The Carpetbaggers
1964
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as Rina Marlowe Cord
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Age: 32
No Image
The Paradise Suite
1963
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as Lena Roland
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Age: 31
Station Six-Sahara
1963
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as Catherine
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Age: 31
How the West Was Won
1962
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as Eve Prescott Rawlings
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Age: 31
Something Wild
1961
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as Mary Ann Robinson
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Age: 30
Bridge to the Sun
1961
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as Gwen Terasaki
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Age: 30
The Miracle
1959
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as Teresa
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Age: 28
But Not for Me
1959
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as Ellie Brown / Borden
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Age: 28
The Big Country
1958
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as Patricia Terrill
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Age: 27
Fun in the Big Country
1958
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as Self
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Age: 26
Baby Doll
1956
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as Baby Doll Meighan
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Age: 25
Giant
1956
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as Luz Benedict II
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Age: 25
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
1956
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as Self
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Age: 25
Easy to Love
1953
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as Clarice
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Age: 22