1931-05-28 Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
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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Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour | Self | 2017-01-01 |
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Hollywood Skandale | Self | 2011-04-02 |
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Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood | Self | 2009-03-21 |
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You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story | Self | 2008-05-15 |
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Baby Doll: See No Evil | Self | 2006-05-02 |
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Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King | Self | 2003-01-01 |
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Histoires de festival | Self (archive footage) | 2002-04-16 |
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Cinerama Adventure | Self | 2002-08-30 |
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Another Woman's Husband | Laurel’s mother | 2000-03-06 |
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Nowhere to Go | Nana | 1998-03-09 |
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Rag and Bone | Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt | 1998-01-01 |
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Memories of Giant | Self | 1998-05-06 |
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North Shore Fish | Arlyne | 1997-02-20 |
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The Game | Ilsa | 1997-09-12 |
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Skeletons | Nancy Norton | 1997-04-04 |
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Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western | Self | 1997-07-27 |
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Heart Full of Rain | Edith Pearl Dockett | 1997-10-05 |
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Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome | Self | 1996-02-04 |
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Just Your Luck | Momie | 1996-11-29 |
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Return to 'Giant' | Self | 1996-09-21 |
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Dalva | Naomi | 1996-03-03 |
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La signora della città | Martha Sheppard | 1996-06-04 |
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Charlton Heston: For All Seasons | Self | 1995-03-20 |
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Im Sog des Bösen | Elaine Mitchelson | 1995-01-01 |
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Storie di seduzione | Diana's Mother | 1995-12-12 |
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Roger Moore: A Matter of Class | Self | 1995-11-16 |
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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage | Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage) | 1994-12-19 |
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Judgment Day: The John List Story | Alma List | 1993-02-23 |
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A Kiss to Die For | Mrs. Graham | 1993-12-06 |
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Men Don't Tell | Ruth | 1993-03-14 |
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Jackpot | Madame | 1992-12-23 |
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Blonde Fist | Lovell Summers | 1991-11-01 |
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Kindergarten Cop | Eleanor Crisp | 1990-12-21 |
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Gipsy Angel | Pheobe | 1990-06-03 |
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Ironweed | Annie Phelan | 1987-12-18 |
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Hollywood Uncensored | Self | 1987-12-01 |
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On Fire | Maureen Leary | 1987-01-05 |
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Native Son | Mrs. Dalton | 1986-12-24 |
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Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil | Gerda Hoffman | 1985-02-17 |
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What Mad Pursuit | Louise Steinhauser | 1985-11-24 |
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The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud | Mama Freud | 1984-05-12 |
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Red Monarch | Ellen Brown | 1983-06-16 |
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Star 80 | Dorothy's Mum | 1983-11-10 |
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The Watcher in the Woods | Helen Curtis | 1980-04-17 |
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The World Is Full of Married Men | Linda Cooper | 1979-06-03 |
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Ciclon | Sheila | 1978-07-21 |
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Bad | Hazel Aiken | 1977-05-04 |
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Zerschossene Träume | Carol | 1976-08-27 |
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La moglie di mio padre | Laura | 1976-08-04 |
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Ab morgen sind wir reich und ehrlich | Polly Pott | 1976-04-02 |
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James Dean: The First American Teenager | Self | 1975-09-30 |
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The Next Victim | Sandy Marshall | 1975-09-23 |
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Lezioni private | Laura Formenti | 1975-11-03 |
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Las flores del vicio | Treasure | 1975-11-29 |
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La moglie vergine | Lucia | 1975-06-06 |
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Il corpo | Madeliene | 1974-03-06 |
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Baba Yaga | Baba Yaga | 1973-09-20 |
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Il fiore dai petali d'acciaio | Evelyne Graffi | 1973-11-13 |
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Il coltello di ghiaccio | Martha Caldwell | 1972-08-24 |
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Il diavolo a sette facce | Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison | 1971-12-09 |
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Captain Apache | Maude | 1971-10-27 |
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La última señora Anderson | Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin | 1971-03-10 |
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Paranoia | Helen | 1970-02-20 |
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Così dolce... così perversa | Nicole Perrier | 1969-10-31 |
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Orgasmo | Kathryn West | 1969-02-07 |
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Il dolce corpo di Deborah | Deborah | 1968-03-20 |
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Lionpower from MGM | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1967-01-01 |
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L'Harem | Margherita | 1967-10-06 |
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Jack of Diamonds | Carroll Baker | 1967-11-10 |
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Mister Moses | Julie Anderson | 1965-05-12 |
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Harlow | Jean Harlow | 1965-06-23 |
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The Greatest Story Ever Told | Veronica | 1965-04-09 |
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Sylvia | Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle) | 1965-02-10 |
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The Carpetbaggers | Rina Marlowe Cord | 1964-04-08 |
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Cheyenne Autumn | Deborah Wright | 1964-10-15 |
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Station Six-Sahara | Catherine | 1963-01-11 |
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The Paradise Suite | Lena Roland | 1963-02-24 |
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How the West Was Won | Eve Prescott Rawlings | 1962-11-02 |
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Something Wild | Mary Ann Robinson | 1961-12-23 |
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Bridge to the Sun | Gwen Terasaki | 1961-10-17 |
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But Not for Me | Ellie Brown / Borden | 1959-08-19 |
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The Miracle | Teresa | 1959-11-12 |
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Fun in the Big Country | Self | 1958-01-01 |
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The Big Country | Patricia Terrill | 1958-08-13 |
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Giant | Luz Benedict II | 1956-11-08 |
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New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant' | Self | 1956-10-09 |
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Baby Doll | Baby Doll Meighan | 1956-12-29 |
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Easy to Love | Clarice | 1953-11-26 |
