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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Cinerama Adventure | Self | 2002-08-30 |
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Another Woman's Husband | Laurel’s mother | 2000-03-06 |
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Memories of Giant | 1998-05-06 | |
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Rag and Bone | Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt | 1998-01-01 |
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Nowhere to Go | Nana | 1998-03-09 |
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Skeletons | Nancy Norton | 1997-04-04 |
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Heart Full of Rain | Edith Pearl Dockett | 1997-10-05 |
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Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western | Self | 1997-07-27 |
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The Game | Ilsa | 1997-09-12 |
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North Shore Fish | Arlyne | 1997-02-20 |
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Return to 'Giant' | Self | 1996-09-21 |
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Just Your Luck | Momie | 1996-11-29 |
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Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome | Self | 1996-02-04 |
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La signora della città | Martha Sheppard | 1996-06-04 |
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Dalva | Naomi | 1996-03-03 |
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Roger Moore: A Matter of Class | Self | 1995-11-16 |
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Im Sog des Bösen | Elaine Mitchelson | 1995-01-01 |
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Charlton Heston: For All Seasons | Self | 1995-03-20 |
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Storie di seduzione | Diana's Mother | 1995-12-12 |
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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage | Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage) | 1994-12-19 |
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Men Don't Tell | Ruth | 1993-03-14 |
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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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Jackpot | Madame | 1992-12-23 |
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Blonde Fist | Lovell Summers | 1991-11-01 |
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Gipsy Angel | Pheobe | 1990-06-03 |
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Kindergarten Cop | Eleanor Crisp | 1990-12-21 |
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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 | 1984-01-01 |
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Star 80 | Dorothy's Mum | 1983-11-10 |
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Red Monarch | Ellen Brown | 1983-06-16 |
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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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Cyclone | Sheila | 1978-07-21 |
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Bad | Hazel Aiken | 1977-05-04 |
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La moglie di mio padre | Laura | 1976-08-04 |
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Zerschossene Träume | Carol | 1976-08-27 |
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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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Las flores del vicio | Treasure | 1975-11-29 |
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La moglie vergine | Lucia | 1975-06-06 |
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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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Il corpo | Madeliene | 1974-03-06 |
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Il fiore dai petali d'acciaio | Evelyne Graffi | 1973-11-13 |
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Baba Yaga | Baba Yaga | 1973-09-20 |
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Il coltello di ghiaccio | Martha Caldwell | 1972-08-24 |
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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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Il diavolo a sette facce | Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison | 1971-12-09 |
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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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L'Harem | Margherita | 1967-10-06 |
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Jack of Diamonds | Carroll Baker | 1967-11-10 |
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Lionpower from MGM | 1967-01-01 | |
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Mister Moses | Julie Anderson | 1965-05-12 |
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Sylvia | Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle) | 1965-02-10 |
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The Greatest Story Ever Told | Veronica | 1965-04-09 |
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Harlow | Jean Harlow | 1965-06-23 |
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Cheyenne Autumn | Deborah Wright | 1964-10-15 |
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The Carpetbaggers | Rina Marlowe Cord | 1964-04-08 |
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The Paradise Suite | Lena Roland | 1963-02-24 |
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Station Six-Sahara | Catherine | 1963-01-11 |
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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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The Miracle | Teresa | 1959-11-12 |
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But Not for Me | Ellie Brown / Borden | 1959-08-19 |
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Fun in the Big Country | Self | 1958-01-01 |
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The Big Country | Patricia Terrill | 1958-09-30 |
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Baby Doll | Baby Doll Meighan | 1956-12-29 |
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New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant' | Self | 1956-10-09 |
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Giant | Luz Benedict II | 1956-11-08 |
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Easy to Love | Clarice | 1953-11-26 |
