
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.

The Lyon's Den

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

トゥルー・ハリウッド・ストーリー

Zerschossene Träume

Cinépanorama

ハリウッド・ナイトメア

ロズウェル/星の恋人たち

ジャイアンツ

Cinerama Adventure

大いなる西部

ゲーム

ジェシカおばさんの事件簿

シカゴ・ホープ

L.A. Law

ベビイ・ドール

西部開拓史

アカデミー賞

What's My Line?

Men Don't Tell

Bridge to the Sun

Cheyenne Autumn

Thriller

The Miracle

Paranoia

The Greatest Story Ever Told

Star 80

黄昏に燃えて

Bad

Something Wild

Sylvia

The Merv Griffin Show

キンダガートン・コップ

Il coltello di ghiaccio

La moglie di mio padre

Return to 'Giant'

Easy to Love

But Not for Me

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

James Dean: The First American Teenager

New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'

The Watcher in the Woods

Orgasmo

La última señora Anderson

The Carpetbaggers

P.S. I Luv U

Station Six-Sahara

Così dolce... così perversa

Il dolce corpo di Deborah

Grand

Baba Yaga

Harlow

The Mike Douglas Show

Lezioni private

Hollywood Uncensored

L'Harem

Ciclon

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

Red Monarch

Native Son

Charlton Heston: For All Seasons

Il fiore dai petali d'acciaio

La moglie vergine

Jackpot

Il diavolo a sette facce

Captain Apache

Judgment Day: The John List Story

Il corpo

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

Lionpower from MGM

Blonde Fist

Jack of Diamonds

The World Is Full of Married Men

Las flores del vicio

Mister Moses

Heart Full of Rain

Histoires de festival

The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud

A Kiss to Die For

Skeletons

Another Woman's Husband

Just Your Luck

Gipsy Angel

Rag and Bone

Dalva

Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour

Storie di seduzione

Fun in the Big Country

Ab morgen sind wir reich und ehrlich

On Fire

Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

What Mad Pursuit

Im Sog des Bösen

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood

North Shore Fish

La signora della città

Baby Doll: See No Evil

The Next Victim

Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome