Carroll Baker
Birthday: 1931-05-28
Place of Birth: 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.
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Giant
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
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The Game
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The Watcher in the Woods
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Star 80
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How the West Was Won
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The Big Country
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Baby Doll
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Ironweed
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Knife of Ice
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Cheyenne Autumn
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Cyclone
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The Fourth Victim
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The Carpetbaggers
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Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
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Paranoia
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Bad
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Hollywood Uncensored
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Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
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Something Wild
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Storie di seduzione
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Baba Yaga
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The Devil with Seven Faces
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Sylvia
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Red Monarch
British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampan...
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Fun in the Big Country
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But Not for Me
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The Harem
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Captain Apache
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A Quiet Place to Kill
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Native Son
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Cyber Eden
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Jack of Diamonds
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A Kiss to Die For
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Men Don't Tell
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The Miracle
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Bridge to the Sun
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Valentina... The Virgin Wife
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Station Six-Sahara
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Judgment Day: The John List Story
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Blonde Fist
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Cinerama Adventure
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The Sky is Falling
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Mister Moses
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Nowhere to Go
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The Private Lesson
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Blackmail Chase
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Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
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Dalva
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On Fire
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Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
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Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
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The Paradise Suite
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Gipsy Angel
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What Mad Pursuit
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Harlow
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The Body
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In the Flesh
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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
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So Sweet... So Perverse
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The Sweet Body of Deborah
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The Flower with Petals of Steel
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North Shore Fish
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Baby Doll: See No Evil
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Heart Full of Rain
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Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
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Lionpower from MGM
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Memories of Giant
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