Carroll Baker
Age: N/A | From: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Carrol Baker , Karolina Piekarski
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
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Movie Involvements: 69
TV Involvements: 9
Most Famous Work
Biography
Carroll Baker 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.
Most Famous Work
What's My Line?
(1950) Self - Mystery Guest
Chicago Hope
(1994) Sylvie Tannen
Murder, She Wrote
(1984) Sibella Stone
L.A. Law
(1986) Rae Morrison
Roswell
(1999) Claudia Parker
How the West Was Won
(1962) Eve Prescott Rawlings
The Oscars
(1953) Self
Thriller
(1973) Sandy MarshallActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Self | |
| 2011 | Self | |
| 2009 | Self | |
| 2008 | Self | |
| 2006 | Self | |
| 2003 | Jack's Mother | |
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 2002 | Self | |
| 2000 | Laurel’s mother | |
| 1999 | Claudia Parker | |
| 1998 | Nana | |
| Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt | ||
| 1997 | Edith Pearl Dockett | |
| Ilsa | ||
| Self | ||
| Nancy Norton | ||
| Arlyne | ||
| 1996 | Momie | |
| N/A | ||
| Martha Sheppard | ||
| Naomi | ||
| 1995 | Diana's Mother | |
| 1994 | Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage) | |
| Sylvie Tannen | ||
| 1993 | Mrs. Graham | |
| Ruth | ||
| Alma List | ||
| 1992 | Madame | |
| 1991 | Lovell Summers | |
| Victoria | ||
| 1990 | Eleanor Crisp | |
| Viva | ||
| Pheobe | ||
| 1989 | Mother Paloma | |
| 1987 | Annie Phelan | |
| Self | ||
| Maureen Leary | ||
| 1986 | Mrs. Dalton | |
| Rae Morrison | ||
| 1985 | Louise Steinhauser | |
| Gerda Hoffman | ||
| 1984 | Sibella Stone | |
| Mama Freud | ||
| 1983 | Dorothy's Mum | |
| Ellen Brown | ||
| 1980 | Helen Curtis | |
| 1979 | Treasure | |
| Linda Cooper | ||
| 1978 | Sheila | |
| 1977 | Hazel Aiken | |
| 1976 | Carol | |
| Laura | ||
| Polly Pott | ||
| 1975 | Laura Formenti | |
| Self | ||
| Sandy Marshall | ||
| Lucia | ||
| 1974 | Madeliene | |
| 1973 | Evelyne Graffi | |
| Baba Yaga | ||
| Sandy Marshall | ||
| 1972 | Martha Caldwell | |
| 1971 | Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison | |
| Maude | ||
| Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin | ||
| 1970 | Helen | |
| 1969 | Nicole Perrier | |
| Kathryn West | ||
| 1968 | Deborah | |
| 1967 | Carroll Baker | |
| Margherita | ||
| 1965 | Jean Harlow | |
| Julie Anderson | ||
| Veronica | ||
| Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle) | ||
| 1964 | Deborah Wright | |
| Rina Marlowe Cord | ||
| 1963 | Lena Roland | |
| Catherine | ||
| 1962 | Eve Prescott Rawlings | |
| 1961 | Mary Ann Robinson | |
| Gwen Terasaki | ||
| 1959 | Teresa | |
| Ellie Brown / Borden | ||
| 1958 | Patricia Terrill | |
| Self | ||
| 1956 | Baby Doll Meighan | |
| Luz Benedict II | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 1953 | Clarice | |
| Self | ||
| 1950 | Self - Mystery Guest | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
