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Carroll Baker

Carroll Baker

Actor · b. 1931 · 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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  • Movie7.6

    The Game

    1997 · 7.6K votes

  • Movie7.6

    Giant

    1956 · 781 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Kindergarten Cop

    1990 · 2.9K votes

  • Movie7.6

    The Big Country

    1958 · 429 votes

  • Movie7.0

    How the West Was Won

    1962 · 514 votes

  • Movie6.4
  • Movie6.7

    Cheyenne Autumn

    1964 · 151 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Ironweed

    1987 · 148 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Baby Doll

    1956 · 146 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Bad

    1977 · 53 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Lezioni private

    The Private Lesson

    1975 · 22 votes

  • Movie5.9

    The Watcher in the Woods

    1980 · 157 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Star 80

    1983 · 146 votes

  • Movie5.2

    Ciclon

    Cyclone

    1978 · 28 votes

  • Movie5.9

    The Carpetbaggers

    1964 · 41 votes

  • Movie9.0
  • Movie6.6

    Paranoia

    A Quiet Place to Kill

    1970 · 54 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Hollywood Uncensored

    1987 · 10 votes

  • Movie7.0
  • Movie4.7

    Captain Apache

    1971 · 36 votes

  • Movie5.6

    Il dolce corpo di Deborah

    The Sweet Body of Deborah

    1968 · 23 votes

  • Movie4.3

    Just Your Luck

    1996 · 6 votes

  • Movie5.7
  • Movie5.5

    Baba Yaga

    1973 · 83 votes

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  • TV7.0

    What's My Line?

    1950 · 29 votes

  • TV5.8

    The Mike Douglas Show

    1961 · 11 votes

  • TV7.5

    Murder, She Wrote

    1984 · 471 votes

  • TV7.2

    Chicago Hope

    1994 · 83 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Merv Griffin Show

    1962 · 12 votes

  • TV7.0

    L.A. Law

    1986 · 81 votes

  • TV6.6

    American Playhouse

    1982 · 8 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Oscars

    1953 · 84 votes

  • TV8.0

    Tales from the Crypt

    1989 · 1K votes

  • TV7.7

    Roswell

    1999 · 505 votes

  • TV7.0

    Thriller

    1973 · 12 votes

  • TV8.7

    Cinépanorama

    1956 · 3 votes

  • TV8.8

    The Lyon's Den

    2003 · 4 votes

  • TV6.7

    Grand

    1990 · 3 votes

  • TV6.4

    P.S. I Luv U

    1991 · 5 votes

  • TV8.1

    E! True Hollywood Story

    1996 · 81 votes

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  • TV6.0

    Armchair Theatre

    1956 · 6 votes