Carroll Baker

Known for ActingBorn 1931-05-28 (age 95)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.Read more

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La signora della città

What Mad Pursuit

Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

North Shore Fish

Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome

In the Flesh

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

On Fire

The Lyon's Den

Blackmail Chase

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

Cinépanorama

E! True Hollywood Story

Tales from the Crypt

The Next Victim

Roswell

Cinerama Adventure

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

The Game

Murder, She Wrote

Shattered Dreams

James Dean: The First American Teenager

Chicago Hope

The Big Country

Giant

Nowhere to Go

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

L.A. Law

Men Don't Tell

Return to 'Giant'

Thriller

How the West Was Won

Baby Doll

Grand

What's My Line?

The Oscars

Heart of the Festival

Bridge to the Sun

Cheyenne Autumn

P.S. I Luv U

Star 80

A Quiet Place to Kill

The Miracle

Bad

The Merv Griffin Show

Ironweed

The Greatest Story Ever Told

Kindergarten Cop