8.5
8.5
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008
as Self
Carroll Baker
Also known as: Karolina Piekarski
Acting
Born:May 28, 1931(age 95)
Birthplace:Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Nationality:United States
Education:St. Petersburg College, HB Studio
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (84 movies)
8.0
8.0
Shattered Dreams
1976
as Carol
7.6
7.6
Giant
1956
as Luz Benedict II
7.6
7.6
The Big Country
1958
as Patricia Terrill
7.6
7.6
The Game
1997
as Ilsa
7.0
7.0
Baby Doll
1956
as Baby Doll Meighan
7.0
7.0
How the West Was Won
1962
as Eve Prescott Rawlings
6.8
6.8
Men Don't Tell
1993
as Ruth
6.8
6.8
Bridge to the Sun
1961
as Gwen Terasaki
6.7
6.7
Cheyenne Autumn
1964
as Deborah Wright
6.7
6.7
The Miracle
1959
as Teresa
6.6
6.6
A Quiet Place to Kill
1970
as Helen
6.4
6.4
Star 80
1983
as Dorothy's Mum
6.4
6.4
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
as Veronica
6.3
6.3
Ironweed
1987
as Annie Phelan
6.3
6.3
Bad
1977
as Hazel Aiken
6.2
6.2
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
1976
as Laura
6.2
6.2
Sylvia
1965
as Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle)
6.2
6.2
Something Wild
1961
as Mary Ann Robinson
6.1
6.1
Kindergarten Cop
1990
as Eleanor Crisp
6.1
6.1
Return to 'Giant'
1996
as Self
6.1
6.1
Easy to Love
1953
as Clarice
6.1
6.1
Knife of Ice
1972
as Martha Caldwell
6.0
6.0
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995
as Self
6.0
6.0
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
1956
as Self
6.0
6.0
James Dean: The First American Teenager
1975
as Self
6.0
6.0
But Not for Me
1959
as Ellie Brown / Borden
5.9
5.9
The Watcher in the Woods
1980
as Helen Curtis
5.9
5.9
Paranoia
1969
as Kathryn West
5.8
5.8
The Fourth Victim
1971
as Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin
5.8
5.8
The Carpetbaggers
1964
as Rina Marlowe Cord
5.6
5.6
Station Six-Sahara
1963
as Catherine
5.5
5.5
So Sweet... So Perverse
1969
as Nicole Perrier
5.5
5.5
Baba Yaga
1973
as Baba Yaga
5.4
5.4
Harlow
1965
as Jean Harlow
5.2
5.2
The Private Lesson
1975
as Laura Formenti
5.2
5.2
The Sweet Body of Deborah
1968
as Deborah
5.1
5.1
The Harem
1967
as Margherita
5.1
5.1
Hollywood Uncensored
1987
as Self
5.1
5.1
Cyclone
1978
as Sheila
5.0
5.0
The Flower with Petals of Steel
1973
as Evelyne Graffi
5.0
5.0
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
1995
as Self
5.0
5.0
Red Monarch
1983
as Ellen Brown
5.0
5.0
Native Son
1986
as Mrs. Dalton
4.9
4.9
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
1975
as Lucia
4.7
4.7
Cyber Eden
1992
as Madame
4.6
4.6
The Devil with Seven Faces
1971
as Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison
4.5
4.5
Lionpower from MGM
1967
4.5
4.5
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985
as Gerda Hoffman
4.5
4.5
Judgment Day: The John List Story
1993
as Alma List
4.5
4.5
Captain Apache
1971
as Maude
4.5
4.5
The Body
1974
as Madeliene
4.4
4.4
Blonde Fist
1991
as Lovell Summers
4.3
4.3
The World Is Full of Married Men
1979
as Linda Cooper
4.2
4.2
Jack of Diamonds
1967
as Carroll Baker
4.0
4.0
Mister Moses
1965
as Julie Anderson
4.0
4.0
Heart Full of Rain
1997
as Edith Pearl Dockett
3.9
3.9
The Sky is Falling
1975
as Treasure
3.9
3.9
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
1984
as Mama Freud
3.8
3.8
A Kiss to Die For
1993
as Mrs. Graham
3.5
3.5
Another Woman's Husband
2000
as Laurel’s mother
3.5
3.5
Just Your Luck
1996
as Momie
3.0
3.0
Gipsy Angel
1990
as Pheobe
3.0
3.0
Rag and Bone
1998
as Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt
2.8
2.8
Dalva
1996
as Naomi
In the Flesh
1995
as Elaine Mitchelson
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
1996
as Self
North Shore Fish
1997
as Arlyne
The Next Victim
1975
as Sandy Marshall
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
as Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage)
Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
2009
as Self
La signora della città
1996
as Martha Sheppard
Baby Doll: See No Evil
2006
as Self
Storie di seduzione
1995
as Diana's Mother
Hollywood Scandals
2011
as Self
Fun in the Big Country
1958
as Self
On Fire
1987
as Maureen Leary
What Mad Pursuit
1985
as Louise Steinhauser
Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
2017
as Self
Memories of Giant
1998
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
2003
as Self
The Paradise Suite
1963
as Lena Roland
Blackmail Chase
1976
as Polly Pott
Nowhere to Go
1998
as Nana
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