Carroll Baker

Carroll Baker

Birthday: 1931-05-28

Place of birth: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA

Also known as: Carrol Baker, Karolina Piekarski, کارول بیکر

imdb_id: nm0004647

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.

Played in movies:

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

Score: 8.5

Shattered Dreams

Score: 8.0

Cinerama Adventure

Score: 7.6

The Big Country

Score: 7.6

Giant

Score: 7.6

The Game

Score: 7.6

Baby Doll

Score: 7.1

How the West Was Won

Score: 7.0

Bridge to the Sun

Score: 6.8

Cheyenne Autumn

Score: 6.7

The Miracle

Score: 6.7

A Quiet Place to Kill

Score: 6.5

Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife

Score: 6.5

Star 80

Score: 6.4

Men Don't Tell

Score: 6.4

Bad

Score: 6.4

The Greatest Story Ever Told

Score: 6.4

Ironweed

Score: 6.3

Sylvia

Score: 6.2

Something Wild

Score: 6.2

Kindergarten Cop

Score: 6.1

Easy to Love

Score: 6.1

Return to 'Giant'

Score: 6.1

The Fourth Victim

Score: 6.1

Knife of Ice

Score: 6.1

New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'

Score: 6.0

James Dean: The First American Teenager

Score: 6.0

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

Score: 6.0

But Not for Me

Score: 6.0

The Watcher in the Woods

Score: 5.9

Paranoia

Score: 5.9

Station Six-Sahara

Score: 5.9

The Carpetbaggers

Score: 5.8

So Sweet... So Perverse

Score: 5.6

Cyber Eden

Score: 5.6

Native Son

Score: 5.6

The Flower with Petals of Steel

Score: 5.5

The Harem

Score: 5.5

Baba Yaga

Score: 5.5

Hollywood Uncensored

Score: 5.5

The Private Lesson

Score: 5.4

The Sweet Body of Deborah

Score: 5.4

Harlow

Score: 5.4

The World Is Full of Married Men

Score: 5.3

Cyclone

Score: 5.1

Valentina... The Virgin Wife

Score: 5.1

Charlton Heston: For All Seasons

Score: 5.0

Red Monarch

Score: 5.0

The Devil with Seven Faces

Score: 4.7

Captain Apache

Score: 4.6

Blonde Fist

Score: 4.6

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

Score: 4.5

Skeletons

Score: 4.5

Judgment Day: The John List Story

Score: 4.5

The Body

Score: 4.4

A Kiss to Die For

Score: 4.4

Just Your Luck

Score: 4.3

Jack of Diamonds

Score: 4.2

Bloodbath

Score: 4.1

Heart Full of Rain

Score: 4.0

The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud

Score: 4.0

Mister Moses

Score: 4.0

Another Woman's Husband

Score: 3.8

Gipsy Angel

Score: 3.5

Rag and Bone

Score: 3.3

Dalva

Score: 3.3

Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome

Score: 0.0

The Next Victim

Score: 0.0

Baby Doll: See No Evil

Score: 0.0

La signora della città

Score: 0.0

North Shore Fish

Score: 0.0

Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood

Score: 0.0

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

Score: 0.0

In the Flesh

Score: 0.0

What Mad Pursuit

Score: 0.0

The Paradise Suite

Score: 0.0

Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

Score: 0.0

On Fire

Score: 0.0

Blackmail Chase

Score: 0.0

Nowhere to Go

Score: 0.0

Fun in the Big Country

Score: 0.0

Storie di seduzione

Score: 0.0

Hollywood Scandals

Score: 0.0

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

Score: 0.0

Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Lyon's Den

Score: 9.3

E! True Hollywood Story

Score: 8.1

Cinépanorama

Score: 8.0

Tales from the Crypt

Score: 8.0

Roswell

Score: 7.7

Murder, She Wrote

Score: 7.5

Chicago Hope

Score: 7.2

L.A. Law

Score: 7.1

The Oscars

Score: 6.9

What's My Line?

Score: 6.9

Thriller

Score: 6.6

P.S. I Luv U

Score: 5.8

Grand

Score: 5.5

The Mike Douglas Show

Score: 5.4