# Carroll Baker credits

Carroll Baker (born May 28, 1931) is an American actress of film, stage, and television. Spanning a career of fifty years, Baker appeared in 66 feature and television films, as well as 16 television appearances and over 15 stage credits, including 3 Broadway productions. Her most prolific role was in Elia Kazan's 1956 film Baby Doll, which earned her a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Throughout her career, she became an established movie sex symbol.
Baker began her acting career in New York City as a member of the Actors Studio, and starred in Broadway productions before her screen debut in Easy to Love (1953). After the critical success of Baby Doll, Baker worked consistently throughout the 1960s, starring in westerns such as How the West Was Won (1962), as well as independent films such as Something Wild (1961) and melodramas The Carpetbaggers (1964) and Sylvia (1965). After portraying Jean Harlow in 1965's Harlow, Baker initiated a legal dispute over her contract with Paramount Pictures, which ultimately led to her being blacklisted in Hollywood. Baker moved to Europe in the late 1960s, where she starred in multiple Italian horror and giallo films.
She saw a return to American cinema in Andy Warhol's Bad in 1977, and later received critical acclaim for her performance in Ironweed (1987) alongside Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. Baker worked in both television and film into the 1990s, and had supporting roles in the critically acclaimed Hollywood films Kindergarten Cop (1990) and David Fincher's The Game (1997). She formally retired from acting in 2003.

## Screen
### Films

Film :
| Year | Film | Role | Director(s) | Box office (USD) | Notes |
| 1953 | Easy to Love | Clarice | Charles Walters | — | |
| 1956 | Giant | Luz Benedict II | George Stevens | 39,000,000 | |
| 1956 | Baby Doll | Baby Doll Meighan | Elia Kazan | 2,300,000 | Won – Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer (female)* *shared with Jayne Mansfield and Natalie Wood Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Nominated – BAFTA for Best Foreign Actress |
| 1958 | The Big Country | Patricia Terrill | William Wyler | 4,000,000 | |
| 1959 | But Not for Me | Ellie Brown/Borden | Walter Lang | 2,500,000 | |
| 1959 | The Miracle | Teresa | Irving Rapper | — | |
| 1961 | Bridge to the Sun | Gwen Terasaki | Étienne Périer | — | |
| 1961 | Something Wild | Mary Ann Robinson | Jack Garfein | — | |
| 1962 | How the West Was Won | Eve Prescott | John Ford Henry Hathaway George Marshall | 50,000,000 | |
| 1963 | Station Six-Sahara | Catherine | Seth Holt | — | |
| 1964 | The Carpetbaggers | Rina Marlowe Cord | Edward Dmytryk | 13,000,000 | Golden Laurel — Dramatic Performance, Female (2nd place) |
| 1964 | Cheyenne Autumn | Deborah Wright | John Ford | 3,500,000 | |
| 1965 | Sylvia | Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle) | Gordon Douglas | 1,500,000 | |
| 1965 | The Greatest Story Ever Told | Veronica | George Stevens | 15,473,333 | |
| 1965 | Mister Moses | Julie Anderson | Ronald Neame | 1,250,000 | |
| 1965 | Harlow | Jean Harlow | Gordon Douglas | 3,400,000 | |
| 1967 | Her Harem | Margherita | Marco Ferreri | — | |
| 1967 | Jack of Diamonds | Herself | Don Taylor | — | |
| 1968 | The Sweet Body of Deborah | Deborah | Romolo Guerrieri | 1,600,000 | |
| 1969 | Paranoia | Kathryn West | Umberto Lenzi | — | Also known as: Orgasmo |
| 1969 | So Sweet... So Perverse | Nicole Perrier | Umberto Lenzi | — | |
| 1970 | A Quiet Place to Kill | Helen | Umberto Lenzi | — | Also known as: Paranoia |
| 1971 | The Fourth Victim | Julie Spencer/Lillian Martin | Eugenio Martín | — | Also known as: Death at the Deep End of the Swimming Pool |
| 1971 | Captain Apache | Maude | Alexander Singer | — | Also known as: Deathwork |
| 1971 | The Devil Has Seven Faces | Julie Harrison/Mary Harrison | Osvaldo Civirani | — | |
| 1972 | Knife of Ice | Martha Caldwell | Umberto Lenzi | — | Also known as: Silent Horror |
| 1973 | Baba Yaga | Baba Yaga | Corrado Farina | — | Also known as: Baba Yaga: Devil Witch, and Kiss Me, Kill Me |
| 1973 | The Flower with the Deadly Sting | Evelyn | Gianfranco Piccioli | — | |
| 1974 | The Body | Madeleine | Luigi Scattini | — | |
| 1975 | Private Lessons | Laura Formenti | Vittorio De Sisti | — | |
| 1975 | At Last, at Last | Lucia | Marino Girolami | — | |
| 1976 | As of Tomorrow | Polly Pott | François Legrand | — | Also known as: Blackmail Chase |
| 1976 | My Father's Wife | Laura | Andrea Bianchi | — | Also known as: Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife |
| 1976 | Bait [de] | Carol | Peter Patzak | — | Also known as: Shattered Dreams |
| 1977 | Andy Warhol's Bad | Hazel Aiken | Jed Johnson | 1,500,000 | Also known as: Bad |
| 1978 | Cyclone | Sheila | René Cardona Jr. | — | Also known as: Terror Storm |
| 1979 | The World Is Full of Married Men | Linda Cooper | Robert Young | — | |
| 1979 | The Sky is Falling | Treasure | Silvio Narizzano | — | Also known as: Bloodbath |
| 1980 | The Watcher in the Woods | Helen Curtis | John Hough | 5,000,000 | |
| 1983 | Star 80 | Nelly Hoogstraten | Bob Fosse | 6,472,990 | |
| 1983 | Red Monarch | Brown | Jack Gold | — | |
| 1984 | The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud | Mama Freud | Danford B. Greene | — | |
| 1985 | Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil | Gerda Hoffman | Jim Goddard | — | TV movie |
| 1985 | What Mad Pursuit? | Louise Steinhauser | Tony Smith | — | TV movie |
| 1986 | Native Son | Mrs. Dalton | Jerrold Freedman | 1,301,121 | |
| 1987 | On Fire | Maureen | Robert Greenwald | — | TV movie |
| 1987 | Ironweed | Annie Phelan | Héctor Babenco | 7,393,346 | |
| 1990 | Gipsy Angel | Phoebe | Al Festa | — | |
| 1990 | Kindergarten Cop | Eleanor Crisp | Ivan Reitman | 201,957,688 | |
| 1991 | Blonde Fist | Lovelle Summers | Frank Clarke | — | |
| 1992 | Jackpot | Madame | Mario Orfini | 174,000,000 | Also known as: Cyber Eden |
| 1993 | Judgment Day: The John List Story | Alma List | Bobby Roth | — | TV movie |
| 1993 | Men Don't Tell | Ruth | Harry Winer | — | TV movie |
| 1993 | A Kiss to Die For | Mrs. Graham | Leon Ichaso | — | TV movie |
| 1995 | In the Flesh [de] | Elaine Mitchelson | Nikolai Müllerschön | — | |
| 1996 | Dalva | Naomi | Ken Cameron | — | TV movie |
| 1996 | Witness Run | Martha Shepard | Beppe Cino | — | TV movie |
| 1996 | Just Your Luck | Momie | Gary Auerbach | — | |
| 1997 | Skeletons | Nancy Norton | David DeCoteau | — | TV movie |
| 1997 | North Shore Fish | Arlyne | Steve Zuckerman | — | TV movie |
| 1997 | The Game | Ilsa | David Fincher | 109,400,000 | |
| 1998 | Nowhere to Go | Nana | John Caire | — | |
| 1998 | Rag and Bone | Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt | James D. Parriott | — | TV movie |
| 1998 | Heart Full of Rain | Edith Pearl Dockett | Roger Young | — | TV movie |
| 2000 | Another Woman's Husband | Laurel's Mom | Noel Nosseck | — | TV movie |

### Television series

Television :
| Year | Series | Role | Notes | Ref. |
| 1952 | Monodrama Theater | Clarice | Late-night show on DuMont Television Network | |
| 1954 | The Web | | Episode: "The Treadmill" | |
| 1955 | Studio One | Jennie | Episode: "A Stranger May Die" | Danger | Episode: "Season for Murder" |
| 1963 | Armchair Theatre | Lena Roland | Episode: "The Paradise Suite" | |
| 1970 | W. Somerset Maugham | Sadie Thompson | Episode: "Rain" | |
| 1975 | The Wide World of Mystery | Sandy Marshall | Episode: "The Next Victim"; was produced for Series 6 of Thriller | |
| 1984 | Sharing Time | Fran | Episode: "Oceans Apart" | |
| 1990 | Grand | Viva | Episodes: "The Well", "Wolf Boy", "The Mother Load" | |
| 1991 | Tales from the Crypt | Mother Paloma | Episode: "The Trap" | |
| 1991 | P.S. I Luv U | Victoria | Episode: "The Honeymooners" | |
| 1992 | Davis Rules | | Episode: "Everybody Comes to Nick's" | |
| 1993 | Murder, She Wrote | Sibella Stone | Episode: "Love's Deadly Desire" | |
| 1993 | L.A. Law | Rae Morrison | Episodes: "How Much Is That Bentley in the Window", "Leap of Faith", "Book of Renovation, Chapter 1" | |
| 1995 | Chicago Hope | Sylvie Tannen | Episode: "Informed Consent" | |
| 1999 | Roswell | Grandma Claudia | Episode: "Leaving Normal" | |
| 2003 | The Lyon's Den | Jack's Mother | Episode: "The Quantum Theory" | |

### Short subjects

Short films :
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1965 | Flashes Festival | Herself | Charles Gérard | Documentary |
| 1970 | The Spider | | | |

### Documentaries

Documentary subjects :
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1975 | James Dean: The First American Teenager | Herself | TV documentary |
| 1987 | Sex Symbols; Past, Present and Future | Herself | TV documentary |
| 1987 | Hollywood Uncensored | Herself | |
| 1997 | Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western | Herself | TV documentary |
| 2002 | Cinerama Adventure | Herself | |
| 2003 | Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King | Herself | TV documentary |
| 2009 | Western Legenden – Made in Hollywood | Herself | TV documentary |

## Stage credits

Stage performances :
| Year | Title | Role | Location | Notes |
| 1953 | Escapade | Molly | 48th Street Theatre, New York City | Broadway production; 13 performances |
| 1953 | A Hatful of Rain | | Actors Studio Workshop, New York City | |
| 1954 | All Summer Long | Ruth | Booth Theatre, New York City Coronet Theatre, Los Angeles | Broadway; 60 performances |
| 1958 | Arms and the Man | | Chicago | |
| 1962 | Come on Strong | Virginia Karger | Morosco Theatre, New York City | Broadway; 36 performances |
| 1966 | Anna Christie | Anna Christopherson | Los Angeles | |
| 1967 | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | | Los Angeles | |
| 1977 | Rain | Sadie Thompson | London, England | |
| 1978 | Bell, Book and Candle | | Atlanta, Georgia | |
| 1978 | 13 Rue de l'Amour | | Jacksonville, Florida | |
| 1979 | Forty Carats | Ann Stanley | | |
| 1979 | Lucy Crown | Lucy | London, England | |
| 1979 | Goodbye Charlie | Virginia Mason | Chicago, Illinois | |
| 1980 | Motive | | London, England | |
| 1981 | Little Hut | | Canada | |