Diane Baker
| Diane Baker | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Guest starring in The Virginian, 1969 | |
| Born |
Diane Carol Baker February 25, 1938 Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress, producer |
| Years active | 1959–present |
| Website |
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Diane Carol Baker (born February 25, 1938) is an American actress and producer who has appeared in motion pictures and on television since 1959.
Early life
Baker was born and raised in Hollywood, California. She is the daughter of Dorothy Helen Harrington, who had appeared in several early Marx Brothers movies, and Clyde L. Baker. Baker has two younger sisters, Patti and Sheri.[1] At the age of 18, Baker moved to New York to study acting with Charles Conrad and ballet with Nina Fonaroff.
Career
After securing a contract with 20th Century Fox, Baker made her film debut when she was chosen by director George Stevens to play "Margot Frank" in the 1959 motion picture The Diary of Anne Frank. In the same year, she starred in Journey to the Center of the Earth with James Mason and in The Best of Everything with Hope Lange and Joan Crawford.
Other Fox films in which Baker appeared include the assassination thriller Nine Hours to Rama, Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man and The 300 Spartans. Her television work in the late 1950s and 1960s includes appearances on Follow the Sun, Bus Stop, Adventures in Paradise, The Lloyd Bridges Show, The Nurses, The Invaders (in the first episode), and Route 66.
Finally out of her contract with Fox after starring in 1960 in the fourth screen version of Grace Miller White's novel Tess of the Storm Country, Baker appeared in The 300 Spartans (1962) and Stolen Hours, a 1963 remake of Dark Victory, and, the same year, opposite Paul Newman and Elke Sommer in The Prize. From 1963 to 1966, Baker had a recurring role on the medical drama Dr. Kildare.
In 1964, she co-starred with Joan Crawford in both Strait-Jacket, the William Castle-directed thriller about an axe murderess, and an unsold television pilot Royal Bay, released to theaters as Della. Alfred Hitchcock cast her in his film Marnie (1964) as Lil Mainwaring, the sister-in-law of Mark Rutland (Sean Connery). She co-starred with Gregory Peck and Walter Matthau in the thriller Mirage (1965), directed by Edward Dmytryk, and in Krakatoa, East of Java (1969) with Maximilian Schell. In the TV movie Western The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones (1966), she played the part of a woman who falls in love with a drifter (Robert Horton) who is deputized by a dying marshal to take two killers (one of whom is played by Sal Mineo) to a distant jail.
In August 1967, Baker had the distinction of playing David Janssen's love interest in the two-part finale of The Fugitive, which became the most-watched show in the history of episodic television up until that time. In 1968, she co-starred with Dean Jones in the Disney film The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit. In January 1970, she had the lead guest-starring female role as Princess Francesca in the only three-episode mission of Mission: Impossible. In 1973, Baker co-starred in ABC sitcom Here We Go Again. The series was canceled after one season. In 1976, she played the alcoholic daughter of the title character of the Columbo episode "Last Salute to the Commodore".
In the decades after Mirage, she appeared frequently on television and began producing films, including the 1980 drama film Never Never Land and the 1984 miniseries A Woman of Substance, in which she played Laura. She reemerged on the big screen in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) as Senator Ruth Martin ("Love your suit," Hannibal Lecter memorably said to her). Baker also appeared in the films The Joy Luck Club, The Cable Guy, The Net and A Mighty Wind. She guest starred in four episodes of House in 2005, 2008 and twice in 2012 as Blythe House, the mother of the title character.
Since August 2004, Baker has been the director of the Motion Pictures and Television major at Academy of Art University in San Francisco.[2]
Selected TV and filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | The Diary of Anne Frank | Margot Frank | |
| 1959 | Journey to the Center of the Earth | Jenny Lindenbrook | |
| 1959 | The Best of Everything | April Morrison | |
| 1959 | Playhouse 90 | Shelia Cass | Episode: "In Lonely Expectation" |
| 1960 | DuPont Show of the Month | Nurse Leora Tozer | Episode: "Arrowsmith" |
| 1960 | The Wizard of Baghdad | Princess Yasmin | |
| 1960 | Tess of the Storm Country | Tess Maclean | |
| 1961 | Follow the Sun | Helen Henderson | Episode: "Journey Into Darkness" |
| 1961 | Adventures in Paradise | Veronica Sanders | Episode: "Vendetta" |
| 1962 | Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man | Carolyn | |
| 1962 | The 300 Spartans | Ellas | |
| 1963 | The Doctors and the Nurses | Marjorie Ford | Episode: "Field of Battle" |
| Nine Hours to Rama | Sheila | ||
| The Prize | Emily Stratman | ||
| Mr. Novak | Mrs. Chase | Episode: "A Feeling for Friday" | |
| Route 66 | Elisa | Episode: "The Cruelest Sea of All" | |
| 1964 | The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre | Vivia Mandour | Television movie |
| Wagon Train | Alice Whitetree | Episode: "The Alice Whitetree Story" | |
| Marnie | Lil Mainwaring | ||
| Strait-Jacket | Carol Harbin | ||
| 1965 | Mirage | Shela | |
| 1965 | The Big Valley | Hester | Episode: "By Fires Unseen" |
| 1966 | The Virginian | Linda Valence | Episode: "Linda" |
| 1966 | Sands of Beersheba | Susan | Alternative title: Thunder Over Israel |
| 1966 | Hawk | Mary Wheelis | Episode: "The Longleat Chronicles" |
| 1967 | The Fugitive | Jean Carlisle | Episodes: "The Judgement - Parts I & II" |
| 1967 | The Invaders | Kathy Adams | Episode: "Beachhead" |
| 1967 | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Laney | Episode: "Free of Charge" |
| 1968 | The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit | Suzie 'S.J.' Clemens | |
| 1969 | Krakatoa, East of Java | Laura Travis | |
| 1969 | The Virginian | Julie Oakes | Episode: "A love to Remember" |
| 1969 | The Name of the Game | Elaine Brennan | Episode: "Give Till It Hurts" |
| 1969 | D.A.: Murder One | Mary Brokaw | Television movie |
| 1970 | The Interns | Sheila Carmichael | Episode: "The Quality of Mercy" |
| 1970 | The Old Man Who Cried Wolf | Peggy Pulska | Television movie |
| 1971 | The Virginian | Nan Allen | Episode: "Nan Allen" |
| 1971 | Sarge | Carol Swanson | Episode: "The Badge or the Cross" |
| 1971 | Bonanza | Norma O'Casey | Episode: "Cassie" |
| 1971 | Night Gallery | Lynn Alcott | Segment: "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar" |
| 1972 | Killer by Night | Tracey Morrow | Television movie |
| 1972 | Love, American Style | Segment: "Love and the Small Wedding" | |
| 1973 | Wheeler and Murdoch | Karen | Television movie |
| 1973 | Love Story | Angie Burnett | Episode: "The Youngest Lovers" |
| 1974 | Medical Center | Three-Cornered Cage | Episode: "Three-Cornered Cage" |
| 1974 | The ABC Afternoon Playbreak | Diana | Episode: "Can I Save My Children?" |
| 1975 | Lucas Tanner | Jessica Atkins | Episode: "Why Not a Happy Ending?" |
| 1975 | Marcus Welby, M.D. | Sister Anne | Episode: "The Medea Factor" |
| 1975 | The Streets of San Francisco | Inspector Irene Martin | Episode: "The Cat's Paw" |
| 1976 | Police Woman | Cynthia Lambert | Episode: "The Pawn Shop" |
| 1976 | Baker's Hawk | Jenny Baker | Television movie |
| 1976 | Columbo | Joanna Clay | Episode: "Last Salute to the Commodore" |
| 1977 | Barnaby Jones | Pat Halston | Episode: "The Wife Beater" |
| 1977 | Kojak | Irene Van Patten | 2 episodes |
| 1978 | The Love Boat | Ruth Newman | Episode: "Pacific Princess Overtures.." |
| 1978 | ABC Afterschool Special | Carrie Williams | Episode: "One of a Kind" |
| 1980 | The Pilot | Pat Simpson | |
| 1980 | Fugitive Family | Ellen 'Ellie' Roberts | Television movie |
| 1981 | Trapper John, M.D. | Mrs. Forsyte | Episode: "The Albatross" |
| 1982 | The Blue and the Gray | Evelyn Hale | Miniseries |
| 1983 | Fantasy Island | Fran Woods | Episode: "Saturday's Child.." |
| 1985 | A Woman of Substance | Laura O'Neill | Miniseries |
| 1987 | CBS Schoolbreak Special | Helen Welker-Summers | Episode: "Little Miss Perfect" |
| 1990 | The Closer | Beatrice Grant | |
| 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Senator Ruth Martin | |
| 1991 | The Haunted | Lorraine Warren | Television movie |
| 1992 | Mann & Machine | Delores Peterson | Episode: "Water, Water Everywhere" |
| 1992 | Murder, She Wrote | Mary Forsythe | Episode: "A Christmas Secret" |
| 1993 | Twenty Bucks | Ruth Adams | |
| 1993 | The Joy Luck Club | Mrs. Jordan | |
| 1995 | A Walton Wedding | Charlotte Gilchrist | Television movie |
| 1995 | Chicago Hope | Ellen Rolston | Episode: "Rise from the Dead" |
| 1996 | The Cable Guy | Steven's Mother | |
| 1996 | Courage Under Fire | Louise Boylar | |
| 1997 | Murder at 1600 | Kitty Neil | |
| 1998 | About Sarah | Lila Hollingsworth | Television movie |
| 1998 | The Nanny | Roberta | Episode: "Sara's Parents" |
| 2000 | ER | Louise Duffy | Episode: "The Domino Heart" |
| 2000 | Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis | Rose Kennedy | Television movie |
| 2001 | Harrison's Flowers | Mary Francis | |
| 2001 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Margo Nelson | Episode: "Inheritance" |
| 2002 | First Monday | Arlene Braken | 3 episodes |
| 2002 | On the Roof | Mrs. Arnott | |
| 2003 | Dragnet | Rebecca Barton | Episode: "The Brass Ring" |
| 2003 | A Mighty Wind | Supreme Folk Defense Lawyer | |
| 2005 | The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam | Miss Taylor | |
| 2005 | Unscripted | Diane | 5 episodes |
| 2008 | Harrison Montgomery | Mrs. Cutsworth | |
| 2010 | Lie to Me | Judge Quinn | Episode: "The Whole Truth" |
| 2012 | Hemingway & Gellhorn | Mrs. Gellhorn |
References
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