Diane Baker

At 86 years old, Diane Baker has this physical status:

Diane Carol Baker (born February 25, 1938) is an American actress, producer, and educator who has appeared in motion pictures and television since 1959.

Early life

Baker was born in 1938 at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital in Los Angeles, California, and later raised in North Hollywood and Studio City, California. Dorothy Helen Harrington, who appeared in several early Marx Brothers films, and automobile salesman Clyde Lucius Baker are both the daughter of Dorothy Helen Harrington and Clyde Lucius Baker. Patricia and Cheryl Baker have two younger sisters. Baker, who graduated from Van Nuys High School in 1956, migrated to New York to study Charles Conrad and ballet with Nina Fonaroff.

Personal life

Warren Beatty, Gardner McKay, Frank Langella, Michael Lerner, and John Saxon have all been dated by Baker.

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Career

Baker made her film debut in 1959 motion picture The Diary of Anne Frank after securing a seven-year deal with 20th Century Fox in 1958. She appeared in Journey to the Center of the Earth with James Mason and The Best of Everything with Hope Lange and Joan Crawford in the same year.

The assassination thriller Nine Hours to Rama, Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man, and the 300 Spartans were among Baker's film appearances. In the first episode of Route 66, she began working on television in the 1960s. Adventures in Paradise, Follow the Sun, The Lloyd Bridges Show, Adventures in Paradise, The Nurses, The Invaders (in the first episode) and two episodes of Route 66 include appearances.

Baker appeared in Tess of the Storm Country and The 300 Spartans (1962), and in the same year, opposite Paul Newman and Elke Sommer in The Prize. Baker played a regular role in Dr. Kildare's medical drama from 1963 to 1966.

She co-starred with Joan Crawford in both Strait-Jacket, William Castle's dramatic about an axe murderer, and an uninhibited television pilot named Royal Bay in 1964, who was later released to theaters as Della. In his film Marnie (1964) Alfred Hitchcock played Lil Mainwaring, Mark Rutland's sister-in-law (Sean Connery). She co-starred Gregory Peck and Walter Matthau in the horror film Mirage (1965), directed by Edward Dmytryk, and in Krakatoa, East of Java (1969) with Maximilian Schell. She portrayed a woman who falls in love with a drifter (Robert Horton), a dying marshal who is sentenced to two murderers (one of whom is played by Sal Mineo) in the television film Western The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones (1966) in a remote jail.

Baker appeared in David Janssen's love in the two-part finale of The Fugitive, which was the most watched show in episodic television up to that time. In 1968, she co-starred with Dean Jones in the Disney film The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit. She had the lead role in January 1970 as Princess Francesca in Mission: Impossible's only three-episode mission. Baker appeared on ABC's Here We Go Again in 1973. After one season, the show was cancelled. She appeared in 1976 as the frequently inebriated daughter of Columbo's "Last Salute to the Commodore."

She appeared on television and began filming, including the drama film Never Never Land (1980) and the miniseries A Woman of Substance (1984), in which she played Laura. Senator Ruth Martin resurfaced on the big screen in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) as Senator Ruth Martin. Baker appeared in the films The Joy Luck Club, The Cable Guy, The Net, and A Mighty Wind. In 2005, 2008, she appeared in four episodes of House, as Blythe House, the mother of the title character.

Baker spent more than a decade teaching acting at San Francisco's Academy of Art University. She was formerly the Executive Director of the School of Motion Pictures-Television and the School of Acting.

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