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Diane Baker

Diane Baker
Diane Baker
Born: Feb 25, 1938 in Hollywood, California
Occupation: Actor,
Active: '60s-'70s, '90s-2000s
Major Genres: Drama, Mystery
Career Highlights: Mirage, The Prize, The Cable Guy
First Major Screen Credit: Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
12 Videos for Diane Baker
Mulholland Dr. (2001) The Cable Guy (1996) The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Harrison's Flowers (2000) The Net (1995) The Closer (1990)
Murder at 1600 (1997) Imaginary Crimes (1994) Krakatoa, East of Java (1969)
Courage Under Fire (1996) Twenty Bucks (1993) Marnie (1964)
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Biography:

Actress Diane Baker's well-scrubbed, all-American beauty has frequently been employed as a cool veneer for film characters of smoldering passions. The daughter of actress Dorothy Harrington, Diane was studying at USC when she was tapped for her first film role as Millie Perkins' sister in 20th Century-Fox's The Diary of Anne Frank (1959); the studio then cast Diane as Pat Boone's girl back home, who didn't get to go along on Boone's Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959).

She remained at Fox until 1962, essaying the title role in the studio's re-remake of Tess of the Storm Country (1961). Her most famous screen assignment was at Columbia, where she portrayed axe murderess Joan Crawford's supposedly well-balanced daughter in Straitjacket (1963). Diane became a documentary director in the 1970s with Ashanya, and a producer with Never Never Land (1982).

The best of Diane Baker's latter-day roles was the media-savvy politico mother of the kidnap victim in Silence of the Lambs (1991). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.