Profile
Diane Baker
Actress
Female
Born
Feb 25, 1938
Age
75
Hometown
Los Angeles
Other Names
Diane Carol Baker
Diane Carol Baker is an American actress who has appeared in motion pictures and on television since 1959.
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Local Elections 2012: City Counts On Its Election TeamThe Evening Telegraph - May 01, 2012
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1938
Birth
Born on February 25, 1938.
TWENTIES
1959
21 Years Old
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.
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1960
22 Years Old
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.
1964
26 Years Old
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.
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1967
29 Years Old
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.
THIRTIES
1968
30 Years Old
In 1968, she co-starred with Dean Jones in the Disney film The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit.
1970
32 Years Old
In January 1970, she had the lead guest-starring female role as Princess Francesca in the only three-episode mission of Mission: Impossible.
1976
38 Years Old
In 1976, she played the alcoholic daughter of the title character of the Columbo episode "Last Salute to the Commodore".
FORTIES
1980
42 Years Old
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.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
2005
67 Years Old
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.
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