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Diane Baker

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Biography

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

Notable films

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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

The Cable Guy

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Silence of the Lambs

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Marnie

As Lil Mainwaring

The Net

As Mrs. Bennett

The Surrogate

As Louise

Krakatoa, East of Java

As Laura Travers

The 300 Spartans

As Ellas

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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When the Cartoon Fights Back: Slapstick Meets Liability

What happens when simulated harm, comic violence, or staged ordeals crash into real-world consequences? This collection explores the unsettling borderland where...

8 films

When Studios Marry: Films Born of Corporate Chaos

From the ashes of mergers and acquisitions come some of cinema's most fascinating experiments. This chain traces how boardroom decisions shaped the art on scree...

8 films

From Oscar Glory to Genre Gold: A Career Reinvention Chain

Trace the arc of performers who swapped prestige for pulp, and found a different kind of immortality in genre cinema.

4 films

The Mind's Eye: Crime Films of Obsession and Interiority

From a detective's haunted pursuit to a killer's fractured psyche, this chain traces cinema's most intimate crime stories, where the real action happens inside...

8 films

What Lies Beneath the Surface of the World

From Tom Cruise's relentless deep-earth driller to Martian relics under the London Underground, this is a descent through cinema's fascination with what waits b...

10 films

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