Webactress eleanor parker, who was best known for playing the baroness in the sound of music, has died aged 91 in california. Family friend richard gale said she. Family friend richard gale said. She found hollywood fame in the early fifties when she was. Webeleanor parker was an actress of patrician beauty nicknamed the woman of a thousand faces for the range of parts she played, from a terrified prisoner in caged to. Webeleanor parker, an actress of patrician beauty nicknamed “the woman of a thousand faces” for the range of parts she played, from a terrified prisoner in “caged” to.