Warner Baxter
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Born | Warner Leroy Baxter March 29, 1889 Columbus, Ohio, U.S. |
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Died | May 7, 1951 (aged 62) Beverly Hills, California, U.S. |
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Occupation | Stage, film actor | ||||||||||
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Warner Leroy Baxter (March 29, 1889 – May 7, 1951) was an American Academy Award–winning actor who is best known for his role as The Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona.
Baxter was born in Columbus, Ohio, and moved to San Francisco, California with his widowed mother in 1898, when he was nine. Following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, he and his family lived in a tent for two weeks. By 1910 Baxter was in vaudeville, and from there began acting on the stage.
Baxter began as an extra in 1918 and quickly rose to become a star. He had his first starring role in 1921, in a film called Sheltered Daughters and he quickly became one of the most popular actors of the decade. He starred in forty-eight features during the 1920s. His most famous starring role was as the Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona (1929), the first all-talking western, for which he won the second Academy Award for Best Actor. He also starred in Grand Canary (1934), Broadway Bill (1934) and in Kidnapped (1938).
By 1936, Baxter was the highest paid actor in Hollywood, but by 1943, he had slipped to B-movie roles, and he starred in a series of Crime Doctor films for Columbia Pictures. Baxter made over a hundred films between 1914 and 1950. He was married to actress Winifred Bryson from 1918 to his death.
Suffering the pain of arthritis, Baxter had an ill-advised lobotomy to ease the pain. He died shortly after of pneumonia and was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6290 Hollywood Boulevard.
[edit] Filmography
Year | Film | Role | Other notes |
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1914 | Her Own Money | uncredited | |
1918 | All Woman | uncredited | |
1919 | Lombardi, Ltd. | uncredited | |
1921 | First Love | Donald Halliday | |
Cheated Hearts | Tom Gordon | ||
The Love Charm | Thomas Morgan | ||
Sheltered Daughters | Pep Mullins | ||
1922 | If I Were Queen | Vladimir | |
A Girl's Desire | Jones/Lord Dysart | ||
The Ninety and Nine | Tom Silverton/Phil Bradbury | ||
The Girl in His Room | Kirk Waring | ||
Her Own Money | Lew Alden | ||
1923 | St. Elmo | Murray Hammond | |
Blow Your Own Horn | Jack Dunbar | ||
In Search of a Thrill | Adrian Torrens | ||
Those Who Dance | Bob Kane | ||
1924 | Christine of the Hungry Heart | Stuart Knight | |
The Female | Col. Valentia | ||
His Forgotten Wife | Donald Allen/John Rolfe | ||
Alimony | Jimmy Mason | ||
The Garden of Weeds | Douglas Crawford | ||
1925 | The Best People | Henry Morgan | |
A Son of His Father | Big Boy Morgan | ||
Rugged Water | Calvin Horner | ||
Welcome Home | Fred Prouty | ||
The Awful Truth | Norman Satterlee | ||
The Air Mail | Russ Kane | ||
The Golden Bed | Bunny O'Neill | ||
Mismates | Ted Carroll | ||
1926 | Aloma of the South Seas | Nuitane | |
The Runaway | Wade Murrell | ||
Mannequin | John Herrick | ||
The Great Gatsby | Jay Gatsby | now a lost film | |
Miss Brewster's Millions | Thomas B. Hancock Jr | ||
1927 | The Coward | Clinton Philbrook | |
Singed | Royce Wingate | ||
Drums of the Desert | John Curry | ||
The Telephone Girl | Matthew Standish | ||
Craig's Wife | Walter Craig | ||
1928 | Danger Street | Rolly Sigsby | |
Ramona | Alessandro | ||
Three Sinners | James Harris | ||
The Tragedy of Youth | Frank Gordon | ||
West of Zanzibar | Doc | directed by Tod Browning | |
A Woman's Way | Tony | ||
In Old Arizona | The Cisco Kid | Academy Award for Best Actor | |
1929 | Romance of the Rio Grande | Pablo Wharton Cameron | |
Behind That Curtain | Col. John Beetham | ||
The Far Call | |||
Thru Different Eyes | Jack Winfield | ||
Linda | Dr. Paul Randall | ||
1930 | Renegades | Deucalion | |
Such Men Are Dangerous | Ludwig Kranz | ||
The Arizona Kid | The Cisco Kid | ||
The Squaw Man | James 'Jim' Wingate, aka Jim Carston | ||
1931 | Their Mad Moment | Esteban Cristera | |
Doctors' Wives | Dr. Judson Penning | ||
The Stolen Jools | The Cisco Kid | ||
Daddy Long Legs | Jervis Pendleton | ||
The Cisco Kid | The Cisco Kid | ||
Surrender | Sgt. Dumaine | ||
1932 | Six Hours to Live | Capt. Paul Onslow | |
Man About Town | Stephen Morrow | ||
Amateur Daddy | Jim Gladden | ||
1933 | Dangerously Yours | Andrew Burke | |
42nd Street | Julian Marsh | ||
I Loved You Wednesday | Philip Fletcher | ||
Paddy the Next Best Thing | Lawrence Blake | ||
Penthouse | Jackson 'Jack' Durant | ||
1934 | Hell in the Heavens | Lt. Steve Warner | |
As Husbands Go | Charles Lingard | ||
Grand Canary | Dr. Harvey Leith | ||
Stand Up and Cheer! | Lawrence Cromwell | ||
Such Women Are Dangerous | Michael Shawn | ||
Broadway Bill | Dan Brooks | ||
1935 | Under the Pampas Moon | Cesar Campo | |
One More Spring | Jaret Otkar | ||
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara | Short film | ||
1936 | White Hunter | Capt. Clark Rutledge | |
To Mary - with Love | Jack Wallace | ||
The Road to Glory | Captain Paul La Roche | ||
The Prisoner of Shark Island | Dr. Samuel Mudd | ||
King of Burlesque | Kerry Bolton | ||
The Robin Hood of El Dorado | Joaquin Murrieta | ||
1937 | Wife, Doctor and Nurse | Dr. Judd Lewis | |
Vogues of 1938 | George Curson | ||
Slave Ship | Jim Lovett | ||
1938 | I'll Give a Million | Tony Newlander | |
Kidnapped | Alan Breck | ||
1939 | Barricade | Hank Topping | |
Wife, Husband and Friend | Leonard Borland aka Logan Bennett | ||
Return of the Cisco Kid | The Cisco Kid | ||
1940 | Earthbound | Nick Desborough | |
1941 | Adam Had Four Sons | Adam Stoddard | |
1943 | Crime Doctor | Dr. Robert Ordway, formerly Phil Morgan | first of 10 films in the Crime Doctor B-film series |
Crime Doctor's Strangest Case | Dr. Robert Ordway | ||
1944 | Shadows in the Night | Dr. Robert Ordway | |
Lady in the Dark | Kendall Nesbitt | ||
1945 | Crime Doctor's Warning | Dr. Robert Ordway | |
The Crime Doctor's Courage | Dr. Robert Ordway | ||
1946 | Crime Doctor's Man Hunt | Dr. Robert Ordway | |
Just Before Dawn | Dr. Robert Ordway | ||
1947 | Crime Doctor's Gamble | Dr. Robert Ordway | |
The Millerson Case | Dr. Robert Ordway | ||
1948 | The Gentleman From Nowhere | Earl Donovan/Robert Ashton | |
1949 | The Crime Doctor's Diary | Dr. Robert Ordway | last of the Crime Doctor series |
The Devil's Henchman | Jess Arno | ||
Prison Warden | Warden Victor Burnell | ||
1950 | State Penitentiary | Rodger Manners | |
1952 | O. Henry's Full House | clip of Baxter from The Cisco Kid |
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Warner Baxter at the Internet Movie Database
- Warner Baxter at Allmovie
- Warner Baxter at Find A Grave
- Photographs of Warner Baxter
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NAME | Baxter, Warner |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baxter, Warner Leroy |
SHORT DESCRIPTION | Actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1889 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Columbus, Ohio, U.S. |
DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 1951 |
PLACE OF DEATH | Beverly Hills, California, U.S. |