Warner Leroy Baxter (March 29, 1889 – May 7, 1951) was an American film actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. Baxter is known for his role as the Cisco Kid in the 1928 film In Old Arizona, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 2nd Academy Awards.[1] He frequently played womanizing, charismatic Latin bandit types in Westerns, and played the Cisco Kid or a similar character throughout the 1930s, but had a range of other roles throughout his career.
Baxter began his movie career in silent films with his most notable roles being in The Great Gatsby (1926) and The Awful Truth (1925). Baxter's notable sound films are In Old Arizona (1929), 42nd Street (1933), Slave Ship (1937) with Wallace Beery, Kidnapped (1938) with Freddie Bartholomew, and the 1931 ensemble short film The Stolen Jools. In the 1940s, he was well known for his recurring role as Dr. Robert Ordway in the Crime Doctor series of 10 films.
For his contributions to the motion-picture industry, Baxter has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[2]
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Warner Leroy Baxter (March 29, 1889 – May 7, 1951) was an American film actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. Baxter is known for his role as the Cisco Kid...
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portrayal of the Kid in the early sound film In Old Arizona (1928), WarnerBaxter won the second Best Actor Oscar. This film was a revised version of...
repeated the role for 112 performances. That same year, screen actor WarnerBaxter played the role in the lost 1926 silent film adaptation. During the...
produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, was directed by John Ford and starred WarnerBaxter and Gloria Stuart. Twentieth Century Pictures, before it merged with...
creating the image of the singing cowboy, as its star, WarnerBaxter, does some incidental singing. Baxter went on to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for...
drama film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Ingrid Bergman, WarnerBaxter, Susan Hayward, and Fay Wray, Adam Stoddard is a wealthy, easy-going...
Incomplete film; one reel is missing Renegades Eleanore Victor Fleming WarnerBaxter, Noah Beery, Bela Lugosi The Truth About Youth Kara - the Firefly William...
(1926) with Gloria Swanson Mismates (1926) with WarnerBaxter The Great Gatsby (1926) with WarnerBaxter and William Powell Girl on the Barge (1929) with...
American Western film directed by James Tinling and starring WarnerBaxter and Ketti Gallian. Baxter plays an Argentine gaucho. Rita Hayworth also had an early...
Patent Leather Kid Charlie Chaplin[B] The Tramp The Circus 1928/29 (2nd) WarnerBaxter ‡ The Cisco Kid In Old Arizona George Bancroft Thunderbolt Jim Lang...
ended with the advent of talkies. She was married twice, first to actor WarnerBaxter from 1918 until his death in 1951, and then to Ferdinand H. Manger until...
1931 play As Husbands Go by Rachel Crothers. The film stars WarnerBaxter, Helen Vinson, Warner Oland, Catherine Doucet, G. P. Huntley, Frank O'Connor, and...
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Pickford Daddy Long Legs (1931 film), a musical starring Janet Gaynor and WarnerBaxter Daddy Long Legs (1938 film), a Dutch romantic comedy Daddy Long Legs...
"past their prime". These included Chester Morris as Boston Blackie, WarnerBaxter as the Crime Doctor, Warren William as the Lone Wolf and Basil Rathbone...
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