Warner Baxter

Warner Baxter

Known for

Acting

Born

March 28, 1889

Birthplace

Columbus, Ohio, USA

Died

May 7, 1951 (aged 62)

Biography

Warner Leroy Baxter (March 29, 1889 – May 7, 1951) was an American film actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. Baxter became 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. 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.

Best known work

42nd Street

42nd Street

1933

The Prisoner of Shark Island

The Prisoner of Shark Island

1936

West of Zanzibar

West of Zanzibar

1928

In Old Arizona

In Old Arizona

1928

The Stolen Jools

The Stolen Jools

1931

Broadway Bill

Broadway Bill

1934

Adam Had Four Sons

Adam Had Four Sons

1941

Penthouse

Penthouse

1933

Behind That Curtain

Behind That Curtain

1929

Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938

Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938

1937

Filmography

2007
Busby Berkeley: A Journey with a Star
as Self (archive footage)
1996
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
as Self (archive footage)
1990
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
as (archive footage)
1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1950
State Penitentiary
as Rodger Manners
1949
Prison Warden
as Warden Victor Burnell
1949
The Devil's Henchmen
as Jess Arno
1949
The Crime Doctor's Diary
as Dr. Robert Ordway
1948
The Gentleman from Nowhere
as Earl Donovan / Robert Ashton
1947
The Crime Doctor's Gamble
as Dr. Robert Ordway
1947
The Millerson Case
as Dr. Robert Ordway
1946
Crime Doctor's Man Hunt
as Dr. Robert Ordway
1946
Just Before Dawn
as Dr. Robert Ordway
1945
The Crime Doctor's Warning
as Dr. Robert Ordway
1945
The Crime Doctor's Courage
as Dr. Robert Ordway
1944
Shadows in the Night
as Dr. Robert Ordway
1944
Lady in the Dark
as Kendall Nesbitt
1943
The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
as Dr. Robert Ordway
1943
Crime Doctor
as Dr. Robert J. Ordway / Phillip Morgan
1941
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
as Self (uncredited)
1941
Adam Had Four Sons
as Adam Stoddard
1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self (archive footage)
1940
Earthbound
as Nick Desborough
1939
Barricade
as Hank Topping
1939
Land of Liberty
as (archive footage)