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Cause of death
  
Role
  
Actor

Name
  
Warner Baxter

Years active
  
1914–1950

Occupation
  
Actor


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Born
  
March 29, 1889 (
1889-03-29
)
Columbus, Ohio, U.S.

Resting place
  
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale

Died
  
May 7, 1951, Beverly Hills, California, United States

Spouse
  
Winifred Bryson (m. 1918–1951), Viola Caldwell (m. 1911–1913)

Parents
  
Edwin F. Baxter, Jane Baxter

Movies
  
In Old Arizona, 42nd Street, The Prisoner of Shark Isla, Penthouse, Adam Had Four Sons

Similar People
  
Irving Cummings, Winifred Bryson, Lloyd Bacon, Gregory Ratoff, Lupe Velez

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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 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.

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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 most notable talkies are In Old Arizona (1929), 42nd Street (1932), Slave Ship (1937), Kidnapped (1938), 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 ten films.

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For his contributions to the motion picture industry, Baxter has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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Early life

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Baxter was born in Columbus, Ohio to Edwin F. Baxter (1867–1889) and Jane Barrett (1869–1962). Baxter was 5 months old when his father died.

Baxter and his mother went to live with her brother in Columbus, Ohio. They later moved to New York City where he became active in dramatics, both participating in school productions and attending plays. In 1898, the two moved to San Francisco where he graduated from Polytechnic High School. When the 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck, Baxter and his mother lived in Golden Gate Park for eight days and then went to live with friends in Alameda for three months. In 1908, they returned to Columbus. After selling farm implements for a living, Baxter worked for four months as the partner of Dorothy Shoemaker in an act on the Keith Vaudeville Circuit.

Film career

Baxter began his film career as an extra in 1914 in a stock company. He had his first starring role in Sheltered Daughters (1921), and starred in 48 features during the 1920s. His most notable silent roles were in The Great Gatsby (1926), Aloma of the South Seas (1926) as an island love interest opposite dancer Gilda Gray, and an alcoholic doctor in West of Zanzibar (1928) with Lon Chaney.

Baxter's most notable 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 42nd Street (1933), Grand Canary (1934), Broadway Bill (1934) and 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 had roles in more than 100 films between 1914 and 1950.

Personal life

Baxter married Viola Caldwell in 1911, but they were soon separated and then divorced in 1913. He married actress Winifred Bryson in 1918, remaining married until his death in 1951.

He was a close friend of William Powell with whom he had starred in three films, and was at Powell's side when Jean Harlow died in 1937.

When not acting, Baxter was an inventor who co-created a searchlight for revolvers in 1935 which allowed a shooter to more clearly see a target at night. He also developed a radio device that would allow emergency crews to change traffic signals from two blocks away, providing them with safe passage through intersections. He financed the device's installation at a Beverly Hills intersection in 1940.

Death

Baxter suffered from arthritis for several years, and in 1951 he underwent a lobotomy to ease the pain. On May 7, 1951, he died of pneumonia at age 62 and was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. He was survived by his second wife and his mother.

Recognition

Baxter has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6284 Hollywood Boulevard for his contributions to the motion picture industry. The induction ceremony occurred on February 8, 1960.

Filmography

Actor
1950
State Penitentiary as
Rodger Manners
1949
Prison Warden as
Warden Victor Burnell
1949
The Devil's Henchman 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 Ordway / Phillip Morgan
1941
Adam Had Four Sons as
Adam Stoddard
1940
Earthbound as
Nick Desborough
1939
Barricade as
Hank Topping
1939
The Return of the Cisco Kid as
The Cisco Kid
1939
Wife, Husband and Friend as
Leonard Borland aka Logan Bennett
1938
I'll Give a Million as
Tony Newlander
1938
Hollywood Handicap (Short) as
Warner Baxter
1938
Kidnapped as
Alan Breck
1937
Wife, Doctor and Nurse as
Dr. Judd Lewis
1937
Vogues of 1938 as
George Curson
1937
Slave Ship as
Jim Lovett
1936
White Hunter as
Capt. Clark Rutledge
1936
To Mary - with Love as
Jack Wallace
1936
The Road to Glory as
Capt. Paul La Roche
1936
Robin Hood of El Dorado as
Joaquin Murrieta
1936
The Prisoner of Shark Island as
Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd
1936
King of Burlesque as
Kerry Bolton
1935
Under the Pampas Moon as
Cesar Campo
1935
One More Spring as
Jaret Otkar
1934
Hell in the Heavens as
Lt. Steve Warner
1934
Broadway Bill as
Dan Brooks
1934
Grand Canary as
Dr. Harvey Leith
1934
Such Women Are Dangerous as
Michael Shawn
1934
Stand Up and Cheer! as
Lawrence Cromwell
1934
As Husbands Go as
Charles Lingard
1933
Penthouse as
Jackson Durant
1933
Paddy the Next Best Thing as
Lawrence Blake
1933
I Loved You Wednesday as
Philip Fletcher
1933
Dangerously Yours as
Andrew Burke
1933
42nd Street as
Julian Marsh
1932
6 Hours to Live as
Capt. Paul Onslow
1932
Man About Town as
Stephen Morrow
1932
Amateur Daddy as
Jim Gladden
1931
Surrender as
Sergeant Dumaine
1931
The Cisco Kid as
The Cisco Kid
1931
The Squaw Man as
Jim Wingate - aka Jim Carston
1931
Their Mad Moment as
Esteban Cristera
1931
Daddy Long Legs as
Jervis Pendleton
1931
The Stolen Jools (Short) as
Cisco Kid Character
1931
Doctors' Wives as
Dr. Judson Penning
1930
Renegades as
Jean Deucalion
1930
The Arizona Kid as
The Arizona Kid
1930
Such Men Are Dangerous as
Ludwig Kranz / Pierre Villard
1929
Romance of the Rio Grande as
Pablo Wharton Cameron
1929
Happy Days as
Minstrel Show Performer
1929
Behind That Curtain as
Colonel John Beetham
1929
Thru Different Eyes as
Jack Winfield
1929
Linda as
Dr. Paul Randall
1928
In Old Arizona as
The Cisco Kid
1928
West of Zanzibar as
Doc
1928
Danger Street as
Rolly Sigsby
1928
Craig's Wife as
Walter Craig
1928
Three Sinners as
James Harris
1928
Ramona as
Alessandro
1928
The Tragedy of Youth as
Frank Gordon
1928
A Woman's Way as
Tony
1927
In Search of a Thrill as
Adrian Torrens
1927
The Coward as
Clinton Philbrook
1927
Singed as
Royce Wingate
1927
Drums of the Desert as
John Curry
1927
The Telephone Girl as
Matthew Standish
1926
The Great Gatsby as
Jay Gatsby
1926
Mismates as
Ted Carroll
1926
Aloma of the South Seas as
Nuitane
1926
The Runaway as
Wade Murrell
1926
Miss Brewster's Millions as
Thomas B. Hancock Jr
1926
Mannequin as
John Herrick
1925
The Best People as
Henry Morgan
1925
A Son of His Father as
Big Boy Morgan
1925
Rugged Water as
Calvin Horner
1925
Welcome Home as
Fred Prouty
1925
The Awful Truth as
Norman Satterlee
1925
The Air Mail as
Russ Kane
1925
The Golden Bed as
Bunny O'Neill
1924
The Garden of Weeds as
Douglas Crawford
1924
Christine of the Hungry Heart as
Stuart Knight
1924
The Female as
Col. Valentia
1924
Those Who Dance as
Bob Kane
1924
His Forgotten Wife as
Donald Allen / John Rolfe
1924
Alimony as
Jimmy Mason
1923
In Search of a Thrill as
Adrian Torrens
1923
Blow Your Own Horn as
Jack Dunbar
1923
St. Elmo as
Murray Hammond
1922
The Ninety and Nine as
Tom Silverton / Phil Bradbury
1922
If I Were Queen as
Vladimir
1922
A Girl's Desire as
Jones / Lord Dysart
1922
The Girl in His Room as
Kirk Waring
1922
Her Own Money as
Lew Alden
1921
First Love as
Donald Halliday
1921
Cheated Hearts as
Tom Gordon
1921
The Love Charm as
Thomas Morgan
1921
Sheltered Daughters as
Pep Mullins
1919
Lombardi, Ltd. as
Bit Part (uncredited)
1918
All Woman as
Bit Part (uncredited)
Soundtrack
1944
Lady in the Dark (performer: "Wedding Dream", "Circus Dream", "The Greatest Show on Earth", "The Saga of Jenny")
1938
Kidnapped (performer: "The Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond" (ca 1745) - uncredited)
1936
King of Burlesque ("Whose Big Baby Are You?" (1935)) / (performer: "Shooting High" (1935))
1935
Under the Pampas Moon (performer: "The Gaucho", "The Cobra Tango (Cuando Llora la Milonga)")
1934
Broadway Bill (performer: "The Last Round-Up (Git Along, Little Dogie, Git Along)" (1933), "Split-Pea Soup and Succotash" - uncredited)
1931
The Cisco Kid (writer: "Song of the Cisco Kid" - uncredited)
1928
In Old Arizona (performer: "My Tonia")
Self
1941
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1 (Documentary short) as
Self (uncredited)
1936
20th Century Fox Promotional Film (Documentary short) as
Self (uncredited)
1935
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara (Short) as
Self
1933
Hollywood on Parade No. A-13 (Short) as
Self
Archive Footage
2019
The Oscars Library: A Tribute to the Academy Awards (TV Series) as
Self
- Al Best Actor & Best Actress Winners Speeches Since 1927/28 (2019) - Self
2006
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage (Video short)
2004
Broadway: The American Musical (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Julian Marsh
- Syncopated City: 1919-1933 (2004) - Julian Marsh
1992
John Ford (TV Movie documentary) as
Dr. Samuel Mudd [in "The Prisoner of Shark Island"] (uncredited)
1990
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1975
Brother Can You Spare a Dime (Documentary)
1963
Hollywood and the Stars (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- The Fabulous Musicals (1963) - Self
- They Went That-a-way (1963) - Self
1959
The Twentieth Century (TV Series documentary) as
The Cisco Kid (clip from In Old Arizona (1928))
- The Movies Learn to Talk (1959) - The Cisco Kid (clip from In Old Arizona (1928))
1952
O. Henry's Full House as
Cisco Kid (clip from 'The Cisco Kid' (Prologue) (uncredited)
1950
The Soundman (Documentary short) as
The Cisco Kid (uncredited)
1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (Documentary short)
1939
Land of Liberty
1934
Studio Highlights (Short) as
Self

References

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