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Warner Baxter

Born	Warner Leroy Baxter March 29, 1889(1889-03-29) Columbus, Ohio, United States
Died	May 7, 1951 (aged 62) Beverly Hills, California, United States
Occupation	actor
Spouse(s)	Viola Caldwell (?-?) Winifried Bryson (1918–1951)

Warner Leroy Baxter (March 29, 1889 – May 7, 1951) was an American actor, known for his role as The Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona, for which he won the second Academy Award for Best Actor.

1 Background
2 Career
3 Personal life
4 Filmography
5 References
6 External links

Background

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.

Career

Baxter began his movie career 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. He starred in 48 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 42nd Street (1933), Grand Canary (1934), Broadway Bill (1934) and in Kidnapped (1938).

By 1936, Baxter was the highest paid actor in Hollywood,^{[citation needed]} 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 100 films between 1914 and 1950.

Personal life

Baxter married actress Winifred Bryson in 1918, remaining married until his death in 1951. Suffering the pain of arthritis, Baxter had a 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.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
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
1938	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
1943	Crime Doctor's Strangest Case	Dr. Robert Ordway
1944	Shadows in the Night	Dr. Robert Ordway
1944	Lady in the Dark	Kendall Nesbitt
1945	Crime Doctor's Warning	Dr. Robert Ordway
1945	The Crime Doctor's Courage	Dr. Robert Ordway
1946	Crime Doctor's Man Hunt	Dr. Robert Ordway
1946	Just Before Dawn	Dr. Robert Ordway
1947	Crime Doctor's Gamble	Dr. Robert Ordway
1947	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

References

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External links

Warner Baxter at the Internet Movie Database
Warner Baxter at Allmovie
Warner Baxter at Find a Grave
Photographs of Warner Baxter

Academy Award for Best Actor

Emil Jannings (1928) · Warner Baxter (1929) · George Arliss (1930) · Lionel Barrymore (1931) · Fredric March / Wallace Beery (1932) · Charles Laughton (1933) · Clark Gable (1934) · Victor McLaglen (1935) · Paul Muni (1936) · Spencer Tracy (1937) · Spencer Tracy (1938) · Robert Donat (1939) · James Stewart (1940)

Complete List · (1928–1940) · (1941–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001-present)

Persondata
NAME	Baxter, Warner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Baxter, Warner Leroy
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 29, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH	Columbus, Ohio, United States
DATE OF DEATH	May 7, 1951
PLACE OF DEATH	Beverly Hills, California, United States

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