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Warner Baxter

Warner Baxter

Born: 1889-03-28 • Columbus, Ohio, USA

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.

Filmography
Busby Berkeley: A Journey with a Star poster
Busby Berkeley: A Journey with a Star
2007 • Self (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman Remembered poster
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996 • Self (archive footage)
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To poster
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
1990 • (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? poster
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975 • Self (archive footage)
O. Henry's Full House poster
O. Henry's Full House
1952 • Cisco Kid ((Prologue) (archive footage)) (uncredited)
State Penitentiary poster
State Penitentiary
1950 • Rodger Manners
Prison Warden poster
Prison Warden
1949 • Warden Victor Burnell
The Devil's Henchmen poster
The Devil's Henchmen
1949 • Jess Arno
The Crime Doctor's Diary poster
The Crime Doctor's Diary
1949 • Dr. Robert Ordway
The Gentleman from Nowhere poster
The Gentleman from Nowhere
1948 • Earl Donovan / Robert Ashton
The Crime Doctor's Gamble poster
The Crime Doctor's Gamble
1947 • Dr. Robert Ordway
The Millerson Case poster
The Millerson Case
1947 • Dr. Robert Ordway
Crime Doctor's Man Hunt poster
Crime Doctor's Man Hunt
1946 • Dr. Robert Ordway
Just Before Dawn poster
Just Before Dawn
1946 • Dr. Robert Ordway
The Crime Doctor's Warning poster
The Crime Doctor's Warning
1945 • Dr. Robert Ordway
The Crime Doctor's Courage poster
The Crime Doctor's Courage
1945 • Dr. Robert Ordway
Shadows in the Night poster
Shadows in the Night
1944 • Dr. Robert Ordway
Lady in the Dark poster
Lady in the Dark
1944 • Kendall Nesbitt
The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case poster
The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
1943 • Dr. Robert Ordway
Crime Doctor poster
Crime Doctor
1943 • Dr. Robert J. Ordway / Phillip Morgan
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1 poster
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
1941 • Self (uncredited)
Adam Had Four Sons poster
Adam Had Four Sons
1941 • Adam Stoddard
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards poster
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940 • Self (archive footage)
Earthbound poster
Earthbound
1940 • Nick Desborough
Barricade poster
Barricade
1939 • Hank Topping
Land of Liberty poster
Land of Liberty
1939 • (archive footage)
The Return of the Cisco Kid poster
The Return of the Cisco Kid
1939 • The Cisco Kid
Wife, Husband and Friend poster
Wife, Husband and Friend
1939 • Leonard Borland aka Logan Bennett
I'll Give a Million poster
I'll Give a Million
1938 • Tony Newlander
Hollywood Handicap poster
Hollywood Handicap
1938 • Himself
Kidnapped poster
Kidnapped
1938 • Alan Breck
Wife, Doctor and Nurse poster
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937 • Dr. Judd Lewis
Vogues of 1938 poster
Vogues of 1938
1937 • George Curson
Slave Ship poster
Slave Ship
1937 • Jim Lovett
White Hunter poster
White Hunter
1936 • Capt. Clark Rutledge
The Road to Glory poster
The Road to Glory
1936 • Captain Paul La Roche
To Mary - with Love poster
To Mary - with Love
1936 • Jack Wallace
Robin Hood of El Dorado poster
Robin Hood of El Dorado
1936 • Joaquin Murrieta
The Prisoner of Shark Island poster
The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936 • Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd
King of Burlesque poster
King of Burlesque
1936 • Kerry Bolton
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara poster
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
1935 • Self
Under the Pampas Moon poster
Under the Pampas Moon
1935 • Cesar Campo
One More Spring poster
One More Spring
1935 • Jaret Otkar
Hell in the Heavens poster
Hell in the Heavens
1934 • Lt. Steve Warner
Broadway Bill poster
Broadway Bill
1934 • Dan Brooks
No Image
Studio Highlights
1934 • Self (archive footage)
Grand Canary poster
Grand Canary
1934 • Dr Harvey Leith
Such Women Are Dangerous poster
Such Women Are Dangerous
1934 • Michael Shawn
Stand Up and Cheer! poster
Stand Up and Cheer!
1934 • Lawrence Cromwell
As Husbands Go poster
As Husbands Go
1934 • Charles Lingard
Penthouse poster
Penthouse
1933 • Jackson 'Jack' Durant
Paddy the Next Best Thing poster
Paddy the Next Best Thing
1933 • Lawrence Blake
I Loved You Wednesday poster
I Loved You Wednesday
1933 • Philip Fletcher
42nd Street poster
42nd Street
1933 • Julian Marsh
Dangerously Yours poster
Dangerously Yours
1933 • Andrew Burke
6 Hours to Live poster
6 Hours to Live
1932 • Captain Paul Onslow
Man About Town poster
Man About Town
1932 • Stephen Morrow
Amateur Daddy poster
Amateur Daddy
1932 • Jim Gladden
Surrender poster
Surrender
1931 • Sergeant Dumaine
The Cisco Kid poster
The Cisco Kid
1931 • The Cisco Kid
The Squaw Man poster
The Squaw Man
1931 • Jim Wingate - aka Jim Carston
Their Mad Moment poster
Their Mad Moment
1931 • Esteban Cristera
Daddy Long Legs poster
Daddy Long Legs
1931 • Jervis Pendleton
The Stolen Jools poster
The Stolen Jools
1931 • Cisco Kid Character
Doctors' Wives poster
Doctors' Wives
1931 • Dr. Judson Penning
Renegades poster
Renegades
1930 • Jean Deucalion
No Image
The Voice of Hollywood
1930
The Arizona Kid poster
The Arizona Kid
1930 • The Arizona Kid
Such Men Are Dangerous poster
Such Men Are Dangerous
1930 • Ludwig Kranz / Pierre Villard
Romance of the Rio Grande poster
Romance of the Rio Grande
1929 • Pablo Wharton Cameron
Happy Days poster
Happy Days
1929 • Minstrel Show Performer
Behind That Curtain poster
Behind That Curtain
1929 • Col. John Beetham
Thru Different Eyes poster
Thru Different Eyes
1929 • Jack Winfield
Linda poster
Linda
1929 • Dr. Paul Randall
In Old Arizona poster
In Old Arizona
1928 • The Cisco Kid
West of Zanzibar poster
West of Zanzibar
1928 • Doc
Craig's Wife poster
Craig's Wife
1928 • Walter Craig
Danger Street poster
Danger Street
1928 • Rolly Sigsby
Three Sinners poster
Three Sinners
1928 • James Harris
Ramona poster
Ramona
1928 • Alessandro
The Tragedy of Youth poster
The Tragedy of Youth
1928 • Frank Gordon
A Woman's Way poster
A Woman's Way
1928 • Tony
Singed poster
Singed
1927 • Royce Wingate
The Coward poster
The Coward
1927 • Clinton Philbrook
Drums of the Desert poster
Drums of the Desert
1927 • John Curry
The Telephone Girl poster
The Telephone Girl
1927 • Matthew Standish
The Great Gatsby poster
The Great Gatsby
1926 • Jay Gatsby
Mismates poster
Mismates
1926 • Ted Carroll
Aloma of the South Seas poster
Aloma of the South Seas
1926 • Nuitane
The Runaway poster
The Runaway
1926 • Wade Murrell
Miss Brewster's Millions poster
Miss Brewster's Millions
1926 • Thomas B. Hancock Jr
Mannequin poster
Mannequin
1926 • John Herrick
The Best People poster
The Best People
1925 • Henry Morgan
A Son of His Father poster
A Son of His Father
1925 • Big Boy Morgan
Rugged Water poster
Rugged Water
1925 • Calvin Horner
Welcome Home poster
Welcome Home
1925 • Fred Prouty
The Awful Truth poster
The Awful Truth
1925 • Norman Satterlee
The Air Mail poster
The Air Mail
1925 • Russ Kane
The Golden Bed poster
The Golden Bed
1925 • Bunny O'Neill
The Garden of Weeds poster
The Garden of Weeds
1924 • Douglas Crawford