Warner Baxter

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

Died: 1951-05-07

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.

Filmography

• First Love (1921)
• 42nd Street (1933)
• Prison Warden (1949)
• The Crime Doctor's Gamble (1947)
• Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
• The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
• The Devil's Henchmen (1949)
• Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
• Slave Ship (1937)
• Broadway Bill (1934)
• Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 (1937)
• Amateur Daddy (1932)
• Mismates (1926)
• West of Zanzibar (1928)
• The Road to Glory (1936)
• Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
• Land of Liberty (1939)
• The Crime Doctor's Diary (1949)
• The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case (1943)
• Danger Street (1928)
• The Stolen Jools (1931)
• Penthouse (1933)
• 6 Hours to Live (1932)
• The Return of the Cisco Kid (1939)
• Hollywood Handicap (1938)
• Hell in the Heavens (1934)
• Romance of the Rio Grande (1929)
• The Girl in His Room (1922)
• King of Burlesque (1936)
• Three Sinners (1928)