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Warner Baxter

Warner Baxter

Actor · 1889–1951 · Columbus, Ohio, USA

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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.

Acted in 110

1990s

  1. 1990

    Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

    (archive footage)

1950s

  1. 1950

    State Penitentiary

    Rodger Manners

1940s

  1. 1949
  2. The Devil's Henchmen

    Jess Arno

  3. The Crime Doctor's Diary

    Dr. Robert Ordway

  4. 1948

    The Gentleman from Nowhere

    Earl Donovan / Robert Ashton

  5. 1947

    The Crime Doctor's Gamble

    Dr. Robert Ordway

  6. The Millerson Case

    Dr. Robert Ordway

  7. 1946

    Crime Doctor's Man Hunt

    Dr. Robert Ordway

  8. Just Before Dawn

    Dr. Robert Ordway

  9. 1945

    The Crime Doctor's Warning

    Dr. Robert Ordway

  10. The Crime Doctor's Courage

    Dr. Robert Ordway

  11. 1944

    Shadows in the Night

    Dr. Robert Ordway

  12. Lady in the Dark

    Kendall Nesbitt

  13. 1943

    The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case

    Dr. Robert Ordway

  14. Crime Doctor

    Dr. Robert J. Ordway / Phillip Morgan

  15. 1941

    Adam Had Four Sons

    Adam Stoddard

  16. 1940

    Earthbound

    Nick Desborough

1930s

  1. 1939

    Barricade

    Hank Topping

  2. Land of Liberty

    (archive footage)

  3. The Return of the Cisco Kid

    The Cisco Kid

  4. Wife, Husband and Friend

    Leonard Borland aka Logan Bennett

  5. 1938

    I'll Give a Million

    Tony Newlander

  6. 1937

    Wife, Doctor and Nurse

    Dr. Judd Lewis

  7. Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938

    George Curson

  8. Slave Ship

    Jim Lovett

  9. 1936

    White Hunter

    Capt. Clark Rutledge

  10. The Road to Glory

    Captain Paul La Roche

  11. To Mary - with Love

    Jack Wallace

  12. Robin Hood of El Dorado

    Joaquin Murrieta

  13. King of Burlesque

    Kerry Bolton

  14. 1935

    Under the Pampas Moon

    Cesar Campo

  15. One More Spring

    Jaret Otkar

  16. 1934

    Hell in the Heavens

    Lt. Steve Warner

  17. Grand Canary

    Dr Harvey Leith

  18. Such Women Are Dangerous

    Michael Shawn

  19. Stand Up and Cheer!

    Lawrence Cromwell

  20. As Husbands Go

    Charles Lingard

  21. 1933

    Penthouse

    Jackson 'Jack' Durant

  22. Paddy the Next Best Thing

    Lawrence Blake

  23. I Loved You Wednesday

    Philip Fletcher

  24. Dangerously Yours

    Andrew Burke

  25. 1932

    6 Hours to Live

    Captain Paul Onslow

  26. Man About Town

    Stephen Morrow

  27. Amateur Daddy

    Jim Gladden

  28. 1931

    Surrender

    Sergeant Dumaine

  29. The Squaw Man

    Jim Wingate - aka Jim Carston

  30. Their Mad Moment

    Esteban Cristera

  31. Daddy Long Legs

    Jervis Pendleton

  32. The Stolen Jools

    Cisco Kid Character

  33. Doctors' Wives

    Dr. Judson Penning

  34. 1930

    Renegades

    Jean Deucalion

  35. The Voice of Hollywood

    Movie

  36. The Arizona Kid

    The Arizona Kid

  37. Such Men Are Dangerous

    Ludwig Kranz / Pierre Villard

1920s

  1. 1929

    Romance of the Rio Grande

    Pablo Wharton Cameron

  2. Happy Days

    Minstrel Show Performer

  3. Behind That Curtain

    Col. John Beetham

  4. Thru Different Eyes

    Jack Winfield

  5. Linda

    Dr. Paul Randall

  6. 1928
  7. West of Zanzibar

    Doc

  8. Craig's Wife

    Walter Craig

  9. Danger Street

    Rolly Sigsby

  10. Three Sinners

    James Harris

  11. Ramona

    Alessandro

  12. The Tragedy of Youth

    Frank Gordon

  13. A Woman's Way

    Tony

  14. 1927

    Singed

    Royce Wingate

  15. The Coward

    Clinton Philbrook

  16. Drums of the Desert

    John Curry

  17. The Telephone Girl

    Matthew Standish

  18. 1926

    The Great Gatsby

    Jay Gatsby

  19. Mismates

    Ted Carroll

  20. Aloma of the South Seas

    Nuitane

  21. The Runaway

    Wade Murrell

  22. Miss Brewster's Millions

    Thomas B. Hancock Jr

  23. Mannequin

    John Herrick

  24. 1925

    The Best People

    Henry Morgan

  25. A Son of His Father

    Big Boy Morgan

  26. Rugged Water

    Calvin Horner

  27. Welcome Home

    Fred Prouty

  28. The Awful Truth

    Norman Satterlee

  29. The Air Mail

    Russ Kane

  30. The Golden Bed

    Bunny O'Neill

  31. 1924

    The Garden of Weeds

    Douglas Crawford

  32. Christine of the Hungry Heart

    Stuart Knight

  33. The Female

    Col. Valentia

  34. Those Who Dance

    Bob Kane

  35. His Forgotten Wife

    Donald Allen / John Rolfe

  36. Alimony

    Jimmy Mason

  37. 1923

    In Search of a Thrill

    Adrian Torrens

  38. Blow Your Own Horn

    Jack Dunbar

  39. St. Elmo

    Murray Hammond

  40. 1922

    The Ninety and Nine

    Tom Silverton

  41. If I Were Queen

    Vladimir

  42. A Girl's Desire

    Jones / Lord Dysart

  43. Her Own Money

    Lew Alden

  44. 1921

    Cheated Hearts

    Tom Gordon

  45. The Love Charm

    Thomas Morgan

  46. Sheltered Daughters

    Pep Mullins

1910s

  1. 1919

    Lombardi, Ltd.

    Bit Part (uncredited)

  2. 1918

    All Woman

    Bit Part

Appearances8

2000s

  1. 2007

    Busby Berkeley: A Journey with a Star

    Self (archive footage)

1990s

  1. 1996

    Ingrid Bergman Remembered

    Self (archive footage)

1970s

  1. 1975

    Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

    Self (archive footage)

1940s

  1. 1941

    Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1

    Self (uncredited)

  2. 1940

    Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

    Self (archive footage)

1930s

  1. 1938

    Hollywood Handicap

    Himself

  2. 1935

    La Fiesta de Santa Barbara

    Self

  3. 1934

    Studio Highlights

    Self (archive footage)