Warner Baxter
Acting
Born March 28, 1889, 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
- 1990Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To — (archive footage)
- 1950State Penitentiary — Rodger Manners
- 1949Prison Warden — Warden Victor Burnell
- 1949The Crime Doctor's Diary — Dr. Robert Ordway
- 1949The Devil's Henchmen — Jess Arno
- 1948The Gentleman from Nowhere — Earl Donovan / Robert Ashton
- 1947The Crime Doctor's Gamble — Dr. Robert Ordway
- 1947The Millerson Case — Dr. Robert Ordway
- 1946Crime Doctor's Man Hunt — Dr. Robert Ordway
- 1946Just Before Dawn — Dr. Robert Ordway
- 1945The Crime Doctor's Courage — Dr. Robert Ordway
- 1945The Crime Doctor's Warning — Dr. Robert Ordway
- 1944Lady in the Dark — Kendall Nesbitt
- 1944Shadows in the Night — Dr. Robert Ordway
- 1943Crime Doctor — Dr. Robert J. Ordway / Phillip Morgan
- 1943The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case — Dr. Robert Ordway
- 1941Adam Had Four Sons — Adam Stoddard
- 1940Earthbound — Nick Desborough
- 1939Barricade — Hank Topping
- 1939Land of Liberty — (archive footage)
- 1939The Return of the Cisco Kid — The Cisco Kid
- 1939Wife, Husband and Friend — Leonard Borland aka Logan Bennett
- 1938I'll Give a Million — Tony Newlander
- 1938Kidnapped — Alan Breck
- 1937Slave Ship — Jim Lovett
- 1937Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 — George Curson
- 1937Wife, Doctor and Nurse — Dr. Judd Lewis
- 1936King of Burlesque — Kerry Bolton
- 1936Robin Hood of El Dorado — Joaquin Murrieta
- 1936The Prisoner of Shark Island — Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd
- 1936The Road to Glory — Captain Paul La Roche
- 1936To Mary - with Love — Jack Wallace
- 1936White Hunter — Capt. Clark Rutledge
- 1935One More Spring — Jaret Otkar
- 1935Under the Pampas Moon — Cesar Campo
- 1934As Husbands Go — Charles Lingard
- 1934Broadway Bill — Dan Brooks
- 1934Grand Canary — Dr Harvey Leith
- 1934Hell in the Heavens — Lt. Steve Warner
- 1934Stand Up and Cheer! — Lawrence Cromwell
- 1934Such Women Are Dangerous — Michael Shawn
- 193342nd Street — Julian Marsh
- 1933Dangerously Yours — Andrew Burke
- 1933I Loved You Wednesday — Philip Fletcher
- 1933Paddy the Next Best Thing — Lawrence Blake
- 1933Penthouse — Jackson 'Jack' Durant
- 19326 Hours to Live — Captain Paul Onslow
- 1932Amateur Daddy — Jim Gladden
- 1932Man About Town — Stephen Morrow
- 1931Daddy Long Legs — Jervis Pendleton
- 1931Doctors' Wives — Dr. Judson Penning
- 1931Surrender — Sergeant Dumaine
- 1931The Cisco Kid — The Cisco Kid
- 1931The Squaw Man — Jim Wingate - aka Jim Carston
- 1931The Stolen Jools — Cisco Kid Character
- 1931Their Mad Moment — Esteban Cristera
- 1930Renegades — Jean Deucalion
- 1930Such Men Are Dangerous — Ludwig Kranz / Pierre Villard
- 1930The Arizona Kid — The Arizona Kid
- 1930The Voice of Hollywood
- 1929Behind That Curtain — Col. John Beetham
- 1929Happy Days — Minstrel Show Performer
- 1929Linda — Dr. Paul Randall
- 1929Romance of the Rio Grande — Pablo Wharton Cameron
- 1929Thru Different Eyes — Jack Winfield
- 1928A Woman's Way — Tony
- 1928Craig's Wife — Walter Craig
- 1928Danger Street — Rolly Sigsby
- 1928In Old Arizona — The Cisco Kid
- 1928Ramona — Alessandro
- 1928The Tragedy of Youth — Frank Gordon
- 1928Three Sinners — James Harris
- 1928West of Zanzibar — Doc
- 1927Drums of the Desert — John Curry
- 1927Singed — Royce Wingate
- 1927The Coward — Clinton Philbrook
- 1927The Telephone Girl — Matthew Standish
- 1926Aloma of the South Seas — Nuitane
- 1926Mannequin — John Herrick
- 1926Mismates — Ted Carroll
- 1926Miss Brewster's Millions — Thomas B. Hancock Jr
- 1926The Great Gatsby — Jay Gatsby
- 1926The Runaway — Wade Murrell
- 1925A Son of His Father — Big Boy Morgan
- 1925Rugged Water — Calvin Horner
- 1925The Air Mail — Russ Kane
- 1925The Awful Truth — Norman Satterlee
- 1925The Best People — Henry Morgan
- 1925The Golden Bed — Bunny O'Neill
- 1925Welcome Home — Fred Prouty
- 1924Alimony — Jimmy Mason
- 1924Christine of the Hungry Heart — Stuart Knight
- 1924His Forgotten Wife — Donald Allen / John Rolfe
- 1924The Female — Col. Valentia
- 1924The Garden of Weeds — Douglas Crawford
- 1924Those Who Dance — Bob Kane
- 1923Blow Your Own Horn — Jack Dunbar
- 1923In Search of a Thrill — Adrian Torrens
- 1923St. Elmo — Murray Hammond
- 1922A Girl's Desire — Jones / Lord Dysart
- 1922Her Own Money — Lew Alden
- 1922If I Were Queen — Vladimir
- 1922The Girl in His Room — Kirk Waring
- 1922The Ninety and Nine — Tom Silverton
- 1921Cheated Hearts — Tom Gordon
- 1921First Love — Donald Halliday
- 1921Sheltered Daughters — Pep Mullins
- 1921The Love Charm — Thomas Morgan
- 1919Lombardi, Ltd. — Bit Part (uncredited)
- 1918All Woman — Bit Part
Appearances as themselves (8)
- 2007Busby Berkeley: A Journey with a Star — Self (archive footage)
- 1996Ingrid Bergman Remembered — Self (archive footage)
- 1975Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? — Self (archive footage)
- 1941Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1 — Self (uncredited)
- 1940Cavalcade of the Academy Awards — Self (archive footage)
- 1938Hollywood Handicap — Himself
- 1935La Fiesta de Santa Barbara — Self
- 1934Studio Highlights — Self (archive footage)