Warner Baxter

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.
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 1889-03-28 · Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Died
- 1951-05-07
Known for
- 42nd Street (1933) — Julian Marsh
- The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) — Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd
- West of Zanzibar (1928) — Doc
- In Old Arizona (1928) — The Cisco Kid
- The Stolen Jools (1931) — Cisco Kid Character
- Broadway Bill (1934) — Dan Brooks
- Adam Had Four Sons (1941) — Adam Stoddard
- Penthouse (1933) — Jackson 'Jack' Durant
- Behind That Curtain (1929) — Col. John Beetham
- Hollywood Handicap (1938) — Himself
- Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 (1937) — George Curson
- Crime Doctor (1943) — Dr. Robert J. Ordway / Phillip Morgan
- La Fiesta de Santa Barbara (1935) — Self
- Stand Up and Cheer! (1934) — Lawrence Cromwell
- Lady in the Dark (1944) — Kendall Nesbitt
- The Squaw Man (1931) — Jim Wingate - aka Jim Carston