Warner Baxter
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| Warner Baxter | |
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| Birth name | Warner Leroy Baxter |
| Born | March 29, 1889 Columbus, Ohio, USA |
| Died | May 7, 1951 Beverly Hills, California, USA |
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| Best Actor 1929 In Old Arizona |
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Warner Baxter (March 29, 1889 - May 7, 1951) was an American actor. Born in Columbus, Ohio, he moved to San Francisco, California when he was nine. Following the 1906 earthquake, he and his family lived in a tent for two weeks. By 1910 Baxter was in vaudeville, and from there began acting on the stage.
Warner Baxter began as an extra in 1918 and quickly rose to become a star. He had his first starring role in 1921, in a film called Sheltered Daughters and he quickly became one of the most popular actors of the decade. He starred in forty-eight features during the 1920s. His most famous starring role was as the Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona (1929), the first all-talking western, for which he won the second Academy Award for Best Actor. He also starred in Broadway Bill (1934) and in Kidnapped (1938).
By 1936, Baxter was the highest paid actor in Hollywood, but by 1943, he had slipped to B-movie roles, and he began to star in a series of Crime Doctor films. Baxter made over a hundred films between 1914 and 1950.
Suffering the pain of arthritis, Baxter had a lobotomy to ease the pain. He died shortly after of pneumonia and was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6290 Hollywood Boulevard.
[edit] Partial Filmography
- Her Own Money (1914; uncredited)
- A Girl's Desire (1922)
- The Ninety and Nine (1922)
- Blow Your Own Horn (1923)
- In Search of a Thrill (1923)
- Those Who Dance (1923) with Blanche Sweet and Bessie Love
- The Garden of Weeds (1924) with Betty Compson
- The Great Gatsby (1926 lost film) with William Powell
- Miss Brewster's Millions (1926) with Bebe Daniels and Ford Sterling
- The Telephone Girl (1927)
- West of Zanzibar (1928; directed by Tod Browning) with Lon Chaney, Sr. and Lionel Barrymore
- A Woman's Way (1928)
- In Old Arizona (1928; as the Cisco Kid)
- The Arizona Kid (1930; as the Cisco Kid)
- The Slippery Pearls (1931; as the Cisco Kid)
- Daddy Long Legs (1931) with Janet Gaynor
- The Cisco Kid (1931)
- Six Hours to Live (1932)
- 42nd Street (1933) with Bebe Daniels and George Brent
- I Loved You Wednesday (1933) with Elissa Landi and Victor Jory
- Paddy the Next Best Thing (1933) with Janet Gaynor
- As Husbands Go (1934)
- Stand Up and Cheer (1934) with Shirley Temple
- Such Women Are Dangerous (1934)
- Broadway Bill (1934; directed by Frank Capra) with Myrna Loy
- One More Spring (1935) with Janet Gaynor
- The Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936)
- Slave Ship (1937) with Wallace Beery
- Kidnapped (1938)
- Return of the Cisco Kid (1939)
- Crime Doctor (1943)
- The Gentleman From Nowhere (1948)
- The Devil's Henchman (1949)
- Prison Warden (1949)
- State Penitentiary (1950)
| Preceded by Emil Jannings for The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh |
Academy Award for Best Actor 1929 for In Old Arizona |
Succeeded by George Arliss for Disraeli |
