Warner Baxter
Actor
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
The Prisoner of Shark Island
as Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd 1936
West of Zanzibar
as Doc 1928
O. Henry's Full House
as Cisco Kid ((Prologue) (archive footage)) (uncredited) 1952
The Stolen Jools
as Cisco Kid Character 1931
In Old Arizona
as The Cisco Kid 1928
Broadway Bill
as Dan Brooks 1934
Penthouse
as Jackson 'Jack' Durant 1933
Adam Had Four Sons
as Adam Stoddard 1941
Behind That Curtain
as Col. John Beetham 1929
Vogues of 1938
as George Curson 1937
Crime Doctor
as Dr. Robert J. Ordway / Phillip Morgan 1943
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
as Self 1935
Stand Up and Cheer!
as Lawrence Cromwell 1934
Hollywood Handicap
as Himself 1938
The Squaw Man
as Jim Wingate - aka Jim Carston 1931
Lady in the Dark
as Kendall Nesbitt 1944