Warner Baxter

Actor

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Also Known As

Warner Leroy Baxter

Birth Place

Columbus, Ohio, USA

Born

March 29, 1889

Died

May 07, 1951

Cause of Death

Pneumonia Following A Lobotomy

Biography

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Entered movies in 1918 and emerged as a star in his first sound film, "In Old Arizona" (1929), playing the Cisco Kid. A capable middle-aged lead through the 1930s in such fine films as "Daddy Long Legs" (1931), "One More Spring" (1935), "Thr Prisoner of Shark Island" (1936) and "The Road to Glory" (1936), Baxter suffered a sharp career decline following a nervous breakdown in the early 1...

Filmography

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State Penitentiary (1950)

The Crime Doctor's Diary (1949)

Dr. Robert Ordway

Prison Warden (1949)

The Devil's Henchman (1949)

Devil's Henchmen (1949)

The Gentleman from Nowhere (1948)

Earl Donovan/Robert Ashton

Photos & Videos

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42nd Street (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Shuffle Off To Buffalo

42nd Street (1933) -- (Movie Ciip) Musical Comedy with Dancing!

Family & Companions

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Viola Caldwell

Wife

Winifred Bryson

Wife

Actor. Second wife; married in 1918; appeared opposite husband in "The Awful Truth" (1925).

Biography

Entered movies in 1918 and emerged as a star in his first sound film, "In Old Arizona" (1929), playing the Cisco Kid. A capable middle-aged lead through the 1930s in such fine films as "Daddy Long Legs" (1931), "One More Spring" (1935), "Thr Prisoner of Shark Island" (1936) and "The Road to Glory" (1936), Baxter suffered a sharp career decline following a nervous breakdown in the early 1940s. He did keep working until shortly before his death, including appearances in a series of "Crime Doctor" mysteries, though many of his final films were low-budget affairs. He was married to silent screen performer Winifred Bryson.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

State Penitentiary (1950)

The Crime Doctor's Diary (1949)

Dr. Robert Ordway

Prison Warden (1949)

The Devil's Henchman (1949)

Devil's Henchmen (1949)

The Gentleman from Nowhere (1948)

Earl Donovan/Robert Ashton

The Crime Doctor's Gamble (1947)

The Millerson Case (1947)

Dr. Robert Ordway

Crime Doctor's Man Hunt (1946)

Dr. Robert Ordway

Just Before Dawn (1946)

Dr. Robert Ordway

The Crime Doctor's Courage (1945)

Dr. Robert Ordway

The Crime Doctor's Warning (1945)

Dr. Robert Ordway

Shadows in the Night (1944)

Dr. Robert Ordway

Lady in the Dark (1944)

Kendall Nesbitt

Crime Doctor (1943)

Robert Ordway, previously known as Phil Morgan

The Crime Doctor's Strangest Case (1943)

Adam Had Four Sons (1941)

Earthbound (1940)

Nick Desborough

Barricade (1939)

Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)

Leonard Borland [also known as Logan Bennett]

The Return of the Cisco Kid (1939)

The Cisco Kid, also known as Señor Gonzales Sebastian Rodrigo Don Juan Chicquello

Kidnapped (1938)

I'll Give a Million (1938)

Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937)

Slave Ship (1937)

Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 (1937)

The Road to Glory (1936)

Captain Paul La Roche

The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)

Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd

Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936)

Joaquin Murrieta

To Mary--With Love (1936)

John "Jock" Wallace

King of Burlesque (1936)

White Hunter (1936)

Captain Clark Rutledge [also known as Jim Clark]

One More Spring (1935)

Under the Pampas Moon (1935)

Such Women Are Dangerous (1934)

Broadway Bill (1934)

Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)

Lawrence Cromwell

Hell in the Heavens (1934)

Lieutenant Steve Warner

Grand Canary (1934)

Dr. Harvey Leith

Paddy the Next Best Thing (1933)

As Husbands Go (1933)

Charles Lingard

Dangerously Yours (1933)

I Loved You Wednesday (1933)

Philip Fletcher

Penthouse (1933)

42nd Street (1933)

Man About Town (1932)

6 Hours to Live (1932)

Amateur Daddy (1932)

Their Mad Moment (1931)

Esteban Cristera

Daddy Long Legs (1931)

Jervis Pendleton

The Squaw Man (1931)

Capt. James Wyngate, later known as Jim Carsten

The Cisco Kid (1931)

Surrender (1931)

Sergeant Dumaine

Doctors' Wives (1931)

Dr. Judson Penning

Such Men Are Dangerous (1930)

Renegades (1930)

The Arizona Kid (1930)

The Arizona Kid

Happy Days (1930)

Dr. Paul Randall

Romance of the Rio Grande (1929)

Pablo Wharton Cameron

Behind That Curtain (1929)

In Old Arizona (1929)

Thru Different Eyes (1929)

Craig's Wife (1928)

A Woman's Way (1928)

The Tragedy of Youth (1928)

Three Sinners (1928)

Danger Street (1928)

West of Zanzibar (1928)

Drums of the Desert (1927)

The Coward (1927)

Clinton Philbrook

The Telephone Girl (1927)

Matthew Standish

The Runaway (1926)

Miss Brewster's Millions (1926)

Thomas B. Hancock, Jr.

Mannequin (1926)

Mismates (1926)

The Great Gatsby (1926)

Aloma of the South Seas (1926)

The Golden Bed (1925)

The Awful Truth (1925)

Norman Slatterley

Welcome Home (1925)

A Son of His Father (1925)

"Big Boy" Morgan

The Air Mail (1925)

The Best People (1925)

Rugged Water (1925)

His Forgotten Wife (1924)

The Female (1924)

Colonel Valentia

Christine of the Hungry Heart (1924)

The Garden of Weeds (1924)

Douglas Crawford

Those Who Dance (1924)

Those Who Dance (1924)

In Search of a Thrill (1923)

Blow Your Own Horn (1923)

St. Elmo (1923)

A Girl's Desire (1922)

"Jones" [Lord Dysart]

Her Own Money (1922)

The Ninety and Nine (1922)

Tom Silverton [Phil Bradbury]

The Girl in His Room (1922)

If I Were Queen (1922)

Cheated Hearts (1921)

First Love (1921)

Donald Holliday

Sheltered Daughters (1921)

The Love Charm (1921)

Music (Feature Film)

The Cisco Kid (1931)

Cast (Short)

Hollywood Handicap (1938)

La Fiesta de Santa Barbara (1935)

Misc. Crew (Short)

The Soundman (1950)

Archival Footage

Life Events

1898

Moved to San Francisco with widowed mother

1918

Film acting debut in "All Woman"

1929

Played the Cisco Kid in the Western "In Old Arizona"; received Academy Award

Photo Collections

West of Zanzibar - Scene Photos

Here are several scene stills from MGM's West of Zanzibar (1928), Tod Browning's silent melodrama starring Lon Chaney.

Videos

42nd Street (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Shuffle Off To Buffalo Dramatic climax, Warner Baxter as director Julian Marsh gives the seminal pep talk to understudy Peggy (Ruby Keeler), who comes back a star, with the Al Dubin/Harry Warren song and the Busby Berkeley number, in 42nd Street, 1933.

42nd Street (1933) -- (Movie Ciip) Musical Comedy with Dancing! Brilliant Broadway grit, as temperamental director Julian Marsh (Warner Baxter) works his chorus line to collapse, Bebe Daniels as Dorothy with the Harry Warren/Al Dubin song, Guy Kibbee her clownish sugar-daddy and financier, in Warner Bros.' 42nd Street (1933).

Prisoner Of Shark Island, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) In The Sight Of The Holy God I Worship As Dr. Samuel Mudd, who treated John Wilkes Booth’s broken leg on the night he shot Lincoln, title character Warner Baxter is getting railroaded at trial, Douglas Wood his lawyer, Arthur Byron the prosecutor, Robert Dudley and others testifying, a grim turn in John Ford’s The Prisoner Of Shark Island, 1936.

Prisoner Of Shark Island, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Old Abe's All Right First scene for title character Warner Baxter as Marylander Dr. Samuel Mudd, Gloria Stuart his wife, both unaware that President Lincoln has been shot, and that their guests (Francis McDonald as John Wilkes Booth, Paul Fix his cohort) are culpable, early in John Ford’s The Prisoner Of Shark Island, 1936.

West Of Zanzibar (1928) -- (Movie Clip) Gold Of The Congo Spooky voodoo in Africa mystifies ivory trader Crane (Lionel Barrymore), who doesn't yet know that his old enemy Crane (Lon Chaney), supported by "Doc" (Warner Baxter), has hunted him down seeking revenge, in Tod Browning's West Of Zanzibar, 1928.

West Of Zanzibar (1928) -- (Movie Clip) There's Nothing Too Low Doc (Warner Baxter) can't understand why his boss, magician-turned African ivory hijacker Flint (Lon Chaney), is so cruel to his apparent captive Maizie (Mary Nolan), whom he believes to be his unfaithful wife's illegitimate daughter, in Tod Browning's West Of Zanzibar, 1928.

Vogues Of 1938 (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Open, The Town's Best Snobs There can't be many credit sequences in which a roll of fabric, in technicolor, is the medium, seen here, with a brief appearance by star Warner Baxter, in producer Walter Wanger's fashion industry musical comedy mash-up Vogues Of 1938, 1937.

Vogues Of 1938 (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Turn On That Red Hot Heat Stars Warner Baxter and Joan Bennett scarcely seen here, point being they're on the town, seeing the credited "Cotton Club Singers," with a tune by Paul Francis Webster and Louis Alter, as staged by Seymour Felix, part of an extended musical break in "Walter Wanger's" Vogues Of 1938, 1937.

Vogues Of 1938 (1937) -- (Movie Clip) I Can't Be Married! Fed-up New York fashion house chief Curson (Warner Baxter) at work, his crankiest customer the mother (Hedda Hopper) of a bride (Joan Bennet, strawberry blonde in Technicolor) who'd rather call the whole thing off, early in producer Walter Wanger's eye-candy variety show Vogues Of 1938, 1937.

Adam Had Four Sons -- (Movie Clip) You'll Have To Go Ruined in the panic of 1907, widower Adam (Warner Baxter), counseled by benevolent cousin Philippa (Helen Westley), breaks bad news to beloved governess Emilie (Ingrid Bergman), in Adam Had Four Sons, 1941.

Penthouse (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Where's Sue? Victorious lawyer "Jack" Durant (Warner Baxter) joins friends at a society retreat where he finds girlfriend Sue (Martha Sleeper) unhappy with him and cavorting with Tom (Phillips Holmes) in Penthouse, 1933.

Penthouse (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Tony Gazotti Lawyer Jackson Durant (Warner Baxter) is getting more praise than he wants after getting a not-guilty verdict in the trial of mobster client Tony (Nat Pendleton) in MGM's Penthouse, 1933.

Robin Hood Of El Dorado, The - (Original Trailer) A Mexican (Warner Baxter) turns bandit when his wife is murdered in The Robin Hood Of El Dorado (1936).

42nd Street - (Original Trailer) Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell star in 42nd Street (1933) featuring the dazzling choreography of Busby Berkeley.

Penthouse - (Original Trailer) The mob frames a lawyer for murder, so he enlists a call girl's help in finding the real killer in the pre-code drama Penthouse (1933) starring Myrna Loy.

Companions

Viola Caldwell

Wife

Winifred Bryson

Wife

Actor. Second wife; married in 1918; appeared opposite husband in "The Awful Truth" (1925).

Bibliography

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