Warner Baxter - Actor Profile

Warner Baxter

20Movies
9.0 Best Rating

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.

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Complete Filmography & Verdicts

YearMovieCharacterRatingVerdict
1990 Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To (archive footage) ★ 9.0 HIT
1933 42nd Street Julian Marsh ★ 6.9 HIT
1928 West of Zanzibar Doc ★ 6.8 HIT
1936 The Prisoner of Shark Island Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd ★ 6.8 HIT
1996 Ingrid Bergman Remembered Self (archive footage) ★ 6.7 HIT
1933 Penthouse Jackson 'Jack' Durant ★ 6.7 HIT
1952 O. Henry's Full House Cisco Kid ((Prologue) (archive footage)) (uncredited) ★ 6.7 HIT
1950 State Penitentiary Rodger Manners ★ 6.5 HIT
1940 Cavalcade of the Academy Awards Self (archive footage) ★ 6.5 HIT
1928 Ramona Alessandro ★ 6.4 FLOP
1946 Just Before Dawn Dr. Robert Ordway ★ 6.3 FLOP
1936 The Road to Glory Captain Paul La Roche ★ 6.3 FLOP
1943 Crime Doctor Dr. Robert J. Ordway / Phillip Morgan ★ 6.2 FLOP
1975 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Self (archive footage) ★ 6.1 FLOP
1949 The Devil's Henchmen Jess Arno ★ 6.0 FLOP
1926 Miss Brewster's Millions Thomas B. Hancock Jr ★ 6.0 FLOP
1934 Broadway Bill Dan Brooks ★ 6.0 FLOP
1939 Wife, Husband and Friend Leonard Borland aka Logan Bennett ★ 6.0 FLOP
1929 Happy Days Minstrel Show Performer ★ 6.0 FLOP
1937 Wife, Doctor and Nurse Dr. Judd Lewis ★ 6.0 FLOP