Warner Baxter

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.

Known For

42nd Street

as Julian Marsh

The Prisoner of Shark Island

as Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd

West of Zanzibar

as Doc

O. Henry's Full House

as Cisco Kid ((Prologue) (archive footage)) (uncredited)

The Stolen Jools

as Cisco Kid Character

In Old Arizona

as The Cisco Kid

Broadway Bill

as Dan Brooks

Penthouse

as Jackson 'Jack' Durant

Adam Had Four Sons

as Adam Stoddard

Behind That Curtain

as Col. John Beetham