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Warner Baxter is a Actor American born on 28 march 1889 at Columbus (USA)
Warner Leroy Baxter (March 29, 1889 – May 7, 1951) was an American actor, known for his role as The Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona (1929), for which he won the second Academy Award for Best Actor in the 1928–1929 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. Warner Baxter started his movie career in silent film. Baxter's most notable silent films are The Great Gatsby (1926) and The Awful Truth (1925). When talkies came out, Baxter became even more famous. Baxter's most notable talkies are In Old Arizona (1929) 42nd Street (1932), Slave Ship (1937), Kidnapped (1938), and the 1931 20 minute all-star ensemble short film, The Stolen Jools. In the 1940s he was well known for his recurring role as Dr. Robert Ordway in the Crime Doctor series of 10 films.
Baxter was a close friend of William Powell, with whom he starred in three films, and was at Powell's side when Jean Harlow died in 1937.
He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6290 Hollywood Boulevard.
When not acting, Baxter was an inventor and in 1935 co-created a revolver searchlight which would illuminate a target and allow a gunman to shoot at it in the dark. He later developed a radio device that would allow emergency crews to change traffic signals from two-blocks away and allow them to safely pass through intersections. He financed its installation at an intersection in Beverly Hills in 1940.
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Warner Baxter
Birth name Warner Leroy Baxter
Nationality USA
Birth 28 march 1889 at Columbus (USA)
Death 7 may 1951 (at 62 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Actor
Nationality USA
Birth 28 march 1889 at Columbus (USA)
Death 7 may 1951 (at 62 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Actor
Biography
Baxter married actress Winifred Bryson in 1918, remaining married until his death in 1951. He suffered for several years from arthritis, and in 1951 he underwent 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 was survived by his second wife and his mother.Baxter was a close friend of William Powell, with whom he starred in three films, and was at Powell's side when Jean Harlow died in 1937.
He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6290 Hollywood Boulevard.
When not acting, Baxter was an inventor and in 1935 co-created a revolver searchlight which would illuminate a target and allow a gunman to shoot at it in the dark. He later developed a radio device that would allow emergency crews to change traffic signals from two-blocks away and allow them to safely pass through intersections. He financed its installation at an intersection in Beverly Hills in 1940.
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, 1h50Directed by Philippe Mora
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary, Historical
Themes Documentary films about historical events
Actors Walt Disney, Bing Crosby, Marlene Dietrich, Charlie Chaplin, Fred Astaire, James Dunn
Roles Self (archive footage)
Rating70%
O. Henry's Full House (1952)
, 1h57Directed by Henry King, Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, Jean Negulesco, Henry Koster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Christmas films, Children's films
Actors Anne Baxter, Jeanne Crain, Farley Granger, Charles Laughton, Oscar Levant, Marilyn Monroe
Roles Cisco Kid ((Prologue) (archive footage)) (uncredited)
Rating71%
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State Penitentiary (1950)
, 1h6Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Crime
Actors Warner Baxter, Onslow Stevens, Karin Booth, Robert Shayne, Richard Benedict, Brett King
Roles Rodger Manners
Rating60%
Roger Manners (Warner Baxter), a former aircraft manufacturer is wrongly accused and convicted of embezzlement of $400,000 and is given a long prison sentence. His wife, Shirley (Karin Booth), tries to prove his innocence. Manners escapes, hoping to track down the real culprit, his ex-partner Stanley Brown (Robert Shayne).
The Devil's Henchman (1949)
, 1h8Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Warner Baxter, Mary Beth Hughes, Mike Mazurki, Regis Toomey, Harry Shannon, James Flavin
Roles Jess Arno
Rating64%
The daytime insurance agent Jess Arno (Warner Baxter), moonlights as an undercover salvager at night. He sells the loot he finds to a seedy man named Tip Banning. Arno has long time suspected that Tip is in fact the leader of a gang of waterfront smugglers.
The Gentleman from Nowhere (1948)
, 1h5Directed by William Castle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Warner Baxter, Fay Baker, Luis van Rooten, Charles Lane, Wilton Graff, Grandon Rhodes
Roles Earl Donovan / Robert Ashton
Rating59%
Warner Baxter plays a security guard, wounded in a robbery of furs, who arouses the suspicions of an insurance investigator. The guard may or may not be a chemist who's been missing for seven years, declared dead, and whose widow collected $200,000 on his insurance policy.
The Millerson Case (1947)
, 1h12Directed by George Archainbaud
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Warner Baxter, Nancy Saunders, Clem Bevans, Griff Barnett, Paul Guilfoyle (acteur, 1902-1961), James Bell
Roles Dr. Robert Ordway
Rating60%
The Crime Doctor, Dr. Robert Ordway (Warner Baxter), an amnesiac ex-crook, takes on yet another intriguing psychological murder case. This time he is on vacation, but the kindly fellow cannot help but look into a murder to help a troubled soul.
Just Before Dawn (1946)
, 1h5Directed by William Castle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Warner Baxter, Martin Kosleck, Thomas E. Jackson, Charles Arnt, Mona Barrie, Wilton Graff
Roles Dr. Robert Ordway
Rating62%
Renowned psychiatrist and criminologist Dr. Robert Ordway, the "Crime Doctor" is called on an emergency to a party at his next door neighbor, where a man, Walter Foster, suffers from a diabetic seizure and has collapsed on the floor. Robert administers insulin to the man, using the man's own case, but a short while after the injection is made the man dies.
The Crime Doctor's Warning (1945)
, 1h10Directed by William Castle
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Warner Baxter, John Litel, Dusty Anderson, Miles Mander, John Abbott, Arthur Aylesworth
Roles Dr. Robert Ordway
Rating60%
In this entry Coulter Irwin plays a returning World War II veteran with a few problems: psychological problems that include blackouts, a dominating mother, and a beautiful girlfriend who turns up murdered. The police are quick to pin the killing on him, but the Crime Doctor (Warner Baxter) is not so sure.
Lady in the Dark (1944)
, 1h40Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Warner Baxter, Jon Hall, Barry Sullivan, Mischa Auer
Roles Kendall Nesbitt
Rating58%
Life has become a series of headaches and bad dreams for Liza Elliott, the successful editor-in-chief of Allure fashion magazine. She is being romanced by publisher Kendall Nesbitt, but he is married and slow in obtaining a divorce. And her second-in-command, Charley Johnson, is a cut-up who drives her so crazy with his jokes, Liza ends up seeing him in her craziest dreams at night.
Crime Doctor (1943)
, 1h6Directed by Michael Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Warner Baxter, Margaret Lindsay, John Litel, Ray Collins, Leon Ames, Harold Huber
Roles Dr. Robert J. Ordway / Phillip Morgan
Rating62%
During the Great Depression, a man (Warner Baxter) is thrown out of a speeding car. When he regains consciousness in a hospital, he has amnesia. He is visited by a man who accuses him of faking his condition. The stranger calls the patient Phil and demands to know what happened to a valise, then runs away when Phil summons a nurse for help. When the man recovers, he takes the name Robert Ordway, after a hospital benefactor.
Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
, 1h21Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about families
Actors Ingrid Bergman, Warner Baxter, Susan Hayward, Fay Wray, Richard Denning, Johnny Downs
Roles Adam Stoddard
Rating65%
Adam Stoddard (Warner Baxter) is a wealthy, easy-going family patriarch who falls on hard times after the death of his wife, Molly and a stock market crash in 1907, that wipes out his wealth. Recently arrived governess Emilie (Ingrid Bergman) works to keep the family together. But with the loss of Adam's fortune the boys are sent off to boarding school, their schooling paid for by wealthy, aged Cousin Phillipa. Emilie must return to France until Adam can afford to repurchase the family estate and recall her to look after it. Reversing his fortunes takes Adam several years. By then, the three older boys are fighting in World War I. Then, just as the family is getting back to its former way of life.
Earthbound (1940)
, 1h7Directed by Irving Pichel
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy
Actors Warner Baxter, Andrea Leeds, Lynn Bari, Charley Grapewin, Henry Wilcoxon, Elizabeth Patterson
Roles Nick Desborough
Rating55%
Nick (Warner Baxter) and Ellen (Andrea Leeds) are celebrating their fifth wedding anniversary by going mountain climbing in Switzerland when Nick receives a telegram asking him to go back to Paris to assist friend Jeffrey Reynolds (Henry Wilcoxon) in setting up a new laboratory. After telling Ellen that he will return in a couple of days, he goes. On the train, Nick encounters an elderly stranger named Whimser (Charley Grapewin) who warns him that he will not live much longer. In Paris, Nick goes to the laboratory, where he discovers that it was Linda Reynolds (Lynn Bari), Jeff's wife, who sent the telegram, as the two are in a secret relationship and Linda has decided to leave her husband for Nick. Nick tells Linda he wishes to end their affair because he loves his wife Ellen, not Linda.
Barricade (1939)
, 1h11Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Alice Faye, Warner Baxter, Charles Winninger, Arthur Treacher, Keye Luke, Willie Fung
Roles Hank Topping
Rating57%
A singer named Emmy (Faye) meets broken-down journalist Hank Topping (Baxter) while travelling across Mongolia by train. A romance sparks, but is soon interrupted by a fierce group of murderous bandits. Fleeing, Emmy and Hank team up with others, eventually culminating in a fierce shootout with the marauders. If I recall correctly as a youngster of ten years, the Emmy and Hank team seek safety in a small fort or an antiquated country home located on barren lands. As the bandits approach, they hide in a basement level, protected only by a floorboard cover. As the bandits enter the building, the baby of Emmy and Hank begins to cry, thereby revealing the location of the couple and their team. As the bandits begin to chop their way through the floorboards, a rescue squad on motorcycles speeds over a nearby hill towards the building, then succeeding to rescue those trapped below the floor.
Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
, 1h15Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Loretta Young, Warner Baxter, Binnie Barnes, Cesar Romero, J. Edward Bromberg, Eugene Pallette
Roles Leonard Borland aka Logan Bennett
Rating61%
The opera season has opened in New York City, and building contractor Leonard Borland (Baxter), who comes from a working class background, is coping with the musical ambitions of his wife Doris (Young), who is from a socially prominent family. Despite his misgivings that she has no talent, she is being trained for a career in singing by the voice teacher Hugo (Cesar Romero). Doris prepares for a recital that Leonard supports, hoping that will get singing "out of her system." The performance is witnessed by opera singer Cecil Carver (Barnes), who is attracted to Leonard and believes that Doris lacks sufficient talent to become a pro. Cecil accidentally discovers that Leonard ironically does have a great operatic voice, and offers to train him.
The Return of the Cisco Kid (1939)
, 1h10Directed by Herbert I. Leeds
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Warner Baxter, Lynn Bari, Cesar Romero, Henry Hull, Kane Richmond, C. Henry Gordon
Roles The Cisco Kid
Rating65%