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Warner Leroy Baxter 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.
Birth Name
Warner Leroy Baxter
Born
Friday, 29 March 1889
Died
Monday, 07 May 1951
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Broadway: The American Musical | Julian Marsh | 2004 |
| Ingrid Bergman Remembered | Self (archive footage) | 1996 |
| Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to | Self / (archive footage) | 1990 |
| Brother Can You Spare a Dime | (archive footage) / Self (archive footage) | 1975 |
| Hollywood and the Stars | Self | 1963 |
| The Twentieth Century | The Cisco Kid (clip from In Old Arizona (1928)) | 1957 |
| O. Henry's Full House | Cisco Kid (clip from 'The Cisco Kid' (Prologue) | 1952 |
| State Penitentiary | Rodger Manners | 1950 |
| Prison Warden | Warden Victor Burnell | 1949 |
| The Devil's Henchman | Jess Arno | 1949 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Broadway: The American Musical | Julian Marsh | 2004 |
| Ingrid Bergman Remembered | Self (archive footage) | 1996 |
| Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to | Self / (archive footage) | 1990 |
| Brother Can You Spare a Dime | (archive footage) / Self (archive footage) | 1975 |
| Hollywood and the Stars | Self | 1963 |
| The Twentieth Century | The Cisco Kid (clip from In Old Arizona (1928)) | 1957 |
| O. Henry's Full House | Cisco Kid (clip from 'The Cisco Kid' (Prologue) | 1952 |
| State Penitentiary | Rodger Manners | 1950 |
| Prison Warden | Warden Victor Burnell | 1949 |
| The Devil's Henchman | Jess Arno | 1949 |
| The Crime Doctor's Diary | Dr. Robert Ordway | 1949 |
| The Gentleman from Nowhere | Earl Donovan / Robert Ashton | 1948 |
| The Crime Doctor's Gamble | Dr. Robert Ordway | 1947 |
| The Millerson Case | Dr. Robert Ordway | 1947 |
| Crime Doctor's Man Hunt | Dr. Robert Ordway | 1946 |
| Just Before Dawn | Dr. Robert Ordway | 1946 |
| The Crime Doctor's Warning | Dr. Robert Ordway | 1945 |
| The Crime Doctor's Courage | Dr. Robert Ordway | 1945 |
| Shadows in the Night | Dr. Robert Ordway | 1944 |
| Lady in the Dark | Kendall Nesbitt | 1944 |
| The Crime Doctor's Strangest Case | Dr. Robert Ordway | 1943 |
| Crime Doctor | Phillip Morgan / Dr. Robert Ordway / Dr. Robert J. Ordway | 1943 |
| Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1 | Himself / Self | 1941 |
| Adam Had Four Sons | Adam Stoddard | 1941 |
| Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | (archive footage) | 1940 |
| Earthbound | Nick Desborough | 1940 |
| Barricade | Hank Topping | 1939 |
| The Return of the Cisco Kid | The Cisco Kid | 1939 |
| Wife, Husband and Friend | Leonard Borland aka Logan Bennett | 1939 |
| Land of Liberty | (archive footage) | 1939 |
| I'll Give a Million | Tony Newlander | 1938 |
| Hollywood Handicap | Warner Baxter / Himself | 1938 |
| Kidnapped | Alan Breck | 1938 |
| Wife, Doctor and Nurse | Dr. Judd Lewis | 1937 |
| Vogues of 1938 | George Curson | 1937 |
| Slave Ship | Jim Lovett | 1937 |
| White Hunter | Capt. Clark Rutledge | 1936 |
| The Road to Glory | Capt. Paul La Roche / Captain Paul La Roche | 1936 |
| To Mary - with Love | Jack Wallace | 1936 |
| Robin Hood of El Dorado | Joaquin Murrieta | 1936 |
| The Prisoner of Shark Island | Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd | 1936 |
| King of Burlesque | Kerry Bolton | 1936 |
| La Fiesta de Santa Barbara | Self | 1935 |
| Under the Pampas Moon | Cesar Campo | 1935 |
| One More Spring | Jaret Otkar | 1935 |
| Hell in the Heavens | Lt. Steve Warner | 1934 |
| Broadway Bill | Dan Brooks | 1934 |
| Grand Canary | Dr. Harvey Leith / Dr Harvey Leith | 1934 |
| Such Women Are Dangerous | Michael Shawn | 1934 |
| Stand Up and Cheer! | Lawrence Cromwell | 1934 |
| As Husbands Go | Charles Lingard | 1934 |
| Penthouse | Jackson Durant / Jackson 'Jack' Durant | 1933 |
| Paddy the Next Best Thing | Lawrence Blake | 1933 |
| I Loved You Wednesday | Philip Fletcher | 1933 |
| 42nd Street | Julian Marsh | 1933 |
| 6 Hours to Live | Capt. Paul Onslow / Captain Paul Onslow | 1932 |
| Man About Town | Stephen Morrow | 1932 |
| Amateur Daddy | Jim Gladden | 1932 |
| Surrender | Sergeant Dumaine | 1931 |
| The Cisco Kid | The Cisco Kid | 1931 |
| The Squaw Man | Jim Wingate - aka Jim Carston | 1931 |
| Their Mad Moment | Esteban Cristera | 1931 |
| Daddy Long Legs | Jervis Pendleton | 1931 |
| The Stolen Jools | Cisco Kid Character | 1931 |
| Doctors' Wives | Dr. Judson Penning | 1931 |
| Renegades | Jean Deucalion | 1930 |
| Such Men Are Dangerous | Ludwig Kranz / Pierre Villard | 1930 |
| Happy Days | Minstrel Show Performer | 1929 |
| Behind That Curtain | Col. John Beetham / Col John Beetham | 1929 |
| Linda | Dr. Paul Randall | 1929 |
| In Old Arizona | The Cisco Kid | 1929 |
| West of Zanzibar | Doc | 1928 |
| Craig's Wife | Walter Craig | 1928 |
| Three Sinners | James Harris | 1928 |
| Ramona | Alessandro | 1928 |
| The Tragedy of Youth | Frank Gordon | 1928 |
| Singed | Royce Wingate | 1927 |
| The Great Gatsby | Jay Gatsby | 1926 |
| Mismates | Ted Carroll | 1926 |
| The Runaway | Wade Murrell | 1926 |
| Miss Brewster's Millions | Thomas B. Hancock Jr | 1926 |
| Mannequin | John Herrick | 1926 |
| A Son of His Father | Big Boy Morgan | 1925 |
| Rugged Water | Calvin Horner | 1925 |
| Welcome Home | Fred Prouty | 1925 |
| The Air Mail | Russ Kane | 1925 |
| The Golden Bed | Bunny O'Neill | 1925 |
| The Garden of Weeds | Douglas Crawford | 1924 |
| Christine of the Hungry Heart | Stuart Knight | 1924 |
| His Forgotten Wife | Donald Allen / John Rolfe | 1924 |
| Alimony | Jimmy Mason | 1924 |
| In Search of a Thrill | Adrian Torrens | 1923 |
| Blow Your Own Horn | Jack Dunbar | 1923 |
| The Ninety and Nine | Tom Silverton / Phil Bradbury | 1922 |
| If I Were Queen | Vladimir | 1922 |
| A Girl's Desire | Jones / Lord Dysart | 1922 |
| The Girl in His Room | Kirk Waring | 1922 |
| Her Own Money | Lew Alden | 1922 |
| Sheltered Daughters | Pep Mullins | 1921 |
| Lombardi, Ltd. | Bit Part | 1919 |
| All Woman | Bit Part | 1918 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 1930 | Oscar | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Won |
