Lady in the Dark
1944
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Warner Leroy Baxter (March 29, 1889 – May 7, 1951) was an American film actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. Baxter is 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. [1]
Warner Baxter. Actor: Penthouse. Warner Baxter claimed to have an early pre-disposition toward show business: "I discovered a boy a block away who would eat worms and swallow flies for a penny. For one-third of the profits, I exhibited him in a tent."
Warner Baxter. Actor: Penthouse. Warner Baxter claimed to have an early pre-disposition toward show business: "I discovered a boy a block away who would eat worms and swallow flies for a penny. For one-third of the profits, I exhibited him in a tent."
Mar 29, 2010 · Born in Columbus, Ohio on March 29, 1889, Baxter was an office boy prior to his celebrity. It sounds way too storybook to be believed, but Baxter’s 1951 obituary from the Associated Press credits his own first big break into show biz as very much the same as Keeler’s Peggy Sawyer.
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.
The Prisoner of Shark Island: Directed by John Ford. With Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater, Arthur Byron. The story of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was imprisoned after innocently treating President Lincoln's assassin in 1865.
Biography: Warner Baxter was best known for his Academy Award-winning performance in the film "In Old Arizona" (1928). Baxter started his career as an extra in 1914. His first starring role was in the silent film "Sheltered Daughters" (1921).
Oscar for best actor, 1929. role in “42nd Street”. In 42nd Street. …director, Julian Marsh (played by Warner Baxter), is desperate for success, having lost his fortune when the stock market crashed.
Warner Baxter, veteran film actor dies. On May 8, 1951, The Times report that Warner Baxter, winner of the second actor’s Oscar in filmdom history for his portray of the original...
By the mid-1930s Warner Baxter was reportedly the highest paid actor in Hollywood and received critical acclaim for his portrayals of Dr. Mudd in John Ford's The Prisoner of Shark Island and the notorious bandit Joaquín Murrieta in William Wellman's Robin Hood of El Dorado.
