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Known For

Warner Baxter is known for:

  • West of Zanzibar
    A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician's wife.
  • 42nd Street
    A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.
  • The Prisoner of Shark Island
    After setting the leg of John Wilkes Booth, Dr. Samuel Mudd is sent to prison as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

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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.