| Warner
Baxter
1889
- 1951 |
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The actor Warner Baxter was born in Columbus, Ohio. His family moved
to San Francisco where they went through the earthquake of 1906. They had
live in a tent for two weeks.
Warner Baxter played at the Vaudeville theater from 1910, after that
Broadway called for him and finally the film. To his early movies belong
"Cheated Hearts" (21), "First Love" (21), "Her Own Money" (22), "St. Elmo"
(23), "The Female" (24), "The Best People" (25), "Miss Brewster's Millions"
(26), "The Great Gatsby" (26), "Drums of the Desert" (27) and "Three Sinners"
(28), in which he normally impersonated the leading roles.
For his part as Cisco Kid in the movie "In Old Arizona" (29) he got
the Oscar for the best leading actor, and the Oscar oppened him the doors
for the talkies.
In the 30's he appeared among others in the movies "The Arizona Kid"
(30), "Daddy Long Legs" (31), "42nd Street" (33), "Penthouse" (33), "Dangerously
Yours" (33), "Hell in the Heavens" (34), "The Prisoner of Shark Island"
(36), "White Hunter" (36) and "Kidnapped" (38).
When Warner Baxter suffered a nervous breakdown he chose less strenuous
film projects. So he began the Crime Doctor serial where he had to invest
only one month for each movie by a total of two movies each year. He took
part in "Crime Doctor" (43), "Crime Doctor's Stranges Case" (43), "Crime
Doctor's Warning" (45) and "The Crime Doctor's Diary" (49).
Beside it he played in few other movies, so in "Lady in the Dark" (44),
"The Gentleman from Nowhere" (48) and "The Devil's Henchmen" (49).
He gave his farewell performance on the screen with the movie "State
Penitentiary" (50), one year later he died of pneumonia.
Other movies with Warner Baxter:
Sheltered Daughters (21) The Love
Charm (21) The Girl in His Room (22) A Girl's Desire (22) If I Were Queen
(22) The Ninety and Nine (22) Blow Your Own Horn (23) In Search of a Thrill
(23) Alimony (24) His Forgotten Wife (24) Those Who Dance (24) Christine
of the Hungry Heart (24) The Garden of Weeds (24) Those Who Dare (24) The
Golden Bed (25) The Air Mail (25) The Awful Truth (25) Welcome Home (25)
Rugged Water (25) A Son of His Father (25) My Favorite Wife (25) Mannequin
(26) Mismates (26) The Runaway (26) Aloma of the South Seas (26) The Telephone
Girl (27) The Coward (27) Singed (27) A Woman's Way (28) The Tragedy of
Youth (28) Ramona (28) Danger Street (28) Craig's Wife (28) West of Zanzibar
(28) Linda (29) Thru Different Eyes (29) The Far Call (29) Behind That
Curtain (29) Romance of the Rio Grande (29) Happy Days (30) Such Men Are
Dangerous (30) Renegades (30) Doctors' Wives (31) The Slippery Pearls (31)
Their Mad Moment (31) The Squaw Man (31) The Cisco Kid (31) Surrender (31)
Amateur Daddy (32) Six Hours to Live (32) Man About Town (32) I Loved You
Wednesday (33) Paddy the Next Best Thing (33) Stand Up and Cheer! (34)
Broadway Bill (34) Such Women Are Dangerous (34) Grand Canary (34) As Husbands
Go (34) One More Spring (35) Under the Pampas Moon (35) La Fiesta de Santa
Barbara (35) King of Burlesque (35) The Robin Hood of El Dorado (36) The
Road to Glory (36) To Mary - with Love (36) Vogues of 1938 (37) Slave Ship
(37) Wife, Doctor and Nurse (37) I'll Give a Million (38) Wife, Husband
and Friend (39) Return of the Cisco Kid (39) Barricade (39) Earthbound
(40) Adam Had Four Sons (41) Shadows in the Night (44) The Crime Doctor's
Courage (45) Just Before Dawn (46) Crime Doctor's Man Hunt (46) The Millerson
Case (47) Crime Doctor's Gamble (47) Prison Warden (49) |
