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Warner Baxter
Warner Leroy Baxter 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. 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 ot…
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entertainment · American actor (1889–1951) · actor · stage actor · film actor · inventor · also Warner Baxter, Warner Leroy Baxter, Baxter
Born 29 March 1889 · Died 7 May 1951 · Q312073
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1960· 1 entry
Baxter posthumously received a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6284 Hollywood Boulevard
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1951· 3 entries
Died 1951-05-07.
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Died of pneumonia at age 62 and was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California in a private funeral service described as markedly reminiscent of the film capital's earlier days
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Underwent a lobotomy as a last resort to ease the chronic pain
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1936· 2 entries
Was the highest paid to a contract actor that year
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Baxter had what Leonard Maltin considered his finest job of acting in John Ford's The Prisoner of Shark Island
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1935· 2 entries
Which allowed a shooter to more clearly see a target at night
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When not acting, Baxter was an inventor who co-created a searchlight for revolvers in 1935, which allowed a shooter to more clearly see a target at night.
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1931· 1 entry
Baxter survived uninjured with 40 other cast and crew members the train derailment of the Southern Pacific Argonaut east of Yuma on route to Tucson for location shooting for The Cisco Kid
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1930· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for In Old Arizona (1930).
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The studio planned a sequel but discovered that the rights they had acquired only allowed one direct adaptation of O
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1918· 1 entry
Remaining married until his death in 1951
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1911· 1 entry
But they were soon separated and then divorced in 1913
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1898· 1 entry
The two moved to San Francisco, where he graduated from Polytechnic High School
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1889· 1 entry
Born 1889-03-29.
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