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