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