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.

KNOWN FOR

42nd Street
1933
The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
1943
Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938
1937
The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936
The Crime Doctor's Gamble
1947
The Crime Doctor's Courage
1945
Happy Days
1929
The Crime Doctor's Warning
1945
I'll Give a Million
1938
Adam Had Four Sons
1941
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
1990
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
118
2007
Busby Berkeley: A Journey with a Star
as Self (archive footage)
1996
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
as Self (archive footage)
1990
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
as (archive footage)
1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1950
State Penitentiary
as Rodger Manners
1949
The Devil's Henchmen
as Jess Arno
1949
The Crime Doctor's Diary
as Dr. Robert Ordway
1949
Prison Warden
as Warden Victor Burnell
1948
The Gentleman from Nowhere
as Earl Donovan / Robert Ashton
1947
The Millerson Case
as Dr. Robert Ordway
1947
The Crime Doctor's Gamble
as Dr. Robert Ordway
1946
Just Before Dawn
as Dr. Robert Ordway
1946
Crime Doctor's Man Hunt
as Dr. Robert Ordway
1945
The Crime Doctor's Courage
as Dr. Robert Ordway
1945
The Crime Doctor's Warning
as Dr. Robert Ordway
1944
Shadows in the Night
as Dr. Robert Ordway
1944
Lady in the Dark
as Kendall Nesbitt
1943
The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
as Dr. Robert Ordway
1943
Crime Doctor
as Dr. Robert J. Ordway / Phillip Morgan
1941
Adam Had Four Sons
as Adam Stoddard
1941
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
as Self (uncredited)
1940
Earthbound
as Nick Desborough
1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self (archive footage)
1939
Wife, Husband and Friend
as Leonard Borland aka Logan Bennett
1939
Barricade
as Hank Topping
1939
Land of Liberty
as (archive footage)
1939
The Return of the Cisco Kid
as The Cisco Kid
1938
Hollywood Handicap
as Himself
1938
Kidnapped
as Alan Breck
1938
I'll Give a Million
as Tony Newlander
1937
Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938
as George Curson
1937
Slave Ship
as Jim Lovett
1937
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
as Dr. Judd Lewis
1936
The Prisoner of Shark Island
as Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd
1936
Robin Hood of El Dorado
as Joaquin Murrieta
1936
The Road to Glory
as Captain Paul La Roche
1936
King of Burlesque
as Kerry Bolton
1936
To Mary - with Love
as Jack Wallace
1936
White Hunter
as Capt. Clark Rutledge
1935
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
as Self
1935
One More Spring
as Jaret Otkar
1935
Under the Pampas Moon
as Cesar Campo
1934
Stand Up and Cheer!
as Lawrence Cromwell
1934
As Husbands Go
as Charles Lingard
1934
Broadway Bill
as Dan Brooks
1934
Such Women Are Dangerous
as Michael Shawn
1934
Grand Canary
as Dr Harvey Leith
1934
Hell in the Heavens
as Lt. Steve Warner
1934
Studio Highlights
as Self (archive footage)
1933
42nd Street
as Julian Marsh
1933
Penthouse
as Jackson 'Jack' Durant
1933
Dangerously Yours
as Andrew Burke
1933
Paddy the Next Best Thing
as Lawrence Blake
1933
I Loved You Wednesday
as Philip Fletcher
1932
6 Hours to Live
as Captain Paul Onslow
1932
Amateur Daddy
as Jim Gladden
1932
Man About Town
as Stephen Morrow
1931
The Stolen Jools
as Cisco Kid Character
1931
The Squaw Man
as Jim Wingate - aka Jim Carston
1931
Daddy Long Legs
as Jervis Pendleton
1931
The Cisco Kid
as The Cisco Kid
1931
Doctors' Wives
as Dr. Judson Penning
1931
Surrender
as Sergeant Dumaine
1931
Their Mad Moment
as Esteban Cristera
1930
Renegades
as Jean Deucalion
1930
The Arizona Kid
as The Arizona Kid
1930
The Voice of Hollywood
1930
Such Men Are Dangerous
as Ludwig Kranz / Pierre Villard
1929
Behind That Curtain
as Col. John Beetham
1929
Romance of the Rio Grande
as Pablo Wharton Cameron
1929
Happy Days
as Minstrel Show Performer
1929
Linda
as Dr. Paul Randall
1929
Thru Different Eyes
as Jack Winfield
1928
West of Zanzibar
as Doc
1928
A Woman's Way
as Tony
1928
In Old Arizona
as The Cisco Kid
1928
Craig's Wife
as Walter Craig
1928
Ramona
as Alessandro
1928
Three Sinners
as James Harris
1928
Danger Street
as Rolly Sigsby
1928
The Tragedy of Youth
as Frank Gordon
1927
Drums of the Desert
as John Curry
1927
The Coward
as Clinton Philbrook
1927
Singed
as Royce Wingate
1927
The Telephone Girl
as Matthew Standish
1926
Mismates
as Ted Carroll
1926
Miss Brewster's Millions
as Thomas B. Hancock Jr
1926
The Great Gatsby
as Jay Gatsby
1926
The Runaway
as Wade Murrell
1926
Aloma of the South Seas
as Nuitane
1926
Mannequin
as John Herrick
1925
Rugged Water
as Calvin Horner
1925
Welcome Home
as Fred Prouty
1925
The Best People
as Henry Morgan
1925
The Golden Bed
as Bunny O'Neill
1925
The Air Mail
as Russ Kane
1925
The Awful Truth
as Norman Satterlee
1925
A Son of His Father
as Big Boy Morgan
1924
His Forgotten Wife
as Donald Allen / John Rolfe
1924
Alimony
as Jimmy Mason
1924
Christine of the Hungry Heart
as Stuart Knight
1924
The Garden of Weeds
as Douglas Crawford
1924
The Female
as Col. Valentia
1924
Those Who Dance
as Bob Kane
1923
Blow Your Own Horn
as Jack Dunbar
1923
In Search of a Thrill
as Adrian Torrens
1923
St. Elmo
as Murray Hammond
1922
The Girl in His Room
as Kirk Waring
1922
A Girl's Desire
as Jones / Lord Dysart
1922
If I Were Queen
as Vladimir
1922
Her Own Money
as Lew Alden
1922
The Ninety and Nine
as Tom Silverton
1921
Cheated Hearts
as Tom Gordon
1921
Sheltered Daughters
as Pep Mullins
1921
The Love Charm
as Thomas Morgan
1921
First Love
as Donald Halliday
1919
Lombardi, Ltd.
as Bit Part (uncredited)
1918
All Woman
as Bit Part