Editing Warner Baxter

{{Short description|American actor (1889–1951)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Warner Baxter
| image              = Warner Baxter in 1924 - (SAYRE 3782) (cropped).jpg
| caption            = Baxter in 1924
| birth_name         = Warner Leroy Baxter
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1889|3|29}}
| birth_place        = [[Columbus, Ohio]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|1951|5|7|1889|3|29}}
| death_place        = [[Beverly Hills, California]], U.S.
| resting_place      = [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)|Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California]]
| occupation         = Actor
| years_active       = 1914–1950
| spouse             = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Viola Caldwell|1911|1913|reason=div}}
* {{Marriage|[[Winifred Bryson]]|1918}}
}}
}}
'''Warner Leroy Baxter''' (March 29, 1889 – May 7, 1951) 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]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Official Academy Awards Database |url=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/search/ |website=oscars.org |publisher=The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |access-date=May 4, 2017}}</ref> 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.

Baxter began his movie career in [[silent film]]s with his most notable roles being in ''[[The Great Gatsby (1926 film)|The Great Gatsby]]'' (1926) and ''[[The Awful Truth (1925 film)|The Awful Truth]]'' (1925). Baxter's notable sound films are ''[[In Old Arizona]]'' (1929), ''[[42nd Street (film)|42nd Street]]'' (1933), ''[[Slave Ship (film)|Slave Ship]]'' (1937) with [[Wallace Beery]], ''[[Kidnapped (1938 film)|Kidnapped]]'' (1938) with [[Freddie Bartholomew]], and the 1931 ensemble short film ''[[The Stolen Jools]]''. In the 1940s, he was well known for his recurring role as [[Crime Doctor (character)|Dr. Robert Ordway]] in the ''[[Crime Doctor (film)|Crime Doctor]]'' series of 10 films.

For his contributions to the motion-picture industry, Baxter has a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]].<ref name=HWoF/>

==Early life==
Baxter was born on March 29, 1889,<ref>California Death Index and both WW1 and WW2 Draft Registration.{{cn|date=September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/warner-baxter/ |title=Los Angeles Times Hollywood Star Walk - Warner Baxter |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=May 8, 1951 |access-date=May 4, 2017}}</ref> in Columbus, Ohio,<ref name=clac/> to Edwin F. Baxter, a cigar stand operator, and Jennie (Jane) B. Barrett.<ref>Ohio Births and Christenings, 1774–1973</ref> Baxter's father died before Warner was five, and he and his mother went to live with her brother. They later moved to New York City, where he became active in dramatics, both participating in school productions and attending plays. In 1898, the two moved to San Francisco, where he graduated from [[San Francisco Polytechnic High School|Polytechnic High School]]. The pair were temporarily displaced by the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]], then returned to Columbus in 1908. After selling farm implements for a living, Baxter worked for four months as the partner of Dorothy Shoemaker in an act on the [[Keith Vaudeville Circuit]].<ref name="acsp">{{cite book|last1=Tibbetts|first1=John C.|last2=Welsh|first2=James M.|title=American Classic Screen Profiles|date=2010|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780810876774|pages=26–29|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LpcWzZfVEa4C&q=%22Warner+Baxter%22+actor&pg=PA26|access-date=11 February 2017|language=en}}</ref>

==Film career==
[[File:The Road to Glory (1936) 1.jpg|thumb|right|Baxter (left) with [[June Lang]] and [[Fredric March]]]]

Baxter began his film career as an extra in 1914 in a stock company. He had his first starring role in 1921 in ''[[Sheltered Daughters]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=AFI{{!}}Catalog |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/12035-SHELTERED-DAUGHTERS?cxt=filmography |access-date=2022-10-16 |website=catalog.afi.com}}</ref>{{Additional citation needed|date=October 2022}} The same year, he acted in [[First Love (1921 film)|''First Love'']],<ref>{{Cite web |title=AFI{{!}}Catalog |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/9072-FIRST-LOVE?cxt=filmography |access-date=2022-10-16 |website=catalog.afi.com}}</ref> ''[[The Love Charm]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=AFI{{!}}Catalog |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/10398-THE-LOVE-CHARM?cxt=filmography |access-date=2022-10-16 |website=catalog.afi.com}}</ref> and [[Cheated Hearts (film)|''Cheated Hearts'']].<ref>{{Cite web |title=AFI{{!}}Catalog |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/3269-CHEATED-HEARTS?cxt=filmography |access-date=2022-10-16 |website=catalog.afi.com}}</ref>

Baxter starred in 48 features during the 1920s. His most notable silent roles were in ''The Great Gatsby'' (1926), ''[[Aloma of the South Seas (1926 film)|Aloma of the South Seas]]'' (1926) as an island love interest opposite dancer [[Gilda Gray]], and as an alcoholic doctor in ''[[West of Zanzibar (1928 film)|West of Zanzibar]]'' (1928) with [[Lon Chaney]].

David Shipman wrote in 1970,<blockquote>"He is the beau ideal, a Valentino without a horse and the costume of a sheik. He is the fellow the girls meet around the corner, that is, if the fellow were Warner Baxter. He is the chap the lonely woman on the prairie sees when she looks at the men's ready-to-wear pages in the latest mail order catalogue"; this appraisal by [[Jim Tully]] appeared in ''Picturegoer'' in 1936. Baxter was certainly the inspiration for artwork in mail-order catalogues and adverts for pipes, the prototype for men modelling cardigans or pullovers or tweeds. During the early sound period, he was one of Hollywood's leading actors. There was no éclat with him, no scandals, no Hollywood careering. Women liked him because he was mature and reliable. He was a good work-horse of an actor, often at the mercy of his material. When it was good, he gave positive, likeable performances. It was a long career but he is hardly remembered today.<ref>''The Great Movie Stars, The Golden Years'', David Shipman, Bonanza Books, NY, 1970, pp. 50–53.</ref></blockquote>

Baxter's most notable starring role was as [[The Cisco Kid]] in ''[[In Old Arizona]]'' (1929), the first all-talking Western, for which he won the second [[Academy Award for Best Actor]]. He also starred in ''[[42nd Street (film)|42nd Street]]'' (1933),<ref>{{Cite web |title=AFI{{!}}Catalog |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/3955-42ND-STREET?cxt=filmography |access-date=2022-09-03 |website=catalog.afi.com}}</ref> ''[[Grand Canary (film)|Grand Canary]]'' (1934),<ref>{{Cite web |title=AFI{{!}}Catalog |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/4166-GRAND-CANARY?cxt=filmography |access-date=2022-09-03 |website=catalog.afi.com}}</ref> ''[[Broadway Bill]]'' (1934),<ref>{{Cite web |title=AFI{{!}}Catalog |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/4709-BROADWAY-BILL?cxt=filmography |access-date=2022-09-03 |website=catalog.afi.com}}</ref> and ''[[Kidnapped (1938 film)|Kidnapped]]'' (1938).<ref>{{Cite web |title=AFI{{!}}Catalog |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/6778-KIDNAPPED?cxt=filmography |access-date=2022-09-03 |website=catalog.afi.com}}</ref>

By 1936, Baxter was the highest-paid actor in [[Hollywood (film industry)|Hollywood]], but by 1943, he had slipped to [[B movie]] roles, and he starred in a series of ''Crime Doctor'' films for [[Columbia Pictures]]. Baxter had roles in more than 100 films from 1914 to 1950.<ref name="things">{{cite web| title=Warner Baxter-A Brief Biography| url=http://www.things-and-other-stuff.com/4433/warner-baxter/| date=29 March 2010| author=Cliff Aliperti| publisher=Things and Other Stuff| access-date=2011-11-16}}</ref> In 1936, Baxter had what Leonard Maltin considered his finest job of acting in John Ford's ''[[The Prisoner of Shark Island]]''.<ref>''Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide'', 3rd edition.</ref>

=== Personal troubles and breakdown ===
During the mid-1930s Baxter began to have career and personal troubles. The studio system and being a top leading man with Fox made him wealthy beyond his dreams but it also let him in for some significant personal problems. Baxter said he was envious of his friend [[Ronald Colman]]. "Look at that guy. He only makes one or two pictures a year. I've got to work practically every day in the year." He seemed unable to pry himself away from his salary as a contract star.<ref>''St Louis Globe-Democrat'', Sheilah Graham, August 3, 1938, p. 21.</ref> Some of his better roles in this period were on loan out from his home studio, Fox Picture Corporation. His MGM loan out for ''Robin Hood of El Dorado'' was an example. Director [[William Wellman]]'s recollections in the 2015 biography by his son went into some detail. Baxter, according to Wellman, was aging and troubled by that, as evidenced by a major drinking problem. Baxter told Wellman he was fine during the day but as evening approached he was "gone".<ref>''Wild Bill Wellman Hollywood Rebel'', William Wellman Jr., Pantheon Books, New York, (2015) pp. 322–324.</ref> Adding to his own insecurities as a leading man, his home studio was not known for having a strong story department. They relied on the formula of having their major stars repeat the same type of stories and characters when it reverberated with an audience. In many cases, even for [[Will Rogers]], it often would decrease the value of the actor's contract.<ref>''The Fox Film Corporation 1915–1935'', Aubrey Solomon, McFarland and Company, Jefferson, North Carolina (2016) pp. 166, 168.</ref> 

By 1939, he was publicly complaining about being teamed with new bright and very young actresses as he was advancing in years. He said working with [[Loretta Young]] was fine as she had been around since the silent days and fans did not view her as a youngster, but the new crop such as [[Lynn Bari]] and [[Arleen Whelan]] made him feel very uncomfortable.<ref>Asbury Park Press, May 7, 1939, p. 14.</ref> As his 20th Century Fox contract was nearing completion, he was openly talking of retiring, a decision he was making with his wife [[Winifred Bryson]]. By 1941, columnist Jimmie Fidler was stating the retirement talk was on the level.<ref>''Los Angeles Times'', November 19, 1941, p. 13.</ref> Some time between ''[[Adam Had Four Sons]]'' and ''[[Lady in the Dark (film)|Lady in the Dark]]'' he suffered a mental breakdown. Over the subsequent years, he was fairly candid about it in interviews. He said "It's like chasing a rainbow. You never see the end of it. Each part you get has to be better than the last one and before you know it you've got a nervous breakdown."<ref name="The Valley Times, Oct 20, 1947">''The Valley Times'', October 20, 1947, p. 11.</ref>

The reported $284,000 (about $6,490,000 in 2025) Baxter earned in 1936 was the highest paid contract actor that year.<ref>''Gone Hollywood, The Movie Colony in the Golden Age'', Christopher Finch and [[Linda Rosenkrantz]], Doubleday, 1979, pp. 223, 224.</ref> By 1947, he was reduced to earning $30,000 (about $685,000 in 2025) per picture in a mere two-picture deal.<ref>Employment Agreement signed and dated July 1, 1947 between Columbia Pictures Corporation, Employer, and Warner Baxter, Artist. Private Collection.</ref> He was, however, more comfortable both with his career and his life, giving much credit to his wife. "I never take a role until we both talk it over. I have a high opinion of her judgment". He said he no longer cared about high budget films or being a star. "I don't need the money, and I work just to keep interested. I had a good part in a big picture about six years ago. There was tension in making it and I felt myself getting nervous again." They moved to their beach house in Malibu, California, soaking up the sun and gradually getting better.<ref>Springfield Leader and Press, December 19, 1948. p. 19.</ref> Baxter felt that the best role in motion pictures was being a leading man in a series. He had reached that conclusion during the production years of the various ''Crime Doctor'' films. "It's wonderful. I make two of them a year. Columbia has juggled it so I can make two in a row. That takes about eight weeks of my time. The rest of the year I relax. I travel. I enjoy life".<ref name="The Valley Times, Oct 20, 1947" />

==Personal life==
Baxter married Viola Caldwell in 1911, but they were soon separated and then divorced in 1913. He married actress [[Winifred Bryson]] in 1918, remaining married until his death in 1951.<ref name="mh1">{{cite news|title=Warner Baxter, 62, Star Of Motion Pictures, Dies|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8886234/the_morning_herald/|work=The Morning Herald|agency=Associated Press|date=May 8, 1951|location=Maryland, Hagerstown|page=1|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = February 11, 2017}} {{Open access}}</ref> Through his marriage to Bryson he was an uncle by marriage to actress Betty Bryson.<ref>Santa Rosa Republican, April 6, 1934, pg. 4.</ref> Betty Bryson was born Elizabeth Bryson Meikklejohn, daughter of Winifred's sister, Vivian.

On August 5, 1931, 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 (1931 film)|The Cisco Kid]]''. Two trainmen were killed in the derailment. Baxter, Conchita Montenegro, and Edmund Lowe were among the passengers in cars at the end of the train.<ref>Los Angeles Times, August 6, 1931, pg 1</ref>

The Baxter beach house was at 77 Malibu Beach, Malibu, California, for many years as noted in its 1942 voter roll.<ref>California Voter Registrations 1900 - 1968; Ancestry.com.</ref> He also had a cabin in the San Jacinto Mountains.<ref>Oakland Tribune, December 30, 1934, Sunday Supplement pgs. 62-63.</ref> He was very active in Malibu civic affairs and was named honorary mayor of Malibu from 1946, replacing Brian Donlevy, through 1949.<ref>Santa Monica History Museum, Photo Archives, The Malibu Times, August 20, 1946, Vol.1,#17,pg.1.</ref> For a number of years, he had an 80-acre working ranch about 12 miles north of Palm Springs at Desert Hot Springs, the Warner Baxter Ranch, later renamed the Circle B Ranch. It was used for years as a location for western films.<ref>The Desert Sun, February 9, 1962, pg. 18.</ref> It was listed for sale in mid 1945 for a price of $40,000 and sold over a year later.<ref>The Desert Sun, April 13, 1945, pg. 5.</ref><ref>The Desert  Sun, August 9, 1946, pg. 6.</ref> 

During the war, Baxter was chairman of the Malibu Rationing Board and also did some troop entertaining in Army camps in the Fresno and Bakersfield areas. He and his entertainers put on dozens of day and night shows for the service men.<ref>Topanga Journal (Topanga, California) July 23, 1943, pg. 1.</ref>

Baxter was a close friend of [[William Powell]], with whom he had starred in three silent films, the best of which was ''[[The Great Gatsby (1926 film)|The Great Gatsby]]'' now considered lost. He was at Powell's side when [[Jean Harlow]] died in 1937.<ref name="things"/> His friendship with [[Ronald Colman]] was perhaps even deeper. While tennis and the film industry were the origins of their friendship going back to their earlier days at Paramount Studios, Colman and his wife Benita Hume named Baxter and [[Tim McCoy]] as godfathers to their daughter Juliet Benita Colman at her christening in 1944.<ref>[[Ronald Colman]], A Very Private Person, Juliet Benita Colman, William Morrow and Company, New York 1975, pg. 215.</ref> Juliet Colman's biography of her father describes in detail the very private social circle of cocktails, dinner and games of tennis or poker held between her father's Hollywood house at 2092 Mound Street above and behind the Castle Argyle, and Baxter's home on South Beachwood Drive.

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. He also developed a radio device that allowed emergency crews to change traffic signals from two blocks away, providing them with safe passage through intersections. He financed the device's installation at a Beverly Hills intersection in 1940.<ref name="things" />

== Death ==
Baxter suffered from arthritis for several years, as well as a chronic illness which caused eating difficulties and induced malnutrition.<ref>L A Times, April 21, 1951, pg. 1.</ref> In 1951, he underwent a lobotomy as a last resort to ease the chronic pain.<ref name="times">{{cite news|url=http://www.psychosurgery.org/news-opinion/archives-of-the-new-york-times/|title=Warner Baxter, 59, Film Star, Is Dead: Winner of 'Oscar' in 1929– Best Known for Cisco Kid and 'Crime Doctor' Portrayals|date=8 May 1951|work=The New York Times|access-date=2011-11-16|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111213002635/http://www.psychosurgery.org/news-opinion/archives-of-the-new-york-times/|archive-date=13 December 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Warner Baxter, an Academy Award winning actor, sought out a lobotomy against doctors' advice |url=https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/12/25/warner-baxter/ |website=The Vintage News |date=25 December 2017}}</ref> On May 7, 1951, he died of pneumonia at age 62<ref name="clac">{{cite book|last1=Ellenberger|first1=Allan R.|title=Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory|date=2001|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786450190|page=35|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZraJCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA35|access-date=11 February 2017}}</ref> and was interred in [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)|Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery]] in Glendale, California in a private funeral service described as markedly reminiscent of the film capital's earlier days. Among his pallbearers were friends Ronald Colman and William Powell.<ref>L A Times, May 12, 1951 pg.2.</ref>  He left all his property to his wife.<ref>L A Times, June 14, 1951, pg. 2.</ref> 

Winifred married St. Louis architect Ferdinand Herman Menger at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 15, 1953. They would remain married until the end of her life.<ref>San Francisco Examiner, October 16, 1953, pg. 22.</ref><ref>http://www.ancestry.com Young Men's WW2 Draft Registration.</ref>

==Recognition==
In 1960, Baxter posthumously received a [[List of actors with Hollywood Walk of Fame motion picture stars|motion pictures star]] on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] at 6284 Hollywood Boulevard.<ref name=HWoF>{{cite web| title=Hollywood Walk of Fame - Warner Baxter| url=http://www.walkoffame.com/warner-baxter| publisher=Hollywood Chamber of Commerce| date=8 February 1960| access-date=2016-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160403100449/http://walkoffame.com/warner-baxter |archive-date=2016-04-03 |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Filmography==
{| class=wikitable
! Year
! Film
! Role
! Notes
|-
|1914
| ''[[Her Own Money]]''
|Lew Alden
| uncredited
|-
|1918
| ''[[All Woman (1918 film)|All Woman]]''
|
| uncredited
|-
|1919
| ''[[Lombardi, Ltd.]]''
|
| uncredited
|-
|rowspan=4|1921
| ''[[First Love (1921 film)|First Love]]''
| Donald Halliday
| incomplete; [[Museum of Modern Art]] (New York)
|-
| ''[[Cheated Hearts (film)|Cheated Hearts]]''
| Tom Gordon
|
|-
| ''[[The Love Charm]]''
| Thomas Morgan
|
|-
| ''[[Sheltered Daughters]]''
| Pep Mullins
|
|-
|rowspan=5|1922
| ''[[If I Were Queen]]''
| Vladimir
|
|-
| ''[[A Girl's Desire]]''
| Jones/Lord Dysart
|
|-
| ''[[The Ninety and Nine]]''
| Tom Silverton/Phil Bradbury
|
|-
| ''[[The Girl in His Room]]''
| Kirk Waring
|
|-
| ''[[Her Own Money]]''
| Lew Alden
|
|-
|rowspan=4|1923
| ''[[St. Elmo (1923 American film)|St. Elmo]]''
| Murray Hammond
| lost
|-
| ''[[Blow Your Own Horn (1923 film)|Blow Your Own Horn]]''
| Jack Dunbar
|
|-
| ''[[In Search of a Thrill]]''
| Adrian Torrens
|
|-
| ''[[Those Who Dance (1924 film)|Those Who Dance]]''
| Bob Kane
| extant; Library of Congress (per Tave/IMDb review)
|-
|rowspan=5|1924
| ''[[Christine of the Hungry Heart]]''
| Stuart Knight
| extant; Library of Congress (per Tave/IMDb review)
|-
| ''[[The Female (1924 film)|The Female]]''
| Col. Valentia
|
|-
| ''[[His Forgotten Wife]]''
| Donald Allen/John Rolfe
| extant; Library of Congress
|-
| ''[[Alimony (1924 film)|Alimony]]''
| Jimmy Mason
|
|-
| ''[[The Garden of Weeds]]''
| Douglas Crawford
|
|-
|rowspan=8|1925
| ''[[The Best People]]''
| Henry Morgan
| lost
|-
| ''[[A Son of His Father]]''
| Big Boy Morgan
|
|-
| ''[[Rugged Water]]''
| Calvin Horner
| lost
|-
| ''[[Welcome Home (1925 film)|Welcome Home]]''
| Fred Prouty
| extant
|-
| ''[[The Awful Truth (1925 film)|The Awful Truth]]''
| Norman Satterlee
|print preserved at UCLA Film and Television (''per IMDb'')
|-
| ''[[The Air Mail]]''
| Russ Kane
| incomplete
|-
| ''[[The Golden Bed]]''
| Bunny O'Neill
| extant
|-
| ''[[Mismates]]''
| Ted Carroll
| lost
|-
|rowspan=5|1926
| ''[[Aloma of the South Seas (1926 film)|Aloma of the South Seas]]''
| Nuitane
| lost
|-
| '' [[The Runaway (1926 film)|The Runaway]]''
| Wade Murrell
| lost
|-
| ''[[Mannequin (1926 film)|Mannequin]]''
| John Herrick
| extant
|-
| ''[[The Great Gatsby (1926 film)|The Great Gatsby]]''
| [[Jay Gatsby]]
| lost
|-
| ''[[Miss Brewster's Millions]]''
| Thomas B. Hancock Jr
| lost
|-
|rowspan=5|1927
| ''[[The Coward (1927 film)|The Coward]]''
| Clinton Philbrook
|
|-
| ''[[Singed (1927 film)|Singed]]''
| Royce Wingate
|
|-
| ''[[Drums of the Desert (1927 film)|Drums of the Desert]]''
| John Curry
| lost
|-
| ''[[The Telephone Girl (1927 film)|The Telephone Girl]]''
| Matthew Standish
| 
|-
| ''[[Craig's Wife (1928 film)|Craig's Wife]]''
| Walter Craig
| lost
|-
|rowspan=7|1928
| ''[[Danger Street (1928 film)|Danger Street]]''
| Rolly Sigsby
|
|-
| ''[[Ramona (1928 film)|Ramona]]''
| Alessandro
| extant
|-
| ''[[Three Sinners]]''
| James Harris
| lost
|-
| ''[[The Tragedy of Youth]]''
| Frank Gordon
| lost
|-
| ''[[West of Zanzibar (1928 film)|West of Zanzibar]]''
| Doc
| directed by [[Tod Browning]]; extant
|-
| ''[[A Woman's Way (1928 film)|A Woman's Way]]''
| Tony
| lost
|-
| ''[[In Old Arizona]]''
| [[The Cisco Kid]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Actor]] – extant
|-
|rowspan=5|1929
| ''[[Romance of the Rio Grande]]''
| Pablo Wharton Cameron
|
|-
| ''[[Behind That Curtain (film)|Behind That Curtain]]''
| Col. John Beetham
| extant
|-
| ''[[The Far Call]]''
| ?
| lost
|-
| ''[[Thru Different Eyes (1929 film)|Thru Different Eyes]]''<!-- existing [[Thru Different Eyes]] WP article is for a 1942 film of the same name -->
| Jack Winfield
| extant (special silent version only, incomplete)
|-
| ''[[Linda (1929 film)|Linda]]''
| Dr. Paul Randall
| extant
|-
|rowspan=3|1930
| ''[[Renegades (1930 film)|Renegades]]''
| Deucalion
| extant
|-
| ''[[Such Men Are Dangerous]]''
| Ludwig Kranz
| extant; Library of Congress
|-
| ''[[The Arizona Kid (1930 film)|The Arizona Kid]]''
| [[The Cisco Kid]]
| extant; Library of Congress
|-
|rowspan=7|1931
| ''[[Their Mad Moment]]''
| Esteban Cristera
|
|-
| ''[[Doctors' Wives (1931 film)|Doctors' Wives]]''
| Dr. Judson Penning
|
|-
| ''[[The Stolen Jools]]''
| [[The Cisco Kid]]
|
|-
| ''[[Daddy Long Legs (1931 film)|Daddy Long Legs]]''
| Jervis Pendleton
|
|-
| ''[[The Squaw Man (1931 film)|The Squaw Man]]''
| James 'Jim' Wingate, aka Jim Carston
| extant
|-
| ''[[The Cisco Kid (1931 film)|The Cisco Kid]]''
| [[The Cisco Kid]]
|
|-
| ''[[Surrender (1931 film)|Surrender]]''
| Sgt. Dumaine
|
|-
|rowspan=3|1932
| ''[[Six Hours to Live]]''
| Capt. Paul Onslow
|
|-
| ''[[Man About Town (1932 film)|Man About Town]]''
| Stephen Morrow
|
|-
| ''[[Amateur Daddy]]''
| Jim Gladden
|
|-
|rowspan=5|1933
| ''[[Dangerously Yours (1933 film)|Dangerously Yours]]''
| Andrew Burke
|
|-
| ''[[42nd Street (film)|42nd Street]]''
| Julian Marsh
|
|-
| ''[[I Loved You Wednesday]]''
| Philip Fletcher
|
|-
| ''[[Paddy the Next Best Thing (1933 film)|Paddy the Next Best Thing]]''
| Lawrence Blake
|
|-
| ''[[Penthouse (film)|Penthouse]]''
| Jackson 'Jack' Durant
|
|-
|rowspan=6|1934
| ''[[Hell in the Heavens]]''
| Lt. Steve Warner
|
|-
| ''[[As Husbands Go]]''
| Charles Lingard
|
|-
| ''[[Grand Canary (film)|Grand Canary]]''
| Dr. Harvey Leith
|
|-
| ''[[Stand Up and Cheer!]]''
| Lawrence Cromwell
|
|-
| ''[[Such Women Are Dangerous]]''
| Michael Shawn
|
|-
| ''[[Broadway Bill]]''
| Dan Brooks
|
|-
|rowspan=3|1935
| ''[[Under the Pampas Moon]]''
| Cesar Campo
|
|-
| ''[[One More Spring]]''
| Jaret Otkar
|
|-
| ''[[La Fiesta de Santa Barbara]]''
|Himself
| short film
|-
|rowspan=6|1936
| ''[[White Hunter (film)|White Hunter]]''
| Capt. Clark Rutledge
|
|-
| ''[[To Mary - with Love]]''
| Jack Wallace
|
|-
| ''[[The Road to Glory (1936 film)|The Road to Glory]]''
| Captain Paul La Roche
| 
|-
| ''[[The Prisoner of Shark Island]]''
| [[Samuel Mudd|Dr. Samuel Mudd]]
|
|-
| ''[[King of Burlesque]]''
| Kerry Bolton
|
|-
| ''[[Robin Hood of El Dorado (film)|The Robin Hood of El Dorado]]''
| [[Joaquin Murrieta]]
|
|-
|rowspan=3|1937
| ''[[Wife, Doctor and Nurse]]''
| Dr. Judd Lewis
|
|-
| ''[[Vogues of 1938]]''
| George Curson
|
|-
| ''[[Slave Ship (film)|Slave Ship]]''
| Jim Lovett
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1938
| ''[[I'll Give a Million (1938 film)|I'll Give a Million]]''
| Tony Newlander
|
|-
| ''[[Kidnapped (1938 film)|Kidnapped]]''
| Alan Breck
|
|-
|rowspan=3|1939
| ''[[Barricade (1939 film)|Barricade]]''
| Hank Topping
|
|-
| ''[[Wife, Husband and Friend]]''
| Leonard Borland aka Logan Bennett
|
|-
| ''[[The Return of the Cisco Kid]]''
| [[The Cisco Kid]]
|
|-
|1940
| ''[[Earthbound (1940 film)|Earthbound]]''
| Nick Desborough
|
|-
|1941
| ''[[Adam Had Four Sons]]''
| Adam Stoddard
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1943
|''[[Crime Doctor (film)|Crime Doctor]]''
| [[Crime Doctor (character)|Dr. Robert Ordway]]/Phil Morgan
| first of 14 films in the ''Crime Doctor'' B-film series
|-
| ''[[Crime Doctor's Strangest Case]]''
| Dr. Robert Ordway
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1944
| ''[[Shadows in the Night (1944 film)|Shadows in the Night]]''
| Dr. Robert Ordway
|
|-
| ''[[Lady in the Dark (film)|Lady in the Dark]]''
| Kendall Nesbitt
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1945
| ''[[Crime Doctor's Warning]]''
| Dr. Robert Ordway
|
|-
| ''[[The Crime Doctor's Courage]]''
| Dr. Robert Ordway
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1946
| ''[[Crime Doctor's Man Hunt]]''
| Dr. Robert Ordway
|
|-
| ''[[Just Before Dawn (1946 film)|Just Before Dawn]]''
| Dr. Robert Ordway
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1947
| ''[[Crime Doctor's Gamble]]''
| Dr. Robert Ordway
|
|-
| ''[[The Millerson Case]]''
| Dr. Robert Ordway
|
|-
|1948
| ''[[The Gentleman from Nowhere]]''
| Earl Donovan/Robert Ashton
|
|-
|rowspan=3|1949
| ''[[The Crime Doctor's Diary]]''
| Dr. Robert Ordway
| 
|-
| ''[[The Devil's Henchman]]''
| Jess Arno
|
|-
| ''[[Prison Warden (film)|Prison Warden]]''
| Warden Victor Burnell
|
|-
|1950
| ''[[State Penitentiary (1950 film)|State Penitentiary]]''
| Roger Manners
| last of the ''Crime Doctor'' series
|-
|1952
| ''[[O. Henry's Full House]]''
|
| clip of Baxter from ''The Cisco Kid''
|}

==See also==
* [[List of actors with Academy Award nominations]]

==References==
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==Bibliography==
*Van Neste, Dan.  ''"The Accidental Star: The Life and Films of Warner Baxter."'' Albany, Georgia: BearManor Media, 2023

==External links==
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*[http://film.virtual-history.com/person.php?personid=1127 Photographs of Warner Baxter]
* Warner Baxter and his mother Jane tour the Fox lot in Hollywood: [https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/2a/2c/d5/2a2cd5374ea7712a89af475d8be7605c.jpg #1]...[https://web.archive.org/web/20140713091000/http://acertaincinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/baxter-mother_opt.jpg #2(Wayback)]

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