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Warner Baxter

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Also known as Warner Leroy Baxter

American actor (1889–1951)

OverviewAI-generated

Warner Baxter was an American male artist active from 1914 until his death on May 7, 1951. Born on March 29, 1889, he was recognized in the Academy Award Best Actor collection and the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection. His musical work is categorized under genres including easy listening, exotica, film composer, jazz, and lounge.

The subject is referenced by 383 other encyclopedia articles. On Last.fm, the name Warner Baxter is associated with tags such as Lobotomy, spelling lobotomy correctly, leukotomy, and leucotomy. Crossref lists five works for this name. Additionally, Open Library records an author named Harriett Warner Baxter, who has one work titled Poemscapes.

Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
1

Top works

  • Poemscapes

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1922-03-14
Active to
1996-01-15
easy listeningexoticafilm composerjazzlounge

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
7
Total plays
82

Tags

Lobotomyspelling lobotomy correctlyIt consists of cutting the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex - the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brainleukotomyleucotomy

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Key facts

Born
Warner Leroy Baxter , ( 1889-03-29 ) March 29, 1889, Columbus, Ohio , U.S.
Died
May 7, 1951 (1951-05-07) (aged 62), Beverly Hills, California , U.S.
Resting place
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1914–1950
Spouses
Viola Caldwell ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1911 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1913 ) ​ Winifred Bryson ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1918 ) ​

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Encyclopedic overview

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. 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 starred in 110 films in total beginning his movie career in silent films with his most notable roles being in The Great Gatsby (1926) and The Awful Truth (1925). Baxter's notable sound films are In Old Arizona (1929), 42nd Street (1933), Slave Ship (1937) with Wallace Beery, 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 Dr. Robert Ordway in the Crime Doctor series of 10 films.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Warner Baxter” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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