Warner Baxter Biography

Fast Facts

• Won the second Oscar for Best Actor in the history of the awards for his portrayal of the Cisco Kid in "In Old Arizona․"
• Worked as an insurance agent, a sales manager and a commercial traveler
• Started his film career in 1914 when he got a job as an extra in a stock company
• Was in vaudeville by 1910 and soon worked up to stage acting
• Frequently played womanizing, charismatic, Latin bandits in western films
• Played Dr․ Ordway" in a series of crime films toward the end of his life
• Known for acting in such films as "The Arizona Kid," "Daddy long Legs," "42nd Street," "Broadway Bill" and "Under the Pampas Moon․"
• Lived in a tent with his family for two weeks following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
• An inventor in his off-time, he co-created a revolver searchlight that would allow a gunman to shoot a target in the dark and a radio device that would let emergency crews change traffic signals from two blocks away
• Was the highest paid actor in Hollywood in 1936 at the height of his career