Warner Baxter Biography

Fast Facts

• Moved to San Francisco with his mother in 1898 and after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck, they lived for eight days in Golden Gate Park
• Famously played the role of The Cisco Kid from the 1928 film In Old Arizona, a role he reprised several times
• The second person ever to be awarded the Best Actor Oscar, doing so at the 2nd Academy Awards in 1929
• Was an inventor and developed a radio device to enable emergency crews to change traffic signals from two blocks away, allowing them safe passage through intersections; and this was installed at an intersection in Beverly Hills in 1940
• Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, 9 years after his death, at 6284 Hollywood Boulevard