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He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Baxter reportedly despised working with horses.
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Baxter's favorite role was that of Dr. Samuel Mudd in The Prisoner of Shark Island.
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Baxter was the first actor to play the title role of The Great Gatsby in the 1926 silent version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel.
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Baxter was married to actress Winifred Bryson from 1918 until his death.
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Baxter's income for 1936 was $284,000.00 - the highest of any actor/actress in Hollywood for that year.
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Baxter reportedly got the part of the Cisco Kid only after Raoul Walsh was injured and unable to go.
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Baxter played the Cisco Kid in four movies: In Old Arizona, The Arizona Kid, The Cisco Kid, and The Return of the Cisco Kid.
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Baxter has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6290 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Baxter is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetary in Glendale, CA.
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Late in his life Baxter underwent a lobotomy in hopes of easing the pain he was suffering from arthritis.
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Baxter was a survivor of the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.
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Baxter's widowed mother moved his family from Columbus, OH to San Francisco when he was nine years old.