Alan Baxter

Alan Edwin Baxter (born November 19, 1908 in East Cleveland , Ohio , † May 7, 1976 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actor .

Life

Alan Baxter, the son of a vice president of the Cleveland Trust Company, was born in East Cleveland. After graduating from high school, he studied acting at Williams College in Williamstown , Massachusetts . There he befriended the later director Elia Kazan . After they both graduated in 1930, they attended the Yale School of Drama together . Baxter joined the then fledgling Group Theater in the early 1930s and starred in productions such as Lone Valley , The Pure in Heart, and Waiting for Lefty . His performance at Black Pit attracted the attention of a Hollywood talent scout in 1935, so his career changed. Immediately thereafter, he went to Hollywood and made his debut as "Babe Wilson" in the film Mary Burns, Fugitive . In the 1960s he was only seen sporadically in films, his last role was the thriller Willard in 1971.

Private life

Diagnosed with cancer, Baxter died a few years later in May 1976. He was married twice, from 1936 to 1953 to Barbara Williams and from 1955 to 1976 to Christy Palmer, who was also an actress.

Filmography (selection)

1935: Underworld Tragedy (Mary Burns, Fugitive) 1936: Battle in the Mountains (The Trail of the Lonesome Pine) 1936: Big Brown Eyes 1936: Thirteen Hours by Air 1936: Harms Murder Trial (The Case Against Mrs. Ames) 1936: slogan! 1937: Breezing Home 1937: The Last Gangster ( The Last Gangster ) 1937: Men in Exile 1937: Night Key 1937: It Could Happen to You! 1937: The Last Gangster 1937: Big Town Girl 1938: I Met My Love Again 1938: Wide Open Faces 1938: Gangs of New York 1939: dread at every dawn (Each Dawn I Die) 1939: Off the Record 1939: Boy Slaves 1939: Let Us Live! 1939: My Son Is a Criminal 1939: In Name Only (In Name Only) 1940: The Lone Wolf Strikes 1940: Abe Lincoln in Illinois 1940: Free, Blonde and 21: Mickey Ryan 1940: Escape to Glory 1940: The Man Who Talked Too Much 1940: Land of the Wicked (Santa Fe Trail) 1941: Under Age 1941: The Avengers of Missouri (Bad Men of Missouri) 1941: Rags to Riches

1941: The Pittsburgh Kid 1941: Borrowed Hero 1941: The Shadow of the Thin Man (Shadow of the Thin Man) 1942: Prisoner of Japan 1942: Stand by All Networks 1942: China Girl 1942: Saboteurs (saboteurs) 1943: And Life Goes On (The Human Comedy) 1943: Behind Prison Walls 1943: Pilot No. 5 1943: Submarine Base 1943: Women in Bondage 1944: Winged Victory 1947: The Prairie 1948: Close-Up 1949: Clear the ring for Stoker Thompson (The Set-Up) 1957: The End of the Line 1957: Avengers of the Disinherited (The True story of Jesse James) 1958: Too Young (The Restless Years) 1959: On a hot track (Face of a Fugitive) 1960: The Commandant (The Mountain Road): Gen. Loomis 1961: The Judgment at Nuremberg 1966: This Property Is Condemned 1966: The Wild Wild West ( The Wild Wild West , Consequence: The Night of the Returning Dead ) 1966: Daniel Boone (episode: Onatha ) 1967: Arkansas Murder Burners (Welcome to Hard Times) 1969: The wind moves westward (Paint Your Wagon) 1970: Chisum 1971: Willard

Web links

• Alan Baxter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Alan Baxter in nndb (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} biography on imdb.com, accessed December 2, 2012.
2. ↑ Alan Baxter  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at view-copy.alvin.user.dev.freebaseapps.com, accessed December 2, 2012.