Alan Baxter (actor)
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 graduation, he studied acting at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. There he became friends with the late director Elia Kazan. After they both graduated in 1930, she went to visit the Yale School of Drama. Baxter joined in the early 1930s, the then fledgling Group Theatre of us played in productions such as Lone Valley, The Pure in Heart Waiting for Lefty or and with. His performance in Black Pit found in 1935 Observance by a Hollywood talent scout, so that changed his career. 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 sporadically seen in films, his last role was the thriller Willard in 1971.
After the diagnosis of cancer, Baxter died a few years later, in May 1976. He was married twice, from 1936 to 1953 with Barbara Williams, and from 1955 to 1976 with Christy Palmer, who was also an actress.