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John Philip Baxter (31 December 1896 – 21 January 1975) was a British filmmaker active from the 1930s to the late-1950s. During that time, he produced, wrote, or directed several films.
John Baxter. Director: Fortune Lane. A maker of unpretentious working class comedies and musicals, John Baxter had started his career as a music hall performer himself and would later gravitate toward vehicles for the charming popular WWII duo Flanagan and Allen as well as the low brow transvestite humor of Old Mother Riley.
John Baxter. Director: Fortune Lane. A maker of unpretentious working class comedies and musicals, John Baxter had started his career as a music hall performer himself and would later gravitate toward vehicles for the charming popular WWII duo Flanagan and Allen as well as the low brow transvestite humor of Old Mother Riley.
John Baxter was born in Sydney, Australia, but raised in a small country town called Junee. With little else to do, he went to the movies three times a week for most of his adolescence, which provided an instant education in Hollywood movies with which he was often able to embarrass film celebrities ("You SAW that thing?").
Free lance author. Australia. Voted for. The Leopard. 1963 Italy, France. A Hollywood producer of the 1920s said the essential difference between American and European cinema was "Europe has EYES." THE LEOPARD has American production values and an American star but it lives on the way it looks.
director, producer. 78 years biography, photo, best movies and TV shows, news, birthday and age, Date of Death. «Ramsbottom Rides Again» (1956), «The Dragon of Pendragon Castle» (1953), «Judgment Deferred» (1952), «The Second Mate» (1950), «Three Bags Full» (1949)...
Oct 6, 2003 · John Baxter. 3.11. 229 ratings19 reviews. The life of Hollywood’s number one movie actor, the elusive Robert De Niro, who shuns the limelight and rarely gives interviews, written by the leading film critic and biographer of Spielberg, Kubrick, Woody Allen and George Lucas.
