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Film director 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.
- Director, Producer, Additional Crew
- December 31, 1896
- John Baxter
- February 15, 1975
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.
- December 31, 1896
- February 15, 1975
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?").
Oct 6, 2003 · John Baxter. 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.
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Film director 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.
They Were Expendable. 1945 USA. Maybe not the greatest Ford film and certainly not the most fashionable, but I don't know of another film of his that is so unashamedly respectful of the chain of command and the necessity for men and women to obey orders, no matter what the cost.
