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- Category: Television
- Star rank: 2032
- Address:
6719 Hollywood Blvd - Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing west
- GPS location:
34.101682, -118.336616
Dr. Frank C. Baxter
Next star: Barton MacLane
Previous star: Yvonne DeCarlo
Biography
Dr. Frank C. Baxter lecturing on “Romeo and Juliet,” making use of model of Shakespeare’s Globe Theater, which he spent 20 years building.
Source: usc.edu
Francis Condie Baxter (May 4, 1896 – January 18, 1982) was an American TV personality and educator. He was a professor of English at the University of Southern California. Baxter hosted Telephone Time in 1957 and 1958 when ABC picked up the program and ended the tenure of John Nesbitt. During the 1950s, his program Shakespeare on TV won seven Emmy Awards.
Fact file
- Born: Francis Condie Baxter May 4, 1896 Newbold, New Jersey
- Died: January 18, 1982 (aged 85) San Marino, California
- Cause of death: Heart attack
- Citizenship: United States
- Alma mater: University of Pennsylvania Cambridge University (Ph.D.)
- Occupation: Professor, Actor
- Employer: University of Southern California
- Known for: Educational television
- Notable work(s): The Bell Laboratory Science Series
- Television: Our Mr. Sun, Hemo the Magnificent
- Title: Doctor
- Spouse: Lydia Morris
- Children: 2
Read more about Dr. Frank C. Baxter at Wikipedia or at the Internet Movie Database
Hollywood Blvd, north side, between Las Palmas and McCadden
From here you can:
- Go west and cross McCadden
- Go east and cross Las Palmas
- Cross to the south side of Hollwood near McCadden
- Cross to the south side of Hollwood near Las Palmas
Nearby you will also find Yvonne DeCarlo, Barton MacLane, and many others.