William Gaxton

William Gaxton (né Arthur Anthony Gaxiola; December 2, 1893 – February 2, 1963) was an American actor of vaudeville, film, and theatre.

Biography Gaxton was born as Arthur Anthony Gaxiola, on December 2, 1893, in San Francisco, California. He was Californio of Spanish ancestry and a cousin of actor Leo Carrillo's. He attended the Boone's Military Academy (or Boone's University School for Boys), and Berkeley High School, in Berkeley, California, and Lowell High School in San Francisco. and the University of California, Berkeley. He was in the Sigma Phi fraternity at UC Berkeley.

In 1961 and 1962, Arthur Treacher and he starred in Guy Lombardo's production of the musical Paradise Island at Jones Beach Marine Theater.

He died from cancer on February 2, 1963, in Manhattan. He was survived by his wife, Madeline Cameron Seitz, who was part of the Cameron Sisters dance team.

Filmography Gaxton starred in the film version (1931) of the play Fifty Million Frenchmen, as well as The Silent Partner (1931), Their Big Moment (1934), Best Foot Forward (1943), The Heat's On (1943), and Diamond Horseshoe (1945).

Broadway He debuted on Broadway in the Music Box Revue on October 23, 1922, and later starred in Rodgers and Hart's A Connecticut Yankee (1927), singing "Thou Swell"; Cole Porter's Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929), singing "You Do Something to Me"; Of Thee I Sing (1931) with Victor Moore; Cole Porter's Anything Goes (1934), with Ethel Merman and Victor Moore; White Horse Inn (1936); Leave It to Me! (1938) with Victor Moore; Louisiana Purchase (1940); and Hollywood Pinafore (1945).