- Was a lifelong Christian Scientist.
- Served with the British Army at Passchendale in World War I. He began his career as a performer in regional music hall, then worked as a tour manager, agent and stage manager.
- Prolific British producer and director of modestly-budgeted working-class melodramas and comedies. At British National in the 1930s, he set up his own company, John Baxter Productions, in 1944. In 1951 he helped establish Group 3 with John Grierson (I) and Michael Balcon.
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