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Billy Baxter (February 8, 1926 – January 20, 2012) was born and lived in the West side of Manhattan. He was an American film producer who began his career in the early 1960s.
A performance artist. His son Jack, a filmmaker, made this video which honors the legend. Billy is still thriving not far from Broadway ("his umbilical," I called the street) and when he recently got a pacemaker every doctor and nurse in the hospital got a silver dollar.
Billy 'Silver Dollar' Baxter. Producer: Dawn of the Dead. Billy is a native New Yorker. He enlisted in the Navy on his 17th birthday and served aboard the USS New Jersey Battleship in the South Pacific during WWII. In 1961, Billy produced the Broadway play "Mandingo" starring Franchot Tone, Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward. The play was not a ...
Billy 'Silver Dollar' Baxter. Producer: Dawn of the Dead. Billy is a native New Yorker. He enlisted in the Navy on his 17th birthday and served aboard the USS New Jersey Battleship in the South Pacific during WWII. In 1961, Billy produced the Broadway play "Mandingo" starring Franchot Tone, Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward. The play was not a ...
Billy (Silver Dollar) Baxter traveled to the Cannes Film Festival every year with two old friends, Herb and Anna Steinman of New York City. He always introduced Mrs. Steinman as “Jack Nicholson’s shrink,” and Herb as “the retired millionaire and my old buddy-boy.”
Jul 23, 2015 · Billy Baxter was nicknamed ‘Silver Dollar’ by Roger Ebert who wrote a chapter about him in his memoir Life Itself: “...Baxter got his nickname because he arrived at Cannes every year with 2,000 American silver dollars, which he bestowed as tips,” Ebert wrote in his chapter "Irving! Brang ‘em on!" “I was always before my time.” Post this.
Showbiz legend Billy "Silver Dollar" Baxter sits down to discuss his long and varied career in the movie business. As an executive producer of arthouse films...
