Frank C. Baxter

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. Born in Camden, New Jersey, Baxter is best remembered for his appearance as Dr. Research in almost all of the Bell Laboratory Science Series of eight educational films produced for television in the late 1950s, and which became a staple in American classrooms from the 1960s through the 1980s. The Bell Laboratory Science Series combined scientific footage, live actors and animation to...