 He made his film debut in the 1957 remake of "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" and appeared uncredited as a detective in the British horror classic "Peeping Tom" (1960).In 1960, Orson Welles selected Baxter to portray Prince Hal in his stage production "Chimes at Midnight", which combined portions of the Shakespearean plays "Henry IV, Part I", "Henry IV, Part II", "Henry V", "Richard II", and "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and brought the comic figure of Falstaff to the forefront of a primarily tragic tale.Baxter repeated his performance in the 1965 film version.