Robert Baxter is an Australian actor. Baxter was first seen onscreen in the 1977 movie The F.J. Holden. He played a policeman, a role he was to reprise many times during his career. Between 1979-1983 he played Petty Officer 'Swain' Reynolds on the TV series Patrol Boat. Throughout the 1980s he had guest roles in shows such as Prisoner, Sons and Daughters, Rafferty's Rules and A Country Practice. In the 1990s he popped up in Police Rescue, All Saints and Joh's Jury. In 2010-2011 he worked as a voiceover artist on the computer games Dead Rising 2 and Dead Rising 2: Off the Record.