Charles Starrett
Biography
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Charles Robert Starrett (March 28, 1903 – March 22, 1986) was an American actor best known for his starring role in the Durango Kid western series. When he retired he held the record for starring in the longest-running string of feature films (131 titles, half of them being "Durango Kid" films, for Columbia Pictures). A graduate of Worcester Academy in 1922, Starrett went on to study at Dartmouth College. While on the Dartmouth football team he was hired to play a football extra in the film The Quarterback (1926). Bitten by the acting bug, Starrett played minor roles in films and leading roles in stage plays. In 1928, he was a member of the Walker Company, a repertory theatre troupe headed by Stuart Walker.
He played the romantic lead in Fast and Loose (1930), which also featured Miriam Hopkins, Carole Lombard, and Frank Morgan. He also starred in the Canadian production The Viking (1931), filmed on location in Newfoundland, which had begun as a Paramount Pictures project.
After that he was very active for the next two years but his roles were unremarkable. He was featured in Our Betters (1933), Murder on the Campus (1933). and in his most charming role as a young doctor named Orion in "Along Came Love", with the vivacious co-star Irene Hervey. Offscreen, he helped organize the Screen Actors Guild.
Acting (159 movies)
The Mask of Fu Manchu
1932
Green Eyes
1934
The Viking
1931
Start Cheering
1938
Streets of Ghost Town
1950
Desirable
1934
The Return of the Durango Kid
1945
Undercover Men
1934
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
1933
The Return of Casey Jones
1933
Jungle Bride
1933
Murder on the Campus
1933
Our Betters
1933
What Price Crime
1935
A Shot in the Dark
1935
Make a Million
1935
Gallant Defender
1935
Stampede
1936
Along Came Love
1936
Lady and Gent
1932
This Man Is Mine
1934
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976
One in a Million
1935
The Silver Streak
1934
Mr. Skitch
1933
So Red the Rose
1935
Fast and Loose
1930
The Age for Love
1931
Sons of Steel
1934
Blazing Across the Pecos
1948
Challenge of the Range
1949
One New York Night
1935
Riding West
1944
Gentlemen Are Born
1934
Two-Fisted Sheriff
1937
Overland to Deadwood
1942
The Hawk of Wild River
1952
Frontier Outpost
1950
Frontier Fury
1943
Ridin' the Outlaw Trail
1951
Heading West
1946
Gunning for Vengeance
1946
The Rough, Tough West
1952
Pecos River
1951
Dodge City Trail
1936
Outlaws of the Prairie
1937
The Man from Sundown
1939
Two Gun Law
1937
The Mysterious Avenger
1936
The Old Wyoming Trail
1937
Saddle Leather Law
1944
Sundown Valley
1944
Trail to Laredo
1948
Silence
1931
The Cowboy Star
1936
Thundering Frontier
1940
Texas Stampede
1939
West of Abilene
1940
Outpost of the Mounties
1939
Down Rio Grande Way
1942
Bullets for Rustlers
1940
Texas Stagecoach
1940
Law of the Northwest
1943
Pardon My Gun
1942
Prairie Roundup
1951
Rough Ridin' Justice
1945
Both Barrels Blazing
1945
Robin Hood of the Range
1943
West of the Santa Fe
1938
West of Sonora
1948
Riders of the Badlands
1941
The Stranger from Texas
1939
Spoilers of the Range
1939
Smoky Canyon
1952
Two-Fisted Rangers
1939
Western Caravans
1939
Whirlwind Raiders
1948
Quick on the Trigger
1948
Thunder Over the Prairie
1941
Prairie Stranger
1941
Riders of the Northland
1942
The Desert Horseman
1946
The Durango Kid
1940
Phantom Valley
1948
Cowboy Canteen
1944
The Fighting Frontiersman
1946
Two-Fisted Stranger
1946
The Lone Hand Texan
1947
Landrush
1946
South of the Chisholm Trail
1947
West of Dodge City
1947
Law of the Canyon
1947
The Stranger From Ponca City
1947
Prairie Raiders
1947
Last Days of Boot Hill
1947
Riders of the Lone Star
1947
Buckaroo from Powder River
1947
North of the Yukon
1939
The Medico of Painted Springs
1941
Desert Vigilante
1949
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