
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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