Charles Starrett

Known for ActingBorn 1903-03-28Died 1986-03-22Athol, Massachusetts, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.Read more

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Ridin' the Outlaw Trail

Bandits of El Dorado

El Dorado Pass

South of the Chisholm Trail

The Desert Horseman

Rough Ridin' Justice

Lawless Empire

Riding West

Sundown Valley

Hail to the Rangers

Down Rio Grande Way

Pardon My Gun

The Pinto Kid

Thundering Frontier

West of Abilene

The Man from Sundown

Outpost of the Mounties

Riders of Black River

Call of the Rockies

Two Gun Law

The Cowboy Star

Fort Savage Raiders

Outcasts of Black Mesa

Raiders of Tomahawk Creek

Renegades of the Sage

Landrush

Sagebrush Heroes

Cyclone Prairie Rangers

Overland to Deadwood

Riders of the Northland

West of Tombstone

Thunder Over the Prairie

The Royal Mounted Patrol

Texas Stagecoach

Trapped

Stampede

The Mysterious Avenger

Secret Patrol

Gallant Defender

The Age for Love

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

The Return of the Durango Kid

Prairie Roundup

Heading West

Rustlers of the Badlands

Cowboy Canteen

Law of the Northwest

Bad Men of the Hills