Charles Starrett
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 28, 1903
- Died
- March 22, 1986 (aged 82)
- Birthplace
- Athol, Massachusetts, USA
Biography
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.
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Filmography
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Movie · as (archive footage)
The Hawk of Wild River
Movie · as Steve Martin / The Durango Kid
The Rough, Tough West
Movie · as Steve Holden / The Durango Kid
Smoky Canyon
Movie · as Steve "The Durango Kid" Brent
The Kid from Broken Gun
Movie · as Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid
Laramie Mountains
Movie · as Steve Holden / The Durango Kid
Junction City
Movie · as Steve Rollins / Durango Kid
Ridin' the Outlaw Trail
Movie · as Steve Forsythe / The Durango Kid
Pecos River
Movie · as Steve Baldwin / The Durango Kid
Prairie Roundup
Movie · as Steve Carson / The Durango Kid
Bonanza Town
Movie · as Steve Ramsay / The Durango Kid
Snake River Desperadoes
Movie · as Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid
Cyclone Fury
Movie · as The Durango Kid / Steve Reynolds
The Kid from Amarillo
Movie · as Steve Ransom / The Durango Kid
Fort Savage Raiders
Movie · as Steve Drake / The Durango Kid
Streets of Ghost Town
Movie · as Steve Woods / The Durango Kid
Frontier Outpost
Movie · as Steve Lawton / Durango Kid
Trail of the Rustlers
Movie · as Steve Armitage / The Durango Kid
Across the Badlands
Movie · as Steve Ransom / Durango Kid
Outcast of Black Mesa
Movie · as Steve Norman / Durango Kid
Texas Dynamo
Movie · as Steve Drake / Durango Kid
Raiders of Tomahawk Creek
Movie · as Steve Blake / Durango Kid
Lightning Guns
Movie · as Steve Brandon / Durango Kid
Challenge of the Range
Movie · as Steve Roper / The Durango Kid
Desert Vigilante
Movie · as Steve Wood - The Durango Kid
Laramie
Movie · as Steve Holden / Durango Kid
The Blazing Trail
Movie · as Steve Allen / The Durango Kid
South of Death Valley
Movie · as Steve Downey aka The Durango Kid
Bandits of El Dorado
Movie · as Texas Ranger Steve Carson / The Durango Kid
Horsemen of the Sierras
Movie · as Steve Saunders / Durango Kid
Renegades of the Sage
Movie · as Steve Duncan / Durango Kid
Blazing Across the Pecos
Movie · as The Durango Kid
Trail to Laredo
Movie · as Steve Ellison aka The Durango Kid
West of Sonora
Movie · as Steve Rollins / The Durango Kid
Whirlwind Raiders
Movie · as Steve Lanning / The Durango Kid
Quick on the Trigger
Movie · as Sheriff Steve Warren / Durango Kid
Phantom Valley
Movie · as Steve Collins/The Durango Kid
Six-Gun Law
Movie · as Steve Norris / The Durango Kid
El Dorado Pass
Movie · as The Durango Kid
The Lone Hand Texan
Movie · as Steve Driscoll, The Durango Kid
South of the Chisholm Trail
Movie · as Steve Haley / The Durango Kid
West of Dodge City
Movie · as Steve Ramsey / The Durango Kid
Law of the Canyon
Movie · as Steve Langtry / The Durango Kid
The Stranger From Ponca City
Movie · as Steve Larkin / The Durango Kid
Prairie Raiders
Movie · as Steve Bolton / The Durango Kid
Last Days of Boot Hill
Movie · as Steve Waring / The Durango Kid
Riders of the Lone Star
Movie · as Steve Mason / The Durango Kid
Buckaroo from Powder River
Movie · as Steve Lacey / The Durango Kid
Heading West
Movie · as Steve Randall / The Durango Kid
Gunning for Vengeance
Movie · as Steve Landry / The Durango Kid
The Desert Horseman
Movie · as Steve Godfrey / The Durango Kid
The Fighting Frontiersman
Movie · as Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid
Two-Fisted Stranger
Movie · as Steve Gordon / The Durango Kid
Landrush
Movie · as Steve Harmon / Durango Kid
Terror Trail
Movie · as Steve Haverley / The Durango Kid
Galloping Thunder
Movie · as Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid
Roaring Rangers
Movie · as Steve Randall / The Durango Kid
Frontier Gunlaw
Movie · as Jim "The Durango Kid" Stewart
The Return of the Durango Kid
Movie · as Bill Blayden / The Durango Kid
Rough Ridin' Justice
Movie · as Steve Holden
Both Barrels Blazing
Movie · as Kip Allen / The Durango Kid
Blazing the Western Trail
Movie · as Jeff Waring / The Durango Kid
Lawless Empire
Movie · as Steve Ranson / The Durango Kid
Texas Panhandle
Movie · as Steve Buckner / The Durango Kid
Outlaws of the Rockies
Movie · as Steve Williams / The Durango Kid
Rustlers of the Badlands
Movie · as Steve Lindsay / The Durango Kid
Sagebrush Heroes
Movie · as Steve Randall
Riding West
Movie · as Steve Jordan
Saddle Leather Law
Movie · as Steve Carlisle
Sundown Valley
Movie · as Steve Denton
Cowboy Canteen
Movie · as Steve Bradley
Cyclone Prairie Rangers
Movie · as Steve Travis
Cowboy from Lonesome River
Movie · as Steve Randall
Frontier Fury
Movie · as Steve Langdon
Law of the Northwest
Movie · as Steve King
Robin Hood of the Range
Movie · as Steve Marlowe
The Fighting Buckaroo
Movie · as Steve Harrison
Cowboy in the Clouds
Movie · as Steve Kendall
Hail to the Rangers
Movie · as Steve McKay
Overland to Deadwood
Movie · as Steve Prescott
Down Rio Grande Way
Movie · as Steve Martin
Pardon My Gun
Movie · as Steve Randall
Riders of the Northland
Movie · as Steve Bowie
West of Tombstone
Movie · as Marshal Steve Langdon
Bad Men of the Hills
Movie · as Steve Carlton
Riding Through Nevada
Movie · as Steve Lowrey
Lawless Plainsmen
Movie · as Steve Rideen
Riders of the Badlands
Movie · as Steve Langdon / Mac Collins
Thunder Over the Prairie
Movie · as Dr. Steven Monroe / The Medico
Prairie Stranger
Movie · as Steven Monroe
The Medico of Painted Springs
Movie · as Dr. Steven Monroe
The Pinto Kid
Movie · as Jud Calvert
Outlaws of the Panhandle
Movie · as Jim Endicott
The Royal Mounted Patrol
Movie · as Tom Jeffries
Thundering Frontier
Movie · as Jim Filmore
West of Abilene
Movie · as Tom Garfield
Bullets for Rustlers
Movie · as Steve Beaumont
Texas Stagecoach
Movie · as Larry Kinkaid
The Durango Kid
Movie · as Bill Lowry
Blazing Six Shooters
Movie · as Jeff Douglas
The Man from Sundown
Movie · as Larry Whalen
Texas Stampede
Movie · as Tom Randall
Outpost of the Mounties
Movie · as Sergeant Neal Crawford
The Stranger from Texas
Movie · as Tom Murdock posing as Tom Morgan
Spoilers of the Range
Movie · as Jeff Strong
Two-Fisted Rangers
Movie · as Thad Lawson
Western Caravans
Movie · as Sheriff Jim Carson
North of the Yukon
Movie · as RCMP Sgt. Jim Cameron
Riders of Black River
Movie · as Wade Patterson
The Thundering West
Movie · as Jim Dale aka Laramie Kid
Start Cheering
Movie · as Ted Crosley
West of the Santa Fe
Movie · as Steve Lawlor
Rio Grande
Movie · as Cliff Houston
Colorado Trail
Movie · as Grant Bradley
Cattle Raiders
Movie
Law of the Plains
Movie · as Chuck Sanders
South of Arizona
Movie · as Clay Travers
West of Cheyenne
Movie · as Brad Buckner
Call of the Rockies
Movie · as Clint Buckley
Two-Fisted Sheriff
Movie · as Dick Houston
Outlaws of the Prairie
Movie · as Dart Collins
Two Gun Law
Movie · as Bob Larson
The Old Wyoming Trail
Movie · as Bob Patterson
Trapped
Movie · as Ted Haley
Westbound Mail
Movie · as Jim 'Skinner' Bradley
One Man Justice
Movie · as Larry Clarke / Ted Crockett
Stampede
Movie · as Larry Carson
Along Came Love
Movie · as John Patrick O'Ryan
Dodge City Trail
Movie · as Steve Braddock
The Mysterious Avenger
Movie · as Ranny Maitland / Ranny Morgan
The Cowboy Star
Movie · as Spencer Yorke
Secret Patrol
Movie · as RCMP Cpl. Alan Craig
Code of the Range
Movie · as Lee Jamison
What Price Crime
Movie · as Allen Grey
A Shot in the Dark
Movie · as Kenneth 'Ken' Harris
Make a Million
Movie · as Professor Reginald Q. Jones
Gallant Defender
Movie · as Johnny Flagg
One in a Million
Movie · as Donald Cabot Jr.
So Red the Rose
Movie · as George McGehee
One New York Night
Movie · as George Sheridan
Green Eyes
Movie · as Michael Tracy
Desirable
Movie · as Russell Gray
Undercover Men
Movie · as Robert Hunter
This Man Is Mine
Movie · as Jud McCrae
The Silver Streak
Movie · as Tom Caldwell
Stolen Sweets
Movie · as Bill Smith
Sons of Steel
Movie · as Phillip Mason Chadburne
Gentlemen Are Born
Movie · as Stephen Hornblow
Call It Luck
Movie · as Stan Russell
Three on a Honeymoon
Movie · as Dick Charlton
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
Movie · as Morley
The Return of Casey Jones
Movie · as Jim Martin
Jungle Bride
Movie · as Gordon Wayne
Murder on the Campus
Movie · as Bill Bartlett
Our Betters
Movie · as Fleming Harvey
Mr. Skitch
Movie · as Harvey Denby
The Mask of Fu Manchu
Movie · as Terence Granville
Lady and Gent
Movie · as Ted Streaver
Sky Bride
Movie · as Jim Carmichael
The Viking
Movie · as Luke Oarum
The Age for Love
Movie · as Dudley Crome
Silence
Movie · as Arthur Lawrence
Damaged Love
Movie · as Jim Powell
Touchdown!
Movie · as Paul Gehring
Fast and Loose
Movie · as Henry Morgan
The Royal Family of Broadway
Movie · as Perry
The Quarterback
Movie · as Football Player (uncredited)