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Charles Starrett

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.

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

167

Gender

Male

Birthday

1903-03-28

Place of Birth

Athol, Massachusetts, USA

Also Known As

Charles Robert Starrett, Chas. Starrett

Known For

The Mask of Fu Manchu Green Eyes The Viking Start Cheering Streets of Ghost Town Desirable The Return of the Durango Kid Undercover Men The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi Jungle Bride The Return of Casey Jones Murder on the Campus Our Betters What Price Crime A Shot in the Dark Make a Million Gallant Defender Stampede Along Came Love Lady and Gent This Man Is Mine Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch One in a Million The Silver Streak Mr. Skitch So Red the Rose Fast and Loose The Age for Love Stolen Sweets Sons of Steel Blazing Across the Pecos Challenge of the Range One New York Night Riding West Gentlemen Are Born Two-Fisted Sheriff Overland to Deadwood The Hawk of Wild River Frontier Outpost Frontier Fury Gunning for Vengeance Ridin' the Outlaw Trail Heading West The Rough, Tough West Pecos River Dodge City Trail Outlaws of the Prairie The Man from Sundown Two Gun Law The Old Wyoming Trail The Mysterious Avenger Saddle Leather Law Sundown Valley Silence Trail to Laredo The Cowboy Star West of Abilene Texas Stampede Down Rio Grande Way Thundering Frontier Outpost of the Mounties Bullets for Rustlers Texas Stagecoach Law of the Northwest Pardon My Gun Prairie Roundup Rough Ridin' Justice Robin Hood of the Range Both Barrels Blazing West of the Santa Fe West of Sonora The Stranger from Texas Spoilers of the Range Riders of the Badlands Smoky Canyon Two-Fisted Rangers Western Caravans Whirlwind Raiders Thunder Over the Prairie Quick on the Trigger Prairie Stranger Riders of the Northland The Desert Horseman The Durango Kid Phantom Valley Cowboy Canteen Two-Fisted Stranger The Lone Hand Texan The Fighting Frontiersman Prairie Raiders Landrush South of the Chisholm Trail Law of the Canyon West of Dodge City The Stranger From Ponca City Riders of the Lone Star Last Days of Boot Hill Buckaroo from Powder River North of the Yukon The Medico of Painted Springs Desert Vigilante West of Tombstone Laramie The Blazing Trail South of Death Valley Rio Grande Bandits of El Dorado Terror Trail Bonanza Town The Kid from Broken Gun Roaring Rangers Lawless Empire Texas Panhandle Blazing the Western Trail Snake River Desperadoes Trail of the Rustlers Galloping Thunder Laramie Mountains Cyclone Fury The Fighting Buckaroo Call It Luck The Royal Family of Broadway Blazing Six Shooters Across the Badlands Junction City The Kid from Amarillo Texas Dynamo Fort Savage Raiders El Dorado Pass Outcasts of Black Mesa Raiders of Tomahawk Creek Renegades of the Sage Frontier Gunlaw Outlaws of the Rockies Lightning Guns Horsemen of the Sierras Six-Gun Law Rustlers of the Badlands Cowboy in the Clouds The Pinto Kid Bad Men of the Hills Riding Through Nevada Outlaws of the Panhandle The Royal Mounted Patrol Hail to the Rangers Lawless Plainsmen Cyclone Prairie Rangers Cowboy from Lonesome River Sagebrush Heroes Sky Bride Three on a Honeymoon Secret Patrol Damaged Love Colorado Trail Riders of Black River The Quarterback Touchdown! Cattle Raiders The Thundering West Law of the Plains Trapped Westbound Mail Code of the Range South of Arizona West of Cheyenne Call of the Rockies One Man Justice
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