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Charles Starrett
Actor
Died March 22, 1986 (82 years)
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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.
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.
Filmography
| 1976 | Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch · as (archive Footage) |
| 1952 | The Kid from Broken Gun · as Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid |
| 1952 | The Rough, Tough West · as Steve Holden / The Durango Kid |
| 1952 | Laramie Mountains · as Steve Holden / The Durango Kid |
| 1952 | The Hawk of Wild River · as Steve Martin / The Durango Kid |
| 1952 | Smoky Canyon · as Steve "the Durango Kid" Brent |
| 1951 | Pecos River · as Steve Baldwin / The Durango Kid |
| 1951 | Cyclone Fury · as The Durango Kid / Steve Reynolds |
| 1951 | Bonanza Town · as Steve Ramsay / The Durango Kid |
| 1951 | Snake River Desperadoes · as Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid |
| 1950 | Lightning Guns · as Steve Brandon / Durango Kid |
| 1950 | Streets of Ghost Town · as Steve Woods / The Durango Kid |
| 1950 | Trail of the Rustlers · as Steve Armitage / The Durango Kid |
| 1949 | Bandits of El Dorado · as Texas Ranger Steve Carson / The Durango Kid |
| 1949 | South of Death Valley · as Steve Downey Aka The Durango Kid |
| 1949 | The Blazing Trail · as Steve Allen / The Durango Kid |
| 1949 | Laramie · as Steve Holden / Durango Kid |
| 1949 | Desert Vigilante · as Steve Wood - The Durango Kid |
| 1948 | Trail to Laredo · as Steve Ellison Aka The Durango Kid |
| 1948 | Blazing Across the Pecos · as The Durango Kid |
| 1948 | Whirlwind Raiders · as Steve Lanning / The Durango Kid |
| 1948 | Phantom Valley · as Steve Collins/the Durango Kid |
| 1947 | Law of the Canyon · as Steve Langtry / The Durango Kid |
| 1946 | The Fighting Frontiersman · as Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid |
| 1946 | Terror Trail · as Steve Haverley / The Durango Kid |
| 1946 | The Desert Horseman · as Steve Godfrey / The Durango Kid |
| 1946 | Gunning for Vengeance · as Steve Landry / The Durango Kid |
| 1945 | Texas Panhandle · as Steve Buckner / The Durango Kid |
| 1945 | Lawless Empire · as Steve Ranson / The Durango Kid |
| 1945 | Blazing the Western Trail · as Jeff Waring / The Durango Kid |
| 1945 | Both Barrels Blazing · as Kip Allen / The Durango Kid |
| 1945 | The Return of the Durango Kid · as Bill Blayden / The Durango Kid |
| 1944 | Cowboy Canteen · as Steve Bradley |
| 1943 | Frontier Fury · as Steve Langdon |
| 1942 | Riders of the Northland · as Steve Bowie |
| 1941 | Riders of the Badlands · as Steve Langdon / Mac Collins |
| 1940 | The Durango Kid · as Bill Lowry |
| 1939 | The Stranger from Texas · as Tom Murdock Posing As Tom Morgan |
| 1938 | Rio Grande · as Cliff Houston |
| 1938 | Start Cheering · as Ted Crosley |
| 1936 | Stampede · as Larry Carson |
| 1936 | The Cowboy Star · as Spencer Yorke |
| 1936 | Along Came Love · as John Patrick O'ryan |
| 1935 | So Red the Rose · as George Mcgehee |
| 1935 | Make a Million · as Professor Reginald Q. Jones |
| 1935 | What Price Crime · as Allen Grey |
| 1935 | One in a Million · as Donald Cabot Jr. |
| 1935 | One New York Night · as George Sheridan |
| 1935 | A Shot in the Dark · as Kenneth 'ken' Harris |
| 1934 | The Silver Streak · as Tom Caldwell |
| 1934 | Undercover Men · as Constable Robert Hunter |
| 1934 | Gentlemen Are Born · as Stephen Hornblow |
| 1934 | Desirable · as Russell |
| 1934 | Green Eyes · as Michael Tracy |
| 1934 | This Man Is Mine · as Jud Mccrae |
| 1933 | Murder on the Campus · as Bill Bartlett |
| 1933 | Mr. Skitch · as Harvey Denby |
| 1933 | The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi · as Morley |
| 1933 | The Return of Casey Jones · as Jim Martin |
| 1933 | Our Betters · as Fleming Harvey |
| 1933 | Jungle Bride · as Gordon Wayne |
| 1932 | The Mask of Fu Manchu · as Terence Granville |
| 1932 | Lady and Gent · as Ted Streaver |
| 1932 | Sky Bride · as Jim Carmichael |
| 1931 | Silence · as Arthur Lawrence |
| 1931 | The Viking · as Luke Oarum |
| 1930 | The Royal Family of Broadway · as Perry |
| 1930 | Fast and Loose · as Henry Morgan |