Charles Starrett
Acting
Born 1903-03-28
Died 1986-03-22
Athol, Massachusetts, USA
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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.
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Filmography
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Jungle Bride
Start Cheering
Mr. Skitch
The Mask of Fu Manchu
Westbound Mail
Gentlemen Are Born
So Red the Rose
Bonanza Town
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
This Man Is Mine
The Royal Family of Broadway
Code of the Range
Undercover Men
Our Betters
West of Abilene
Outlaws of the Panhandle
One New York Night
Dodge City Trail
Junction City
The Pinto Kid
Pardon My Gun
Sky Bride
One Man Justice
West of Cheyenne
Green Eyes
Law of the Northwest
Touchdown!
The Kid from Broken Gun
The Silver Streak
The Viking
Snake River Desperadoes
Call It Luck
Desirable
The Durango Kid
The Return of the Durango Kid
Challenge of the Range
Along Came Love
Laramie
Horsemen of the Sierras
Cowboy Canteen
The Quarterback
Both Barrels Blazing
Outpost of the Mounties
Silence
Lady and Gent
Phantom Valley
Law of the Plains
Down Rio Grande Way
A Shot in the Dark
Three on a Honeymoon
Colorado Trail
North of the Yukon
Riding West
Desert Vigilante
The Man from Sundown
Lawless Plainsmen
Fast and Loose
Texas Stagecoach
Overland to Deadwood
Riders of Black River
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