Charles Starrett

Charles Starrett

  • Birthday: 1903-03-28
  • Deathday: 1986-03-22
  • Place of birth: Athol, Massachusetts, USA
  • Also know as: Charles Robert Starrett

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.

Filmography

The Viking

1931

As Luke Oarum

Streets of Ghost Town

1950

As Steve Woods / The Durango Kid

Undercover Men

1934

As Constable Robert Hunter

The Return of the Durango Kid

1945

As Bill Blayden / The Durango Kid

The Return of Casey Jones

1933

As Jim Martin

Make a Million

1935

As Professor Reginald Q. Jones

What Price Crime

1935

As Allen Grey

Gallant Defender

1935

As Johnny Flagg

Stampede

1936

As Larry Carson

Sons of Steel

1934

As Phillip Mason Chadburne

Blazing Across the Pecos

1948

As The Durango Kid

Challenge of the Range

1949

As Steve Roper / The Durango Kid

The Cowboy Star

1936

As Spencer Yorke

Two-Fisted Sheriff

1937

As Dick Houston

Frontier Outpost

1950

As Steve Lawton / Durango Kid

Pecos River

1951

As Steve Baldwin / The Durango Kid

Overland to Deadwood

1942

As Steve Prescott

The Rough, Tough West

1952

As Steve Holden / The Durango Kid

Bullets for Rustlers

1940

As Steve Beaumont

Texas Stagecoach

1940

As Larry Kinkaid

Western Caravans

1939

As Sheriff Jim Carson

Two-Fisted Rangers

1939

As Thad Lawson

Quick on the Trigger

1948

As Sheriff Steve Warren / Durango Kid

Thunder Over the Prairie

1941

As Dr. Steven Monroe / The Medico

Whirlwind Raiders

1948

As Steve Lanning / The Durango Kid

Thundering Frontier

1940

As Jim Filmore

Phantom Valley

1948

As Steve Collins/The Durango Kid

West of Abilene

1940

As Tom Garfield

Cowboy Canteen

1944

As Steve Bradley

Both Barrels Blazing

1945

As Kip Allen / The Durango Kid

West of Tombstone

1942

As Marshal Steve Langdon

Rio Grande

1938

As Cliff Houston

Terror Trail

1946

As Steve Haverley / The Durango Kid

Bonanza Town

1951

As Steve Ramsay / The Durango Kid

The Durango Kid

1940

As Bill Lowry

Blazing the Western Trail

1945

As Jeff Waring / The Durango Kid

Lawless Empire

1945

As Steve Ranson / The Durango Kid

Texas Panhandle

1945

As Steve Buckner / The Durango Kid

The Kid from Broken Gun

1952

As Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid

Roaring Rangers

1946

As Steve Randall / The Durango Kid

Gunning for Vengeance

1946

As Steve Landry / The Durango Kid

Galloping Thunder

1946

As Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid

Two-Fisted Stranger

1946

As Steve Gordon / The Durango Kid

The Desert Horseman

1946

As Steve Godfrey / The Durango Kid

Heading West

1946

As Steve Randall / The Durango Kid

Landrush

1946

As Steve Harmon / Durango Kid

The Fighting Frontiersman

1946

As Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid

South of the Chisholm Trail

1947

As Steve Haley / The Durango Kid

The Lone Hand Texan

1947

As Steve Driscoll, The Durango Kid

West of Dodge City

1947

As Steve Ramsey / The Durango Kid

Law of the Canyon

1947

As Steve Langtry / The Durango Kid

Prairie Raiders

1947

As Steve Bolton / The Durango Kid

The Stranger From Ponca City

1947

As Steve Larkin / The Durango Kid

Riders of the Lone Star

1947

As Steve Mason / The Durango Kid

Buckaroo from Powder River

1947

As Steve Lacey / The Durango Kid

Last Days of Boot Hill

1947

As Steve Waring / The Durango Kid

Riders of the Badlands

1941

As Steve Langdon / Mac Collins

The Medico of Painted Springs

1941

As Dr. Steven Monroe

Prairie Stranger

1941

As Steven Monroe

West of Sonora

1948

As Steve Rollins / The Durango Kid

Trail to Laredo

1948

As Steve Ellison aka The Durango Kid

Desert Vigilante

1949

As Steve Wood - The Durango Kid

Laramie

1949

As Steve Holden / Durango Kid

The Blazing Trail

1949

As Steve Allen / The Durango Kid

South of Death Valley

1949

As Steve Downey aka The Durango Kid

The Hawk of Wild River

1952

As Steve Martin / The Durango Kid

Smoky Canyon

1952

As Steve "The Durango Kid" Brent

Ridin' the Outlaw Trail

1951

As Steve Forsythe / The Durango Kid

The Mysterious Avenger

1936

As Ranny Maitland / Ranny Morgan

Dodge City Trail

1936

As Steve Braddock

Two Gun Law

1937

As Bob Larson

The Old Wyoming Trail

1937

As Bob Patterson

Rough Ridin' Justice

1945

As Steve Holden

Outlaws of the Prairie

1937

As Dart Collins

Prairie Roundup

1951

As Steve Carson / The Durango Kid

Bandits of El Dorado

1949

As Texas Ranger Steve Carson / The Durango Kid

West of the Santa Fe

1938

As Steve Lawlor

Trail of the Rustlers

1950

As Steve Armitage / The Durango Kid

Snake River Desperadoes

1951

As Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid

Cyclone Fury

1951

As The Durango Kid / Steve Reynolds

Laramie Mountains

1952

As Steve Holden / The Durango Kid

Saddle Leather Law

1944

As Steve Carlisle

Riding West

1944

As Steve Jordan

The Fighting Buckaroo

1943

As Steve Harrison

Robin Hood of the Range

1943

As Steve Marlowe

Sundown Valley

1944

As Steve Denton

Texas Stampede

1939

As Tom Randall

Outpost of the Mounties

1939

As Sergeant Neal Crawford

Spoilers of the Range

1939

As Jeff Strong

The Man from Sundown

1939

As Larry Whalen

The Stranger from Texas

1939

As Tom Murdock posing as Tom Morgan

Frontier Fury

1943

As Steve Langdon

Law of the Northwest

1943

As Steve King

Pardon My Gun

1942

As Steve Randall

North of the Yukon

1939

As RCMP Sgt. Jim Cameron

Across the Badlands

1950

As Steve Ransom / Durango Kid

Junction City

1952

As Steve Rollins / Durango Kid

The Kid from Amarillo

1951

As Steve Ransom / The Durango Kid

Fort Savage Raiders

1951

As Steve Drake / The Durango Kid

Texas Dynamo

1950

As Steve Drake / Durango Kid

Outcasts of Black Mesa

1950

As Steve Norman / Durango Kid

Renegades of the Sage

1949

As Steve Duncan / Durango Kid

Horsemen of the Sierras

1949

As Steve Saunders / Durango Kid

El Dorado Pass

1948

As The Durango Kid

Six-Gun Law

1948

As Steve Norris / The Durango Kid

Frontier Gunlaw

1946

As Jim "The Durango Kid" Stewart

Outlaws of the Rockies

1945

As Steve Williams / The Durango Kid

Rustlers of the Badlands

1945

As Steve Lindsay / The Durango Kid

Raiders of Tomahawk Creek

1950

As Steve Blake / Durango Kid

Lightning Guns

1950

As Steve Brandon / Durango Kid

Blazing Six Shooters

1940

As Jeff Douglas

Cowboy in the Clouds

1943

As Steve Kendall

Bad Men of the Hills

1942

As Steve Carlton

Down Rio Grande Way

1942

As Steve Martin

The Pinto Kid

1941

As Jud Calvert

Outlaws of the Panhandle

1941

As Jim Endicott

The Royal Mounted Patrol

1941

As Tom Jeffries

Lawless Plainsmen

1942

As Steve Rideen

Riders of the Northland

1942

As Steve Bowie

Riding Through Nevada

1942

As Steve Lowrey

Hail to the Rangers

1943

As Steve McKay

Cyclone Prairie Rangers

1944

As Steve Travis

Cowboy from Lonesome River

1944

As Steve Randall

Sagebrush Heroes

1945

As Steve Randall

Secret Patrol

1936

As RCMP Cpl. Alan Craig

Colorado Trail

1938

As Grant Bradley

Riders of Black River

1939

As Wade Patterson

Green Eyes

1934

As Michael Tracy

The Age for Love

1931

As Dudley Crome

Jungle Bride

1933

As Gordon Wayne

Murder on the Campus

1933

As Bill Bartlett

A Shot in the Dark

1935

As Kenneth 'Ken' Harris

Along Came Love

1936

As John Patrick O'Ryan

One in a Million

1935

As Donald Cabot Jr.

The Silver Streak

1934

As Tom Caldwell

Stolen Sweets

1934

As Bill Smith

Damaged Love

1931

As Jim Powell

Silence

1931

As Arthur Lawrence

Lady and Gent

1932

As Ted Streaver

Call It Luck

1934

As Stan Russell

The Mask of Fu Manchu

1932

As Terence Granville

Start Cheering

1938

As Ted Crosley

Fast and Loose

1930

As Henry Morgan

Three on a Honeymoon

1934

As Dick Charlton

Desirable

1934

As Russell

Our Betters

1933

As Fleming Harvey

This Man Is Mine

1934

As Jud McCrae

One New York Night

1935

As George Sheridan

Gentlemen Are Born

1934

As Stephen Hornblow

Mr. Skitch

1933

As Harvey Denby

Sky Bride

1932

As Jim Carmichael

So Red the Rose

1935

As George McGehee

Touchdown!

1931

As Paul Gehring

The Quarterback

1926

As Football Player (uncredited)

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

1976

As (archive footage)

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