Charles Starrett

Acting

Born Mar 28, 1903

From Athol, Massachusetts, USA

Died Mar 22, 1986

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.

Charles Starrett

Known For

The Mask of Fu Manchu

Start Cheering

The Durango Kid

Gentlemen Are Born

The Royal Family of Broadway

Desirable

Landrush

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

Our Betters

Lady and Gent

Filmography — Acting

The Mask of Fu Manchu

Start Cheering

The Durango Kid

Gentlemen Are Born

The Royal Family of Broadway

Desirable

Landrush

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

Our Betters

Lady and Gent

Texas Stampede

Green Eyes

Desert Vigilante

Blazing the Western Trail

Fast and Loose

Texas Dynamo

Cowboy in the Clouds

Lawless Plainsmen

The Age for Love

Trail of the Rustlers

South of Death Valley

The Kid from Broken Gun

Challenge of the Range

Down Rio Grande Way

Rio Grande

Mr. Skitch

West of Abilene

One in a Million

Laramie

So Red the Rose

Riders of the Northland

Smoky Canyon

Outpost of the Mounties

The Hawk of Wild River

Renegades of the Sage

Texas Stagecoach

Hail to the Rangers

Overland to Deadwood

Bandits of El Dorado

Jungle Bride

Murder on the Campus

Law of the Canyon

Outcasts of Black Mesa

Make a Million

Sons of Steel

Two-Fisted Rangers

The Quarterback

Across the Badlands

Lightning Guns

The Cowboy Star

The Viking

What Price Crime

Texas Panhandle

Robin Hood of the Range

Stampede

The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi

The Pinto Kid

The Royal Mounted Patrol

Cyclone Fury

A Shot in the Dark

The Stranger From Ponca City

Colorado Trail

Outlaws of the Prairie

Frontier Gunlaw

Last Days of Boot Hill

Outlaws of the Panhandle

Quick on the Trigger