
Charles Starrett
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.
167 acting credits
Acting · 167

The Mask of Fu Manchu
1932

Gentlemen Are Born
1934

Desirable
1934

So Red the Rose
1935

Jungle Bride
1933

Desert Vigilante
1949

Our Betters
1933

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976

The Royal Family of Broadway
1930

The Kid from Broken Gun
1952

Laramie
1949

The Viking
1931

Cowboy Canteen
1944

Undercover Men
1934

Horsemen of the Sierras
1949

Green Eyes
1934

Start Cheering
1938

Buckaroo from Powder River
1947

Blazing the Western Trail
1945

Touchdown!
1931

Two-Fisted Sheriff
1937

The Age for Love
1931

Texas Dynamo
1950

Western Caravans
1939

Outcasts of Black Mesa
1950

This Man Is Mine
1934

Mr. Skitch
1933

Stolen Sweets
1934

The Hawk of Wild River
1952

Texas Panhandle
1945

The Kid from Amarillo
1951

The Silver Streak
1934

Trail of the Rustlers
1950

Stampede
1936

Riders of the Northland
1942

Outlaws of the Panhandle
1941

Cattle Raiders
1938

The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
1933
Call It Luck
1934

The Desert Horseman
1946

Blazing Six Shooters
1940

Two Gun Law
1937

Renegades of the Sage
1949

Cyclone Prairie Rangers
1944

The Cowboy Star
1936

Pardon My Gun
1942

Riders of the Badlands
1941

Cyclone Fury
1951

Sky Bride
1932

Bandits of El Dorado
1949

The Royal Mounted Patrol
1941

Lawless Plainsmen
1942

The Durango Kid
1940

South of Death Valley
1949

The Blazing Trail
1949

Outlaws of the Prairie
1937

Galloping Thunder
1946

Prairie Stranger
1941

The Fighting Frontiersman
1946

The Quarterback
1926

Along Came Love
1936

A Shot in the Dark
1935

Junction City
1952

Frontier Outpost
1950

Colorado Trail
1938

Thundering Frontier
1940

Fast and Loose
1930

West of Tombstone
1942

Riders of the Lone Star
1947

One New York Night
1935

Texas Stagecoach
1940

The Lone Hand Texan
1947

West of Sonora
1948

Two-Fisted Rangers
1939

Down Rio Grande Way
1942

Saddle Leather Law
1944

Prairie Roundup
1951

The Mysterious Avenger
1936

The Return of the Durango Kid
1945

The Stranger From Ponca City
1947

Riding West
1944

Overland to Deadwood
1942

West of Dodge City
1947

Gunning for Vengeance
1946

Trapped
1937

Hail to the Rangers
1943

Laramie Mountains
1952

Across the Badlands
1950

Outpost of the Mounties
1939

Frontier Fury
1943

Roaring Rangers
1946

Secret Patrol
1936

El Dorado Pass
1948

Texas Stampede
1939

Prairie Raiders
1947

The Rough, Tough West
1952

Frontier Gunlaw
1946

Lawless Empire
1945

Lady and Gent
1932

The Return of Casey Jones
1933

Rustlers of the Badlands
1945

The Medico of Painted Springs
1941

South of the Chisholm Trail
1947

Snake River Desperadoes
1951

Cowboy from Lonesome River
1944

Terror Trail
1946

Cowboy in the Clouds
1943

Damaged Love
1931

Lightning Guns
1950

The Stranger from Texas
1939

Last Days of Boot Hill
1947

Law of the Canyon
1947

Raiders of Tomahawk Creek
1950

Challenge of the Range
1949

Sagebrush Heroes
1945

Silence
1931

Sons of Steel
1934

Dodge City Trail
1936

Quick on the Trigger
1948

Murder on the Campus
1933

The Old Wyoming Trail
1937

One in a Million
1935

Law of the Plains
1938

The Pinto Kid
1941

Smoky Canyon
1952

Phantom Valley
1948

Two-Fisted Stranger
1946

Riding Through Nevada
1942

Robin Hood of the Range
1943

Outlaws of the Rockies
1945

Trail to Laredo
1948

Riders of Black River
1939

Blazing Across the Pecos
1948

Sundown Valley
1944

West of Abilene
1940

Six-Gun Law
1948

North of the Yukon
1939

Landrush
1946

Spoilers of the Range
1939

Pecos River
1951

Make a Million
1935

Rough Ridin' Justice
1945

What Price Crime
1935

Rio Grande
1938

Streets of Ghost Town
1950

Thunder Over the Prairie
1941

Bonanza Town
1951

Bullets for Rustlers
1940

Fort Savage Raiders
1951

West of Cheyenne
1938

Gallant Defender
1935

Three on a Honeymoon
1934

West of the Santa Fe
1938

The Fighting Buckaroo
1943

Both Barrels Blazing
1945

Code of the Range
1936

Whirlwind Raiders
1948

Call of the Rockies
1938

Bad Men of the Hills
1942

Law of the Northwest
1943

Westbound Mail
1937

The Man from Sundown
1939

The Thundering West
1939

Ridin' the Outlaw Trail
1951

South of Arizona
1938

Heading West
1946

One Man Justice
1937