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