Charles Starrett
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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.
Acted in
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976
as (archive footage)
The Kid from Broken Gun
1952
as Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid
Junction City
1952
as Steve Rollins / Durango Kid
The Rough, Tough West
1952
as Steve Holden / The Durango Kid
Laramie Mountains
1952
as Steve Holden / The Durango Kid
The Hawk of Wild River
1952
as Steve Martin / The Durango Kid
Smoky Canyon
1952
as Steve "The Durango Kid" Brent
Pecos River
1951
as Steve Baldwin / The Durango Kid
The Kid from Amarillo
1951
as Steve Ransom / The Durango Kid
Cyclone Fury
1951
as The Durango Kid / Steve Reynolds
Bonanza Town
1951
as Steve Ramsay / The Durango Kid
Snake River Desperadoes
1951
as Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid
Fort Savage Raiders
1951
as Steve Drake / The Durango Kid
Ridin' the Outlaw Trail
1951
as Steve Forsythe / The Durango Kid
Prairie Roundup
1951
as Steve Carson / The Durango Kid
Frontier Outpost
1950
as Steve Lawton / Durango Kid
Lightning Guns
1950
as Steve Brandon / Durango Kid
Raiders of Tomahawk Creek
1950
as Steve Blake / Durango Kid
Across the Badlands
1950
as Steve Ransom / Durango Kid
Streets of Ghost Town
1950
as Steve Woods / The Durango Kid
Texas Dynamo
1950
as Steve Drake / Durango Kid
Outcasts of Black Mesa
1950
as Steve Norman / Durango Kid
Trail of the Rustlers
1950
as Steve Armitage / The Durango Kid
Renegades of the Sage
1949
as Steve Duncan / Durango Kid
Horsemen of the Sierras
1949
as Steve Saunders / Durango Kid
Bandits of El Dorado
1949
as Texas Ranger Steve Carson / The Durango Kid
South of Death Valley
1949
as Steve Downey aka The Durango Kid
The Blazing Trail
1949
as Steve Allen / The Durango Kid
Laramie
1949
as Steve Holden / Durango Kid
Desert Vigilante
1949
as Steve Wood - The Durango Kid
Challenge of the Range
1949
as Steve Roper / The Durango Kid
Quick on the Trigger
1948
as Sheriff Steve Warren / Durango Kid
El Dorado Pass
1948
as The Durango Kid
Trail to Laredo
1948
as Steve Ellison aka The Durango Kid
Blazing Across the Pecos
1948
as The Durango Kid
Whirlwind Raiders
1948
as Steve Lanning / The Durango Kid
West of Sonora
1948
as Steve Rollins / The Durango Kid
Phantom Valley
1948
as Steve Collins/The Durango Kid
Six-Gun Law
1948
as Steve Norris / The Durango Kid
Last Days of Boot Hill
1947
as Steve Waring / The Durango Kid
Buckaroo from Powder River
1947
as Steve Lacey / The Durango Kid
Riders of the Lone Star
1947
as Steve Mason / The Durango Kid
The Stranger From Ponca City
1947
as Steve Larkin / The Durango Kid
Prairie Raiders
1947
as Steve Bolton / The Durango Kid
Law of the Canyon
1947
as Steve Langtry / The Durango Kid
West of Dodge City
1947
as Steve Ramsey / The Durango Kid
The Lone Hand Texan
1947
as Steve Driscoll, The Durango Kid
South of the Chisholm Trail
1947
as Steve Haley / The Durango Kid
The Fighting Frontiersman
1946
as Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid
Terror Trail
1946
as Steve Haverley / The Durango Kid
Landrush
1946
as Steve Harmon / Durango Kid
Heading West
1946
as Steve Randall / The Durango Kid
The Desert Horseman
1946
as Steve Godfrey / The Durango Kid
Two-Fisted Stranger
1946
as Steve Gordon / The Durango Kid
Galloping Thunder
1946
as Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid
Gunning for Vengeance
1946
as Steve Landry / The Durango Kid
Roaring Rangers
1946
as Steve Randall / The Durango Kid
Frontier Gunlaw
1946
as Jim "The Durango Kid" Stewart
Texas Panhandle
1945
as Steve Buckner / The Durango Kid
Lawless Empire
1945
as Steve Ranson / The Durango Kid
Outlaws of the Rockies
1945
as Steve Williams / The Durango Kid
Blazing the Western Trail
1945
as Jeff Waring / The Durango Kid
Rustlers of the Badlands
1945
as Steve Lindsay / The Durango Kid
Both Barrels Blazing
1945
as Kip Allen / The Durango Kid
The Return of the Durango Kid
1945
as Bill Blayden / The Durango Kid
Rough Ridin' Justice
1945
as Steve Holden
Sagebrush Heroes
1945
as Steve Randall
Saddle Leather Law
1944
as Steve Carlisle
Cyclone Prairie Rangers
1944
as Steve Travis
Cowboy from Lonesome River
1944
as Steve Randall
Riding West
1944
as Steve Jordan
Sundown Valley
1944
as Steve Denton
Cowboy Canteen
1944
as Steve Bradley
Cowboy in the Clouds
1943
as Steve Kendall
Hail to the Rangers
1943
as Steve McKay
Robin Hood of the Range
1943
as Steve Marlowe
Frontier Fury
1943
as Steve Langdon
Law of the Northwest
1943
as Steve King
The Fighting Buckaroo
1943
as Steve Harrison
Pardon My Gun
1942
as Steve Randall
Riding Through Nevada
1942
as Steve Lowrey
Overland to Deadwood
1942
as Steve Prescott
Bad Men of the Hills
1942
as Steve Carlton
Riders of the Northland
1942
as Steve Bowie
Down Rio Grande Way
1942
as Steve Martin
Lawless Plainsmen
1942
as Steve Rideen
West of Tombstone
1942
as Marshal Steve Langdon
Riders of the Badlands
1941
as Steve Langdon / Mac Collins
The Royal Mounted Patrol
1941
as Tom Jeffries
Prairie Stranger
1941
as Steven Monroe
Thunder Over the Prairie
1941
as Dr. Steven Monroe / The Medico
The Medico of Painted Springs
1941
as Dr. Steven Monroe
Outlaws of the Panhandle
1941
as Jim Endicott
The Pinto Kid
1941
as Jud Calvert
Thundering Frontier
1940
as Jim Filmore
West of Abilene
1940
as Tom Garfield
The Durango Kid
1940
as Bill Lowry
Texas Stagecoach
1940
as Larry Kinkaid
Blazing Six Shooters
1940
as Jeff Douglas
Bullets for Rustlers
1940
as Steve Beaumont
Two-Fisted Rangers
1939
as Thad Lawson
The Stranger from Texas
1939
as Tom Murdock posing as Tom Morgan
Riders of Black River
1939
as Wade Patterson
Outpost of the Mounties
1939
as Sergeant Neal Crawford
The Man from Sundown
1939
as Larry Whalen
Western Caravans
1939
as Sheriff Jim Carson
Spoilers of the Range
1939
as Jeff Strong
North of the Yukon
1939
as RCMP Sgt. Jim Cameron
Texas Stampede
1939
as Tom Randall
Rio Grande
1938
as Cliff Houston
West of the Santa Fe
1938
as Steve Lawlor
Colorado Trail
1938
as Grant Bradley
Start Cheering
1938
as Ted Crosley
Cattle Raiders
1938
Outlaws of the Prairie
1937
as Dart Collins
The Old Wyoming Trail
1937
as Bob Patterson
Two-Fisted Sheriff
1937
as Dick Houston
Two Gun Law
1937
as Bob Larson
Dodge City Trail
1936
as Steve Braddock
Stampede
1936
as Larry Carson
The Cowboy Star
1936
as Spencer Yorke
Along Came Love
1936
as John Patrick O'Ryan
Secret Patrol
1936
as RCMP Cpl. Alan Craig
The Mysterious Avenger
1936
as Ranny Maitland / Ranny Morgan
So Red the Rose
1935
as George McGehee
Gallant Defender
1935
as Johnny Flagg
Make a Million
1935
as Professor Reginald Q. Jones
What Price Crime
1935
as Allen Grey
One in a Million
1935
as Donald Cabot Jr.
One New York Night
1935
as George Sheridan
A Shot in the Dark
1935
as Kenneth 'Ken' Harris
The Silver Streak
1934
as Tom Caldwell
Sons of Steel
1934
as Phillip Mason Chadburne
Undercover Men
1934
as Constable Robert Hunter
Gentlemen Are Born
1934
as Stephen Hornblow
Desirable
1934
as Russell
Call It Luck
1934
as Stan Russell
Green Eyes
1934
as Michael Tracy
This Man Is Mine
1934
as Jud McCrae
Three on a Honeymoon
1934
as Dick Charlton
Stolen Sweets
1934
as Bill Smith
Murder on the Campus
1933
as Bill Bartlett
Mr. Skitch
1933
as Harvey Denby
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
1933
as Morley
The Return of Casey Jones
1933
as Jim Martin
Our Betters
1933
as Fleming Harvey
Jungle Bride
1933
as Gordon Wayne
The Mask of Fu Manchu
1932
as Terence Granville
Lady and Gent
1932
as Ted Streaver
Sky Bride
1932
as Jim Carmichael
Touchdown!
1931
as Paul Gehring
The Age for Love
1931
as Dudley Crome
Silence
1931
as Arthur Lawrence
The Viking
1931
as Luke Oarum
Damaged Love
1931
as Jim Powell
The Royal Family of Broadway
1930
as Perry
Fast and Loose
1930
as Henry Morgan
The Quarterback
1926
as Football Player (uncredited)