Charles Starrett
Acting • Born 1903-03-28 – Died 1986-03-22
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
167 credits
The Mask of Fu Manchu
Movie • 1932
Terence Granville
Green Eyes
Movie • 1934
Michael Tracy
The Viking
Movie • 1931
Luke Oarum
Start Cheering
Movie • 1938
Ted Crosley
Streets of Ghost Town
Movie • 1950
Steve Woods / The Durango Kid
Desirable
Movie • 1934
Russell
The Return of the Durango Kid
Movie • 1945
Bill Blayden / The Durango Kid
Undercover Men
Movie • 1934
Robert Hunter
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
Movie • 1933
Morley
Jungle Bride
Movie • 1933
Gordon Wayne
The Return of Casey Jones
Movie • 1933
Jim Martin
Murder on the Campus
Movie • 1933
Bill Bartlett
Our Betters
Movie • 1933
Fleming Harvey
What Price Crime
Movie • 1935
Allen Grey
A Shot in the Dark
Movie • 1935
Kenneth 'Ken' Harris
Make a Million
Movie • 1935
Professor Reginald Q. Jones
Gallant Defender
Movie • 1935
Johnny Flagg
Stampede
Movie • 1936
Larry Carson
Along Came Love
Movie • 1936
John Patrick O'Ryan
Lady and Gent
Movie • 1932
Ted Streaver
This Man Is Mine
Movie • 1934
Jud McCrae
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Movie • 1976
(archive footage)
One in a Million
Movie • 1935
Donald Cabot Jr.
The Silver Streak
Movie • 1934
Tom Caldwell
Mr. Skitch
Movie • 1933
Harvey Denby
So Red the Rose
Movie • 1935
George McGehee
Fast and Loose
Movie • 1930
Henry Morgan
The Age for Love
Movie • 1931
Dudley Crome
Stolen Sweets
Movie • 1934
Bill Smith
Sons of Steel
Movie • 1934
Phillip Mason Chadburne
Blazing Across the Pecos
Movie • 1948
The Durango Kid
Challenge of the Range
Movie • 1949
Steve Roper / The Durango Kid
One New York Night
Movie • 1935
George Sheridan
Riding West
Movie • 1944
Steve Jordan
Gentlemen Are Born
Movie • 1934
Stephen Hornblow
Two-Fisted Sheriff
Movie • 1937
Dick Houston
Overland to Deadwood
Movie • 1942
Steve Prescott
The Hawk of Wild River
Movie • 1952
Steve Martin / The Durango Kid
Frontier Outpost
Movie • 1950
Steve Lawton / Durango Kid
Frontier Fury
Movie • 1943
Steve Langdon
Gunning for Vengeance
Movie • 1946
Steve Landry / The Durango Kid
Ridin' the Outlaw Trail
Movie • 1951
Steve Forsythe / The Durango Kid
Heading West
Movie • 1946
Steve Randall / The Durango Kid
The Rough, Tough West
Movie • 1952
Steve Holden / The Durango Kid
Pecos River
Movie • 1951
Steve Baldwin / The Durango Kid
Dodge City Trail
Movie • 1936
Steve Braddock
Outlaws of the Prairie
Movie • 1937
Dart Collins
The Man from Sundown
Movie • 1939
Larry Whalen
Two Gun Law
Movie • 1937
Bob Larson
The Old Wyoming Trail
Movie • 1937
Bob Patterson
The Mysterious Avenger
Movie • 1936
Ranny Maitland / Ranny Morgan
Saddle Leather Law
Movie • 1944
Steve Carlisle
Sundown Valley
Movie • 1944
Steve Denton
Silence
Movie • 1931
Arthur Lawrence
Trail to Laredo
Movie • 1948
Steve Ellison aka The Durango Kid
The Cowboy Star
Movie • 1936
Spencer Yorke
West of Abilene
Movie • 1940
Tom Garfield
Texas Stampede
Movie • 1939
Tom Randall
Down Rio Grande Way
Movie • 1942
Steve Martin
Thundering Frontier
Movie • 1940
Jim Filmore
Outpost of the Mounties
Movie • 1939
Sergeant Neal Crawford
Bullets for Rustlers
Movie • 1940
Steve Beaumont
Texas Stagecoach
Movie • 1940
Larry Kinkaid
Law of the Northwest
Movie • 1943
Steve King
Pardon My Gun
Movie • 1942
Steve Randall
Prairie Roundup
Movie • 1951
Steve Carson / The Durango Kid
Rough Ridin' Justice
Movie • 1945
Steve Holden
Robin Hood of the Range
Movie • 1943
Steve Marlowe
Both Barrels Blazing
Movie • 1945
Kip Allen / The Durango Kid
West of the Santa Fe
Movie • 1938
Steve Lawlor
West of Sonora
Movie • 1948
Steve Rollins / The Durango Kid
The Stranger from Texas
Movie • 1939
Tom Murdock posing as Tom Morgan
Spoilers of the Range
Movie • 1939
Jeff Strong
Riders of the Badlands
Movie • 1941
Steve Langdon / Mac Collins
Smoky Canyon
Movie • 1952
Steve "The Durango Kid" Brent
Two-Fisted Rangers
Movie • 1939
Thad Lawson
Western Caravans
Movie • 1939
Sheriff Jim Carson
Whirlwind Raiders
Movie • 1948
Steve Lanning / The Durango Kid
Thunder Over the Prairie
Movie • 1941
Dr. Steven Monroe / The Medico
Quick on the Trigger
Movie • 1948
Sheriff Steve Warren / Durango Kid
Prairie Stranger
Movie • 1941
Steven Monroe
Riders of the Northland
Movie • 1942
Steve Bowie
The Desert Horseman
Movie • 1946
Steve Godfrey / The Durango Kid
The Durango Kid
Movie • 1940
Bill Lowry
Phantom Valley
Movie • 1948
Steve Collins/The Durango Kid
Cowboy Canteen
Movie • 1944
Steve Bradley
Two-Fisted Stranger
Movie • 1946
Steve Gordon / The Durango Kid
The Lone Hand Texan
Movie • 1947
Steve Driscoll, The Durango Kid
The Fighting Frontiersman
Movie • 1946
Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid
Prairie Raiders
Movie • 1947
Steve Bolton / The Durango Kid
Landrush
Movie • 1946
Steve Harmon / Durango Kid
South of the Chisholm Trail
Movie • 1947
Steve Haley / The Durango Kid
Law of the Canyon
Movie • 1947
Steve Langtry / The Durango Kid
West of Dodge City
Movie • 1947
Steve Ramsey / The Durango Kid
The Stranger From Ponca City
Movie • 1947
Steve Larkin / The Durango Kid
Riders of the Lone Star
Movie • 1947
Steve Mason / The Durango Kid
Last Days of Boot Hill
Movie • 1947
Steve Waring / The Durango Kid
Buckaroo from Powder River
Movie • 1947
Steve Lacey / The Durango Kid
North of the Yukon
Movie • 1939
RCMP Sgt. Jim Cameron
The Medico of Painted Springs
Movie • 1941
Dr. Steven Monroe
Desert Vigilante
Movie • 1949
Steve Wood - The Durango Kid
West of Tombstone
Movie • 1942
Marshal Steve Langdon
Laramie
Movie • 1949
Steve Holden / Durango Kid
The Blazing Trail
Movie • 1949
Steve Allen / The Durango Kid
South of Death Valley
Movie • 1949
Steve Downey aka The Durango Kid
Rio Grande
Movie • 1938
Cliff Houston
Bandits of El Dorado
Movie • 1949
Texas Ranger Steve Carson / The Durango Kid
Terror Trail
Movie • 1946
Steve Haverley / The Durango Kid
Bonanza Town
Movie • 1951
Steve Ramsay / The Durango Kid
The Kid from Broken Gun
Movie • 1952
Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid
Roaring Rangers
Movie • 1946
Steve Randall / The Durango Kid
Lawless Empire
Movie • 1945
Steve Ranson / The Durango Kid
Texas Panhandle
Movie • 1945
Steve Buckner / The Durango Kid
Blazing the Western Trail
Movie • 1945
Jeff Waring / The Durango Kid
Snake River Desperadoes
Movie • 1951
Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid
Trail of the Rustlers
Movie • 1950
Steve Armitage / The Durango Kid
Galloping Thunder
Movie • 1946
Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid
Laramie Mountains
Movie • 1952
Steve Holden / The Durango Kid
Cyclone Fury
Movie • 1951
The Durango Kid / Steve Reynolds
The Fighting Buckaroo
Movie • 1943
Steve Harrison
Call It Luck
Movie • 1934
Stan Russell
The Royal Family of Broadway
Movie • 1930
Perry
Blazing Six Shooters
Movie • 1940
Jeff Douglas
Across the Badlands
Movie • 1950
Steve Ransom / Durango Kid
Junction City
Movie • 1952
Steve Rollins / Durango Kid
The Kid from Amarillo
Movie • 1951
Steve Ransom / The Durango Kid
Texas Dynamo
Movie • 1950
Steve Drake / Durango Kid
Fort Savage Raiders
Movie • 1951
Steve Drake / The Durango Kid
El Dorado Pass
Movie • 1948
The Durango Kid
Outcasts of Black Mesa
Movie • 1950
Steve Norman / Durango Kid
Raiders of Tomahawk Creek
Movie • 1950
Steve Blake / Durango Kid
Renegades of the Sage
Movie • 1949
Steve Duncan / Durango Kid
Frontier Gunlaw
Movie • 1946
Jim "The Durango Kid" Stewart
Outlaws of the Rockies
Movie • 1945
Steve Williams / The Durango Kid
Lightning Guns
Movie • 1950
Steve Brandon / Durango Kid
Horsemen of the Sierras
Movie • 1949
Steve Saunders / Durango Kid
Six-Gun Law
Movie • 1948
Steve Norris / The Durango Kid
Rustlers of the Badlands
Movie • 1945
Steve Lindsay / The Durango Kid
Cowboy in the Clouds
Movie • 1943
Steve Kendall
The Pinto Kid
Movie • 1941
Jud Calvert
Bad Men of the Hills
Movie • 1942
Steve Carlton
Riding Through Nevada
Movie • 1942
Steve Lowrey
Outlaws of the Panhandle
Movie • 1941
Jim Endicott
The Royal Mounted Patrol
Movie • 1941
Tom Jeffries
Hail to the Rangers
Movie • 1943
Steve McKay
Lawless Plainsmen
Movie • 1942
Steve Rideen
Cyclone Prairie Rangers
Movie • 1944
Steve Travis
Cowboy from Lonesome River
Movie • 1944
Steve Randall
Sagebrush Heroes
Movie • 1945
Steve Randall
Sky Bride
Movie • 1932
Jim Carmichael
Three on a Honeymoon
Movie • 1934
Dick Charlton
Secret Patrol
Movie • 1936
RCMP Cpl. Alan Craig
Damaged Love
Movie • 1931
Jim Powell
Colorado Trail
Movie • 1938
Grant Bradley
Riders of Black River
Movie • 1939
Wade Patterson
The Quarterback
Movie • 1926
Football Player (uncredited)
Touchdown!
Movie • 1931
Paul Gehring
Cattle Raiders
Movie • 1938
The Thundering West
Movie • 1939
Jim Dale aka Laramie Kid
Law of the Plains
Movie • 1938
Chuck Sanders
Trapped
Movie • 1937
Ted Haley
Westbound Mail
Movie • 1937
Jim 'Skinner' Bradley
Code of the Range
Movie • 1936
Lee Jamison
South of Arizona
Movie • 1938
Clay Travers
West of Cheyenne
Movie • 1938
Brad Buckner
Call of the Rockies
Movie • 1938
Clint Buckley
One Man Justice
Movie • 1937
Larry Clarke / Ted Crockett