Charles Starrett
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1903-03-28
Day of Death
1986-03-22 (82 years old)
Place of Birth
Athol, Massachusetts, USA
Charles Starrett
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.
Known For
Acting
(1976)
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
as (archive footage)
(1952)
Laramie Mountains
as Steve Holden / The Durango Kid
(1952)
The Rough, Tough West
as Steve Holden / The Durango Kid
(1952)
Smoky Canyon
as Steve "The Durango Kid" Brent
(1952)
The Hawk of Wild River
as Steve Martin / The Durango Kid
(1952)
Junction City
as Steve Rollins / Durango Kid
(1952)
The Kid from Broken Gun
as Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid
(1951)
Fort Savage Raiders
as Steve Drake / The Durango Kid
(1951)
Cyclone Fury
as The Durango Kid / Steve Reynolds
(1951)
Bonanza Town
as Steve Ramsay / The Durango Kid
(1951)
Snake River Desperadoes
as Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid
(1951)
Pecos River
as Steve Baldwin / The Durango Kid
(1951)
Ridin' the Outlaw Trail
as Steve Forsythe / The Durango Kid
(1951)
The Kid from Amarillo
as Steve Ransom / The Durango Kid
(1951)
Prairie Roundup
as Steve Carson / The Durango Kid
(1950)
Texas Dynamo
as Steve Drake / Durango Kid
(1950)
Outcasts of Black Mesa
as Steve Norman / Durango Kid
(1950)
Raiders of Tomahawk Creek
as Steve Blake / Durango Kid
(1950)
Streets of Ghost Town
as Steve Woods / The Durango Kid
(1950)
Lightning Guns
as Steve Brandon / Durango Kid
(1950)
Frontier Outpost
as Steve Lawton / Durango Kid
(1950)
Trail of the Rustlers
as Steve Armitage / The Durango Kid
(1950)
Across the Badlands
as Steve Ransom / Durango Kid
(1949)
Laramie
as Steve Holden / Durango Kid
(1949)
The Blazing Trail
as Steve Allen / The Durango Kid
(1949)
Bandits of El Dorado
as Texas Ranger Steve Carson / The Durango Kid
(1949)
Challenge of the Range
as Steve Roper / The Durango Kid
(1949)
Renegades of the Sage
as Steve Duncan / Durango Kid
(1949)
Horsemen of the Sierras
as Steve Saunders / Durango Kid
(1949)
Desert Vigilante
as Steve Wood - The Durango Kid
(1949)
South of Death Valley
as Steve Downey aka The Durango Kid
(1948)
Trail to Laredo
as Steve Ellison aka The Durango Kid
(1948)
West of Sonora
as Steve Rollins / The Durango Kid
(1948)
El Dorado Pass
as The Durango Kid
(1948)
Blazing Across the Pecos
as The Durango Kid
(1948)
Phantom Valley
as Steve Collins/The Durango Kid
(1948)
Quick on the Trigger
as Sheriff Steve Warren / Durango Kid
(1948)
Whirlwind Raiders
as Steve Lanning / The Durango Kid
(1948)
Six-Gun Law
as Steve Norris / The Durango Kid
(1947)
Law of the Canyon
as Steve Langtry / The Durango Kid
(1947)
Last Days of Boot Hill
as Steve Waring / The Durango Kid
(1947)
West of Dodge City
as Steve Ramsey / The Durango Kid
(1947)
Riders of the Lone Star
as Steve Mason / The Durango Kid
(1947)
Prairie Raiders
as Steve Bolton / The Durango Kid
(1947)
The Lone Hand Texan
as Steve Driscoll, The Durango Kid
(1947)
Buckaroo from Powder River
as Steve Lacey / The Durango Kid
(1947)
South of the Chisholm Trail
as Steve Haley / The Durango Kid
(1947)
The Stranger From Ponca City
as Steve Larkin / The Durango Kid
(1946)
Roaring Rangers
as Steve Randall / The Durango Kid
(1946)
The Fighting Frontiersman
as Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid
(1946)
The Desert Horseman
as Steve Godfrey / The Durango Kid
(1946)
Frontier Gunlaw
as Jim "The Durango Kid" Stewart
(1946)
Gunning for Vengeance
as Steve Landry / The Durango Kid
(1946)
Landrush
as Steve Harmon / Durango Kid
(1946)
Heading West
as Steve Randall / The Durango Kid
(1946)
Two-Fisted Stranger
as Steve Gordon / The Durango Kid
(1946)
Terror Trail
as Steve Haverley / The Durango Kid
(1946)
Galloping Thunder
as Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid
(1945)
The Return of the Durango Kid
as Bill Blayden / The Durango Kid
(1945)
Lawless Empire
as Steve Ranson / The Durango Kid
(1945)
Rustlers of the Badlands
as Steve Lindsay / The Durango Kid
(1945)
Rough Ridin' Justice
as Steve Holden
(1945)
Sagebrush Heroes
as Steve Randall
(1945)
Outlaws of the Rockies
as Steve Williams / The Durango Kid
(1945)
Texas Panhandle
as Steve Buckner / The Durango Kid
(1945)
Blazing the Western Trail
as Jeff Waring / The Durango Kid
(1945)
Both Barrels Blazing
as Kip Allen / The Durango Kid
(1944)
Cyclone Prairie Rangers
as Steve Travis
(1944)
Cowboy Canteen
as Steve Bradley
(1944)
Cowboy from Lonesome River
as Steve Randall
(1944)
Saddle Leather Law
as Steve Carlisle
(1944)
Sundown Valley
as Steve Denton
(1944)
Riding West
as Steve Jordan
(1943)
Law of the Northwest
as Steve King
(1943)
Robin Hood of the Range
as Steve Marlowe
(1943)
Hail to the Rangers
as Steve McKay
(1943)
Frontier Fury
as Steve Langdon
(1943)
Cowboy in the Clouds
as Steve Kendall
(1943)
The Fighting Buckaroo
as Steve Harrison
(1942)
Down Rio Grande Way
as Steve Martin
(1942)
Overland to Deadwood
as Steve Prescott
(1942)
Riders of the Northland
as Steve Bowie
(1942)
Bad Men of the Hills
as Steve Carlton
(1942)
Riding Through Nevada
as Steve Lowrey
(1942)
Pardon My Gun
as Steve Randall
(1942)
Lawless Plainsmen
as Steve Rideen
(1942)
West of Tombstone
as Marshal Steve Langdon
(1941)
Outlaws of the Panhandle
as Jim Endicott
(1941)
The Royal Mounted Patrol
as Tom Jeffries
(1941)
Thunder Over the Prairie
as Dr. Steven Monroe / The Medico
(1941)
The Pinto Kid
as Jud Calvert
(1941)
Prairie Stranger
as Steven Monroe
(1941)
Riders of the Badlands
as Steve Langdon / Mac Collins
(1941)
The Medico of Painted Springs
as Dr. Steven Monroe
(1940)
The Durango Kid
as Bill Lowry
(1940)
Thundering Frontier
as Jim Filmore
(1940)
Blazing Six Shooters
as Jeff Douglas
(1940)
Bullets for Rustlers
as Steve Beaumont
(1940)
West of Abilene
as Tom Garfield
(1940)
Texas Stagecoach
as Larry Kinkaid
(1939)
Riders of Black River
as Wade Patterson
(1939)
Spoilers of the Range
as Jeff Strong
(1939)
Western Caravans
as Sheriff Jim Carson
(1939)
North of the Yukon
as RCMP Sgt. Jim Cameron
(1939)
Texas Stampede
as Tom Randall
(1939)
Two-Fisted Rangers
as Thad Lawson
(1939)
The Stranger from Texas
as Tom Murdock posing as Tom Morgan
(1939)
The Man from Sundown
as Larry Whalen
(1939)
Outpost of the Mounties
as Sergeant Neal Crawford
(1939)
The Thundering West
as Jim Dale aka Laramie Kid
(1938)
Start Cheering
as Ted Crosley
(1938)
Rio Grande
as Cliff Houston
(1938)
Law of the Plains
as Chuck Sanders
(1938)
(1938)
Colorado Trail
as Grant Bradley
(1938)
West of the Santa Fe
as Steve Lawlor
(1937)
Two-Fisted Sheriff
as Dick Houston
(1937)
Two Gun Law
as Bob Larson
(1937)
Outlaws of the Prairie
as Dart Collins
(1937)
The Old Wyoming Trail
as Bob Patterson
(1936)
Stampede
as Larry Carson
(1936)
Along Came Love
as John Patrick O'Ryan
(1936)
Secret Patrol
as RCMP Cpl. Alan Craig
(1936)
The Cowboy Star
as Spencer Yorke
(1936)
The Mysterious Avenger
as Ranny Maitland / Ranny Morgan
(1936)
Dodge City Trail
as Steve Braddock
(1935)
So Red the Rose
as George McGehee
(1935)
Make a Million
as Professor Reginald Q. Jones
(1935)
One New York Night
as George Sheridan
(1935)
A Shot in the Dark
as Kenneth 'Ken' Harris
(1935)
What Price Crime
as Allen Grey
(1935)
Gallant Defender
as Johnny Flagg
(1935)
One in a Million
as Donald Cabot Jr.
(1934)
Gentlemen Are Born
as Stephen Hornblow
(1934)
Three on a Honeymoon
as Dick Charlton
(1934)
The Silver Streak
as Tom Caldwell
(1934)
Desirable
as Russell
(1934)
This Man Is Mine
as Jud McCrae
(1934)
Green Eyes
as Michael Tracy
(1934)
Undercover Men
as Constable Robert Hunter
(1934)
Stolen Sweets
as Bill Smith
(1934)
Sons of Steel
as Phillip Mason Chadburne
(1934)
Call It Luck
as Stan Russell
(1933)
Our Betters
as Fleming Harvey
(1933)
Mr. Skitch
as Harvey Denby
(1933)
Jungle Bride
as Gordon Wayne
(1933)
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
as Morley
(1933)
The Return of Casey Jones
as Jim Martin
(1933)
Murder on the Campus
as Bill Bartlett
(1932)
The Mask of Fu Manchu
as Terence Granville
(1932)
Lady and Gent
as Ted Streaver
(1932)
Sky Bride
as Jim Carmichael
(1931)
The Viking
as Luke Oarum
(1931)
The Age for Love
as Dudley Crome
(1931)
Touchdown!
as Paul Gehring
(1931)
Silence
as Arthur Lawrence
(1931)
Damaged Love
as Jim Powell
(1930)
The Royal Family of Broadway
as Perry
(1930)
Fast and Loose
as Henry Morgan
(1926)
The Quarterback
as Football Player (uncredited)