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