Charles Starrett
Born March 28, 1903 (Age: 123)
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Athol, Massachusetts, USA
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.
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.
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Filmography
Frontier Outpost
1950
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as Steve Lawton / Durango Kid
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Age: 47
Lightning Guns
1950
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as Steve Brandon / Durango Kid
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Age: 47
Raiders of Tomahawk Creek
1950
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as Steve Blake / Durango Kid
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Age: 47
Across the Badlands
1950
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as Steve Ransom / Durango Kid
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Age: 47
Streets of Ghost Town
1950
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as Steve Woods / The Durango Kid
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Age: 47
Texas Dynamo
1950
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as Steve Drake / Durango Kid
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Age: 47
Outcasts of Black Mesa
1950
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as Steve Norman / Durango Kid
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Age: 47
Trail of the Rustlers
1950
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as Steve Armitage / The Durango Kid
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Age: 46
Texas Panhandle
1945
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as Steve Buckner / The Durango Kid
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Age: 42
Lawless Empire
1945
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as Steve Ranson / The Durango Kid
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Age: 42
Outlaws of the Rockies
1945
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as Steve Williams / The Durango Kid
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Age: 42
Blazing the Western Trail
1945
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as Jeff Waring / The Durango Kid
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Age: 42
Rustlers of the Badlands
1945
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as Steve Lindsay / The Durango Kid
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Age: 42
Both Barrels Blazing
1945
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as Kip Allen / The Durango Kid
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Age: 42
The Return of the Durango Kid
1945
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as Bill Blayden / The Durango Kid
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Age: 42
Rough Ridin' Justice
1945
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as Steve Holden
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Age: 41
Sagebrush Heroes
1945
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as Steve Randall
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Age: 41
Pardon My Gun
1942
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as Steve Randall
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Age: 39
Riding Through Nevada
1942
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as Steve Lowrey
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Age: 39
Overland to Deadwood
1942
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as Steve Prescott
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Age: 39
Bad Men of the Hills
1942
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as Steve Carlton
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Age: 39
Riders of the Northland
1942
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as Steve Bowie
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Age: 39
Down Rio Grande Way
1942
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as Steve Martin
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Age: 39
Lawless Plainsmen
1942
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as Steve Rideen
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Age: 38
West of Tombstone
1942
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as Marshal Steve Langdon
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Age: 38
Riders of the Badlands
1941
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as Steve Langdon / Mac Collins
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Age: 38
The Royal Mounted Patrol
1941
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as Tom Jeffries
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Age: 38
Prairie Stranger
1941
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as Steven Monroe
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Age: 38
Thunder Over the Prairie
1941
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as Dr. Steven Monroe / The Medico
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Age: 38
The Medico of Painted Springs
1941
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as Dr. Steven Monroe
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Age: 38
Outlaws of the Panhandle
1941
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as Jim Endicott
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Age: 37
The Pinto Kid
1941
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as Jud Calvert
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Age: 37
The Mask of Fu Manchu
1932
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as Terence Granville
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Age: 29
Lady and Gent
1932
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as Ted Streaver
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Age: 29
Sky Bride
1932
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as Jim Carmichael
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Age: 29
Touchdown!
1931
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as Paul Gehring
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Age: 28
The Age for Love
1931
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as Dudley Crome
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Age: 28
Silence
1931
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as Arthur Lawrence
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Age: 28
The Viking
1931
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as Luke Oarum
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Age: 27
Damaged Love
1931
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as Jim Powell
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Age: 27
The Royal Family of Broadway
1930
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as Perry
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Age: 27
Fast and Loose
1930
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as Henry Morgan
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Age: 27