Charles Starrett
Acting
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.
Born: March 28, 1903
Place of Birth: Athol, Massachusetts, USA
Known For
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features.
The Return of the Durango Kid
A masked outlaw steals from bank robbers to help the poor.
Silence
A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beginning twenty years earlier when he was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.
Desirable
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
Start Cheering
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
Trail of the Rustlers
Charles Starrett goes up against an entire family of criminals posing as respectable citizens in this entry in Columbia's long-running Durango Kid Western series.
The Silver Streak
A high-speed train becomes the star of the film as it rushes from Chicago to Hoover Dam to transport an iron lung to a needy patient.
So Red the Rose
During the American Civil War, Valette Bedford waits patiently for her husband Duncan Bedford, to return home, praying that she will not become a widow.
Gentlemen Are Born
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
Laramie
A major Indian uprising is expected and Wyoming military posts are alerted. Colonel Dennison is meeting with Chief Eagle and his son Running Wolf when Chief Eagle is mysteriously shot. Steve Holden, an agent for the government peace commission, with the aid of a wandering shoemaker, Smiley, discover the troubles and the Chief's murder have been instigated by Cronin, the regimental scout, for personal gain for he and his gang of outlaws.
Filmography
as (archive footage)
as Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid
as Steve Rollins / Durango Kid
as Steve Holden / The Durango Kid
as Steve Holden / The Durango Kid
as Steve Martin / The Durango Kid
as Steve "The Durango Kid" Brent
as Steve Baldwin / The Durango Kid
as Steve Ransom / The Durango Kid
as The Durango Kid / Steve Reynolds
as Steve Ramsay / The Durango Kid
as Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid
as Steve Drake / The Durango Kid
as Steve Forsythe / The Durango Kid
as Steve Carson / The Durango Kid
as Steve Lawton / Durango Kid
as Steve Brandon / Durango Kid
as Steve Blake / Durango Kid
as Steve Ransom / Durango Kid
as Steve Woods / The Durango Kid
as Steve Drake / Durango Kid
as Steve Norman / Durango Kid
as Steve Armitage / The Durango Kid
as Steve Duncan / Durango Kid
as Steve Saunders / Durango Kid
as Texas Ranger Steve Carson / The Durango Kid
as Steve Downey aka The Durango Kid
as Steve Allen / The Durango Kid
as Steve Holden / Durango Kid
as Steve Wood - The Durango Kid
as Steve Roper / The Durango Kid
as Sheriff Steve Warren / Durango Kid
as The Durango Kid
as Steve Ellison aka The Durango Kid
as The Durango Kid
as Steve Lanning / The Durango Kid
as Steve Rollins / The Durango Kid
as Steve Collins/The Durango Kid
as Steve Norris / The Durango Kid
as Steve Waring / The Durango Kid
as Steve Lacey / The Durango Kid
as Steve Mason / The Durango Kid
as Steve Larkin / The Durango Kid
as Steve Bolton / The Durango Kid
as Steve Langtry / The Durango Kid
as Steve Ramsey / The Durango Kid
as Steve Driscoll, The Durango Kid
as Steve Haley / The Durango Kid
as Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid
as Steve Haverley / The Durango Kid
as Steve Harmon / Durango Kid
as Steve Randall / The Durango Kid
as Steve Godfrey / The Durango Kid
as Steve Gordon / The Durango Kid
as Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid
as Steve Landry / The Durango Kid
as Steve Randall / The Durango Kid
as Jim "The Durango Kid" Stewart
as Steve Buckner / The Durango Kid
as Steve Ranson / The Durango Kid
as Steve Williams / The Durango Kid
as Jeff Waring / The Durango Kid
as Steve Lindsay / The Durango Kid
as Kip Allen / The Durango Kid
as Bill Blayden / The Durango Kid
as Steve Holden
as Steve Randall
as Steve Carlisle
as Steve Travis
as Steve Randall
as Steve Jordan
as Steve Denton
as Steve Bradley
as Steve Kendall
as Steve McKay
as Steve Marlowe
as Steve Langdon
as Steve King
as Steve Harrison
as Steve Randall
as Steve Lowrey
as Steve Prescott
as Steve Carlton
as Steve Bowie
as Steve Martin
as Steve Rideen
as Marshal Steve Langdon
as Steve Langdon / Mac Collins
as Tom Jeffries
as Steven Monroe
as Dr. Steven Monroe / The Medico
as Dr. Steven Monroe
as Jim Endicott
as Jud Calvert
as Jim Filmore
as Tom Garfield
as Bill Lowry
as Larry Kinkaid
as Jeff Douglas
as Steve Beaumont
as Thad Lawson
as Tom Murdock posing as Tom Morgan
as Wade Patterson
as Sergeant Neal Crawford
as Larry Whalen
as Sheriff Jim Carson
as Jeff Strong
as RCMP Sgt. Jim Cameron
as Tom Randall
as Jim Dale aka Laramie Kid
as Cliff Houston
as Steve Lawlor
as Grant Bradley
as Clay Travers
as Brad Buckner
as Chuck Sanders
as Clint Buckley
as Ted Crosley
as Dart Collins
as Bob Patterson
as Larry Clarke / Ted Crockett
as Dick Houston
as Bob Larson
as Ted Haley
as Jim 'Skinner' Bradley
as Steve Braddock
as Larry Carson
as Spencer Yorke
as John Patrick O'Ryan
as Lee Jamison
as RCMP Cpl. Alan Craig
as Ranny Maitland / Ranny Morgan
as George McGehee
as Johnny Flagg
as Professor Reginald Q. Jones
as Allen Grey
as Donald Cabot Jr.
as George Sheridan
as Kenneth 'Ken' Harris
as Tom Caldwell
as Phillip Mason Chadburne
as Robert Hunter
as Stephen Hornblow
as Russell
as Stan Russell
as Michael Tracy
as Jud McCrae
as Dick Charlton
as Bill Bartlett
as Harvey Denby
as Morley
as Jim Martin
as Fleming Harvey
as Gordon Wayne
as Terence Granville
as Ted Streaver
as Jim Carmichael
as Paul Gehring
as Dudley Crome
as Arthur Lawrence
as Luke Oarum
as Jim Powell
as Perry
as Henry Morgan
as Football Player (uncredited)