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Charles Starrett

Mar 28, 1903 - Mar 22, 1986 (82 years old) in Athol, Massachusetts, USA

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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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Murder on the Campus
Bill Bartlett
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Jungle Bride
Gordon Wayne
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The Mask of Fu Manchu
Terence Granville
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Start Cheering
Ted Crosley
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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
(archive footage)
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Laramie
Steve Holden / Durango Kid
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Desirable
Russell
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Snake River Desperadoes
Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid
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Robin Hood of the Range
Steve Marlowe
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Mr. Skitch
Harvey Denby

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