From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCharles 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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The Mask of Fu Manchu

Terence Granville

Movie 1932

Green Eyes

Michael Tracy

Movie 1934

The Viking

Luke Oarum

Movie 1931

Start Cheering

Ted Crosley

Movie 1938

Streets of Ghost Town

Steve Woods / The Durango Kid

Movie 1950

The Return of the Durango Kid

Bill Blayden / The Durango Kid

Movie 1945

Undercover Men

Constable Robert Hunter

Movie 1934

The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi

Morley

Movie 1933

Jungle Bride

Gordon Wayne

Movie 1933

The Return of Casey Jones

Jim Martin

Movie 1933

Murder on the Campus

Bill Bartlett

Movie 1933

Our Betters

Fleming Harvey

Movie 1933

What Price Crime

Allen Grey

Movie 1935

A Shot in the Dark

Kenneth 'Ken' Harris

Movie 1935

Make a Million

Professor Reginald Q. Jones

Movie 1935

Gallant Defender

Johnny Flagg

Movie 1935

Stampede

Larry Carson

Movie 1936

Along Came Love

John Patrick O'Ryan

Movie 1936

Lady and Gent

Ted Streaver

Movie 1932

This Man Is Mine

Jud McCrae

Movie 1934

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

(archive footage)

Movie 1976

One in a Million

Donald Cabot Jr.

Movie 1935

The Silver Streak

Tom Caldwell

Movie 1934

Mr. Skitch

Harvey Denby

Movie 1933

So Red the Rose

George McGehee

Movie 1935

Fast and Loose

Henry Morgan

Movie 1930

The Age for Love

Dudley Crome

Movie 1931

Stolen Sweets

Bill Smith

Movie 1934

Sons of Steel

Phillip Mason Chadburne

Movie 1934

Blazing Across the Pecos

The Durango Kid

Movie 1948

Challenge of the Range

Steve Roper / The Durango Kid

Movie 1949

One New York Night

George Sheridan

Movie 1935

Riding West

Steve Jordan

Movie 1944

Gentlemen Are Born

Stephen Hornblow

Movie 1934

Two-Fisted Sheriff

Dick Houston

Movie 1937

Overland to Deadwood

Steve Prescott

Movie 1942

The Hawk of Wild River

Steve Martin / The Durango Kid

Movie 1952

Frontier Outpost

Steve Lawton / Durango Kid

Movie 1950

Frontier Fury

Steve Langdon

Movie 1943

Gunning for Vengeance

Steve Landry / The Durango Kid

Movie 1946

Ridin' the Outlaw Trail

Steve Forsythe / The Durango Kid

Movie 1951

Heading West

Steve Randall / The Durango Kid

Movie 1946

The Rough, Tough West

Steve Holden / The Durango Kid

Movie 1952

Pecos River

Steve Baldwin / The Durango Kid

Movie 1951

Dodge City Trail

Steve Braddock

Movie 1936

Outlaws of the Prairie

Dart Collins

Movie 1937

The Man from Sundown

Larry Whalen

Movie 1939

Two Gun Law

Bob Larson

Movie 1937

The Old Wyoming Trail

Bob Patterson

Movie 1937

The Mysterious Avenger

Ranny Maitland / Ranny Morgan

Movie 1936

Saddle Leather Law

Steve Carlisle

Movie 1944

Sundown Valley

Steve Denton

Movie 1944

Silence

Arthur Lawrence

Movie 1931

Trail to Laredo

Steve Ellison aka The Durango Kid

Movie 1948

The Cowboy Star

Spencer Yorke

Movie 1936

West of Abilene

Tom Garfield

Movie 1940

Texas Stampede

Tom Randall

Movie 1939

Down Rio Grande Way

Steve Martin

Movie 1942

Thundering Frontier

Jim Filmore

Movie 1940

Outpost of the Mounties

Sergeant Neal Crawford

Movie 1939

Bullets for Rustlers

Steve Beaumont

Movie 1940

Texas Stagecoach

Larry Kinkaid

Movie 1940

Law of the Northwest

Steve King

Movie 1943

Pardon My Gun

Steve Randall

Movie 1942

Prairie Roundup

Steve Carson / The Durango Kid

Movie 1951

Rough Ridin' Justice

Steve Holden

Movie 1945

Robin Hood of the Range

Steve Marlowe

Movie 1943

Both Barrels Blazing

Kip Allen / The Durango Kid

Movie 1945

West of the Santa Fe

Steve Lawlor

Movie 1938

West of Sonora

Steve Rollins / The Durango Kid

Movie 1948

The Stranger from Texas

Tom Murdock posing as Tom Morgan

Movie 1939

Spoilers of the Range

Jeff Strong

Movie 1939

Riders of the Badlands

Steve Langdon / Mac Collins

Movie 1941

Smoky Canyon

Steve "The Durango Kid" Brent

Movie 1952

Two-Fisted Rangers

Thad Lawson

Movie 1939

Western Caravans

Sheriff Jim Carson

Movie 1939

Whirlwind Raiders

Steve Lanning / The Durango Kid

Movie 1948

Thunder Over the Prairie

Dr. Steven Monroe / The Medico

Movie 1941

Quick on the Trigger

Sheriff Steve Warren / Durango Kid

Movie 1948

Riders of the Northland

Steve Bowie

Movie 1942

The Desert Horseman

Steve Godfrey / The Durango Kid

Movie 1946

The Durango Kid

Bill Lowry

Movie 1940

Phantom Valley

Steve Collins/The Durango Kid

Movie 1948

Cowboy Canteen

Steve Bradley

Movie 1944

Two-Fisted Stranger

Steve Gordon / The Durango Kid

Movie 1946

The Lone Hand Texan

Steve Driscoll, The Durango Kid

Movie 1947

The Fighting Frontiersman

Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid

Movie 1946

Prairie Raiders

Steve Bolton / The Durango Kid

Movie 1947

Landrush

Steve Harmon / Durango Kid

Movie 1946

South of the Chisholm Trail

Steve Haley / The Durango Kid

Movie 1947

Law of the Canyon

Steve Langtry / The Durango Kid

Movie 1947

West of Dodge City

Steve Ramsey / The Durango Kid

Movie 1947

The Stranger From Ponca City

Steve Larkin / The Durango Kid

Movie 1947

Riders of the Lone Star

Steve Mason / The Durango Kid

Movie 1947

Last Days of Boot Hill

Steve Waring / The Durango Kid

Movie 1947

Buckaroo from Powder River

Steve Lacey / The Durango Kid

Movie 1947

North of the Yukon

RCMP Sgt. Jim Cameron

Movie 1939

The Medico of Painted Springs

Dr. Steven Monroe

Movie 1941

Desert Vigilante

Steve Wood - The Durango Kid

Movie 1949

West of Tombstone

Marshal Steve Langdon

Movie 1942

Laramie

Steve Holden / Durango Kid

Movie 1949

The Blazing Trail

Steve Allen / The Durango Kid

Movie 1949

South of Death Valley

Steve Downey aka The Durango Kid

Movie 1949

Rio Grande

Cliff Houston

Movie 1938

Bandits of El Dorado

Texas Ranger Steve Carson / The Durango Kid

Movie 1949

Terror Trail

Steve Haverley / The Durango Kid

Movie 1946

Bonanza Town

Steve Ramsay / The Durango Kid

Movie 1951

The Kid from Broken Gun

Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid

Movie 1952

Roaring Rangers

Steve Randall / The Durango Kid

Movie 1946

Lawless Empire

Steve Ranson / The Durango Kid

Movie 1945

Texas Panhandle

Steve Buckner / The Durango Kid

Movie 1945

Blazing the Western Trail

Jeff Waring / The Durango Kid

Movie 1945

Snake River Desperadoes

Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid

Movie 1951

Trail of the Rustlers

Steve Armitage / The Durango Kid

Movie 1950

Galloping Thunder

Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid

Movie 1946

Laramie Mountains

Steve Holden / The Durango Kid

Movie 1952

Cyclone Fury

The Durango Kid / Steve Reynolds

Movie 1951

The Fighting Buckaroo

Steve Harrison

Movie 1943

Call It Luck

Stan Russell

Movie 1934

The Royal Family of Broadway

Perry

Movie 1930

Blazing Six Shooters

Jeff Douglas

Movie 1940

Across the Badlands

Steve Ransom / Durango Kid

Movie 1950

Junction City

Steve Rollins / Durango Kid

Movie 1952

The Kid from Amarillo

Steve Ransom / The Durango Kid

Movie 1951

Texas Dynamo

Steve Drake / Durango Kid

Movie 1950

Fort Savage Raiders

Steve Drake / The Durango Kid

Movie 1951

El Dorado Pass

The Durango Kid

Movie 1948

Outcasts of Black Mesa

Steve Norman / Durango Kid

Movie 1950

Raiders of Tomahawk Creek

Steve Blake / Durango Kid

Movie 1950

Renegades of the Sage

Steve Duncan / Durango Kid

Movie 1949

Frontier Gunlaw

Jim "The Durango Kid" Stewart

Movie 1946

Outlaws of the Rockies

Steve Williams / The Durango Kid

Movie 1945

Lightning Guns

Steve Brandon / Durango Kid

Movie 1950

Horsemen of the Sierras

Steve Saunders / Durango Kid

Movie 1949

Six-Gun Law

Steve Norris / The Durango Kid

Movie 1948

Rustlers of the Badlands

Steve Lindsay / The Durango Kid

Movie 1945

Cowboy in the Clouds

Steve Kendall

Movie 1943

The Pinto Kid

Jud Calvert

Movie 1941

Bad Men of the Hills

Steve Carlton

Movie 1942

Riding Through Nevada

Steve Lowrey

Movie 1942

Outlaws of the Panhandle

Jim Endicott

Movie 1941

The Royal Mounted Patrol

Tom Jeffries

Movie 1941

Hail to the Rangers

Steve McKay

Movie 1943

Lawless Plainsmen

Steve Rideen

Movie 1942

Cyclone Prairie Rangers

Steve Travis

Movie 1944

Cowboy from Lonesome River

Steve Randall

Movie 1944

Sagebrush Heroes

Steve Randall

Movie 1945

Sky Bride

Jim Carmichael

Movie 1932

Three on a Honeymoon

Dick Charlton

Movie 1934

Secret Patrol

RCMP Cpl. Alan Craig

Movie 1936

Damaged Love

Jim Powell

Movie 1931

Colorado Trail

Grant Bradley

Movie 1938

Riders of Black River

Wade Patterson

Movie 1939

The Quarterback

Football Player (uncredited)

Movie 1926

Touchdown!

Paul Gehring

Movie 1931

Cattle Raiders

Movie 1938

The Thundering West

Jim Dale aka Laramie Kid

Movie 1939