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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, for Columbia Pictures). He was born in Athol, Massachusetts, where his grandfather had built a prosperous tool works.
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.
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.
CHARLES STARRETT --- THE RETURN OF THE DURANGO KID (''A Volta de Durango Kid") --original inglês")
ALONG CAME LOVE (1936) Charles Starrett - Irene Harvey - H B Warner
CHARLES STARRETT(the Durango Kid) **** GALLANT DEFENDER ( his first western)
WHAT PRICE CRIME (1935) Charles Starrett - Virginia Cherrill - Jack Mulhall
GREEN EYES (1934) Charles Starrett - Shirley Grey
A SHOT IN THE DARK (1935) Charles Starrett
Charles Starrett - Rough, Tough West
10 Tricks - Charles Starrett
GAME OF SKATE I | CHARLES STARRETT VS DAVIDSON HENRIQUE
CHARLES STARRETT before DURANGO KID) GALLANT DEFENDER