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Charles Starrett (March 28, 1903 – March 22, 1986) was an American actor best known for his starring role in the Durango Kid Columbia Pictures western series. He was born in Athol, Massachusetts.
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).
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) and Murder on the Campus (1933). He helped organize the Screen Actors Guild, and in 1936, which saw him in his most charming role as a young doctor named Orion in “Along Came Love”, with the vivacious co-star Irene Hervey, he signed with Columbia Pictures to become one of the top ten western stars, starring in 115 movies the following 16 years.
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Durango Kid
After playing assorted sheriff and rangers roles, Starrett gained fame for his role as the Durango Kid. The first film in which he played his famous alter-ego character known as The Durango Kid was released in 1940 but, for an unknown reason, Columbia did not see fit to continue with the series at that time.
The character was revived in 1944 and lasted through 1952. Dub Taylor, as “Cannonball”, (according to Dub’s son Buck Taylor his father hated being called cannonball!) worked with Starrett until 1946. At that time, Smiley Burnette, who had been a very popular sidekick to Gene Autry, was brought in to replace Taylor. Burnette, appropriately enough, played a character called Smiley Burnette. The Durango Kid films combined vigorous action sequences – often with sped up camera work and spectacular stunts performed by Jock Mahoney – and western music. Each film featured a singing group, and many gave free rein to Burnette’s singing and playing. Our Friend Don (Little Brown Jug) Reynolds co starred in two Durango Kid Movies with Charles Starrett.
Acting credits
1952 The Kid from Broken Gun
Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid
1952 Junction City
Steve Rollins / Durango Kid
1952 The Rough, Tough West
Steve Holden / The Durango Kid
1952 Laramie Mountains
Steve Holden / The Durango Kid
1952 The Hawk of Wild River
Steve Martin / The Durango Kid
1952 Smoky Canyon
Steve Brent / The Durango Kid
1951 Pecos River
Steve Baldwin / The Durango Kid
1951 The Kid from Amarillo
Steve Ransom / The Durango Kid
1951 Cyclone Fury
The Durango Kid / Steve Reynolds
1951 Bonanza Town
Steve Ramsay / The Durango Kid
1951 Snake River Desperadoes
Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid
1951 Fort Savage Raiders
Steve Drake / The Durango Kid
1951 Ridin’ the Outlaw Trail
Steve Forsythe / The Durango Kid
1951 Faith Baldwin Romance Theatre (TV Series)
– Shot in the Dark (1951)
1951 Prairie Roundup
Steve Carson / The Durango Kid
1950 Lightning Guns
Steve Brandon / Durango Kid
1950 Frontier Outpost
Steve Lawton / Durango Kid
1950 Raiders of Tomahawk Creek
Steve Blake / Durango Kid
1950 Across the Badlands
Steve Ransom / Durango Kid
1950 Streets of Ghost Town
Steve Woods / The Durango Kid
1950 Texas Dynamo
Steve Drake / Durango Kid
1950 Outcasts of Black Mesa
Steve Norman / Durango Kid
1950 Trail of the Rustlers
Steve Armitage / The Durango Kid
1949 Renegades of the Sage
Steve Duncan / Durango Kid
1949 Horsemen of the Sierras
U. S. Marshal Steve Saunders / Durango Kid
1949 Bandits of El Dorado
Texas Ranger Steve Carson / The Durango Kid
1949 South of Death Valley
Steve Downey aka The Durango Kid
1949 The Blazing Trail
Steve Allen / The Durango Kid
1949 Laramie
Steve Holden / Durango Kid
1949 Desert Vigilante
Steve Wood – The Durango Kid
1949 Challenge of the Range
Steve Roper / The Durango Kid
1948 Quick on the Trigger
Sheriff Steve Warren / Durango Kid
1948 El Dorado Pass
The Durango Kid
1948 Trail to Laredo
Steve Ellison aka The Durango Kid
1948 Blazing Across the Pecos
Steve Blake aka The Durango Kid
1948 Whirlwind Raiders
Steve Lanning / The Durango Kid
1948 West of Sonora
Steve Rollins / The Durango Kid
1948 Phantom Valley
Steve Collins / The Durango Kid
1948 Six-Gun Law
Steve Norris / The Durango Kid
1947 Last Days of Boot Hill
Steve Waring / The Durango Kid
1947 Buckaroo from Powder River
Steve Lacey / The Durango Kid
1947 Riders of the Lone Star
Steve Mason / The Durango Kid
1947 The Stranger from Ponca City
Steve Larkin / The Durango Kid
1947 Prairie Raiders
Steve Bolton / The Durango Kid
1947 Law of the Canyon
Steve Langtry / The Durango Kid
1947 West of Dodge City
Steve Ramsey / The Durango Kid
1947 The Lone Hand Texan
Steve Driscoll, The Durango Kid
1947 South of the Chisholm Trail
Steve Haley / The Durango Kid
1946 The Fighting Frontiersman
Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid
1946 Terror Trail
Steve Haverley / The Durango Kid
1946 Landrush
Steve Harmon / Durango Kid
1946 Heading West
Steve Randall / The Durango Kid
1946 The Desert Horseman
Steve Godfrey / The Durango Kid
1946 Two-Fisted Stranger
Steve Gordon / The Durango Kid
1946 Galloping Thunder
Steve Reynolds / The Durango Kid
1946 Gunning for Vengeance
Steve Landry / The Durango Kid
1946 Roaring Rangers
Steve Randall / The Durango Kid
1946 Frontier Gunlaw
Jim Stewart / The Durango Kid
1945 Texas Panhandle
Steve Buckner / The Durango Kid
1945 Lawless Empire
Steve Ranson / The Durango Kid
1945 Blazing the Western Trail
Jeff Waring / The Durango Kid
1945 Outlaws of the Rockies
Steve Williams / The Durango Kid
1945 Rustlers of the Badlands
Steve Lindsay / The Durango Kid
1945 Both Barrels Blazing
Kip Allen / The Durango Kid
1945 The Return of the Durango Kid
Bill Blayden / The Durango Kid
1945 Rough Ridin’ Justice
Steve Holden
1945 Sagebrush Heroes
Steve Randall
1944 Saddle Leather Law
Steve Carlisle
1944 Cyclone Prairie Rangers
Steve Travis
1944 Cowboy from Lonesome River
Steve Randall
1944 Riding West
Steve Jordan
1944 Sundown Valley
Steve Denton
1944 Cowboy Canteen
Steve Bradley
1943 Cowboy in the Clouds
Steve Kendall
1943 Hail to the Rangers
Steve McKay
1943 Robin Hood of the Range
Steve Marlowe
1943 Frontier Fury
Steve Langdon
1943 Law of the Northwest
Steve King
1943 The Fighting Buckaroo
Steve Harrison
1942 Pardon My Gun
Steve Randall
1942 Riding Through Nevada
Steve Lowrey
1942 Overland to Deadwood
Steve Prescott
1942 Bad Men of the Hills
Steve Carlton
1942 Riders of the Northland
Texas Ranger Steve Bowie
1942 Down Rio Grande Way
Steve Martin
1942 Lawless Plainsmen
Steve Rideen
1942 West of Tombstone
Marshal Steve Langdon
1941 Riders of the Badlands
Steve Langdon / Mac Collins
1941 The Royal Mounted Patrol
Tom Jeffries
1941 Prairie Stranger
Steven Monroe
1941 Thunder Over the Prairie
Dr. Steven Monroe / The Medico
1941 The Medico of Painted Springs
Dr. Steven Monroe
1941 Outlaws of the Panhandle
Jim Endicott
1941 The Pinto Kid
Jud Calvert
1940 Thundering Frontier
Jim Filmore
1940 West of Abilene
Tom Garfield
1940 The Durango Kid
Bill Lowry
1940 Texas Stagecoach
Larry Kinkaid
1940 Blazing Six Shooters
Jeff Douglas
1940 Bullets for Rustlers
Steve Beaumont
1939 Two-Fisted Rangers
Thad Lawson
1939 The Stranger from Texas
Tom Murdock
1939 Outpost of the Mounties
Sergeant Neal Crawford
1939 Riders of Black River
Wade Patterson
1939 The Man from Sundown
Larry Whalen
1939 Western Caravans
Sheriff Jim Carson
1939 Spoilers of the Range
Jeff Strong
1939 North of the Yukon
RCMP Sgt. Jim Cameron
1939 Texas Stampede
Tom Randall
1939 The Thundering West
Jim Dale aka Laramie Kid
1938 Rio Grande
Cliff Houston
1938 West of the Santa Fe
Steve Lawlor
1938 The Colorado Trail
Grant Bradley
1938 South of Arizona
Clay Travers
1938 West of Cheyenne
Brad Buckner
1938 Law of the Plains
Chuck Saunders
1938 Call of the Rockies
Clint Buckley
1938 Start Cheering
Ted Crosley
1938 Cattle Raiders
Tom Reynolds
1937 Outlaws of the Prairie
Dart Collins
1937 The Old Wyoming Trail
Bob Patterson
1937 One Man Justice
Larry Clarke / Ted Crockett
1937 Two-Fisted Sheriff
Dick Houston
1937 Two Gun Law
Bob Larson Posing as Bob Maxwell
1937 Trapped
Ted Haley
1937 Westbound Mail
Jim ‘Skinner’ Bradley
1936 Dodge City Trail
Steve Braddock
1936 Stampede
Larry Carson
1936 The Cowboy Star
Spencer Yorke
1936 Along Came Love
John Patrick O’Ryan
1936 Code of the Range
Lee Jamison
1936 Secret Patrol
RCMP Cpl. Alan Barclay
1936 The Mysterious Avenger
Ranny Maitland / Ranny Morgan
1935 Gallant Defender
Johnny Flagg
1935 Make a Million
Professor Reginald Q. Jones
1935 So Red the Rose
George McGehee
1935 What Price Crime
Allen Grey
1935 One in a Million
Donald Cabot, Jr.
1935 One New York Night
George Sheridan
1935 A Shot in the Dark
Kenneth ‘Ken’ Harris
1934 Sons of Steel
Phillip Mason Chadburne
1934 The Silver Streak
Tom Caldwell
1934 Undercover Men
Constable Robert Hunter
1934 Gentlemen Are Born
Stephen Hornblow
1934 Desirable
Russell
1934 Call It Luck
Stan Russell
1934 Green Eyes
Michael Tracy
1934 This Man Is Mine
Jud McCrae
1934 Three on a Honeymoon
Dick Charlton
1934 Stolen Sweets
Bill Smith
1933 Mr. Skitch
Harvey Denby
1933 Murder on the Campus
Bill Bartlett
1933 The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
Morley
1933 The Return of Casey Jones
Jim Martin
1933 Our Betters
Fleming Harvey
1933 Jungle Bride
Gordon Wayne
1932 The Mask of Fu Manchu
Terrence Granville
1932 Lady and Gent
Ted Streaver
1932 Sky Bride
Jim Carmichael
1931 Touchdown
Paul Gehring
1931 The Age for Love
Dudley Crome
1931 Silence
Arthur Lawrence
1931 The Viking
Luke Oarum
1931 Damaged Love
Jim Powell
1930 The Royal Family of Broadway
Perry
1930 Fast and Loose
Henry Morgan
1926 The Quarterback
Football Player (uncredited)