Charles Starrett Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Charles Starrett Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Charles Robert Starrett (March 28, 1903 â€" 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).Starrett was born in

Athol, Massachusetts, where his grandfather had built a prosperous

tool works. He attended Worcester Academy, then graduated from

Dartmouth College.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 his first movie, Fast and Loose (1930),

which also featured Miriam Hopkins, and Carole Lombard, in support of

top billed star, Frank Morgan . He starred in the Canadian production

The Viking (1931), filmed on location in Newfoundland, which had begun

as a Paramount Pictures project.
Charles Starrett Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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