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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 westerns. Starrett still holds the record for starring in the longest series of theatrical features: 131 westerns, all produced by Columbia Pictures.
Actor: The Mask of Fu Manchu. While on the Darmouth College football team, Charles Starrett was hired to play a football extra in The Quarterback (1926). Impressed by the job, Starrett got the acting bug and next went into vaudeville, then regional stage work and finally to Broadway.
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- Athol, Massachusetts, USA
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- Borrego Springs, California, USA
Charles Starrett. Actor: The Mask of Fu Manchu. While on the Darmouth College football team, Charles Starrett was hired to play a football extra in The Quarterback (1926).
- March 28, 1903
- March 22, 1986
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Mar 25, 1986 · Charles Starrett, known in the motion picture industry as a founder of the Screen Actors Guild and to moviegoers as the virile athlete who became the Durango Kid in scores of...
Mar 26, 1986 · Charles Starrett, an actor who played the Durango Kid in a series of westerns in the 1930's and 40's, died Saturday in Borrego Springs, Calif. He was 82 years...
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).
Altho the Dartmouth College educated Charles Starrett didn't set out to make his mark in screen history as the black masked Durango Kid of '40s and '50s B-western fame, he became as synonymous with the character as Clayton Moore was with the Lone Ranger and William Boyd was to Hopalong Cassidy.
