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6 unusual facts about Charles Starrett


Charles Starrett

Dub Taylor, as "Cannonball", worked with Starrett until 1946.

The Durango Kid films combined vigorous action sequences – often with sped up camera work and spectacular stunts performed by Jock Mahoney – and western music.

Doris Dawson

Her last film, in 1934, was The Silver Streak, starring Sally Blane and Charles Starrett.

Foy Willing

Willing and his band appeared as performers in many Western movies in the 1940s and early 1950s with Charles Starrett, Monte Hale, and Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.

Pat Brady

Making the transition to films himself in 1937, Brady played comedy relief in several of the Charles Starrett Westerns at Columbia.

Russell Hayden

He played Lucky Jenkins, one of a trio of heroes in the Hopalong Cassidy westerns starring William Boyd, then co-starred with Charles Starrett in other westerns.



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