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name: "Jack Starrett"
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roles: ["Director"]
born: "2 November 1936"
died: "27 March 1989"
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average_as: "director"
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# Jack Starrett

Director. Born 2 November 1936 in Refugio, Texas, USA. Died 27 March 1989.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 2 November 1936, Refugio, Texas, USA
- **Died:** 27 March 1989
- **Also known as:** Claude Ennis Starrett, Jr., جک استارت
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q382080, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0823630/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16556

## Biography

Jack Starrett (also credited as Claude Ennis Starrett Jr.) was an American actor and film director. Born in Refugio, Texas, he worked in the oil fields before moving to Hollywood, where he began acting in the early 1960s and later directed feature films and television episodes.

As a director, Starrett helmed episodes of series including *Hill Street Blues* (1981), *Starsky & Hutch* (1975) and *The Dukes of Hazzard* (1979–1980), as well as films such as *Cleopatra Jones* (1973), *Race with the Devil* (1975) and *A Small Town in Texas* (1976). He also appeared as an actor in films including *Blazing Saddles* (1974) and *First Blood* (1982). Starrett died in 1989.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Hill Street Blues* (1981), Fi1m 86, Actor, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/hill-street-blues.md)

## Also known for

- *Starsky & Hutch* (1975), Director
- *Race with the Devil* (1975), Director
- *Planet of the Apes* (1974), Director
- *Cleopatra Jones* (1973), Director

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