He played Thomas 'Sinbad' Sweeney in Brookside, the Channel 4 soap opera, for sixteen years.
After his departure from Brookside, in October 2000, he appeared in a Christmas 2000 episode of the BBC drama Casualty.
Starke later appeared in the ITV drama The Royal as Kenneth Hopkirk, as policeman Arthur in the film The 51st State and as himself on Lily Savage's Blankety Blank.
[4] Starke appeared in the 2014 Kenneth Branagh directed action thriller film "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit".
He is a regular cabaret performer on P&O Britannia and is working on a new musical with his songwriting partner Joe Wynne about Everton FC.