Bob Steele
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1907-01-23
Deathday 1988-12-21 (81 years old)
Place of Birth Portland, Oregon, USA
Also Known As Bob Bradbury Jr., Robert Bradbury Jr., Robert Adrian Bradbury
Bob Steele
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Bob Steele (January 23, 1907 - December 21, 1988) was an American actor. He was born Robert Adrian Bradbury in Portland, Oregon, into a vaudeville family. After years of touring, the family settled down in Hollywood in the late 1910s, where his father, Robert N. Bradbury, soon found work in the movies, first as an actor, later as a director, and by 1920, he hired Bob and his twin brother Bill (1907–1971) as juvenile leads for a series of adventure movies entitled "The Adventures of Bob and Bill". Bob's career began to take off for good in 1927, when he was hired by production company Film Booking Offices of America (FBO) to star in a series of Westerns. Bob—who was rechristened Bob Steele at FBO—soon made a name for himself, and in the late 1920s, 1930s and 1940s starred in B-Westerns for almost every minor film studio, including Monogram, Supreme, Tiffany, Syndicate, Republic (including several films of the Three Mesquiteers series) and Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) (including the initial films of their "Billy the Kid" series), plus he had the occasional role in an A-movie, as in the adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men from 1939. In the 1940s, Bob's career as a cowboy hero was on the decline, but he kept himself working by accepting supporting roles in many big movies like Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep, or the John Wayne vehicles Island in the Sky, Rio Bravo and Rio Lobo. Besides these he also made occasional appearances in science fiction films like Atomic Submarine and Giant from the Unknown and did lots of television work, culminating in a regular supporting role in the army comedy F Troop (1965–1967), which allowed him to show his comic talent. Steele played the character of Trooper Duffy who claimed to have been "shoulder to shoulder with Davy Crockett at the Alamo"-in fact Steele played in With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo in 1926. Bob Steele died on December 21, 1988 from emphysema after a long sickness. Bob Steele is said to have been the inspiration for the character "Cowboy Bob" in the Dennis The Menace comic strip. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bob Steele (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Actor
as Books' Victim in Flashback (archive footage / uncredited)
as (archive footage)
as Charlie
as Bank Guard (uncredited)
as Teamster #3
as Bidder (uncredited)
as Rio Lobo Deputy (uncredited)
as Toby
as First Guard
as Jenkins
as Red - Henchman
as Ken
as Max Smith
as Union Train Guard
as Earl (uncredited)
as Trooper Duffy
as Sheriff (uncredited)
as Bank Board Member
as Train Engineer
as Trainer
as Casey Banner
as Puncher
as Pa Schofield (uncredited)
as Jared
as Clive
as "Grif" Griffin
as Col. Kern
as Matt Harris (uncredited)
as Will Randall
as Jess Kirby
as Deputy Art Gray
as Bob Steele
as Armored Truck Guard (uncredited)
as Sheriff Parker
as Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
as Luke Short
as Irv
as Ace Jardine
as Joe Dunn
as Walter Jackson
as Wells
as Jailed Cowhand Billy (uncredited)
as Sam Shoulders
as Durkee
as Shorty
as Dan Bucci
as Miner
as Curly
as Charlie Bowdre
as Deputy Sheriff Dodd
as Dugan
as Sam Gordon
as Coe
as Deputy Marshal Sam (uncredited)
as Dude Rankin
as Billy Costa
as Soto Man (uncredited)
as Rebel Arsonist (uncredited)
as Wilson
as McAfee
as Sam Webb
as Bob Coolidge
as Matt Jennings
as Rider Who Announces Custer Is Dead
as Rio
as Charlie "Careless" Morgan
as Shorty
as Walt Middler
as Herman
as Dancer
as Slim Hansen
as Ed Archer
as Sailor Graves
as Chicago
as Bucky
as Dusty Morgan
as Jeff Carson
as Lash Canino
as Jim Brandon
as The Reno Kid
as Curley Thompson
as Stormy Storm
as RCMP Matt O'Brien
as Tom "The Navajo Kid" Kirk
as Happy Haye
as Bob Steele
as Bob Roberts
as Bob Stevens
as Bob Steele
as Bob
as Bob Steele
as Bob Steele
as Bob Steele
as Sheriff
as Tucson Smith
as Tucson Smith
as Tucson Smith
as Tucson Smith
as Tucson Smith
as 'Tucson' Smith / Curly Joe
as Tucson Smith
as Tucson Smith
as Tucson Smith
as Tucson Smith
as Tucson Smith
as 'Tucson' Smith
as 'Tucson' Smith
as Billy the Kid
as 'Tucson' Smith
as Tucson Smith
as Billy the Kid
as Tucson Smith
as Tom Logan
as Tucson Smith
as Billy the Kid
as Billy the Kid
as Tucson Smith
as Tucson Smith
as Billy the Kid
as Tucson Smith
as Kid Callahan (uncredited)
as Billy the Kid
as Lee Jessup, aka Morgan Reynolds
as Sheriff Bob Hall
as Bob Evans
as Curley
as Bob
as Bob Barton
as Bob Burke
as Bob Allen
as Bob Archer
as Bob Gray
as Keene Cordner
as Dave Austin
as Tex Ryan aka Wind River Kid
as Bob Radford
as Doug Redfern
as Colorado Kid
as Colt Ferron
as Bob McArthur
as Tom Shaw
as Dave Austin
as Larry O'Day
as Dan Stockton
as Dan Ward
as Bob Crandall, aka Lightnin' Crandall
as Dan Larson
as Ted Thorne
as Gary Gray
as Bruce Conway
as Ted Warren
as Ray Burton
as Spike Manning
as Everett Tarkington 'John' Clark
as Bob Marlow
as Jeff Ferguson aka Guadalupe Kid
as Jim Hale
as Jim Sundown Saunders
as Jimmy Dixon / Duke Dixon
as Smokey Smith
as Bob Neal
as Bob Bannister
as Jim / Ace
as Rod Camp
as Bob Worth
as Fred Cromwell
as Bob Baxter
as Bob Rivers
as Kit Denton
as Lee Evans aka Curly the Kid
as Speed Brent
as Brick Loring
as Nick aka The Kid
as Ted Garner
as Bob Harding
as Dan Clayton
as Bob Williams aka 'Flash' Manning
as Bob Houston
as Bob Carruthers, alias Bob Morgan
as Tom Keene
as Marshal Johnny Day
as Buck Hurley, aka The Nevada Kid
as Steve Kendall
as Texas, aka Tex
as Jim Curtis
as Steve O'Neil
as Jim Smith aka The Oklahoma Cyclone
as Jim Bledsoe
as Bob
as Terry Norton
as Dick Stockdale
as Breezy Bill
as Dick Carlysle
as George Hardcastle
as Bob Thornton
as Jimmy Hobbs
as Breezy Smith
as Jimmy Marshall
as Bob Gordon
as Jack Pemberton
as Tex Reeves
as Bruce Sherwood
as Jim Collins
as Bob Taylor
as Student (as Robert Bradbury Jr.)
as 'Driftin' Sands
as Bob McCall
as Bob Saunders
as Bob Keefe (as Bob Bradbury Jr.)
as Shorty Buzelle (as Bob Bradbury Jr.)
as 'Pinky' Smith
as Jim Bryan
as Bob
as Bob
as Bob
as Bob
as Bob
as Bob
as Bob
as Bob
as Bob
as Bob
as Bob
as Bob
as Bob
as Bob
Writer
as Story