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
Lash Canino
The Big Sleep
Everett Tarkington 'John' Clark
Alias John Law
Ben
Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge
Herman
The Enforcer
Bank Guard (uncredited)
Charley Varrick
Bob Keefe (as Bob Bradbury Jr.)
With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre
Charlie
Nightmare Honeymoon
Bidder (uncredited)
Skin Game
Rio Lobo Deputy (uncredited)
Rio Lobo
First Guard
The Great Bank Robbery
Ken
Town Tamer
Union Train Guard
Shenandoah
Trainer
Wall of Noise
Pa Schofield (uncredited)
The Comancheros
Bob Steele
Once Upon a Horse...
Shorty
Pardners
Curly
The Fighting Chance
Steve Kendall
The Ridin' Fool
Rider Who Announces Custer Is Dead
Bugles in the Afternoon
Bucky
Cheyenne
Bob Archer
Smoky Trails
Jim Curtis
Headin' North
The Oklahoma Sheriff
Bob
Western Honor
Dick Stockdale
The Hunted Men
Breezy Bill
Breezy Bill
Terry Norton
The Man from Nowhere
Dick Carlysle
A Texas Cowboy
The Invaders
Bob Thornton
Laughing at Death
Jimmy Hobbs
The Amazing Vagabond
Breezy Smith
Come and Get It!
Jimmy Marshall
Headin' for Danger
Bob Gordon
Captain Careless
Tex Reeves
Trail of Courage
Jack Pemberton
Lightning Speed
Bruce Sherwood
Man in the Rough
Jim Collins
Breed of the Sunsets
Bob Taylor
The Riding Renegade
Student (as Robert Bradbury Jr.)
Sliding Home
'Driftin' Sands
Driftin' Sands
Bob McCall
The Bandit's Son
Bob Saunders
The Mojave Kid
Shorty Buzelle (as Bob Bradbury Jr.)
The College Boob
Col. Kern
Pork Chop Hill
"Grif" Griffin
The Atomic Submarine
Lee Jessup, aka Morgan Reynolds
The Carson City Kid
Doug Redfern
Paroled - To Die
Bob
The Adventures of Bob and Bill
Bob
Trapping the Wildcat
Outwitting the Timber Wolf
Bob
Catching a Coon
Bob
The American Badger
Bob
The Civet Cat
Bob
Trailing the Coyote
Bob
Dangerous Trails
Mysterious Tracks
The Opossum
Just Plain Folks
Jim Bryan
With Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness
'Pinky' Smith
With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
Curley
Of Mice and Men
Sheriff Parker
Giant from the Unknown
Armored Truck Guard (uncredited)
The Bonnie Parker Story
Earl (uncredited)
Taggart
Dan Bucci
The Steel Jungle
Tucson Smith
Riders of the Rio Grande
Chicago
Exposed
Billy Costa
Drums Across the River
Gary Gray
Brand of the Outlaws
Charlie "Careless" Morgan
Cattle Drive
Bob Gray
Feud of the Range
Bob Burke
Riders of the Sage
Ted Garner
Texas Buddies
Bob Stevens
Marked Trails
Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid's Range War
Fred Cromwell
The Mystery Squadron
Bob Harding
Hidden Valley
Bob Rivers
Galloping Romeo
McAfee
Column South
Dancer
The Savage Horde
Bob Marlow
The Rider of the Law
Jeff Carson
Rio Grande Raiders
Steve O'Neil
The Land of Missing Men
Slim Hansen
South of St. Louis
Joe Dunn
Duel at Apache Wells
Jim Sundown Saunders
Sundown Saunders
Jim Hale
No Man's Range
Reno Kid
Sheriff of Redwood Valley
Matt Jennings
The Lion and the Horse
Nick aka The Kid
Young Blood
Tucson Smith
Raiders of the Range
Tucson Smith
The Phantom Plainsmen
Buck Hurley, aka The Nevada Kid
The Nevada Buckaroo
Bob Houston
Riders of the Desert
Ace Jardine
The Parson and the Outlaw
Ted Warren
Last of the Warrens
Bruce Conway
The Law Rides
Ted Thorne
Cavalry
Dan Larson
The Gun Ranger
(archive footage)
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Dan Ward
The Trusted Outlaw
Dan Stockton
Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin
Larry O'Day
Border Phantom
Tucson Smith
Prairie Pioneers
Bob Radford
Thunder in the Desert
Tex Ryan aka Wind River Kid
The Feud Maker
Bob Williams aka 'Flash' Manning
The Man from Hell's Edges
Rod Camp
The Brand of Hate
Bob Worth
A Demon for Trouble
Colt Ferron
Arizona Gunfighter
Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid Outlawed
'Tucson' Smith
Gangs of Sonora
Bob
Outlaw Trail
Tucson Smith
Code of the Outlaw
Jim Brandon
Thunder Town
'Tucson' Smith
Gauchos of El Dorado
'Tucson' Smith
Outlaws of Cherokee Trail
RCMP Matt O'Brien
Northwest Trail
Bob Steele
Death Valley Rangers
Bob Steele
Westward Bound
Bob Steele
Arizona Whirlwind
Dusty Morgan
Twilight on the Rio Grande
Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid in Texas
Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
Ed Archer
Bandits of Dark Canyon
Happy Haye
Wildfire
Jimmy Dixon / Duke Dixon
Tombstone Terror
Sailor Graves
Killer McCoy
Texas, aka Tex
The Sunrise Trail
Jim Smith aka The Oklahoma Cyclone
The Oklahoma Cyclone
Smokey Smith
Smokey Smith
Tom Keene
South of Santa Fe
Dan Clayton
Son of Oklahoma
Rio
Rose of Cimarron
Bob Steele
Trigger Law
Bob Roberts
The Utah Kid
Sam Webb
Savage Frontier
Dave Austin
Doomed at Sundown
Sheriff
Revenge of the Zombies
Bob Coolidge
San Antone
Bob Baxter
Ranger's Code
Tucson Smith
West of Cimarron
Stormy Storm
Six Gun Man
Bob McArthur
Ridin' the Lone Trail
Kit Denton
The Gallant Fool
Dave Austin
Desert Patrol
Keene Cordner
Durango Valley Raiders
Bob Barton
The Pal from Texas
Tucson Smith
Pals of the Pecos
Ray Burton
The Kid Ranger
Lee Evans aka Curly the Kid
Trailing North
Jim / Ace
Western Justice
Bob Hall
Pinto Canyon
'Tucson' Smith / Curly Joe
Shadows on the Sage
Tom Logan
The Great Train Robbery
Bob Allen
Mesquite Buckaroo
Colorado Kid
Colorado Kid
Books' Victim in Flashback (archive footage / uncredited)
The Shootist
Train Engineer
McLintock!
Curley Thompson
Ambush Trail
Tucson Smith
Santa Fe Scouts
Walt Middler
Silver Canyon
Wilson
Island in the Sky
Jeff Ferguson aka Guadalupe Kid
Powdersmoke Range
Brick Loring
The Fighting Champ
Bob Neal
Big Calibre
Jenkins
Hang 'em High
Tucson Smith
Under Texas Skies
Tucson Smith
The Trail Blazers
Tucson Smith
Lone Star Raiders
Tucson Smith
Saddlemates
Tucson Smith
Westward Ho
Tucson Smith
Valley of Hunted Men
Tucson Smith
Thundering Trails
Tucson Smith
The Blocked Trail
Matt Harris (uncredited)
Rio Bravo
Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid's Gun Justice
Bob
El Diablo Rides
Bob Steele
Sonora Stagecoach
Dude Rankin
The Outcast
Shorty
Fort Worth
Max Smith
Requiem for a Gunfighter
Kid Callahan (uncredited)
City for Conquest
Jared
Hell Bent for Leather
Billy the Kid
Billy The Kid's Fighting Pals
Puncher
Six Black Horses
Tom "The Navajo Kid" Kirk
Navajo Kid
Bob Carruthers, alias Bob Morgan
Law of the West
Speed Brent
Breed of the Border
Marshal Johnny Day
Near the Trail's End
Charlie Bowdre
Last of the Desperados
Miner
The Spoilers
Bob Crandall, aka Lightnin' Crandall
Lightnin' Crandall
Casey Banner
The Wild Westerners
Red - Henchman
The Bounty Killer
Durkee
Gun for a Coward
Jim Bledsoe
Near the Rainbow's End
Bob Bannister
Kid Courageous
Tom Shaw
The Red Rope
Bob Evans
Wild Horse Valley
George Hardcastle
The Cowboy and the Outlaw
Spike Manning
Trail of Terror
Bob
A Day in the Wilds
Bob
Capturing a Canadian Lynx
Bob
Catching a Fox
Bob
Catching a Koala Bear
Bob
The Skunk
Bob
Trapping The Bob Cat
Bob
Trapping the Coyote
Bob
Trapping the Mountain Lion
Teamster #3
Something Big
Sheriff (uncredited)
Bullet for a Badman
Toby
Doc
Bank Board Member
4 for Texas
Irv
Decision at Sundown
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
216
Gender
Male
Birthday
1907-01-23
Place of Birth
Portland, Oregon, USA
Also Known As
Bob Bradbury Jr.