
Bob Steele
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.
234 acting credits
Acting · 234

Maverick
1957

Have Gun, Will Travel
1957

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955

Cheyenne
1955

Lawman
1958

Rawhide
1959

Gunsmoke
1955

Sugarfoot
1957

The Texan
1958

The Rebel
1959

Family Affair
1966

F Troop
1965

Screen Director's Playhouse
1955

Then Came Bronson
1969

National Velvet
1960

The Wonderful World of Disney
1954

Rio Bravo
1959

Hang 'em High
1968

The Big Sleep
1946

McLintock!
1963

Rio Lobo
1970

The Comancheros
1961

Shenandoah
1965

The Shootist
1976

Pork Chop Hill
1959

Charley Varrick
1973

Something Big
1971

The Outcast
1954

4 for Texas
1963

Skin Game
1971

City for Conquest
1940

Island in the Sky
1953

Decision at Sundown
1957

Pardners
1956

The Enforcer
1951

Ride a Crooked Trail
1958

No Name on the Bullet
1959

Bullet for a Badman
1964

Doomed at Sundown
1937

Hell Bent for Leather
1960

The Carson City Kid
1940

Killer McCoy
1947

Gun for a Coward
1956

The Atomic Submarine
1959

Fort Worth
1951

Taggart
1965

The Bounty Killer
1965

The Great Bank Robbery
1969

The Bonnie Parker Story
1958

Northwest Trail
1945

The Spoilers
1955

Giant from the Unknown
1958

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976

Six Black Horses
1962

The Wild Westerners
1962

Powdersmoke Range
1935

Column South
1953

Cheyenne
1947

Of Mice and Men
1939

Cattle Drive
1951

The Mystery Squadron
1933

Town Tamer
1965

Saddlemates
1941

The Brand of Hate
1934

Twilight on the Rio Grande
1947

The Parson and the Outlaw
1957

Westward Bound
1944

The Steel Jungle
1956

Gangs of Sonora
1941

Nightmare Honeymoon
1974

Billy the Kid's Gun Justice
1940

Wildfire
1945

Outlaw Trail
1944

South of St. Louis
1949

Drums Across the River
1954

Rose of Cimarron
1952

Trigger Law
1944

The Great Train Robbery
1941

Bugles in the Afternoon
1952

Riders of the Desert
1932

Death Valley Rangers
1943

Savage Frontier
1953

The Phantom Plainsmen
1942

Colorado Kid
1937

Big Calibre
1935

Navajo Kid
1945

The Red Rope
1937

Doc
1969

Marked Trails
1944

Sonora Stagecoach
1944

Hidden Valley
1932

The Fighting Chance
1955

Under Texas Skies
1940

Last of the Desperados
1955

Riders of the Sage
1939

Silver Canyon
1951

Lone Star Raiders
1940

Thunder in the Desert
1938

Santa Fe Scouts
1943

Duel at Apache Wells
1957

Exposed
1947

With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre
1927

With Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness
1926

San Antone
1953

Requiem for a Gunfighter
1965

The Savage Horde
1950

Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge
1960

Once Upon a Horse...
1958

Billy the Kid in Texas
1940

Pals of the Pecos
1941

Smokey Smith
1935

Cavalry
1936

The Trusted Outlaw
1937
Western Honor
1930

Man in the Rough
1928

Billy the Kid's Range War
1941

Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
1941

Gauchos of El Dorado
1941

Captain Careless
1928

West of Cimarron
1941

Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin
1937

Last of the Warrens
1936

Arizona Gunfighter
1937

Lightning Speed
1928

Texas Buddies
1932

The Rider of the Law
1935

Sliding Home
1928

Thundering Trails
1943

Rio Grande Raiders
1946

Mesquite Buckaroo
1939

Ambush Trail
1946

Wall of Noise
1963

Galloping Romeo
1933

Young Blood
1932

Western Justice
1934

Prairie Pioneers
1941

Valley of Hunted Men
1942

Billy The Kid's Fighting Pals
1941

Riders of the Rio Grande
1943

The Trail Blazers
1940
Breezy Bill
1930

Trailing North
1933

Billy the Kid Outlawed
1940

The Gallant Fool
1933

Westward Ho
1942

The Sunrise Trail
1931

The Nevada Buckaroo
1931

Feud of the Range
1939

The Lion and the Horse
1952

Sundown Saunders
1935

The Amazing Vagabond
1929

Headin' North
1930

Raiders of the Range
1942

Breed of the Border
1933

No Man's Range
1935

Tombstone Terror
1935

The Utah Kid
1944

El Diablo Rides
1939

Ranger's Code
1933

The Feud Maker
1938

Kid Courageous
1935

The Oklahoma Cyclone
1930

Thunder Town
1946

A Demon for Trouble
1934

Bandits of Dark Canyon
1947

Paroled - To Die
1938

The Hunted Men
1930

Sheriff of Redwood Valley
1946
The Man from Nowhere
1930

Breed of the Sunsets
1928

Smoky Trails
1939

Arizona Whirlwind
1944

Six Gun Man
1946

Lightnin' Crandall
1937

The Blocked Trail
1943

The Fighting Champ
1932

Ridin' the Lone Trail
1937

Outlaws of Cherokee Trail
1941

Brand of the Outlaws
1936

Durango Valley Raiders
1938

Son of Oklahoma
1932

South of Santa Fe
1932

Near the Rainbow's End
1930

Shadows on the Sage
1942

Revenge of the Zombies
1943

Code of the Outlaw
1942

Law of the West
1932

The Law Rides
1936

Wild Horse Valley
1940

The Riding Renegade
1928

Desert Patrol
1938

With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
1926

Alias John Law
1935
The Skunk
1921

The Land of Missing Men
1930

Driftin' Sands
1928

Border Phantom
1937

The Bandit's Son
1927

The Gun Ranger
1936

The College Boob
1926

The Pal from Texas
1939

Pinto Canyon
1940

The Kid Ranger
1936

Come and Get It!
1929

Near the Trail's End
1931

The Ridin' Fool
1931
Trapping the Mountain Lion
1921

The Man from Hell's Edges
1932

Headin' for Danger
1928
The Opossum
1922
Trapping The Bob Cat
1921
Trapping the Wildcat
1921

Laughing at Death
1929

The Cowboy and the Outlaw
1929

A Texas Cowboy
1929
The Adventures of Bob and Bill
1920

The Mojave Kid
1927
The American Badger
1921

The Oklahoma Sheriff
1930
Mysterious Tracks
1922

Trail of Terror
1935
Trapping the Coyote
1921
The Invaders
1929
Just Plain Folks
1925
A Day in the Wilds
1921
Dangerous Trails
1922
Catching a Fox
1921
Capturing a Canadian Lynx
1921
Catching a Koala Bear
1921
Catching a Coon
1921
The Civet Cat
1921

Trail of Courage
1928

Outwitting the Timber Wolf
1921
Trailing the Coyote
1921