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