Bob Steele
from Portland, Oregon, USA
from Portland, Oregon, USA
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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.
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(archive footage)
Books' Victim in Flashback (archive footage / uncredited)
Charlie
Bank Guard (uncredited)
Bidder (uncredited)
Teamster #3
Rio Lobo Deputy (uncredited)
First Guard
Toby
Jenkins
Earl (uncredited)
Union Train Guard
Max Smith
Ken
Red - Henchman
Sheriff (uncredited)
Trainer
Train Engineer
Bank Board Member
Puncher
Casey Banner
Pa Schofield (uncredited)
Jared
Ben
Poker Player (uncredited)
Matt Harris (uncredited)
Col. Kern
"Grif" Griffin
Sheriff Parker
Armored Truck Guard (uncredited)
Bob Steele
Jud Blunt (uncredited)
Joe Dunn
Ace Jardine
Irv (uncredited)
Dan Bucci
Shorty
Durkee
Charlie Bowdre
Curly
Miner
Billy Costa
Dude Rankin
Bob Coolidge
Sam Webb
McAfee
Wilson
Rio
Rider Who Announces Custer Is Dead
Matt Jennings
Herman
Walt Middler
Shorty
Charlie "Careless" Morgan
Dancer
Slim Hansen
Dusty Morgan
Bucky
Chicago
Sailor Graves
Ed Archer
Stormy Storm
Curley Thompson
Reno Kid
Jim Brandon
Lash Canino
Jeff Carson
Happy Haye
Tom "The Navajo Kid" Kirk
RCMP Matt O'Brien
Bob Steele
Bob Steele
Bob
Bob Steele
Bob Stevens
Bob Roberts
Bob Steele
Tucson Smith
Tucson Smith
Tucson Smith
Tucson Smith
Sheriff
Bob Steele
Tucson Smith
Tucson Smith
Tucson Smith
Tucson Smith
'Tucson' Smith / Curly Joe
Tucson Smith
Billy the Kid
Tucson Smith
Tom Logan
Tucson Smith
Billy the Kid
Tucson Smith
'Tucson' Smith
Billy the Kid
'Tucson' Smith
'Tucson' Smith
Tucson Smith
Bob Evans
Bob Hall
Lee Jessup, aka Morgan Reynolds
Billy the Kid
Kid Callahan (uncredited)
Tucson Smith
Billy the Kid
Tucson Smith
Tucson Smith
Billy the Kid
Bob Gray
Bob Archer
Bob Allen
Bob Burke
Bob Barton
Bob
Curley
Doug Redfern
Bob Radford
Tex Ryan aka Wind River Kid
Dave Austin
Keene Cordner
Bob Crandall, aka Lightnin' Crandall
Dan Ward
Dan Stockton
Larry O'Day
Dave Austin
Tom Shaw
Bob McArthur
Colt Ferron
Colorado Kid
Ray Burton
Ted Warren
Bruce Conway
Gary Gray
Ted Thorne
Dan Larson
Bob Bannister
Bob Neal
Smokey Smith
Jimmy Dixon / Duke Dixon
Jim Sundown Saunders
Jim Hale
Jeff Ferguson aka Guadalupe Kid
Bob Marlow
Everett Tarkington 'John' Clark
Spike Manning
Bob Worth
Rod Camp
Jim / Ace
Speed Brent
Lee Evans aka Curly the Kid
Kit Denton
Bob Rivers
Bob Baxter
Fred Cromwell
Tom Keene
Bob Carruthers, alias Bob Morgan
Bob Houston
Bob Williams aka 'Flash' Manning
Dan Clayton
Bob Harding
Ted Garner
Nick aka The Kid
Brick Loring
Texas, aka Tex
Steve Kendall
Buck Hurley, aka The Nevada Kid
Marshal Johnny Day
Breezy Bill
Breezy Bill
Dick Stockdale
The Man from Nowhere
Terry Norton
Western Honor
Bob
Jim Bledsoe
(Unknown)
Jim Smith aka The Oklahoma Cyclone
Steve O'Neil
Jim Curtis
Breezy Smith
Jimmy Hobbs
Bob Thornton
The Invaders
(Unknown)
George Hardcastle
Dick Carlysle
'Driftin' Sands
Student (as Robert Bradbury Jr.)
Bob Taylor
Jim Collins
Bruce Sherwood
Tex Reeves
Bob Gordon
Jack Pemberton
Jimmy Marshall
Bob Keefe (as Bob Bradbury Jr.)
Bob Saunders
Bob McCall
Jim Bryan
'Pinky' Smith
Shorty Buzelle (as Bob Bradbury Jr.)
Just Plain Folks
(Unknown)
Dangerous Trails
Bob
Mysterious Tracks
(Unknown)
The Opossum
(Unknown)
