Bob Steele
Acting
🎂 1907-01-23
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.              Â
Cast credits(239)
Deputy Marshal Sam (uncredited)
1955
Deputy Marshal Sam
1955
Walter Jackson
1957
Wells
1957
Jailed Cowhand Billy (uncredited)
1957
Deputy Sheriff Dodd
1955
Jockey
1957
Luke Short
1958
Deputy Art Gray
1959
1966
Dugan
1955
1969
Will Randall
1959
Jess Kirby
1959
Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
1958
Sam Shoulders
1957
Ben
1954
Soto Man (uncredited)
1954
Rebel Arsonist (uncredited)
1954
Trooper Duffy
1965
Clive
1960
Sam Gordon
1955
Coe
1955
Jenkins
1968
Train Engineer
1963
Lash Canino
1946
Irv
1957
Matt Harris (uncredited)
1959
Rio Lobo Deputy (uncredited)
1970
Pa Schofield (uncredited)
1961
Books' Victim in Flashback (archive footage / uncredited)
1976
Curley
1939
Union Train Guard
1965
Rider Who Announces Custer Is Dead
1952
Col. Kern
1959
Bank Guard (uncredited)
1973
Bank Board Member
1963
Teamster #3
1971
Durkee
1956
Herman
1951
Dude Rankin
1954
Wilson
1953
Lee Jessup, aka Morgan Reynolds
1940
Shorty
1956
Jared
1960
Red - Henchman
1965
"Grif" Griffin
1959
Bob Thornton
1929
Bob Burke
1939
Sheriff
1943
First Guard
1969
Sam Webb
1953
Ken
1965
Puncher
1962
Walt Middler
1951
Earl (uncredited)
1965
Rio
1952
Kid Callahan (uncredited)
1940
Bidder (uncredited)
1971
Charlie "Careless" Morgan
1951
Dan Bucci
1956
Tom "The Navajo Kid" Kirk
1945
Bob Steele
1958
Billy Costa
1954
Charlie
1974
Shorty
1951
Chicago
1947
Miner
1955
Sheriff Parker
1958
Casey Banner
1962
Sheriff (uncredited)
1964
Dancer
1950
Armored Truck Guard (uncredited)
1958
Bob Coolidge
1953
Tucson Smith
1942
Jim Curtis
1930
McAfee
1953
Trainer
1963
Bob Worth
1934
Dan Stockton
1937
Steve Kendall
1931
Bob Steele
1944
Ben
1960
Bob Saunders
1927
Dick Stockdale
1930
Ted Thorne
1936
Larry O'Day
1937
Sailor Graves
1947
Ed Archer
1947
Jeff Ferguson aka Guadalupe Kid
1935
RCMP Matt O'Brien
1945
Smokey Smith
1935
Curley Thompson
1946
Tucson Smith
1941
Speed Brent
1933
(archive footage)
1976
Slim Hansen
1949
Tucson Smith
1943
Bruce Conway
1936
Jim Smith aka The Oklahoma Cyclone
1930
Bob Steele
1944
Tucson Smith
1942
Bob Barton
1939
Jim Hale
1935
Bob Gordon
1928
Joe Dunn
1957
Bob Bannister
1935
Dusty Morgan
1947
Colorado Kid
1937
Tex Ryan aka Wind River Kid
1938
Bob Steele
1944
Breezy Bill
1930
Doug Redfern
1938
Steve O'Neil
1930
Charlie Bowdre
1955
Bob Neal
1935
Bob Steele
1944
Jimmy Marshall
1928
Bucky
1947
Tucson Smith
1942
Bob Radford
1938
Jim Brandon
1946
Stormy Storm
1946
Billy the Kid
1940
Terry Norton
1930
Billy the Kid
1941
Kit Denton
1933
Bob Stevens
1944
Dick Carlysle
1929
Student (as Robert Bradbury Jr.)
1928
Bob Gray
1939
Tucson Smith
1942
Tucson Smith
1940
Toby
1969
Bob Archer
1939
Bob
1944
Happy Haye
1945
Tom Logan
1941
'Tucson' Smith
1941
Ted Warren
1936
Bob Roberts
1944
Sheriff Bob Hall
1940
Nick aka The Kid
1932
Jack Pemberton
1928
Tucson Smith
1943
Jimmy Dixon / Duke Dixon
1935
Ace Jardine
1957
Bob Taylor
1928
Tucson Smith
1941
Jeff Carson
1946
Dave Austin
1937
Dave Austin
1938
Tucson Smith
1943
Bob Harding
1932
Fred Cromwell
1933
Bob Marlow
1935
Dan Larson
1936
Rod Camp
1934
Bob Allen
1939
Colt Ferron
1937
Keene Cordner
1938
Bob Steele
1943
Shorty Buzelle (as Bob Bradbury Jr.)
1926
Max Smith
1965
Billy the Kid
1941
Billy the Kid
1940
Tucson Smith
1942
Jim Bryan
1926
Ray Burton
1936
'Tucson' Smith
1941
Tucson Smith
1941
Bruce Sherwood
1928
Tucson Smith
1943
Bob
1921
Bob
1930
Buck Hurley, aka The Nevada Kid
1931
Bob
1921
Everett Tarkington 'John' Clark
1935
Tucson Smith
1941
Jim Sundown Saunders
1935
Ted Garner
1932
Bob Evans
1940
1929
Billy the Kid
1941
Bob Houston
1932
Matt Jennings
1952
Bob Carruthers, alias Bob Morgan
1932
Bob Crandall, aka Lightnin' Crandall
1937
Marshal Johnny Day
1931
'Tucson' Smith
1941
Dan Ward
1937
Curly
1955
Bob McArthur
1937
Jim Bledsoe
1930
Tucson Smith
1940
George Hardcastle
1929
Jimmy Hobbs
1929
Texas, aka Tex
1931
The Reno Kid
1946
Bob Williams aka 'Flash' Manning
1932
Billy the Kid
1940
Spike Manning
1935
Tom Shaw
1937
Gary Gray
1936
Dan Clayton
1932
Tex Reeves
1928
Tucson Smith
1940
Brick Loring
1932
Bob
1939
Bob
1921
Bob Keefe (as Bob Bradbury Jr.)
1927
Bob McCall
1927
Breezy Smith
1929
Bob Rivers
1933
Jim / Ace
1934
'Tucson' Smith / Curly Joe
1942
1925
Bob
1921
Lee Evans aka Curly the Kid
1933
Bob
1921
Bob
1921
1921
'Pinky' Smith
1926
Tom Keene
1932
Bob Baxter
1933
Bob
1921
1922
1930
Bob
1921
Bob
1922
Bob
1921
'Driftin' Sands
1928
Bob
1921
Bob
1921
Bob
1921
1922
Bob
1920
Jim Collins
1928
Bob
1921