Bob Steele

Acting

Born Jan 23, 1907

From Portland, Oregon, USA

Died Dec 21, 1988

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.

Bob Steele

Known For

Rio Bravo

Hang 'em High

The Big Sleep

Rio Lobo

The Shootist

McLintock!

The Comancheros

Shenandoah

Charley Varrick

4 for Texas

Filmography — Acting

Rio Bravo

Hang 'em High

The Big Sleep

Rio Lobo

The Shootist

McLintock!

The Comancheros

Shenandoah

Charley Varrick

4 for Texas

Pork Chop Hill

No Name on the Bullet

Decision at Sundown

The Enforcer

City for Conquest

Island in the Sky

Skin Game

Taggart

The Steel Jungle

Cheyenne

Something Big

Pardners

Ride a Crooked Trail

The Atomic Submarine

Of Mice and Men

The Outcast

Once Upon a Horse...

Hell Bent for Leather

The Great Bank Robbery

Bugles in the Afternoon

Bullet for a Badman

The Mystery Squadron

The Spoilers

The Bonnie Parker Story

Wall of Noise

Fort Worth

Column South

Giant from the Unknown

South of St. Louis

Gun for a Coward

Cattle Drive

Doc

Town Tamer

The Savage Horde

Twilight on the Rio Grande

Six Black Horses

The Parson and the Outlaw

Navajo Kid

Thundering Trails

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

The Rider of the Law

Killer McCoy

Duel at Apache Wells

Billy the Kid Outlawed

The Great Train Robbery

The Bounty Killer

Drums Across the River

The Feud Maker

Desert Patrol

Revenge of the Zombies

Billy the Kid in Texas

Feud of the Range

The Nevada Buckaroo

Westward Ho

Cavalry

The Wild Westerners

The Fighting Champ