Bob Steele
Known for Acting · 234 credits
- Born
- 1907-01-23
- Died
- 1988-12-21
- Place of birth
- Portland, Oregon, USA
- Also known as
- Bob Bradbury Jr. · Robert Bradbury Jr. · Robert Adrian Bradbury
Biography
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.
Known For
TV Shows (16)
Maverick
1957
as Walter Jackson / Wells / Jailed Cowhand Billy (uncredited)
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
as Jockey
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955
as Deputy Marshal Sam (uncredited)
Lawman
1958
as Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
Cheyenne
1955
as Dugan
Rawhide
1959
as Deputy Art Gray
Gunsmoke
1955
as Sam Gordon / Coe
Sugarfoot
1957
as Sam Shoulders
The Rebel
1959
as Will Randall / Jess Kirby
Family Affair
1966
The Texan
1958
as Luke Short
F Troop
1965
as Trooper Duffy
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955
as Deputy Sheriff Dodd
Then Came Bronson
1969
as Clay Turner
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
as Ben / Soto Man (uncredited) / Rebel Arsonist (uncredited)
National Velvet
1960
as Clive
Movies (218)
Rio Bravo
1959
as Matt Harris (uncredited)
Hang 'em High
1968
as Jenkins
Rio Lobo
1970
as Rio Lobo Deputy (uncredited)
The Big Sleep
1946
as Lash Canino
The Shootist
1976
as Books' Victim in Flashback (archive footage / uncredited)
McLintock!
1963
as Train Engineer
Skin Game
1971
as Bidder (uncredited)
The Comancheros
1961
as Pa Schofield (uncredited)
Shenandoah
1965
as Union Train Guard
Something Big
1971
as Teamster #3
The Outcast
1954
as Dude Rankin
Charley Varrick
1973
as Bank Guard (uncredited)
The Spoilers
1955
as Miner
Westward Bound
1944
as Bob Steele
Cattle Drive
1951
as Charlie "Careless" Morgan
Pork Chop Hill
1959
as Col. Kern
Tombstone Terror
1935
as Jimmy Dixon / Duke Dixon
Border Phantom
1937
as Larry O'Day
Cavalry
1936
as Ted Thorne
Ambush Trail
1946
as Curley Thompson
Captain Careless
1928
as Bob Gordon
Of Mice and Men
1939
as Curley
Bullet for a Badman
1964
as Sheriff (uncredited)
No Name on the Bullet
1959
as Poker Player (uncredited)
4 for Texas
1963
as Bank Board Member
Island in the Sky
1953
as Wilson
Outlaw Trail
1944
as Bob
Doomed at Sundown
1937
as Dave Austin
Taggart
1965
as Earl (uncredited)
Column South
1953
as McAfee
Cheyenne
1947
as Bucky
Pardners
1956
as Shorty
Decision at Sundown
1957
as Irv (uncredited)
The Enforcer
1951
as Herman
The Bounty Killer
1965
as Red - Henchman
Gun for a Coward
1956
as Durkee
City for Conquest
1940
as Kid Callahan (uncredited)
Hidden Valley
1932
as Bob Harding
Navajo Kid
1945
as Tom "The Navajo Kid" Kirk
The Great Bank Robbery
1969
as First Guard
Western Justice
1934
as Jim / Ace
The Bonnie Parker Story
1958
as Armored Truck Guard (uncredited)
The Atomic Submarine
1959
as "Grif" Griffin
Wildfire
1945
as Happy Haye
Six Black Horses
1962
as Puncher
South of St. Louis
1949
as Slim Hansen
Ride a Crooked Trail
1958
as Jud Blunt (uncredited)
The Great Train Robbery
1941
as Tom Logan
The Gallant Fool
1933
as Kit Denton
Young Blood
1932
as Nick aka The Kid
Drums Across the River
1954
as Billy Costa
Requiem for a Gunfighter
1965
as Max Smith
Trigger Law
1944
as Bob Steele
Doc
1969
as Toby
Sliding Home
1928
as Student (as Robert Bradbury Jr.)
Bugles in the Afternoon
1952
as Rider Who Announces Custer Is Dead
Fort Worth
1951
as Shorty
Saddlemates
1941
as Tucson Smith
Marked Trails
1944
as Bob Stevens
The Fighting Chance
1955
as Curly
Town Tamer
1965
as Ken
Billy the Kid's Gun Justice
1940
as Billy the Kid
Hell Bent for Leather
1960
as Jared
The Savage Horde
1950
as Dancer
Powdersmoke Range
1935
as Jeff Ferguson aka Guadalupe Kid
Riders of the Rio Grande
1943
as Tucson Smith
The Wild Westerners
1962
as Casey Banner
The Carson City Kid
1940
as Lee Jessup, aka Morgan Reynolds
The Brand of Hate
1934
as Rod Camp
The Steel Jungle
1956
as Dan Bucci
Killer McCoy
1947
as Sailor Graves
Arizona Whirlwind
1944
as Bob Steele
Death Valley Rangers
1943
as Bob Steele
Exposed
1947
as Chicago
Riders of the Sage
1939
as Bob Burke
Colorado Kid
1937
as Colorado Kid
Nightmare Honeymoon
1974
as Charlie
Trailing North
1933
as Lee Evans aka Curly the Kid
Billy the Kid's Range War
1941
as Billy the Kid
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976
as (archive footage)
The Trusted Outlaw
1937
as Dan Ward
Texas Buddies
1932
as Ted Garner
Westward Ho
1942
as Tucson Smith
Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
1941
as Billy the Kid
Last of the Warrens
1936
as Ted Warren
Last of the Desperados
1955
as Charlie Bowdre
Feud of the Range
1939
as Bob Gray
The Phantom Plainsmen
1942
as Tucson Smith
Billy the Kid in Texas
1940
as Billy the Kid
Gangs of Sonora
1941
as 'Tucson' Smith
Rose of Cimarron
1952
as Rio
Big Calibre
1935
as Bob Neal
With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre
1927
as Bob Keefe (as Bob Bradbury Jr.)
Prairie Pioneers
1941
as Tucson Smith
With Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness
1926
as Jim Bryan
Trail of Terror
1935
as Spike Manning
Lone Star Raiders
1940
as Tucson Smith
The Nevada Buckaroo
1931
as Buck Hurley, aka The Nevada Kid
The Red Rope
1937
as Tom Shaw
Sonora Stagecoach
1944
as Bob Steele
San Antone
1953
as Bob Coolidge
Savage Frontier
1953
as Sam Webb
Paroled - To Die
1938
as Doug Redfern
Twilight on the Rio Grande
1947
as Dusty Morgan
Once Upon a Horse...
1958
as Bob Steele
The Ridin' Fool
1931
as Steve Kendall
Arizona Gunfighter
1937
as Colt Ferron
Northwest Trail
1945
as RCMP Matt O'Brien
Breezy Bill
1930
as Breezy Bill
Sheriff of Redwood Valley
1946
as Reno Kid
Billy the Kid Outlawed
1940
as Billy the Kid
Wall of Noise
1963
as Trainer
Son of Oklahoma
1932
as Dan Clayton
Desert Patrol
1938
as Dave Austin
Alias John Law
1935
as Everett Tarkington 'John' Clark
Rio Grande Raiders
1946
as Jeff Carson
Ranger's Code
1933
as Bob Baxter
Near the Trail's End
1931
as Marshal Johnny Day
Thundering Trails
1943
as Tucson Smith
The Rider of the Law
1935
as Bob Marlow
About 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 ca… With 234 credits spanning from 1920 to 1976, Bob Steele has appeared in 218 films and 16 TV shows.
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- Rio Bravo (1959) — as Matt Harris (uncredited)
- Hang 'em High (1968) — as Jenkins
- Rio Lobo (1970) — as Rio Lobo Deputy (uncredited)
- The Big Sleep (1946) — as Lash Canino
- The Shootist (1976) — as Books' Victim in Flashback (archive footage / uncredited)
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