Bob Steele
Acting
- Born:
- 1907-01-23
- Died:
- 1988-12-21
- Place of birth:
- Portland, Oregon, USA
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. 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.
Known For
Filmography
The Shootist
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Nightmare Honeymoon
Charley Varrick
Something Big
Skin Game
Rio Lobo
Then Came Bronson
Doc
The Great Bank Robbery
Hang 'em High
Family Affair
F Troop
The Bounty Killer
Town Tamer
Requiem for a Gunfighter
Shenandoah
Taggart
Bullet for a Badman
4 for Texas
McLintock!
Wall of Noise
The Wild Westerners
Six Black Horses
The Comancheros
National Velvet
Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge
Hell Bent for Leather
The Atomic Submarine
The Rebel
Pork Chop Hill
Rio Bravo
No Name on the Bullet
Rawhide
Ride a Crooked Trail
Lawman
The Texan
Once Upon a Horse...
The Bonnie Parker Story
Giant from the Unknown
Decision at Sundown
The Parson and the Outlaw
Maverick
Sugarfoot
Have Gun, Will Travel
Duel at Apache Wells
Gun for a Coward
Pardners
The Steel Jungle
The Spoilers
The Fighting Chance
Last of the Desperados
Screen Director's Playhouse
Cheyenne
Gunsmoke
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Outcast
Drums Across the River
Island in the Sky
Column South
Savage Frontier
San Antone
The Lion and the Horse
Bugles in the Afternoon
Rose of Cimarron
Cattle Drive
Fort Worth
Silver Canyon
The Enforcer
The Savage Horde
South of St. Louis
Bandits of Dark Canyon
Killer McCoy
Exposed
Cheyenne
Twilight on the Rio Grande
Rio Grande Raiders
The Big Sleep
Thunder Town
Sheriff of Redwood Valley
Ambush Trail
Six Gun Man
Northwest Trail
Navajo Kid
Wildfire
Trigger Law
The Utah Kid
Marked Trails
Sonora Stagecoach
Outlaw Trail
Arizona Whirlwind
Westward Bound
Death Valley Rangers
Revenge of the Zombies
Riders of the Rio Grande
Santa Fe Scouts
The Blocked Trail
Thundering Trails
Valley of Hunted Men
Shadows on the Sage
The Phantom Plainsmen
Westward Ho
Raiders of the Range
Code of the Outlaw
West of Cimarron
Gauchos of El Dorado
Outlaws of Cherokee Trail
Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
Gangs of Sonora
Saddlemates
Billy The Kid's Fighting Pals
Pals of the Pecos
The Great Train Robbery
Prairie Pioneers
Billy the Kid's Range War
Billy the Kid's Gun Justice
Lone Star Raiders
The Trail Blazers
Billy the Kid in Texas
Under Texas Skies
City for Conquest
Billy the Kid Outlawed
The Carson City Kid
Pinto Canyon
Wild Horse Valley
Of Mice and Men
El Diablo Rides
The Pal from Texas
Riders of the Sage
Mesquite Buckaroo
Smoky Trails
Feud of the Range
Durango Valley Raiders
Desert Patrol
The Feud Maker
Thunder in the Desert
Paroled - To Die
Colorado Kid
Arizona Gunfighter
Ridin' the Lone Trail
The Red Rope
Doomed at Sundown
Border Phantom
Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin
The Trusted Outlaw
Lightnin' Crandall
The Gun Ranger
Cavalry
Brand of the Outlaws
The Law Rides
Last of the Warrens
The Kid Ranger
Trail of Terror
Alias John Law
The Rider of the Law
Powdersmoke Range
No Man's Range
Sundown Saunders
Tombstone Terror
Smokey Smith
Big Calibre
Kid Courageous
Western Justice
The Brand of Hate
A Demon for Trouble
The Mystery Squadron
Ranger's Code
Galloping Romeo
The Gallant Fool
Trailing North
Breed of the Border
The Fighting Champ
Young Blood
Texas Buddies
Hidden Valley
Son of Oklahoma
The Man from Hell's Edges
Riders of the Desert
Law of the West
South of Santa Fe
Near the Trail's End
The Nevada Buckaroo
The Ridin' Fool
The Sunrise Trail
Headin' North
The Land of Missing Men
The Oklahoma Cyclone
The Oklahoma Sheriff
Near the Rainbow's End
Western Honor
The Man from Nowhere
The Hunted Men
Breezy Bill
A Texas Cowboy
The Invaders
The Cowboy and the Outlaw
Laughing at Death
The Amazing Vagabond
Come and Get It!
Headin' for Danger
Captain Careless
Lightning Speed
Trail of Courage
Man in the Rough
Breed of the Sunsets
The Riding Renegade
Sliding Home
Driftin' Sands
The Bandit's Son
The Mojave Kid
With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre
The College Boob
With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
With Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness
Just Plain Folks
The Opossum
Mysterious Tracks
Dangerous Trails
A Day in the Wilds
The Skunk
The Civet Cat
The American Badger
Catching a Coon
Outwitting the Timber Wolf
Trapping the Wildcat
Trailing the Coyote
Capturing a Canadian Lynx
Catching a Fox
Catching a Koala Bear
Trapping The Bob Cat
Trapping the Coyote
Trapping the Mountain Lion
The Adventures of Bob and Bill