Bob Steele
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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
Credits
Rio Bravo (1959)
as Matt Harris (uncredited)
Hang 'em High (1968)
as Jenkins
The Big Sleep (1946)
as Lash Canino
McLintock! (1963)
as Train Engineer
Arizona Gunfighter (1937)
as Colt Ferron
Rio Lobo (1970)
as Rio Lobo Deputy (uncredited)
Texas Buddies (1932)
as Ted Garner
Desert Patrol (1938)
as Dave Austin
The Shootist (1976)
as Books' Victim in Flashback (archive footage / uncredited)
The Comancheros (1961)
as Pa Schofield (uncredited)
Charley Varrick (1973)
as Bank Guard (uncredited)
Thunder Town (1946)
as Jim Brandon
Cavalry (1936)
as Ted Thorne
Sonora Stagecoach (1944)
as Bob Steele
Lightnin' Crandall (1937)
as Bob Crandall, aka Lightnin' Crandall
Mesquite Buckaroo (1939)
as Bob Allen
No Name on the Bullet (1959)
as Poker Player (uncredited)
Pork Chop Hill (1959)
as Col. Kern
The Enforcer (1951)
as Herman
Bullet for a Badman (1964)
as Sheriff (uncredited)
The Invaders (1929)
Actor
Colorado Kid (1937)
as Colorado Kid
Lightning Speed (1928)
as Jack Pemberton
The Great Bank Robbery (1969)
as First Guard
Dangerous Trails (1922)
as Bob
The Opossum (1922)
Actor
Ride a Crooked Trail (1958)
as Jud Blunt (uncredited)
4 for Texas (1963)
as Bank Board Member
The Rider of the Law (1935)
as Bob Marlow
Shenandoah (1965)
as Union Train Guard
Exposed (1947)
as Chicago
The Bonnie Parker Story (1958)
as Armored Truck Guard (uncredited)
Death Valley Rangers (1943)
as Bob Steele
Doc (1969)
as Toby
Taggart (1965)
as Earl (uncredited)
The Skunk (1921)
as Bob
Mysterious Tracks (1922)
Actor
Decision at Sundown (1957)
as Irv (uncredited)
Hell Bent for Leather (1960)
as Jared
The Ridin' Fool (1931)
as Steve Kendall
Valley of Hunted Men (1942)
as Tucson Smith
Of Mice and Men (1939)
as Curley
Trapping the Mountain Lion (1921)
as Bob
Paroled - To Die (1938)
as Doug Redfern
Something Big (1971)
as Teamster #3
Skin Game (1971)
as Bidder (uncredited)
Young Blood (1932)
as Nick aka The Kid
The Spoilers (1955)
as Miner
Fort Worth (1951)
as Shorty
Bugles in the Afternoon (1952)
as Rider Who Announces Custer Is Dead
Feud of the Range (1939)
as Bob Gray
Brand of the Outlaws (1936)
as Gary Gray
Cattle Drive (1951)
as Charlie "Careless" Morgan
Drums Across the River (1954)
as Billy Costa
The Savage Horde (1950)
as Dancer
Nightmare Honeymoon (1974)
as Charlie
Gun for a Coward (1956)
as Durkee
Pardners (1956)
as Shorty
Riders of the Desert (1932)
as Bob Houston
The Nevada Buckaroo (1931)
as Buck Hurley, aka The Nevada Kid
City for Conquest (1940)
as Kid Callahan (uncredited)
Giant from the Unknown (1958)
as Sheriff Parker
The Outcast (1954)
as Dude Rankin
Catching a Fox (1921)
as Bob
No Man's Range (1935)
as Jim Hale
Ridin' the Lone Trail (1937)
as Bob McArthur
The Lion and the Horse (1952)
as Matt Jennings
Capturing a Canadian Lynx (1921)
as Bob
Six Gun Man (1946)
as Stormy Storm
Trailing the Coyote (1921)
as Bob
Riders of the Sage (1939)
as Bob Burke
Town Tamer (1965)
as Ken
Trail of Terror (1935)
as Spike Manning
Trapping the Coyote (1921)
as Bob
Trapping The Bob Cat (1921)
as Bob
Headin' North (1930)
as Jim Curtis
The Adventures of Bob and Bill (1920)
as Bob
The Oklahoma Sheriff (1930)
Actor
Last of the Warrens (1936)
as Ted Warren
The Civet Cat (1921)
as Bob
Catching a Koala Bear (1921)
as Bob
Trailing North (1933)
as Lee Evans aka Curly the Kid
Revenge of the Zombies (1943)
as Sheriff
Son of Oklahoma (1932)
as Dan Clayton
The Bounty Killer (1965)
as Red - Henchman
Pals of the Pecos (1941)
as Tucson Smith
The Carson City Kid (1940)
as Lee Jessup, aka Morgan Reynolds
The Hunted Men (1930)
as Dick Stockdale
Six Black Horses (1962)
as Puncher
The American Badger (1921)
as Bob
Trapping the Wildcat (1921)
as Bob
The Gun Ranger (1936)
as Dan Larson
Catching a Coon (1921)
as Bob
Last of the Desperados (1955)
as Charlie Bowdre
Alias John Law (1935)
as Everett Tarkington 'John' Clark
The Atomic Submarine (1959)
as "Grif" Griffin
South of St. Louis (1949)
as Slim Hansen
Killer McCoy (1947)
as Sailor Graves
Requiem for a Gunfighter (1965)
as Max Smith
The Trusted Outlaw (1937)
as Dan Ward
Outwitting the Timber Wolf (1921)
Actor
Island in the Sky (1953)
as Wilson
Column South (1953)
as McAfee
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (1976)
as (archive footage)
Northwest Trail (1945)
as RCMP Matt O'Brien
Billy the Kid's Range War (1941)
as Billy the Kid
The College Boob (1926)
as Shorty Buzelle (as Bob Bradbury Jr.)
Rose of Cimarron (1952)
as Rio
The Steel Jungle (1956)
as Dan Bucci
The Phantom Plainsmen (1942)
as Tucson Smith
Wild Horse Valley (1940)
as Bob Evans
The Red Rope (1937)
as Tom Shaw
Kid Courageous (1935)
as Bob Bannister
Arizona Whirlwind (1944)
as Bob Steele
Riders of the Rio Grande (1943)
as Tucson Smith
Savage Frontier (1953)
as Sam Webb
Once Upon a Horse... (1958)
as Bob Steele
Twilight on the Rio Grande (1947)
as Dusty Morgan
Under Texas Skies (1940)
as Tucson Smith
Marked Trails (1944)
as Bob Stevens
The Oklahoma Cyclone (1930)
as Jim Smith aka The Oklahoma Cyclone
Raiders of the Range (1942)
as Tucson Smith
Wall of Noise (1963)
as Trainer
The Gallant Fool (1933)
as Kit Denton
Sheriff of Redwood Valley (1946)
as Reno Kid
Billy The Kid's Fighting Pals (1941)
as Billy the Kid
Duel at Apache Wells (1957)
as Joe Dunn
A Demon for Trouble (1934)
as Bob Worth
Santa Fe Scouts (1943)
as Tucson Smith
Breed of the Border (1933)
as Speed Brent
Outlaw Trail (1944)
as Bob
Wildfire (1945)
as Happy Haye
The Fighting Chance (1955)
as Curly
The Wild Westerners (1962)
as Casey Banner
Durango Valley Raiders (1938)
as Keene Cordner
Westward Ho (1942)
as Tucson Smith
Code of the Outlaw (1942)
as Tucson Smith
Gangs of Sonora (1941)
as 'Tucson' Smith
The Parson and the Outlaw (1957)
as Ace Jardine
Billy the Kid's Gun Justice (1940)
as Billy the Kid
Silver Canyon (1951)
as Walt Middler
Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin (1937)
as Dan Stockton
Cheyenne (1947)
as Bucky
Law of the West (1932)
as Bob Carruthers, alias Bob Morgan
Hidden Valley (1932)
as Bob Harding
Tombstone Terror (1935)
as Jimmy Dixon / Duke Dixon
The Utah Kid (1944)
as Bob Roberts
Near the Rainbow's End (1930)
as Jim Bledsoe
Powdersmoke Range (1935)
as Jeff Ferguson aka Guadalupe Kid
Smokey Smith (1935)
as Smokey Smith
San Antone (1953)
as Bob Coolidge
Thundering Trails (1943)
as Tucson Smith
The Great Train Robbery (1941)
as Tom Logan
Saddlemates (1941)
as Tucson Smith
Ambush Trail (1946)
as Curley Thompson
The Land of Missing Men (1930)
as Steve O'Neil
Gauchos of El Dorado (1941)
as 'Tucson' Smith
Lone Star Raiders (1940)
as Tucson Smith
Navajo Kid (1945)
as Tom "The Navajo Kid" Kirk
Thunder in the Desert (1938)
as Bob Radford
The Trail Blazers (1940)
as Tucson Smith
A Day in the Wilds (1921)
as Bob
The Blocked Trail (1943)
as Tucson Smith
The Mystery Squadron (1933)
as Fred Cromwell
Shadows on the Sage (1942)
as 'Tucson' Smith / Curly Joe
The Feud Maker (1938)
as Tex Ryan aka Wind River Kid
Westward Bound (1944)
as Bob Steele
With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre (1927)
as Bob Keefe (as Bob Bradbury Jr.)
Trigger Law (1944)
as Bob Steele
Outlaws of Cherokee Trail (1941)
as 'Tucson' Smith
Just Plain Folks (1925)
Actor
Billy the Kid Outlawed (1940)
as Billy the Kid
Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge (1960)
as Ben
Big Calibre (1935)
as Bob Neal
With Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness (1926)
as Jim Bryan
The Kid Ranger (1936)
as Ray Burton
South of Santa Fe (1932)
as Tom Keene
West of Cimarron (1941)
as Tucson Smith
The Man from Hell's Edges (1932)
as Bob Williams aka 'Flash' Manning
The Man from Nowhere (1930)
as Terry Norton
Smoky Trails (1939)
as Bob Archer
Bandits of Dark Canyon (1947)
as Ed Archer
El Diablo Rides (1939)
as Bob
Billy the Kid in Santa Fe (1941)
as Billy the Kid
The Brand of Hate (1934)
as Rod Camp
The Fighting Champ (1932)
as Brick Loring
Near the Trail's End (1931)
as Marshal Johnny Day
Trail of Courage (1928)
as Tex Reeves
Ranger's Code (1933)
as Bob Baxter
Doomed at Sundown (1937)
as Dave Austin
The Law Rides (1936)
as Bruce Conway
The Cowboy and the Outlaw (1929)
as George Hardcastle
With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo (1926)
as 'Pinky' Smith
Western Justice (1934)
as Jim / Ace
Border Phantom (1937)
as Larry O'Day
The Pal from Texas (1939)
as Bob Barton
Headin' for Danger (1928)
as Jimmy Marshall
The Sunrise Trail (1931)
as Texas, aka Tex
The Riding Renegade (1928)
as Bob Taylor
Man in the Rough (1928)
as Bruce Sherwood
Laughing at Death (1929)
as Bob Thornton
Captain Careless (1928)
as Bob Gordon
Sundown Saunders (1935)
as Jim Sundown Saunders
Pinto Canyon (1940)
as Bob Hall
The Bandit's Son (1927)
as Bob McCall
Galloping Romeo (1933)
as Bob Rivers
Billy the Kid in Texas (1940)
as Billy the Kid
The Amazing Vagabond (1929)
as Jimmy Hobbs
Prairie Pioneers (1941)
as Tucson Smith
Rio Grande Raiders (1946)
as Jeff Carson
The Mojave Kid (1927)
as Bob Saunders
Breed of the Sunsets (1928)
as Jim Collins
Driftin' Sands (1928)
as 'Driftin' Sands
Western Honor (1930)
as Bob
Sliding Home (1928)
as Student (as Robert Bradbury Jr.)
A Texas Cowboy (1929)
as Dick Carlysle
Breezy Bill (1930)
as Breezy Bill
Come and Get It! (1929)
as Breezy Smith