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