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Bob Steele

Bob Steele

Biography

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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.        

                    

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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

219

Gender

Male

Birthday

1907-01-23

Place of Birth

Portland, Oregon, USA

Also Known As

Bob Bradbury Jr., Robert Bradbury Jr., Robert Adrian Bradbury

Known For

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