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 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: Acting

Born: Portland, Oregon, USA, 1907-01-23

Died: 1988-12-21

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Ben	78
2	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Soto Man (uncredited)	78
3	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Rebel Arsonist (uncredited)	78
4	1955	The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp	Deputy Marshal Sam (uncredited)	68
5	1955	The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp	Deputy Marshal Sam	68
6	1955	Gunsmoke	Sam Gordon	66
7	1955	Gunsmoke	Coe	66
8	1955	Cheyenne	Dugan	58
9	1955	Screen Director's Playhouse	Deputy Sheriff Dodd	65
10	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel	Jockey	74
11	1957	Sugarfoot	Sam Shoulders	48
12	1957	Maverick	Walter Jackson	68
13	1957	Maverick	Wells	68
14	1957	Maverick	Jailed Cowhand Billy (uncredited)	68
15	1958	The Texan	Luke Short	55
16	1958	Lawman	Telegraph Operator (uncredited)	56
17	1959	Rawhide	Deputy Art Gray	72
18	1959	The Rebel	Will Randall	51
19	1959	The Rebel	Jess Kirby	51
20	1960	National Velvet	Clive	75
21	1965	F Troop	Trooper Duffy	62
22	1966	Family Affair		66
23	1969	Then Came Bronson		48

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1920	The Adventures of Bob and Bill	Bob	0
2	1921	Trailing the Coyote	Bob	0
3	1921	Capturing a Canadian Lynx	Bob	0
4	1921	Catching a Fox	Bob	0
5	1921	Catching a Koala Bear	Bob	0
6	1921	Trapping The Bob Cat	Bob	0
7	1921	Trapping the Coyote	Bob	0
8	1921	Trapping the Mountain Lion	Bob	0
9	1921	Trapping the Wildcat	Bob	0
10	1921	Outwitting the Timber Wolf		0
11	1921	Catching a Coon	Bob	0
12	1921	The American Badger	Bob	0
13	1921	The Civet Cat	Bob	0
14	1921	The Skunk	Bob	40
15	1921	A Day in the Wilds	Bob	40
16	1922	Dangerous Trails	Bob	0
17	1922	Mysterious Tracks		0
18	1922	The Opossum		0
19	1925	Just Plain Folks		0
20	1926	With Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness	Jim Bryan	0
21	1926	With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo	'Pinky' Smith	0
22	1926	The College Boob	Shorty Buzelle (as Bob Bradbury Jr.)	100
23	1927	With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre	Bob Keefe (as Bob Bradbury Jr.)	0
24	1927	The Mojave Kid	Bob Saunders	0
25	1927	The Bandit's Son	Bob McCall	0
26	1928	Driftin' Sands	'Driftin' Sands	0
27	1928	Sliding Home	Student (as Robert Bradbury Jr.)	0
28	1928	The Riding Renegade	Bob Taylor	0
29	1928	Breed of the Sunsets	Jim Collins	0
30	1928	Man in the Rough	Bruce Sherwood	0
31	1928	Trail of Courage	Tex Reeves	0
32	1928	Captain Careless	Bob Gordon	0
33	1928	Lightning Speed	Jack Pemberton	0
34	1928	Headin' for Danger	Jimmy Marshall	0
35	1929	Come and Get It!	Breezy Smith	0
36	1929	The Amazing Vagabond	Jimmy Hobbs	0
37	1929	Laughing at Death	Bob Thornton	0
38	1929	The Invaders		0
39	1929	The Cowboy and the Outlaw	George Hardcastle	0
40	1929	A Texas Cowboy	Dick Carlysle	0
41	1930	Breezy Bill	Breezy Bill	0
42	1930	The Hunted Men	Dick Stockdale	0
43	1930	The Man from Nowhere	Terry Norton	0
44	1930	Western Honor	Bob	0
45	1930	Near the Rainbow's End	Jim Bledsoe	10
46	1930	The Oklahoma Sheriff		0
47	1930	The Oklahoma Cyclone	Jim Smith aka The Oklahoma Cyclone	42
48	1930	The Land of Missing Men	Steve O'Neil	40
49	1930	Headin' North	Jim Curtis	20
50	1931	The Sunrise Trail	Texas, aka Tex	30
51	1931	The Ridin' Fool	Steve Kendall	0
52	1931	The Nevada Buckaroo	Buck Hurley, aka The Nevada Kid	0
53	1931	Near the Trail's End	Marshal Johnny Day	50
54	1932	South of Santa Fe	Tom Keene	30
55	1932	Law of the West	Bob Carruthers, alias Bob Morgan	50
56	1932	Riders of the Desert	Bob Houston	45
57	1932	The Man from Hell's Edges	Bob Williams aka 'Flash' Manning	40
58	1932	Son of Oklahoma	Dan Clayton	0
59	1932	Hidden Valley	Bob Harding	60
60	1932	Texas Buddies	Ted Garner	60
61	1932	Young Blood	Nick aka The Kid	0
62	1932	The Fighting Champ	Brick Loring	55
63	1933	Breed of the Border	Speed Brent	0
64	1933	Trailing North	Lee Evans aka Curly the Kid	67
65	1933	The Gallant Fool	Kit Denton	0
66	1933	Galloping Romeo	Bob Rivers	0
67	1933	Ranger's Code	Bob Baxter	0
68	1933	The Mystery Squadron	Fred Cromwell	60
69	1934	A Demon for Trouble	Bob Worth	50
70	1934	The Brand of Hate	Rod Camp	45
71	1934	Western Justice	Jim / Ace	0
72	1935	Kid Courageous	Bob Bannister	55
73	1935	Big Calibre	Bob Neal	0
74	1935	Smokey Smith	Smokey Smith	50
75	1935	Tombstone Terror	Jimmy Dixon / Duke Dixon	40
76	1935	Sundown Saunders	Jim Sundown Saunders	0
77	1935	No Man's Range	Jim Hale	60
78	1935	Powdersmoke Range	Jeff Ferguson aka Guadalupe Kid	0
79	1935	The Rider of the Law	Bob Marlow	50
80	1935	Alias John Law	Everett Tarkington 'John' Clark	38
81	1935	Trail of Terror	Spike Manning	0
82	1936	The Kid Ranger	Ray Burton	37
83	1936	Last of the Warrens	Ted Warren	67
84	1936	The Law Rides	Bruce Conway	50
85	1936	Brand of the Outlaws	Gary Gray	60
86	1936	Cavalry	Ted Thorne	60
87	1936	The Gun Ranger	Dan Larson	0
88	1937	Lightnin' Crandall	Bob Crandall, aka Lightnin' Crandall	20
89	1937	The Trusted Outlaw	Dan Ward	60
90	1937	Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin	Dan Stockton	60
91	1937	Border Phantom	Larry O'Day	47
92	1937	Doomed at Sundown	Dave Austin	30
93	1937	The Red Rope	Tom Shaw	60
94	1937	Ridin' the Lone Trail	Bob McArthur	50
95	1937	Arizona Gunfighter	Colt Ferron	38
96	1937	Colorado Kid	Colorado Kid	40
97	1938	Paroled - To Die	Doug Redfern	10
98	1938	Thunder in the Desert	Bob Radford	60
99	1938	The Feud Maker	Tex Ryan aka Wind River Kid	40
100	1938	Desert Patrol	Dave Austin	0
101	1938	Durango Valley Raiders	Keene Cordner	0
102	1939	Feud of the Range	Bob Gray	60
103	1939	Smoky Trails	Bob Archer	0
104	1939	Mesquite Buckaroo	Bob Allen	0
105	1939	Riders of the Sage	Bob Burke	50
106	1939	The Pal from Texas	Bob Barton	0
107	1939	El Diablo Rides	Bob	10
108	1939	Of Mice and Men	Curley	73
109	1940	Wild Horse Valley	Bob Evans	0
110	1940	Pinto Canyon	Sheriff Bob Hall	30
111	1940	The Carson City Kid	Lee Jessup, aka Morgan Reynolds	55
112	1940	Billy the Kid Outlawed	Billy the Kid	0
113	1940	City for Conquest	Kid Callahan (uncredited)	68
114	1940	Billy the Kid in Texas	Billy the Kid	58
115	1940	Under Texas Skies	Tucson Smith	50
116	1940	The Trail Blazers	Tucson Smith	0
117	1940	Lone Star Raiders	Tucson Smith	0
118	1940	Billy the Kid's Gun Justice	Billy the Kid	40
119	1941	Billy the Kid's Range War	Billy the Kid	65
120	1941	Prairie Pioneers	Tucson Smith	0
121	1941	The Great Train Robbery	Tom Logan	75
122	1941	Pals of the Pecos	Tucson Smith	0
123	1941	Billy The Kid's Fighting Pals	Billy the Kid	60
124	1941	Saddlemates	Tucson Smith	0
125	1941	Gangs of Sonora	'Tucson' Smith	0
126	1941	Billy the Kid in Santa Fe	Billy the Kid	40
127	1941	Outlaws of Cherokee Trail	'Tucson' Smith	0
128	1941	Gauchos of El Dorado	'Tucson' Smith	0
129	1941	West of Cimarron	Tucson Smith	40
130	1942	Code of the Outlaw	Tucson Smith	0
131	1942	Raiders of the Range	Tucson Smith	0
132	1942	Westward Ho	Tucson Smith	30
133	1942	The Phantom Plainsmen	Tucson Smith	60
134	1942	Shadows on the Sage	'Tucson' Smith / Curly Joe	0
135	1942	Valley of Hunted Men	Tucson Smith	0
136	1943	Thundering Trails	Tucson Smith	60
137	1943	The Blocked Trail	Tucson Smith	0
138	1943	Santa Fe Scouts	Tucson Smith	0
139	1943	Riders of the Rio Grande	Tucson Smith	0
140	1943	Revenge of the Zombies	Sheriff	52
141	1943	Death Valley Rangers	Bob Steele	67
142	1944	Westward Bound	Bob Steele	40
143	1944	Arizona Whirlwind	Bob Steele	55
144	1944	Outlaw Trail	Bob	0
145	1944	Sonora Stagecoach	Bob Steele	50
146	1944	Marked Trails	Bob Stevens	57
147	1944	The Utah Kid	Bob Roberts	0
148	1944	Trigger Law	Bob Steele	0
149	1945	Wildfire	Happy Haye	10
150	1945	Navajo Kid	Tom "The Navajo Kid" Kirk	60
151	1945	Northwest Trail	RCMP Matt O'Brien	50
152	1946	Six Gun Man	Stormy Storm	0
153	1946	Ambush Trail	Curley Thompson	0
154	1946	Sheriff of Redwood Valley	The Reno Kid	40
155	1946	Thunder Town	Jim Brandon	30
156	1946	The Big Sleep	Lash Canino	76
157	1946	Rio Grande Raiders	Jeff Carson	0
158	1947	Twilight on the Rio Grande	Dusty Morgan	25
159	1947	Cheyenne	Bucky	68
160	1947	Exposed	Chicago	58
161	1947	Killer McCoy	Sailor Graves	60
162	1947	Bandits of Dark Canyon	Ed Archer	0
163	1949	South of St. Louis	Slim Hansen	56
164	1950	The Savage Horde	Dancer	58
165	1951	The Enforcer	Herman	71
166	1951	Silver Canyon	Walt Middler	70
167	1951	Fort Worth	Shorty	67
168	1951	Cattle Drive	Charlie "Careless" Morgan	61
169	1952	Rose of Cimarron	Rio	50
170	1952	Bugles in the Afternoon	Rider Who Announces Custer Is Dead	51
171	1952	The Lion and the Horse	Matt Jennings	57
172	1953	San Antone	Bob Coolidge	50
173	1953	Savage Frontier	Sam Webb	0
174	1953	Column South	McAfee	60
175	1953	Island in the Sky	Wilson	62
176	1954	Drums Across the River	Billy Costa	56
177	1954	The Outcast	Dude Rankin	66
178	1955	Last of the Desperados	Charlie Bowdre	60
179	1955	The Fighting Chance	Curly	40
180	1955	The Spoilers	Miner	48
181	1956	The Steel Jungle	Dan Bucci	53
182	1956	Pardners	Shorty	67
183	1956	Gun for a Coward	Durkee	56
184	1957	Duel at Apache Wells	Joe Dunn	40
185	1957	The Parson and the Outlaw	Ace Jardine	41
186	1957	Decision at Sundown	Irv	63
187	1958	Giant from the Unknown	Sheriff Parker	40
188	1958	The Bonnie Parker Story	Armored Truck Guard (uncredited)	46
189	1958	Once Upon a Horse...	Bob Steele	85
190	1959	Rio Bravo	Matt Harris (uncredited)	78
191	1959	Pork Chop Hill	Col. Kern	65
192	1959	The Atomic Submarine	"Grif" Griffin	53
193	1960	Hell Bent for Leather	Jared	62
194	1960	Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge	Ben	0
195	1961	The Comancheros	Pa Schofield (uncredited)	66
196	1962	Six Black Horses	Puncher	58
197	1962	The Wild Westerners	Casey Banner	70
198	1963	Wall of Noise	Trainer	36
199	1963	McLintock!	Train Engineer	66
200	1963	4 for Texas	Bank Board Member	51
201	1964	Bullet for a Badman	Sheriff (uncredited)	62
202	1965	Taggart	Earl (uncredited)	52
203	1965	Shenandoah	Union Train Guard	69
204	1965	Requiem for a Gunfighter	Max Smith	60
205	1965	Town Tamer	Ken	64
206	1965	The Bounty Killer	Red - Henchman	58
207	1968	Hang 'em High	Jenkins	69
208	1969	The Great Bank Robbery	First Guard	63
209	1969	Doc	Toby	0
210	1970	Rio Lobo	Rio Lobo Deputy (uncredited)	64
211	1971	Skin Game	Bidder (uncredited)	66
212	1971	Something Big	Teamster #3	52
213	1973	Charley Varrick	Bank Guard (uncredited)	74
214	1974	Nightmare Honeymoon	Charlie	50
215	1976	Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch	(archive footage)	90
216	1976	The Shootist	Books' Victim in Flashback (archive footage / uncredited)	71

Bob Steele

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