Cast

Bob Steele

Acting

Cast

Bob Steele

Known for

Acting

Born

1907-01-23

From

Portland, Oregon, USA

Died

1988-12-21

Also known as Bob Bradbury Jr., Robert Bradbury Jr., Robert Adrian Bradbury

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.

Bob Steele

Bob Steele

Biography

Rio Bravo

Hang 'em High

The Big Sleep

McLintock!

Rio Lobo

The Shootist

Arizona Gunfighter

Mesquite Buckaroo

Charley Varrick

Lightnin' Crandall

Sonora Stagecoach

Cavalry

Death Valley Rangers

Colorado Kid

The Comancheros

Bullet for a Badman

Pork Chop Hill

Lightning Speed

The Invaders

Exposed

Thunder Town

The Great Bank Robbery

No Name on the Bullet

Shenandoah

Headin' North

Texas Buddies

Doc

Desert Patrol

The Enforcer

Hell Bent for Leather

Taggart

Ride a Crooked Trail

Dangerous Trails

Mysterious Tracks

The Opossum

Island in the Sky

Trailing North

The Rider of the Law

Valley of Hunted Men

Young Blood

Paroled - To Die

Something Big

No Man's Range

The Savage Horde

Riders of the Desert

The Ridin' Fool

Ridin' the Lone Trail

Decision at Sundown

Trail of Terror

The Oklahoma Sheriff

Cattle Drive

Skin Game

Town Tamer

The Bonnie Parker Story

Trapping the Mountain Lion

Nightmare Honeymoon

Of Mice and Men

The Outcast

4 for Texas

Fort Worth

The Bounty Killer

The Hunted Men

Last of the Warrens

The Adventures of Bob and Bill

Six Gun Man

The Spoilers

Son of Oklahoma

Column South

The Atomic Submarine

City for Conquest

The Nevada Buckaroo

The Skunk

Trailing the Coyote

Pals of the Pecos

Pardners

Durango Valley Raiders

Santa Fe Scouts