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Bob Steele
Actor
Died December 21, 1988 (81 years)
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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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Filmography
| 1976 | The Shootist · as Books' Victim in Flashback |
| 1976 | Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch · as (archive footage) |
| 1974 | Nightmare Honeymoon · as Charlie |
| 1973 | Charley Varrick · as Bank Guard (uncredited) |
| 1971 | Skin Game · as Bidder (uncredited) |
| 1971 | Something Big · as Teamster #3 |
| 1971 | Alias Smith and Jones (TV Series) · as Outlaw shooting from window |
| 1970 | |
| 1969 | The Great Bank Robbery · as First Guard |
| 1969 | Doc · as Toby |
| 1968 | Hang 'Em High · as Jenkins |
| 1966 | Family Affair (1966) (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1965 | Town Tamer · as Ken |
| 1965 | The Bounty Killer · as Red - Henchman |
| 1965 | Requiem for a Gunfighter · as Max Smith |
| 1965 | F Troop (TV Series) · as Trooper Duffy |
| 1965 | Shenandoah · as Union Train Guard (uncredited) |
| 1964 | Bullet for a Badman · as Sheriff (uncredited) |
| 1964 | Daniel Boone (TV Series) · as Trapper |
| 1963 | McLintock! · as Train Engineer |
| 1963 | 4 for Texas · as Bank Board Member |
| 1963 | Temple Houston (TV Series) · as Yeager |
| 1962 | Six Black Horses · as Puncher |
| 1961 | The Comancheros · as Pa Schofield (uncredited) |
| 1961 | Whispering Smith (TV Series) · as Joe Mullet |
| 1960 | Hell Bent for Leather · as Jared |
| 1960 | National Velvet (TV Series) · as Clyde |
| 1960 | |
| 1959 | Rio Bravo · as Matt Harris (uncredited) |
| 1959 | Pork Chop Hill · as Col. Kern |
| 1959 | The Atomic Submarine · as "Grif" Griffin |
| 1959 | No Name on the Bullet · as Poker Player (uncredited) |
| 1959 | Rawhide (TV Series) · as Deputy Art Gray |
| 1959 | The Deputy (TV Series) · as Fred Sooley |
| 1959 | The Rebel (TV Series) · as Will Randall |
| 1958 | Giant from the Unknown · as Sheriff Parker |
| 1958 | The Bonnie Parker Story · as Armored Truck Guard (uncredited) |
| 1958 | Cimarron City (TV Series) · as Dude Morgan |
| 1958 | The Texan (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1958 | Lawman (TV Series) · as Telegraph Operator |
| 1957 | Band of Angels · as Union Private |
| 1957 | Decision at Sundown · as Irv |
| 1957 | Have Gun, Will Travel (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1957 | Maverick (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1957 | Tales of Wells Fargo (TV Series) · as Cole |
| 1957 | Sugarfoot (TV Series) · as Sam Shoulders |
| 1957 | The Californians (TV Series) · as Gahagan |
| 1956 | Pardners · as Shorty |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Sam Gordon |
| 1955 | The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1955 | Cheyenne (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1954 | Drums Across the River · as Billy Costa |
| 1954 | The Outcast · as Dude Rankin |
| 1954 | Disneyland (TV Series) · as Ben |
| 1953 | Island in the Sky · as Wilson |
| 1953 | Column South · as Sgt. 'Mac' McAfee |
| 1952 | Bugles in the Afternoon · as Rider Who Announces Custer Is Dead (uncredited) |
| 1952 | The Lion and the Horse · as Matt Jennings |
| 1952 | Death Valley Days (TV Series) · as Dawson |
| 1951 | The Enforcer · as Herman |
| 1951 | Fort Worth · as Shorty |
| 1951 | Cattle Drive · as Charlie "Careless" Morgan |
| 1951 | Silver Canyon · as Walt Middler |
| 1950 | Crooked River · as Shamrock |
| 1949 | South of St. Louis · as Slim Hansen |
| 1947 | Killer McCoy · as Sailor Graves |
| 1947 | Cheyenne · as Bucky |
| 1947 | Twilight on the Rio Grande · as Dusty Morgan |
| 1946 | The Big Sleep · as Lash Canino |
| 1946 | Thunder Town · as Jim Brandon |
| 1946 | Ambush Trail · as Curley Thompson |
| 1945 | Northwest Trail · as RCMP Matt O'Brien |
| 1945 | Wildfire · as Happy Haye |
| 1945 | Navajo Kid · as Tom "The Navajo Kid" Kirk |
| 1944 | Marked Trails · as Bob Stevens |
| 1944 | Arizona Whirlwind · as Bob Steele |
| 1944 | Outlaw Trail · as Bob |
| 1944 | Sonora Stagecoach · as Bob Steele |
| 1943 | Death Valley Rangers · as Bob Steele |
| 1941 | Billy the Kid's Range War · as Billy the Kid |
| 1941 | Billy the Kid in Santa Fe · as Billy the Kid |
| 1940 | City for Conquest · as Kid Callahan (uncredited) |
| 1940 | The Carson City Kid · as Lee |
| 1940 | Billy the Kid in Texas · as Billy the Kid |
| 1940 | Billy the Kid's Gun Justice · as Billy the Kid |
| 1940 | Pinto Canyon · as Sheriff Bob Hall |
| 1939 | Of Mice and Men · as Curley |
| 1939 | Feud of the Range · as Bob Gray |
| 1939 | Riders of the Sage · as Bob Burke |
| 1939 | The Pal from Texas · as Bob Barton |
| 1939 | El Diablo Rides · as Bob |
| 1938 | Paroled - To Die · as Doug Redfern |
| 1938 | The Feud Maker · as Tex Ryan aka Wind River Kid |
| 1938 | Durango Valley Raiders · as Keene Cordner |
| 1937 | The Trusted Outlaw · as Dan Ward |
| 1937 | Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin · as Dan Stockton |
| 1937 | Border Phantom · as Larry O'Day |
| 1937 | Arizona Gunfighter · as Colt Ferron |
| 1937 | Doomed at Sundown · as Dave Austin |
| 1937 | Ridin' the Lone Trail · as Bob McArthur |
| 1937 | Colorado Kid · as Colorado Kid |
| 1937 | The Red Rope · as Tom Shaw |
| 1936 | Brand of the Outlaws · as Gary Gray |
| 1936 | Last of the Warrens · as Ted Warren |
| 1936 | The Gun Ranger · as Dan Larson |
| 1936 | Cavalry · as Ted Thorne |
| 1936 | The Kid Ranger · as Ray Burton |
| 1935 | Alias John Law · as Everett Tarkington 'John' Clark |
| 1935 | The Rider of the Law · as Bob Marlow |
| 1935 | No Man's Range · as Jim Hale |
| 1935 | Sundown Saunders · as Jim Sundown Saunders |
| 1935 | Smokey Smith · as Smokey Smith |
| 1935 | Big Calibre · as Bob Neal |
| 1935 | Trail of Terror · as Spike Manning |
| 1934 | A Demon for Trouble · as Bob Worth |
| 1934 | The Brand of Hate · as Rod Camp |
| 1934 | Kid Courageous · as Bob Bannister |
| 1933 | Galloping Romeo · as Bob Rivers |
| 1933 | Breed of the Border · as Speed Brent |
| 1932 | Texas Buddies · as Ted Garner |
| 1932 | Hidden Valley · as Bob Harding |
| 1932 | Law of the West · as Bob Carruthers, alias Bob Morgan |
| 1932 | Riders of the Desert · as Bob Houston |
| 1932 | The Fighting Champ · as Brick Loring |
| 1931 | The Nevada Buckaroo · as Buck Hurley, aka The Nevada Kid |
| 1931 | Near the Trail's End · as Marshal Johnny Day |
| 1930 | The Oklahoma Cyclone · as Jim Smith aka The Oklahoma Cyclone |
| 1930 | The Land of Missing Men · as Steve O'Neil |
| 1929 | The Amazing Vagabond · as Jimmy Hobbs |