Bob Steele

Acting · 1.1 popularity

Age

119

Movies

218

Born: January 23, 1907 – December 21, 1988
From: Portland, Oregon, USA

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.

Works

218 films

Rio Bravo

19597.8

Hang 'em High

19686.9

The Big Sleep

19467.6

Rio Lobo

19706.5

McLintock!

19636.6

The Shootist

19767.1

Taggart

19655.5

The Comancheros

19616.7

Pork Chop Hill

19596.7

4 for Texas

19635.1

The Enforcer

19517.1

Charley Varrick

19737.4

Shenandoah

19656.9

Ride a Crooked Trail

19586.5

Island in the Sky

19536.2

No Name on the Bullet

19596.6

Trailing North

19337.5

Skin Game

19716.6

Arizona Gunfighter

19374.8

Trapping the Mountain Lion

1921

Hell Bent for Leather

19606.3

The Great Bank Robbery

19696.6

Pardners

19566.7

The Bounty Killer

19656.0

Cattle Drive

19516.5

Town Tamer

19656.8

Mesquite Buckaroo

19399.0

Bugles in the Afternoon

19525.4

Something Big

19715.3

Texas Buddies

19327.0

Cavalry

19367.0

Doc

19698.0

The Outcast

19546.7

Young Blood

193210.0

Exposed

19476.2

Lightnin' Crandall

19374.0

Headin' North

19305.5

Decision at Sundown

19576.3

Bullet for a Badman

19646.3

Desert Patrol

19389.0

Of Mice and Men

19397.3

Thunder Town

19464.3

A Demon for Trouble

19346.0

Drums Across the River

19545.8

Fort Worth

19517.1

South of St. Louis

19495.8

Sonora Stagecoach

19446.0

The Spoilers

19555.5

Gun for a Coward

19566.0

Requiem for a Gunfighter

19657.5

Colorado Kid

19376.0

The Invaders

19297.0

The Savage Horde

19506.2

The Atomic Submarine

19595.3

Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin

19376.3

The Opossum

1922

Duel at Apache Wells

19576.0

Death Valley Rangers

19437.5

Six Black Horses

19625.9

Lightning Speed

192810.0

City for Conquest

19406.9

The Red Rope

19376.5

The Skunk

19214.0

Nightmare Honeymoon

19745.5

Last of the Warrens

19367.0

Cheyenne

19477.0

The Bonnie Parker Story

19585.0

Column South

19536.2

Valley of Hunted Men

19427.0

Billy the Kid's Range War

19416.7

The Rider of the Law

19356.3

Under Texas Skies

19405.8

Wall of Noise

19634.1

No Man's Range

19357.0

Ridin' the Lone Trail

19377.0

Paroled - To Die

19385.0

Son of Oklahoma

19329.0

The Gun Ranger

193610.0

Dangerous Trails

192210.0

Feud of the Range

19396.7

Mysterious Tracks

1922

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

19768.5

Revenge of the Zombies

19435.4

The Phantom Plainsmen

19428.0

Durango Valley Raiders

193810.0

The Lion and the Horse

19525.9

Riders of the Desert

19326.0

Border Phantom

19375.8

The Law Rides

19367.0

Wild Horse Valley

194010.0

Trail of Terror

193510.0

Once Upon a Horse...

19588.3

The Nevada Buckaroo

19318.0

Billy the Kid's Gun Justice

19405.2

A Day in the Wilds

19216.5

The Steel Jungle

19565.6

Code of the Outlaw

19429.0

Last of the Desperados

19557.5

Six Gun Man

19469.0

The Trusted Outlaw

19377.5

Rose of Cimarron

19525.6

The Parson and the Outlaw

19574.6

The Wild Westerners

19627.2

The Adventures of Bob and Bill

19207.0

Brand of the Outlaws

19367.0

Giant from the Unknown

19584.4

Sheriff of Redwood Valley

19466.5

Northwest Trail

19455.8

Santa Fe Scouts

19439.0

Riders of the Sage

19396.5

Capturing a Canadian Lynx

1921

Killer McCoy

19476.3

Law of the West

19325.5

The Civet Cat

19217.0

Silver Canyon

19517.5

Arizona Whirlwind

19446.3

Twilight on the Rio Grande

19473.1

Westward Bound

19445.7

Billy The Kid's Fighting Pals

19417.0

Rio Grande Raiders

19469.0

Breed of the Border

19337.0

Pals of the Pecos

19418.0

Powdersmoke Range

193510.0

The College Boob

19269.5

Catching a Koala Bear

1921

Catching a Coon

192110.0

Outlaws of Cherokee Trail

19419.0

Billy the Kid in Santa Fe

19416.0

The Hunted Men

19308.0

The Carson City Kid

19406.2

Wildfire

19454.0

Western Justice

193410.0

The Ridin' Fool

193110.0

Catching a Fox

1921

Sundown Saunders

19358.0

The Great Train Robbery

19418.3

The Brand of Hate

19345.8

Westward Ho

19424.7

Kid Courageous

19356.0

San Antone

19536.7

West of Cimarron

19416.5

The Kid Ranger

19364.5

Raiders of the Range

19429.0

Tombstone Terror

19355.5

The American Badger

192110.0

Gangs of Sonora

19418.0

Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge

19608.0

Ranger's Code

193310.0

The Utah Kid

19447.0

The Mystery Squadron

19336.5

Doomed at Sundown

19375.0

South of Santa Fe

19325.5

Riders of the Rio Grande

194310.0

Trapping the Wildcat

1921

The Oklahoma Cyclone

19305.0

Trapping the Coyote

1921

The Gallant Fool

19339.0

With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo

19267.0

Thundering Trails

19436.5

Ambush Trail

19468.0

Trapping The Bob Cat

1921

The Fighting Chance

19555.5

Near the Rainbow's End

19304.5

Thunder in the Desert

19386.7

Trailing the Coyote

19219.0

Savage Frontier

19539.0

Prairie Pioneers

19418.0

Hidden Valley

19327.5

The Sunrise Trail

19315.5

With Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness

19269.0

The Man from Nowhere

19308.0

The Blocked Trail

19437.0

Billy the Kid Outlawed

194010.0

Marked Trails

19446.0

Gauchos of El Dorado

19417.0

Navajo Kid

19457.5

With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre

19277.0

Trigger Law

194410.0

Pinto Canyon

19405.5

Smoky Trails

193910.0

The Oklahoma Sheriff

19308.0

The Man from Hell's Edges

19326.5

Big Calibre

19359.0

Billy the Kid in Texas

19406.0

Saddlemates

194110.0

Shadows on the Sage

194210.0

The Trail Blazers

19407.0

The Pal from Texas

193910.0

Outlaw Trail

19447.0

The Land of Missing Men

19305.5

Galloping Romeo

19338.0

The Feud Maker

19387.0

The Cowboy and the Outlaw

19298.0

Smokey Smith

19356.0

Outwitting the Timber Wolf

1921

Bandits of Dark Canyon

19479.0

Laughing at Death

19298.0

Western Honor

1930

Near the Trail's End

19315.8

Alias John Law

19354.5

Come and Get It!

19298.0

The Riding Renegade

19288.0

Lone Star Raiders

194010.0

El Diablo Rides

19395.0

Sliding Home

19287.0

Captain Careless

19288.0

Breezy Bill

193010.0

Driftin' Sands

192810.0

Just Plain Folks

1925

Trail of Courage

19288.0

The Fighting Champ

19326.7

Headin' for Danger

19289.0

The Bandit's Son

19278.0

Breed of the Sunsets

19287.0

The Mojave Kid

192710.0

Man in the Rough

192810.0

A Texas Cowboy

19297.0

The Amazing Vagabond

19299.0