Bob Steele

Acting · 1.3 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

Taggart

19655.5

Rio Lobo

19706.5

The Shootist

19767.1

McLintock!

19636.6

The Comancheros

19616.7

4 for Texas

19635.1

Shenandoah

19656.9

Charley Varrick

19737.4

Pork Chop Hill

19596.7

Ride a Crooked Trail

19586.5

The Enforcer

19517.1

Something Big

19715.3

The Bounty Killer

19656.0

No Name on the Bullet

19596.6

Trapping the Mountain Lion

1921

Skin Game

19716.6

Of Mice and Men

19397.3

Hell Bent for Leather

19606.3

Arizona Gunfighter

19374.8

The Great Bank Robbery

19696.6

Pardners

19566.7

Bullet for a Badman

19646.3

Cattle Drive

19516.5

Cavalry

19367.0

Town Tamer

19656.8

Death Valley Rangers

19437.5

Trailing North

19337.5

Gun for a Coward

19566.0

Decision at Sundown

19576.3

Island in the Sky

19536.2

Young Blood

193210.0

Drums Across the River

19545.8

Sonora Stagecoach

19446.0

The Outcast

19546.7

Mesquite Buckaroo

19399.0

The Spoilers

19555.5

Texas Buddies

19327.0

Desert Patrol

19389.0

South of St. Louis

19495.8

Lightnin' Crandall

19374.0

Exposed

19476.2

Headin' North

19305.5

Bugles in the Afternoon

19525.4

Cheyenne

19477.0

Fort Worth

19517.1

The Atomic Submarine

19595.3

Doc

19698.0

Colorado Kid

19376.0

Six Black Horses

19625.9

Thunder Town

19464.3

Requiem for a Gunfighter

19657.5

No Man's Range

19357.0

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

19768.5

The Savage Horde

19506.2

City for Conquest

19406.9

Valley of Hunted Men

19427.0

A Demon for Trouble

19346.0

Nightmare Honeymoon

19745.5

The Opossum

1922

Lightning Speed

192810.0

Column South

19536.2

The Invaders

19297.0

Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin

19376.3

Powdersmoke Range

193510.0

The Nevada Buckaroo

19318.0

Dangerous Trails

192210.0

Duel at Apache Wells

19576.0

The Red Rope

19376.5

The Bonnie Parker Story

19585.0

Riders of the Desert

19326.0

Billy the Kid's Gun Justice

19405.2

The Parson and the Outlaw

19574.6

Under Texas Skies

19405.8

Billy the Kid's Range War

19416.7

Silver Canyon

19517.5

Revenge of the Zombies

19435.4

The Lion and the Horse

19525.9

The Wild Westerners

19627.2

Westward Bound

19445.7

The Law Rides

19367.0

Last of the Desperados

19557.5

Once Upon a Horse...

19588.3

The Feud Maker

19387.0

Feud of the Range

19396.7

Trail of Terror

193510.0

The Skunk

19214.0

Wild Horse Valley

194010.0

The Adventures of Bob and Bill

19207.0

Rose of Cimarron

19525.6

Billy The Kid's Fighting Pals

19417.0

Paroled - To Die

19385.0

Wall of Noise

19634.1

The Gun Ranger

193610.0

Tombstone Terror

19355.5

Durango Valley Raiders

193810.0

Giant from the Unknown

19584.4

Twilight on the Rio Grande

19473.1

The Gallant Fool

19339.0

Last of the Warrens

19367.0

Mysterious Tracks

1922

Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge

19608.0

Riders of the Sage

19396.5

Outlaws of Cherokee Trail

19419.0

Son of Oklahoma

19329.0

Breed of the Border

19337.0

Santa Fe Scouts

19439.0

The Brand of Hate

19345.8

Kid Courageous

19356.0

Pals of the Pecos

19418.0

Wildfire

19454.0

Northwest Trail

19455.8

The Steel Jungle

19565.6

The Carson City Kid

19406.2

Billy the Kid in Santa Fe

19416.0

Doomed at Sundown

19375.0

Killer McCoy

19476.3

The Man from Hell's Edges

19326.5

The Ridin' Fool

193110.0

Billy the Kid in Texas

19406.0

Ridin' the Lone Trail

19377.0

The Sunrise Trail

19315.5

South of Santa Fe

19325.5

Six Gun Man

19469.0

The Phantom Plainsmen

19428.0

Capturing a Canadian Lynx

1921

Sheriff of Redwood Valley

19466.5

The Rider of the Law

19356.3

Code of the Outlaw

19429.0

Brand of the Outlaws

19367.0

The Great Train Robbery

19418.3

The Trusted Outlaw

19377.5

The Civet Cat

19217.0

Shadows on the Sage

194210.0

The Mystery Squadron

19336.5

The Kid Ranger

19364.5

San Antone

19536.7

Trigger Law

194410.0

Near the Rainbow's End

19304.5

The Blocked Trail

19437.0

Arizona Whirlwind

19446.3

The Fighting Chance

19555.5

Outlaw Trail

19447.0

Law of the West

19325.5

Prairie Pioneers

19418.0

With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo

19267.0

Big Calibre

19359.0

West of Cimarron

19416.5

A Day in the Wilds

19216.5

Near the Trail's End

19315.8

El Diablo Rides

19395.0

Ambush Trail

19468.0

Smokey Smith

19356.0

Thunder in the Desert

19386.7

Border Phantom

19375.8

Gangs of Sonora

19418.0

Trail of Courage

19288.0

Rio Grande Raiders

19469.0

Thundering Trails

19436.5

The Hunted Men

19308.0

The American Badger

192110.0

The College Boob

19269.5

Saddlemates

194110.0

Marked Trails

19446.0

Trapping the Coyote

1921

Raiders of the Range

19429.0

Bandits of Dark Canyon

19479.0

Catching a Koala Bear

1921

Riders of the Rio Grande

194310.0

Captain Careless

19288.0

Trailing the Coyote

19219.0

Come and Get It!

19298.0

The Cowboy and the Outlaw

19298.0

Sundown Saunders

19358.0

Navajo Kid

19457.5

Westward Ho

19424.7

Outwitting the Timber Wolf

1921

Ranger's Code

193310.0

Catching a Coon

192110.0

Hidden Valley

19327.5

Catching a Fox

1921

The Oklahoma Sheriff

19308.0

Gauchos of El Dorado

19417.0

Trapping the Wildcat

1921

Trapping The Bob Cat

1921

Headin' for Danger

19289.0

Laughing at Death

19298.0

Western Honor

1930

The Bandit's Son

19278.0

The Amazing Vagabond

19299.0

With Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness

19269.0

The Land of Missing Men

19305.5

The Oklahoma Cyclone

19305.0

The Riding Renegade

19288.0

Billy the Kid Outlawed

194010.0

Smoky Trails

193910.0

Man in the Rough

192810.0

With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre

19277.0

Galloping Romeo

19338.0

The Pal from Texas

193910.0

The Trail Blazers

19407.0

Breed of the Sunsets

19287.0

Alias John Law

19354.5

Pinto Canyon

19405.5

The Man from Nowhere

19308.0

Sliding Home

19287.0

Western Justice

193410.0

The Utah Kid

19447.0

Just Plain Folks

1925

A Texas Cowboy

19297.0

Savage Frontier

19539.0

Lone Star Raiders

194010.0

The Mojave Kid

192710.0

Breezy Bill

193010.0

Driftin' Sands

192810.0

The Fighting Champ

19326.7