Bob Steele
Age: 81 | From: Portland, Oregon, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1907-01-23 06:51:54
Death: 1988-12-21 06:51:54
Aliases: Bob Bradbury Jr. , Robert Bradbury Jr.
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Portland, Oregon, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 196
TV Involvements: 10
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
(1955) Deputy Marshal Sam (uncredited)
Rawhide
(1959) Deputy Art Gray
Sugarfoot
(1957) Sam Shoulders
The Texan
(1958) Luke Short
Lawman
(1958) Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
Gunsmoke
(1955) Coe
The Rebel
(1959) Jess Kirby
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
(1954) BenActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | (archive footage) | |
| 1974 | Charlie | |
| 1973 | Bank Guard (uncredited) | |
| 1971 | Teamster #3 | |
| Bidder (uncredited) | ||
| 1970 | Rio Lobo Deputy (uncredited) | |
| 1969 | N/A | |
| Toby | ||
| First Guard | ||
| 1968 | Jenkins | |
| 1966 | N/A | |
| 1965 | Trooper Duffy | |
| Red - Henchman | ||
| Ken | ||
| Max Smith | ||
| Union Train Guard | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1964 | Sheriff (uncredited) | |
| 1963 | Bank Board Member | |
| Train Engineer | ||
| Trainer | ||
| 1962 | Casey Banner | |
| Puncher | ||
| 1961 | Pa Schofield (uncredited) | |
| 1960 | Ben | |
| Jared | ||
| 1959 | "Grif" Griffin | |
| Will Randall | ||
| Jess Kirby | ||
| Col. Kern | ||
| Matt Harris (uncredited) | ||
| Deputy Art Gray | ||
| 1958 | Telegraph Operator (uncredited) | |
| Luke Short | ||
| Bob Steele | ||
| Armored Truck Guard (uncredited) | ||
| Sheriff Parker | ||
| 1957 | Irv | |
| Ace Jardine | ||
| Walter Jackson | ||
| Wells | ||
| Jailed Cowhand Billy (uncredited) | ||
| Sam Shoulders | ||
| N/A | ||
| Joe Dunn | ||
| 1956 | Durkee | |
| Shorty | ||
| Dan Bucci | ||
| 1955 | Miner | |
| Curly | ||
| Charlie Bowdre | ||
| Deputy Sheriff Dodd | ||
| N/A | ||
| Sam Gordon | ||
| Coe | ||
| N/A | ||
| Deputy Marshal Sam (uncredited) | ||
| 1954 | Ben | |
| Dude Rankin | ||
| Billy Costa | ||
| 1953 | Wilson | |
| McAfee | ||
| Sam Webb | ||
| Bob Coolidge | ||
| 1952 | Matt Jennings | |
| Rider Who Announces Custer Is Dead | ||
| Rio | ||
| 1951 | Charlie "Careless" Morgan | |
| Shorty | ||
| Walt Middler | ||
| Herman | ||
| 1950 | Dancer | |
| 1949 | Slim Hansen | |
| 1947 | Ed Archer | |
| Sailor Graves | ||
| Chicago | ||
| Bucky | ||
| Dusty Morgan | ||
| 1946 | Jeff Carson | |
| Lash Canino | ||
| Jim Brandon | ||
| The Reno Kid | ||
| Curley Thompson | ||
| Stormy Storm | ||
| 1945 | RCMP Matt O'Brien | |
| Tom "The Navajo Kid" Kirk | ||
| Happy Haye | ||
| 1944 | Bob Steele | |
| Bob Roberts | ||
| Bob Stevens | ||
| Bob Steele | ||
| Bob | ||
| Bob Steele | ||
| Bob Steele | ||
| 1943 | Bob Steele | |
| Sheriff | ||
| Tucson Smith | ||
| Tucson Smith | ||
| Tucson Smith | ||
| Tucson Smith | ||
| 1942 | Tucson Smith | |
| 'Tucson' Smith / Curly Joe | ||
| Tucson Smith | ||
| Tucson Smith | ||
| Tucson Smith | ||
| Tucson Smith | ||
| 1941 | Tucson Smith | |
| 'Tucson' Smith | ||
| 'Tucson' Smith | ||
| Billy the Kid | ||
| 'Tucson' Smith | ||
| Tucson Smith | ||
| Billy the Kid | ||
| Tucson Smith | ||
| Tom Logan | ||
| Tucson Smith | ||
| Billy the Kid | ||
| 1940 | Billy the Kid | |
| Tucson Smith | ||
| Tucson Smith | ||
| Billy the Kid | ||
| Tucson Smith | ||
| Kid Callahan (uncredited) | ||
| Billy the Kid | ||
| Lee Jessup, aka Morgan Reynolds | ||
| Sheriff Bob Hall | ||
| Bob Evans | ||
| 1939 | Curley | |
| Bob | ||
| Bob Barton | ||
| Bob Burke | ||
| Bob Allen | ||
| Bob Archer | ||
| Bob Gray | ||
| 1938 | Keene Cordner | |
| Dave Austin | ||
| Tex Ryan aka Wind River Kid | ||
| Bob Radford | ||
| Doug Redfern | ||
| 1937 | Colorado Kid | |
| Colt Ferron | ||
| Bob McArthur | ||
| Tom Shaw | ||
| Dave Austin | ||
| Larry O'Day | ||
| Dan Stockton | ||
| Dan Ward | ||
| Bob Crandall, aka Lightnin' Crandall | ||
| 1936 | Dan Larson | |
| Ted Thorne | ||
| Gary Gray | ||
| Bruce Conway | ||
| Ted Warren | ||
| Ray Burton | ||
| 1935 | Spike Manning | |
| Everett Tarkington 'John' Clark | ||
| Bob Marlow | ||
| Jeff Ferguson aka Guadalupe Kid | ||
| Jim Hale | ||
| Jim Sundown Saunders | ||
| Jimmy Dixon / Duke Dixon | ||
| Smokey Smith | ||
| Bob Neal | ||
| Bob Bannister | ||
| 1934 | Jim / Ace | |
| Rod Camp | ||
| Bob Worth | ||
| 1933 | Fred Cromwell | |
| Bob Baxter | ||
| Bob Rivers | ||
| Kit Denton | ||
| Lee Evans aka Curly the Kid | ||
| Speed Brent | ||
| 1932 | Brick Loring | |
| Nick aka The Kid | ||
| Ted Garner | ||
| Bob Harding | ||
| Dan Clayton | ||
| Bob Williams aka 'Flash' Manning | ||
| Bob Houston | ||
| Bob Carruthers, alias Bob Morgan | ||
| Tom Keene | ||
| 1931 | Marshal Johnny Day | |
| Buck Hurley, aka The Nevada Kid | ||
| Steve Kendall | ||
| Texas, aka Tex | ||
| 1930 | Jim Curtis | |
| Steve O'Neil | ||
| Jim Smith aka The Oklahoma Cyclone | ||
| N/A | ||
| Jim Bledsoe | ||
| Bob | ||
| Terry Norton | ||
| Dick Stockdale | ||
| Breezy Bill | ||
| 1929 | Dick Carlysle | |
| George Hardcastle | ||
| N/A | ||
| Bob Thornton | ||
| Jimmy Hobbs | ||
| Breezy Smith | ||
| 1928 | Jimmy Marshall | |
| Bob Gordon | ||
| Jack Pemberton | ||
| Tex Reeves | ||
| Bruce Sherwood | ||
| Jim Collins | ||
| Bob Taylor | ||
| Student (as Robert Bradbury Jr.) | ||
| 'Driftin' Sands | ||
| 1927 | Bob McCall | |
| Bob Saunders | ||
| Bob Keefe (as Bob Bradbury Jr.) | ||
| 1926 | Shorty Buzelle (as Bob Bradbury Jr.) | |
| 'Pinky' Smith | ||
| Jim Bryan | ||
| 1925 | N/A | |
| 1922 | N/A | |
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| Bob | ||
| 1921 | Bob | |
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| 1920 | Bob | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1928 | Story | |
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