Bob Steele
Acting • Born 1907-01-23 – Died 1988-12-21
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.
Filmography
241 credits
The Big Sleep
Movie • 1946
Lash Canino
Alias John Law
Movie • 1935
Everett Tarkington 'John' Clark
Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge
Movie • 1960
Ben
The Enforcer
Movie • 1951
Herman
Charley Varrick
Movie • 1973
Bank Guard (uncredited)
With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre
Movie • 1927
Bob Keefe (as Bob Bradbury Jr.)
The Great Bank Robbery
Movie • 1969
First Guard
Skin Game
Movie • 1971
Bidder (uncredited)
Rio Lobo
Movie • 1970
Rio Lobo Deputy (uncredited)
Nightmare Honeymoon
Movie • 1974
Charlie
Town Tamer
Movie • 1965
Ken
Shenandoah
Movie • 1965
Union Train Guard
Wall of Noise
Movie • 1963
Trainer
The Comancheros
Movie • 1961
Pa Schofield (uncredited)
Pardners
Movie • 1956
Shorty
The Ridin' Fool
Movie • 1931
Steve Kendall
The Fighting Chance
Movie • 1955
Curly
Once Upon a Horse...
Movie • 1958
Bob Steele
Bugles in the Afternoon
Movie • 1952
Rider Who Announces Custer Is Dead
Cheyenne
Movie • 1947
Bucky
Smoky Trails
Movie • 1939
Bob Archer
Headin' North
Movie • 1930
Jim Curtis
The Oklahoma Sheriff
Movie • 1930
Western Honor
Movie • 1930
Bob
The Hunted Men
Movie • 1930
Dick Stockdale
Breezy Bill
Movie • 1930
Breezy Bill
The Man from Nowhere
Movie • 1930
Terry Norton
A Texas Cowboy
Movie • 1929
Dick Carlysle
The Invaders
Movie • 1929
Laughing at Death
Movie • 1929
Bob Thornton
Captain Careless
Movie • 1928
Bob Gordon
Come and Get It!
Movie • 1929
Breezy Smith
Headin' for Danger
Movie • 1928
Jimmy Marshall
The Amazing Vagabond
Movie • 1929
Jimmy Hobbs
Trail of Courage
Movie • 1928
Tex Reeves
Lightning Speed
Movie • 1928
Jack Pemberton
The Riding Renegade
Movie • 1928
Bob Taylor
Man in the Rough
Movie • 1928
Bruce Sherwood
Sliding Home
Movie • 1928
Student (as Robert Bradbury Jr.)
Driftin' Sands
Movie • 1928
'Driftin' Sands
The Bandit's Son
Movie • 1927
Bob McCall
Breed of the Sunsets
Movie • 1928
Jim Collins
The Mojave Kid
Movie • 1927
Bob Saunders
The College Boob
Movie • 1926
Shorty Buzelle (as Bob Bradbury Jr.)
Pork Chop Hill
Movie • 1959
Col. Kern
The Atomic Submarine
Movie • 1959
"Grif" Griffin
Paroled - To Die
Movie • 1938
Doug Redfern
The Carson City Kid
Movie • 1940
Lee Jessup, aka Morgan Reynolds
Outwitting the Timber Wolf
Movie • 1921
The Civet Cat
Movie • 1921
Bob
Trapping the Wildcat
Movie • 1921
Bob
The American Badger
Movie • 1921
Bob
The Adventures of Bob and Bill
Movie • 1920
Bob
Catching a Coon
Movie • 1921
Bob
Mysterious Tracks
Movie • 1922
Trailing the Coyote
Movie • 1921
Bob
Dangerous Trails
Movie • 1922
Bob
Just Plain Folks
Movie • 1925
The Opossum
Movie • 1922
With Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness
Movie • 1926
Jim Bryan
With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
Movie • 1926
'Pinky' Smith
Of Mice and Men
Movie • 1939
Curley
Giant from the Unknown
Movie • 1958
Sheriff Parker
The Bonnie Parker Story
Movie • 1958
Armored Truck Guard (uncredited)
Taggart
Movie • 1965
Earl (uncredited)
The Steel Jungle
Movie • 1956
Dan Bucci
Riders of the Rio Grande
Movie • 1943
Tucson Smith
Exposed
Movie • 1947
Chicago
Drums Across the River
Movie • 1954
Billy Costa
Brand of the Outlaws
Movie • 1936
Gary Gray
Cattle Drive
Movie • 1951
Charlie "Careless" Morgan
Feud of the Range
Movie • 1939
Bob Gray
Riders of the Sage
Movie • 1939
Bob Burke
Texas Buddies
Movie • 1932
Ted Garner
Marked Trails
Movie • 1944
Bob Stevens
Billy the Kid's Range War
Movie • 1941
Billy the Kid
The Mystery Squadron
Movie • 1933
Fred Cromwell
Hidden Valley
Movie • 1932
Bob Harding
Galloping Romeo
Movie • 1933
Bob Rivers
Column South
Movie • 1953
McAfee
The Savage Horde
Movie • 1950
Dancer
The Rider of the Law
Movie • 1935
Bob Marlow
The Land of Missing Men
Movie • 1930
Steve O'Neil
Rio Grande Raiders
Movie • 1946
Jeff Carson
South of St. Louis
Movie • 1949
Slim Hansen
Duel at Apache Wells
Movie • 1957
Joe Dunn
Sundown Saunders
Movie • 1935
Jim Sundown Saunders
No Man's Range
Movie • 1935
Jim Hale
Sheriff of Redwood Valley
Movie • 1946
Reno Kid
The Lion and the Horse
Movie • 1952
Matt Jennings
Young Blood
Movie • 1932
Nick aka The Kid
Raiders of the Range
Movie • 1942
Tucson Smith
The Phantom Plainsmen
Movie • 1942
Tucson Smith
The Nevada Buckaroo
Movie • 1931
Buck Hurley, aka The Nevada Kid
Riders of the Desert
Movie • 1932
Bob Houston
The Parson and the Outlaw
Movie • 1957
Ace Jardine
Last of the Warrens
Movie • 1936
Ted Warren
The Law Rides
Movie • 1936
Bruce Conway
Cavalry
Movie • 1936
Ted Thorne
The Gun Ranger
Movie • 1936
Dan Larson
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Movie • 1976
(archive footage)
The Trusted Outlaw
Movie • 1937
Dan Ward
Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin
Movie • 1937
Dan Stockton
Border Phantom
Movie • 1937
Larry O'Day
Prairie Pioneers
Movie • 1941
Tucson Smith
Thunder in the Desert
Movie • 1938
Bob Radford
The Feud Maker
Movie • 1938
Tex Ryan aka Wind River Kid
The Man from Hell's Edges
Movie • 1932
Bob Williams aka 'Flash' Manning
A Demon for Trouble
Movie • 1934
Bob Worth
Arizona Gunfighter
Movie • 1937
Colt Ferron
The Brand of Hate
Movie • 1934
Rod Camp
Billy the Kid Outlawed
Movie • 1940
Billy the Kid
Gangs of Sonora
Movie • 1941
'Tucson' Smith
Outlaw Trail
Movie • 1944
Bob
Code of the Outlaw
Movie • 1942
Tucson Smith
Thunder Town
Movie • 1946
Jim Brandon
Outlaws of Cherokee Trail
Movie • 1941
'Tucson' Smith
Gauchos of El Dorado
Movie • 1941
'Tucson' Smith
Northwest Trail
Movie • 1945
RCMP Matt O'Brien
Death Valley Rangers
Movie • 1943
Bob Steele
Westward Bound
Movie • 1944
Bob Steele
Arizona Whirlwind
Movie • 1944
Bob Steele
Twilight on the Rio Grande
Movie • 1947
Dusty Morgan
Billy the Kid in Texas
Movie • 1940
Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
Movie • 1941
Billy the Kid
Bandits of Dark Canyon
Movie • 1947
Ed Archer
Wildfire
Movie • 1945
Happy Haye
Tombstone Terror
Movie • 1935
Jimmy Dixon / Duke Dixon
Killer McCoy
Movie • 1947
Sailor Graves
The Sunrise Trail
Movie • 1931
Texas, aka Tex
The Oklahoma Cyclone
Movie • 1930
Jim Smith aka The Oklahoma Cyclone
Smokey Smith
Movie • 1935
Smokey Smith
Son of Oklahoma
Movie • 1932
Dan Clayton
South of Santa Fe
Movie • 1932
Tom Keene
Rose of Cimarron
Movie • 1952
Rio
Trigger Law
Movie • 1944
Bob Steele
The Utah Kid
Movie • 1944
Bob Roberts
Savage Frontier
Movie • 1953
Sam Webb
Doomed at Sundown
Movie • 1937
Dave Austin
Revenge of the Zombies
Movie • 1943
Sheriff
San Antone
Movie • 1953
Bob Coolidge
Ranger's Code
Movie • 1933
Bob Baxter
West of Cimarron
Movie • 1941
Tucson Smith
Six Gun Man
Movie • 1946
Stormy Storm
Ridin' the Lone Trail
Movie • 1937
Bob McArthur
The Gallant Fool
Movie • 1933
Kit Denton
Desert Patrol
Movie • 1938
Dave Austin
The Pal from Texas
Movie • 1939
Bob Barton
Durango Valley Raiders
Movie • 1938
Keene Cordner
Pals of the Pecos
Movie • 1941
Tucson Smith
The Kid Ranger
Movie • 1936
Ray Burton
Trailing North
Movie • 1933
Lee Evans aka Curly the Kid
Western Justice
Movie • 1934
Jim / Ace
Shadows on the Sage
Movie • 1942
'Tucson' Smith / Curly Joe
Pinto Canyon
Movie • 1940
Bob Hall
The Great Train Robbery
Movie • 1941
Tom Logan
Mesquite Buckaroo
Movie • 1939
Bob Allen
Colorado Kid
Movie • 1937
Colorado Kid
The Shootist
Movie • 1976
Books' Victim in Flashback (archive footage / uncredited)
McLintock!
Movie • 1963
Train Engineer
Ambush Trail
Movie • 1946
Curley Thompson
Santa Fe Scouts
Movie • 1943
Tucson Smith
Silver Canyon
Movie • 1951
Walt Middler
Island in the Sky
Movie • 1953
Wilson
Powdersmoke Range
Movie • 1935
Jeff Ferguson aka Guadalupe Kid
The Fighting Champ
Movie • 1932
Brick Loring
Big Calibre
Movie • 1935
Bob Neal
Hang 'em High
Movie • 1968
Jenkins
Under Texas Skies
Movie • 1940
Tucson Smith
Valley of Hunted Men
Movie • 1942
Tucson Smith
Westward Ho
Movie • 1942
Tucson Smith
Thundering Trails
Movie • 1943
Tucson Smith
The Trail Blazers
Movie • 1940
Tucson Smith
Saddlemates
Movie • 1941
Tucson Smith
Lone Star Raiders
Movie • 1940
Tucson Smith
The Blocked Trail
Movie • 1943
Tucson Smith
Rio Bravo
Movie • 1959
Matt Harris (uncredited)
Billy the Kid's Gun Justice
Movie • 1940
Billy the Kid
El Diablo Rides
Movie • 1939
Bob
Sonora Stagecoach
Movie • 1944
Bob Steele
The Outcast
Movie • 1954
Dude Rankin
Fort Worth
Movie • 1951
Shorty
Requiem for a Gunfighter
Movie • 1965
Max Smith
City for Conquest
Movie • 1940
Kid Callahan (uncredited)
Hell Bent for Leather
Movie • 1960
Jared
Billy The Kid's Fighting Pals
Movie • 1941
Billy the Kid
Six Black Horses
Movie • 1962
Puncher
Navajo Kid
Movie • 1945
Tom "The Navajo Kid" Kirk
Law of the West
Movie • 1932
Bob Carruthers, alias Bob Morgan
Breed of the Border
Movie • 1933
Speed Brent
Near the Trail's End
Movie • 1931
Marshal Johnny Day
The Spoilers
Movie • 1955
Miner
Last of the Desperados
Movie • 1955
Charlie Bowdre
Lightnin' Crandall
Movie • 1937
Bob Crandall, aka Lightnin' Crandall
The Wild Westerners
Movie • 1962
Casey Banner
The Bounty Killer
Movie • 1965
Red - Henchman
Gun for a Coward
Movie • 1956
Durkee
Near the Rainbow's End
Movie • 1930
Jim Bledsoe
Kid Courageous
Movie • 1935
Bob Bannister
The Red Rope
Movie • 1937
Tom Shaw
Wild Horse Valley
Movie • 1940
Bob Evans
The Cowboy and the Outlaw
Movie • 1929
George Hardcastle
Trail of Terror
Movie • 1935
Spike Manning
Trapping The Bob Cat
Movie • 1921
Bob
Catching a Koala Bear
Movie • 1921
Bob
Capturing a Canadian Lynx
Movie • 1921
Bob
A Day in the Wilds
Movie • 1921
Bob
The Skunk
Movie • 1921
Bob
Trapping the Mountain Lion
Movie • 1921
Bob
Catching a Fox
Movie • 1921
Bob
Trapping the Coyote
Movie • 1921
Bob
Something Big
Movie • 1971
Teamster #3
Bullet for a Badman
Movie • 1964
Sheriff (uncredited)
Doc
Movie • 1969
Toby
4 for Texas
Movie • 1963
Bank Board Member
Decision at Sundown
Movie • 1957
Irv (uncredited)
Ride a Crooked Trail
Movie • 1958
Jud Blunt (uncredited)
No Name on the Bullet
Movie • 1959
Poker Player (uncredited)
Family Affair
TV • 1966
Maverick
TV • 1957
Walter Jackson
F Troop
TV • 1965
Trooper Duffy
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Sam Gordon
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Deputy Art Gray
The Rebel
TV • 1959
Will Randall
Sugarfoot
TV • 1957
Sam Shoulders
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
TV • 1955
Deputy Marshal Sam (uncredited)
The Rebel
TV • 1959
Jess Kirby
Lawman
TV • 1958
Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
Maverick
TV • 1957
Wells
Screen Director's Playhouse
TV • 1955
Deputy Sheriff Dodd
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Coe
The Texan
TV • 1958
Luke Short
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Ben
Maverick
TV • 1957
Jailed Cowhand Billy (uncredited)
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Soto Man (uncredited)
National Velvet
TV • 1960
Clive
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Rebel Arsonist (uncredited)
Cheyenne
TV • 1955
Dugan
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
Jockey
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
TV • 1955
Deputy Marshal Sam
Then Came Bronson
TV • 1969
Clay Turner