Bob Steele
Acting
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.
The Shootist
as Books' Victim in Flashback (archive footage / uncredited)
Age 69 (now 81)
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
as (archive footage)
Age 69 (now 81)
Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge
as Ben
Age 53 (now 81)
The Bonnie Parker Story
as Armored Truck Guard (uncredited)
Age 51 (now 81)
Bugles in the Afternoon
as Rider Who Announces Custer Is Dead
Age 45 (now 81)
Billy The Kid's Fighting Pals
as Billy the Kid
Age 34 (now 81)
Lightnin' Crandall
as Bob Crandall, aka Lightnin' Crandall
Age 30 (now 81)
The Man from Hell's Edges
as Bob Williams aka 'Flash' Manning
Age 25 (now 81)
The Oklahoma Cyclone
as Jim Smith aka The Oklahoma Cyclone
Age 23 (now 81)
With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre
as Bob Keefe (as Bob Bradbury Jr.)
Age 20 (now 81)
With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
as 'Pinky' Smith
Age 19 (now 81)
With Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness
as Jim Bryan
Age 19 (now 81)
Screen Director's Playhouse
as Deputy Sheriff Dodd
Age 48 (now 81)
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
as Deputy Marshal Sam
Age 48 (now 81) The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
as Deputy Marshal Sam (uncredited)
Age 48 (now 81)
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Soto Man (uncredited)
Age 47 (now 81) The Wonderful World of Disney
as Rebel Arsonist (uncredited)
Age 47 (now 81)Gathering insights...
Also Known As
Bob Bradbury Jr., Robert Bradbury Jr., Robert Adrian Bradbury
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