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Bob Steele

Bob Steele

Birthday: 1907-01-23 | Place of Birth: Portland, Oregon, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1965
Requiem for a Gunfighter

as    Max Smith

1965
F Troop

as    Trooper Duffy

1962
The Wild Westerners

as    Casey Banner

1962
Six Black Horses

as    Puncher

1959
The Atomic Submarine

as    "Grif" Griffin

1959
Pork Chop Hill

as    Col. Kern

1958
Giant from the Unknown

as    Sheriff Parker

1957
The Parson and the Outlaw

as    Ace Jardine

1956
The Steel Jungle

as    Dan Bucci

1953
San Antone

as    Bob Coolidge

1953
Column South

as    McAfee

1952
Rose of Cimarron

as    Rio

1951
The Enforcer

as    Herman

1951
Fort Worth

as    Shorty

1951
Silver Canyon

as    Walt Middler

1950
The Savage Horde

as    Dancer

1949
South of St. Louis

as    Slim Hansen

1947
Exposed

as    Chicago

1947
Twilight on the Rio Grande

as    Dusty Morgan

1947
Bandits of Dark Canyon

as    Ed Archer

1946
Ambush Trail

as    Curley Thompson

1946
Rio Grande Raiders

as    Jeff Carson

1946
Thunder Town

as    Jim Brandon

1946
Sheriff of Redwood Valley

as    The Reno Kid

1945
Wildfire

as    Happy Haye

1945
Northwest Trail

as    RCMP Matt O'Brien

1944
Outlaw Trail

as    Bob

1944
Arizona Whirlwind

as    Bob Steele

1944
Marked Trails

as    Bob Stevens