
Bob Steele
Born January 23, 1907 · 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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Of Mice and Men

Bullet for a Badman

Decision at Sundown

Pork Chop Hill

The Enforcer

4 for Texas

Ride a Crooked Trail

Twilight on the Rio Grande

Taggart

The Great Bank Robbery

Island in the Sky

Drums Across the River

Shenandoah

Revenge of the Zombies

The Trail Blazers

Skin Game

The Spoilers

The Bonnie Parker Story

Town Tamer

Bugles in the Afternoon

Lone Star Raiders

South of St. Louis

The Bounty Killer

City for Conquest

Billy the Kid in Santa Fe

Gun for a Coward

The Outcast

Cavalry

Last of the Desperados

Headin' North

Fort Worth

Mesquite Buckaroo

Column South

Trailing North

Pals of the Pecos

Billy the Kid's Range War

Billy the Kid's Gun Justice

Cattle Drive

Sonora Stagecoach

Six Black Horses

The Savage Horde

Feud of the Range

Duel at Apache Wells

Once Upon a Horse...

Ridin' the Lone Trail

Riders of the Sage

Riders of the Rio Grande

Exposed

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

Requiem for a Gunfighter

The Lion and the Horse

The Carson City Kid

Giant from the Unknown

Desert Patrol

Bandits of Dark Canyon

Thunder Town

Cheyenne

Lightnin' Crandall

Nightmare Honeymoon

The Atomic Submarine

Young Blood

The Great Train Robbery

Raiders of the Range

Valley of Hunted Men

Billy The Kid's Fighting Pals

Billy the Kid in Texas

Last of the Warrens

Lightning Speed

Code of the Outlaw

Arizona Gunfighter

Sheriff of Redwood Valley

Thunder in the Desert

The Brand of Hate

The Gallant Fool

Riders of the Desert

The Steel Jungle

Doc

Rose of Cimarron

The Parson and the Outlaw

Colorado Kid

South of Santa Fe

Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin

The Rider of the Law

Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge

Gauchos of El Dorado

No Man's Range

Brand of the Outlaws

Breed of the Border

Texas Buddies

With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo

Under Texas Skies

Billy the Kid Outlawed

Outlaws of Cherokee Trail

Near the Trail's End

Death Valley Rangers

Near the Rainbow's End

Doomed at Sundown

Shadows on the Sage

The Man from Hell's Edges

Wall of Noise

A Demon for Trouble

San Antone

The Land of Missing Men

Outlaw Trail

Paroled - To Die

Gangs of Sonora

The Wild Westerners

The Feud Maker

Law of the West

The Fighting Champ

Killer McCoy

With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre

El Diablo Rides

Wildfire

Smokey Smith

The Pal from Texas

Arizona Whirlwind

Six Gun Man

The Cowboy and the Outlaw

The Mystery Squadron

The Bandit's Son

Man in the Rough

With Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness

The Oklahoma Sheriff

Trigger Law

Trail of Terror

Breed of the Sunsets

Saddlemates

The Trusted Outlaw

Santa Fe Scouts

Westward Ho

The Gun Ranger

The Ridin' Fool

The Nevada Buckaroo

Thundering Trails

Powdersmoke Range

Durango Valley Raiders

Navajo Kid

Come and Get It!

The Sunrise Trail

Wild Horse Valley

The Phantom Plainsmen

The Utah Kid

Silver Canyon

Big Calibre

The Hunted Men

Marked Trails

Son of Oklahoma

Ambush Trail

West of Cimarron

The Red Rope

Tombstone Terror

Alias John Law

Savage Frontier

The Kid Ranger

Westward Bound

Northwest Trail

Rio Grande Raiders

Kid Courageous

The Fighting Chance

The Riding Renegade

The College Boob

Prairie Pioneers

The Amazing Vagabond

Smoky Trails

Ranger's Code

The Blocked Trail

Hidden Valley

Western Justice

Pinto Canyon

Sundown Saunders

The Law Rides

The Mojave Kid

Outwitting the Timber Wolf

The Oklahoma Cyclone

Border Phantom

Sliding Home

Driftin' Sands

Laughing at Death

Galloping Romeo

Captain Careless

A Texas Cowboy

Trail of Courage




























