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.Bobs 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 Steinbecks novel, Of Mice and Men from 1939.In the 1940s, Bobs 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.
Lash Canino
Film 1946
Everett Tarkington 'John' Clark
Film 1935
Ben
Film 1960
Herman
Film 1951
Bank Guard (uncredited)
Film 1973
Bob Keefe (as Bob Bradbury Jr.)
Film 1927
Ken
Film 1965
Pa Schofield (uncredited)
Film 1961
Bidder (uncredited)
Film 1971
Rio Lobo Deputy (uncredited)
Film 1970
Charlie
Film 1974
Bob Steele
Film 1958
Steve Kendall
Film 1931
Curly
Film 1955
Bucky
Film 1947
Bob Archer
Film 1939
Dick Stockdale
Film 1930
Jim Curtis
Film 1930
Breezy Bill
Film 1930
Film 1930
Bob
Film 1930
Terry Norton
Film 1930
Film 1929
Dick Carlysle
Film 1929
Breezy Smith
Film 1929
Bob Gordon
Film 1928
Jimmy Hobbs
Film 1929
Bob Thornton
Film 1929
Tex Reeves
Film 1928
Jimmy Marshall
Film 1928
Jack Pemberton
Film 1928
Bob Taylor
Film 1928
Jim Collins
Film 1928
Bob McCall
Film 1927
Bruce Sherwood
Film 1928
Student (as Robert Bradbury Jr.)
Film 1928
'Driftin' Sands
Film 1928
Bob Saunders
Film 1927
Shorty Buzelle (as Bob Bradbury Jr.)
Film 1926
Col. Kern
Film 1959
Lee Jessup, aka Morgan Reynolds
Film 1940
Doug Redfern
Film 1938
Bob
Film 1921
Film 1921
Bob
Film 1921
Bob
Film 1921
Bob
Film 1921
Bob
Film 1920
Bob
Film 1921
Film 1922
Film 1925
Bob
Film 1922
Film 1922
Jim Bryan
Film 1926
'Pinky' Smith
Film 1926
Curley
Film 1939
Sheriff Parker
Film 1958
Armored Truck Guard (uncredited)
Film 1958
Earl (uncredited)
Film 1965
Dan Bucci
Film 1956
Tucson Smith
Film 1943
Chicago
Film 1947
Billy Costa
Film 1954
Gary Gray
Film 1936
Bob Gray
Film 1939
Bob Burke
Film 1939
Ted Garner
Film 1932
Bob Stevens
Film 1944
Billy the Kid
Film 1941
Fred Cromwell
Film 1933
Bob Harding
Film 1932
Bob Rivers
Film 1933
McAfee
Film 1953
Dancer
Film 1950
Bob Marlow
Film 1935
Steve O'Neil
Film 1930
Slim Hansen
Film 1949
Jeff Carson
Film 1946
Joe Dunn
Film 1957
Jim Sundown Saunders
Film 1935
Jim Hale
Film 1935
The Reno Kid
Film 1946
Matt Jennings
Film 1952
Nick aka The Kid
Film 1932
Tucson Smith
Film 1942
Tucson Smith
Film 1942
Buck Hurley, aka The Nevada Kid
Film 1931
Bob Houston
Film 1932
Ace Jardine
Film 1957
Ted Warren
Film 1936
Bruce Conway
Film 1936
Ted Thorne
Film 1936
Dan Larson
Film 1936
(archive footage)
Film 1976
Dan Stockton
Film 1937
Dan Ward
Film 1937
Larry O'Day
Film 1937
Tucson Smith
Film 1941
Bob Radford
Film 1938
Tex Ryan aka Wind River Kid
Film 1938
Bob Williams aka 'Flash' Manning
Film 1932
Rod Camp
Film 1934
Bob Worth
Film 1934
Colt Ferron
Film 1937
Billy the Kid
Film 1940
'Tucson' Smith
Film 1941
Bob
Film 1944
Tucson Smith
Film 1942
Jim Brandon
Film 1946
'Tucson' Smith
Film 1941
'Tucson' Smith
Film 1941
RCMP Matt O'Brien
Film 1945
Bob Steele
Film 1944
Bob Steele
Film 1943
Bob Steele
Film 1944
Dusty Morgan
Film 1947
Billy the Kid
Film 1940
Billy the Kid
Film 1941
Ed Archer
Film 1947
Happy Haye
Film 1945
Jimmy Dixon / Duke Dixon
Film 1935
Sailor Graves
Film 1947
Texas, aka Tex
Film 1931
Jim Smith aka The Oklahoma Cyclone
Film 1930
Smokey Smith
Film 1935
Tom Keene
Film 1932
Dan Clayton
Film 1932
Rio
Film 1952
Bob Steele
Film 1944
Bob Roberts
Film 1944
Sam Webb
Film 1953
Dave Austin
Film 1937
Sheriff
Film 1943
Bob Coolidge
Film 1953
Bob Baxter
Film 1933
Tucson Smith
Film 1941
Stormy Storm
Film 1946
Bob McArthur
Film 1937
Kit Denton
Film 1933
Keene Cordner
Film 1938
Dave Austin
Film 1938
Bob Barton
Film 1939
Tucson Smith
Film 1941
Ray Burton
Film 1936
Lee Evans aka Curly the Kid
Film 1933
Jim / Ace
Film 1934
Sheriff Bob Hall
Film 1940
'Tucson' Smith / Curly Joe
Film 1942
Tom Logan
Film 1941
Bob Allen
Film 1939
Colorado Kid
Film 1937
Books' Victim in Flashback (archive footage / uncredited)
Film 1976
Curley Thompson
Film 1946
Tucson Smith
Film 1943
Walt Middler
Film 1951
Wilson
Film 1953
Jeff Ferguson aka Guadalupe Kid
Film 1935
Brick Loring
Film 1932
Bob Neal
Film 1935
Tucson Smith
Film 1940
Tucson Smith
Film 1940
Tucson Smith
Film 1940
Tucson Smith
Film 1941
Tucson Smith
Film 1943
Tucson Smith
Film 1942
Tucson Smith
Film 1943
Tucson Smith
Film 1942
Matt Harris (uncredited)
Film 1959
Billy the Kid
Film 1940
Bob
Film 1939
Bob Steele
Film 1944
Dude Rankin
Film 1954
Max Smith
Film 1965
Kid Callahan (uncredited)
Film 1940
Jared
Film 1960
Billy the Kid
Film 1941
Puncher
Film 1962
Tom "The Navajo Kid" Kirk
Film 1945
Bob Carruthers, alias Bob Morgan
Film 1932
Speed Brent
Film 1933
Marshal Johnny Day
Film 1931
Charlie Bowdre
Film 1955
Miner
Film 1955
Bob Crandall, aka Lightnin' Crandall
Film 1937
Casey Banner
Film 1962
Red - Henchman
Film 1965
Jim Bledsoe
Film 1930
Bob Bannister
Film 1935
Tom Shaw
Film 1937
Bob Evans
Film 1940
George Hardcastle
Film 1929
Spike Manning
Film 1935
Bob
Film 1921
Bob
Film 1921
Bob
Film 1921
Bob
Film 1921
Bob
Film 1921
Bob
Film 1921
Bob
Film 1921
Bob
Film 1921
Sheriff (uncredited)
Film 1964
Toby
Film 1969
Irv
Film 1957
Tv 1966
Trooper Duffy
Tv 1965
Deputy Art Gray
Tv 1959
Tv 1955
Tv 1969
Will Randall
Tv 1959
Sam Shoulders
Tv 1957
Deputy Marshal Sam (uncredited)
Tv 1955
Jess Kirby
Tv 1959
Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
Tv 1958
Deputy Sheriff Dodd
Tv 1955
Luke Short
Tv 1958