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Bob Steele

Bob Steele

Actor · 1907 – 1988 · 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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  • Movie7.8

    Rio Bravo

    1959 · 1.3K votes

  • Movie7.6

    The Big Sleep

    1946 · 1.2K votes

  • Movie6.9

    Hang 'em High

    1968 · 887 votes

  • Movie6.6

    McLintock!

    1963 · 266 votes

  • Movie7.1

    The Shootist

    1976 · 396 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Rio Lobo

    1970 · 297 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Shenandoah

    1965 · 166 votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Comancheros

    1961 · 219 votes

  • Movie7.1

    The Enforcer

    1951 · 117 votes

  • Movie7.4

    Charley Varrick

    1973 · 298 votes

  • Movie5.1

    4 for Texas

    1963 · 62 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Taggart

    1965 · 19 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Something Big

    1971 · 24 votes

  • Movie6.6

    No Name on the Bullet

    1959 · 91 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Bullet for a Badman

    1964 · 23 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Gun for a Coward

    1956 · 15 votes

  • Movie6.7

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    1956 · 65 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Ride a Crooked Trail

    1958 · 26 votes

  • Movie5.4

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    1952 · 14 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Island in the Sky

    1953 · 74 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Cattle Drive

    1951 · 16 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Town Tamer

    1965 · 12 votes

  • Movie7.3

    Of Mice and Men

    1939 · 106 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Pork Chop Hill

    1959 · 78 votes

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  • TV7.0

    Maverick

    1957 · 43 votes

  • TV7.3

    Have Gun, Will Travel

    1957 · 44 votes

  • TV6.2

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    1955 · 26 votes

  • TV6.8
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    1959 · 49 votes

  • TV6.7

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    1955 · 119 votes

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    1958 · 13 votes

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    Family Affair

    1966 · 43 votes

  • TV5.1

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    1957 · 8 votes

  • TV6.0

    The Texan

    1958 · 6 votes

  • TV5.1

    The Rebel

    1959 · 11 votes

  • TV7.9
  • TV6.3

    F Troop

    1965 · 31 votes

  • TV7.0
  • TV5.2

    Then Came Bronson

    1969 · 5 votes

  • TV8.6

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    1960 · 5 votes