

Cast & creator
Best known for Maverick, Maverick, Maverick
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.
Also known as: Bob Bradbury Jr., Robert Bradbury Jr., Robert Adrian Bradbury
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television credits
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1920–1976 · acting roles
7.1
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Across film & television
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Walter Jackson
1957
Wells
1957
Jailed Cowhand Billy (uncredited)
1957
Jockey
1957
Deputy Marshal Sam (uncredited)
1955
Deputy Marshal Sam
1955
Deputy Art Gray
1959
Dugan
1955
Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
1958
Sam Gordon
1955
Coe
1955

Luke Short
1958
Sam Shoulders
1957
Will Randall
1959
Jess Kirby
1959
Trooper Duffy
1965
Deputy Sheriff Dodd
1955
Clay Turner
1969
Ben
1954
Soto Man (uncredited)
1954
Rebel Arsonist (uncredited)
1954
Matt Harris (uncredited)
1959
Books' Victim in Flashback (archive footage / uncredited)
1976
Jenkins
1968
Lash Canino
1946
Clive
1960
Train Engineer
1963
Rio Lobo Deputy (uncredited)
1970
Pa Schofield (uncredited)
1961
Bank Guard (uncredited)
1973
Irv (uncredited)
1957
Curley
1939
Union Train Guard
1965
Bank Board Member
1963
Poker Player (uncredited)
1959
Col. Kern
1959
Durkee
1956
Sheriff (uncredited)
1964
Herman
1951
Jared
1960
Kid Callahan (uncredited)
1940
Jud Blunt (uncredited)
1958
Wilson
1953
First Guard
1969
Shorty
1956
Earl (uncredited)
1965
Billy Costa
1954
Teamster #3
1971
Bidder (uncredited)
1971
Chicago
1947
Rider Who Announces Custer Is Dead
1952
Billy the Kid
1941
Ken
1965
Ted Thorne
1936
Sheriff
1943
Jim Curtis
1930
Charlie "Careless" Morgan
1951
Armored Truck Guard (uncredited)
1958
Bob Crandall, aka Lightnin' Crandall
1937
Toby
1969
Jim Brandon
1946
Shorty
1951
Jack Pemberton
1928
Bob Allen
1939
Sheriff Parker
1958
McAfee
1953
Miner
1955
Bob Steele
1958
Puncher
1962
Dude Rankin
1954
Joe Dunn
1957
Tucson Smith
1942
Dave Austin
1938
"Grif" Griffin
1959
Charlie Bowdre
1955
Bob McArthur
1937
Matt Jennings
1952
Slim Hansen
1949
Lee Evans aka Curly the Kid
1933
Lee Jessup, aka Morgan Reynolds
1940
Billy the Kid
1941
Rio
1952
Billy the Kid
1940
Colt Ferron
1937
Colorado Kid
1937
Tucson Smith
1943
Bob Houston
1932
Dan Bucci
1956
Bucky
1947
Billy the Kid
1940
Billy the Kid
1941
Ed Archer
1947
Red - Henchman
1965
Bob Steele
1944
Bob Williams aka 'Flash' Manning
1932
Jim Hale
1935
Dusty Morgan
1947
Nick aka The Kid
1932
Trainer
1963
Ace Jardine
1957
Tucson Smith
1941
Tucson Smith
1942
Ben
1960
Bob Marlow
1935
Bob Gray
1939
Charlie
1974
Ted Warren
1936
Billy the Kid
1940
Ted Garner
1932
Bob Burke
1939
Dancer
1950
(archive footage)
1976
Max Smith
1965
Gary Gray
1936
'Tucson' Smith
1941Bob
1921
Tucson Smith
1942
'Tucson' Smith
1941
Bob Keefe (as Bob Bradbury Jr.)
1927
Tom Keene
1932
Stormy Storm
1946
Tucson Smith
1940
Bob Neal
1935
Rod Camp
1934
Jim Bledsoe
1930
Steve O'Neil
1930Terry Norton
1930
Speed Brent
1933
Bob Steele
1943
Bob Barton
1939
Doug Redfern
1938
Tucson Smith
1943
RCMP Matt O'Brien
1945
Breezy Smith
1929
Reno Kid
1946
'Pinky' Smith
1926
'Tucson' Smith
1941
Tom Logan
1941
Buck Hurley, aka The Nevada Kid
1931
'Tucson' Smith / Curly Joe
1942
Bob Carruthers, alias Bob Morgan
1932
Bob Radford
1938
Tucson Smith
1940
Bob Worth
1934
Dan Stockton
1937
Tucson Smith
1940
George Hardcastle
1929
Tex Ryan aka Wind River Kid
1938
Bob Coolidge
1953
Bob McCall
1927
Bob
1944
Dave Austin
1937
Sam Webb
1953
Happy Haye
1945
Keene Cordner
1938
Marshal Johnny Day
1931Bob
1921
Bob Evans
1940
Bruce Sherwood
1928
Sailor Graves
1947
Kit Denton
1933
Dick Stockdale
1930

Jeff Carson
1946
Bob
1939
Spike Manning
1935
Shorty Buzelle (as Bob Bradbury Jr.)
1926Bob
1921
Texas, aka Tex
1931
Dan Ward
1937
Dan Larson
1936
Jim Bryan
1926
Casey Banner
1962
Tucson Smith
1943Bob
1921
Jeff Ferguson aka Guadalupe Kid
1935
Steve Kendall
1931
Brick Loring
1932Bob
1920Bob
1921Bob
1922
Walt Middler
1951
Tucson Smith
1943
Jim Smith aka The Oklahoma Cyclone
1930
Jim Collins
1928
Curly
1955
Bob Steele
1944
Dan Clayton
1932
Curley Thompson
1946
Fred Cromwell
1933
Bob Steele
1944

Ray Burton
1936
Tucson Smith
1942
Tom Shaw
1937
Smokey Smith
1935
Jimmy Hobbs
1929
Tom "The Navajo Kid" Kirk
1945
Tucson Smith
1941Bob
1921
Tucson Smith
1942Bob
1921Bob
1921Bob
1921
Everett Tarkington 'John' Clark
1935Bob
1921
Bob Steele
1944
Bob Baxter
1933
Bob Hall
1940
Jimmy Dixon / Duke Dixon
1935
Tucson Smith
1941
Bruce Conway
1936
Tex Reeves
1928
Bob Roberts
1944Bob
1921
Bob Thornton
1929
Bob Saunders
1927
Jim Sundown Saunders
1935
Bob Harding
1932
Bob Bannister
1935Bob
1921
Bob Taylor
1928
Jimmy Marshall
1928
Bob Stevens
1944Bob
1930
Larry O'Day
1937
Student (as Robert Bradbury Jr.)
1928
'Driftin' Sands
1928
Jim / Ace
1934
Bob Archer
1939
Bob Rivers
1933Bob
1921
Bob Gordon
1928
Story
1928
Tucson Smith
1941
Dick Carlysle
1929Breezy Bill
1930