Bob Steele (actor)

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Bob Steele (born Robert Adrian Bradbury , January 23, 1907 - December 21, 1988) is an American actor.

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Steele was born in Portland, Oregon, into the family of vaudeville. His parents were Robert North Bradbury (1886-1949) and former Nieta Catherine Quinn (1886-1978). After years of touring, the family settled in Hollywood, California, in the late 1910s, where his father soon found work in the film, first as an actor, then as a director. Bradbury really directs John Wayne to more Westerners than any other director, albeit on a low budget. In 1920, Robert Bradbury hired Bob's brother and Bob's twin brother, Bill (1907-1971), when teenagers led for a series of adventure films entitled The Adventure of Bob and Bill.

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Careers

Steele's career began taking off for good in 1927, when he was hired by the production company of the American Film Ordering Office (FBO) to star in a series of Westerns. Renamed Bob Steele at FBO, he immediately made a name for himself, and in the late 1920s, 1930s and 1940s starred B-Western for almost every small movie studio, including Monogram, Supreme, Tiffany, Sindikat, Republic (including several films The Three Mesquiteers series) and Producers Releasing Corporation (RRC) (including the early films of their "Billy the Kid" series), plus he has an occasional role in film A, such as in the adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men in 1939. In the cowboy movies shown on TV in the 1940s, he played bravely, but the short cowboy was full of eye-make- up and lipstick.

In the 1940s, Steele's career as a cowboy hero was declining, but she continued to work by accepting supporting roles in major films like Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep, or John Wayne Island's vehicles in the Sky, Rio Bravo and Rio Lobo . In addition, he also occasionally appeared in science fiction films such as and Giant from the Unknown .

Steele also appeared on television, including the role of Sergeant Granger in the premiere episode, "The Peacemaker", in 1957 from the ABC/Warner Brothers Western series, Colt.45 . In 1957, he served as Sam Shoulders in "Bunch Quitter" in another western ABC/WB series, Sugarfoot , with Will Hutchins. He appeared in 1958 and 1959 in two episodes of western NBC, The California, and three episodes of Maverick with James Garner, including "The War of the Silver Kings," " The Seventh Hand, "and" Holiday at Hollow Rock. "

Steele appeared as "Kirby" with Agnes Moorehead and Madlyn Rhue in the 1959 episode "In Memoriam" from another ABC western series, The Rebel , starring Nick Adams. He also appeared as Deputy Sam in four episodes of Hugh O'Brian's The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp . In 1959, he appeared with Mason Alan Dinehart, another Wyatt Earp alumnus, in the episode "Half a Loaf" from the syndication series Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. Steele appeared in six different episodes of the Western TV series Walt Disney Texas John Slaughter with Tom Tryon. On January 25, 1960, Steele served as short-range weapon killer Luke Short in an episode of the western serial of CBS, The Texan , starring Rory Calhoun. Barbara Stuart plays Poker gambler Alice in the same episode, which also features Reed Hadley and Richard Devon.

In the mid-1960s, Steele plays a role in a regular supporting role as Trooper Duffy on ABC F Troop , which allows him to show his comic talent. Trooper Duffy in the F Troop storyline which is claimed to be "shoulder to shoulder with Davy Crockett at Alamo" and became the only survivor of the battle forty years earlier. In real life, forty years before F Troop , Steele played a supporting role in the film of his father in 1926 Davy Crockett in the Fall of the Alamo.

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Death

Bob Steele died on December 21, 1988, due to emphysema after a long illness. He survived by his third wife, whom he had married for forty-nine years, Bertha Virginia Nash Tatum Steele (1914-1992). Steele is buried in a columbarium at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills.