Birthday: 1907-01-23
Place of Birth: Portland, Oregon, USA
Biography: 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.
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involvi...
View Movie
John Clark (Bob Steele) and his deaf pal, Bootch Collum (Buck Connors), are trailed by U. S. Marshal...
View Movie
Texas John Slaughter is a peace-loving family man and successful rancher who values his friendship w...
View Movie
After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a sol...
View Movie
Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends, but instead of obtaining a small amoun...
View Movie
The story of a controversial white settlement in 1860s Spirit Lake, Iowa. Unbowed by the encroachmen...
View Movie
A newlywed couple seek revenge after narrowly surviving a savage attack in rural Louisiana....
View Movie
Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Norther...
View Movie
After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the l...
View Movie
A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880's Texas...
View Movie
A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep ...
View Movie
Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of th...
View Movie
The lives and loves behind the scenes at the racetrack are detailed in this thoroughbred soap opera....
View Movie
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisone...
View Movie
Two zany cowboys steal a herd of cattle only to discover it costs more to feed them than they are wo...
View Movie
Rich momma's boy Wade Kingsley Jr. an Eastern dude, tries to follow in his murdered father's footste...
View Movie
A horse trainer and his friend, a jockey, fall in love with the same girl. Complications ensue....
View Movie
The Ridin' Fool presented the bantamweight star as Steve Kendall, a young cowboy saving gambler Bost...
View Movie
Old enemies stationed together at an Army post vie for the same woman....
View Movie
Slick gambler James Wylie is apprehended by the law and given the option to forgo a prison sentence ...
View Movie
Trailing the men that murdered his father, Bob Archer finds a man in a gunfight. He helps him to esc...
View Movie
Having helped his father escape the law, Jim Curtis heads north with the Marshal chasing him. He and...
View Movie
Sheriff has a crooked deputy, also objects to his daughter's boyfriend. Crooked deputy kills the she...
View Movie
Bob Steele is a young rancher who refuses to give in to a gang that is seeking to deprive he and his...
View Movie
Spitzer wants the Gordon ranch, so he has his men waylay and rob him as he returns with money. Dick ...
View Movie
A young rancher falsely accused of kidnapping his own stepfather, the aptly named Henry Pennypincher...
View Movie
A tramp cowboy butts in on a western family fray where a step-brother is trying to wrestle an estate...
View Movie
Dick Carlysle returns home to find that his mother has married Brute Kettle who is really out to get...
View Movie
Two children--a brother and sister--are the only survivors of an Indian attack on a wagon train, and...
View Movie
One of the doubles is the prince of the mythical country of Libania, while the other is a down-to-ea...
View Movie
A wealthy scion toughens up in a rough-and-tumble lumber camp when he is forced to defend Phil Dunni...
View Movie
When Breezy's father is accused of murdering his neighbor, the former Navy boxing champ takes to the...
View Movie
Jimmy Marshall, an adventurous youth, wanders in disguise into a small Mexican town seeking adventur...
View Movie
A cowhand is fired for romancing the boss' daughter in this bantam-weight silent Western from assemb...
View Movie
Jack Pemberton, a cub reporter falls in love with Betty (Mary Mayberry), the governor's daughter. Du...
View Movie
Attempting to warn an old prospector and his daughter of impending danger from a notorious outlaw, d...
View Movie
Lovely senorita Maria Alvaro is rescued from a gunshot wedding to foppish Senor Valdez practically o...
View Movie
A disgraced son of a sheriff is adopted by an Indian tribe after saving the son of a chief....
View Movie
Sliding Home is the tenth episode of the second series of Universal Pictures serial "The Collegians....
View Movie
A drifter nicknamed "Driftin' Sands" is hired by a wealthy rancher to protect his spoiled daughter. ...
View Movie
Bob McCall, a young cowboy, tries to save his outlaw father from being lynched for a crime he didn't...
View Movie
Ally Appleby is a country boy headed for the college campus, courtesy of his Aunt Polly and Uncle Li...
View Movie
Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry...
View Movie
Ships disappear on route across the Arctic Sea, and a special submarine is sent to investigate....
View Movie
The Carson City Kid and partner Laramie are outlaws. When his partner is caught the Kid, his identit...
View Movie
Meline is taking money from his own bank to drill an oil well. When he finds Doug Redfern's bandana,...
View Movie
Bob and Bill, twin brothers in the mountains explore animal hunting and trapping efforts over a seri...
View Movie
The brothers set out from their camp to trap the destructive and predatory bobcat....
View Movie
Bob and Bill go on a camping trip. While setting up camp, they encounter a young badger. They captur...
View Movie
Dan Webber, a sailor in the U.S. Navy who has been away from home for many years and presumed dead, ...
View Movie
In pre-revolutionary war days, Daniel Boone captures the white renegade Simon Gerty but lets him go....
View Movie
Focuses on Davy Crockett before & during his time at the Alamo as one of the defenders, and ultimate...
View Movie
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranc...
View Movie
A series of grisly murders plague a small mountain community and the sheriff suspects a local scient...
View Movie
In the 1930s, amoral blonde tommy-gun girl Bonnie Parker cut a swath of bodies across the South-West...
View Movie
Taggart's family is slaughtered by a rival rancher. Taggart mortally wounds the rancher and kills h...
View Movie
The tale of a young bookie, married to a beautiful woman who goes to jail, and becomes involved with...
View Movie
A banker struggles to keep his bank solvent and his town from going bankrupt after the bank is robbe...
View Movie
When whites hunger after the gold on Ute Indian land, a bigoted young man finds himself forced into ...
View Movie
Gary Gray arrives only to be caught up in the rustling activities of Ben Holt and his gang. First Ho...
View Movie
The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowher...
View Movie
In an attempt to drive out settlers of the Los Trancos valley, through which the railroad proposes t...
View Movie
In an effort to get Jim Martin to sell his ranch, the Halsey brothers have kidnapped his son Tom. Wh...
View Movie
Kincade and Blake cause a mail plane carrying a payroll to make a forced landing in the desert. When...
View Movie
This one finds Jack Slade and Mary Conway,alias Blanche, being recognized as known and wanted crooks...
View Movie
Williams is out to stop Ellen Goreham from completing her road that is under construction and is usi...
View Movie
Hank Davis, foreman on a huge dam project, enlists the aid of his two flyer friends when a sinister ...
View Movie
Cowboy is hired by an archaeologist to help find "Hidden Valley", where an Indian gold treasure is s...
View Movie
Money is mysteriously disappearing from a locked trunk atop the stage even though the trunk arrives ...
View Movie
In the weeks prior to the start of the Civil War, Confederate sympathizers hope to help their cause ...
View Movie
A charismatic gunfighter who is on the run takes refuge in a frontier cattle town and attempts to he...
View Movie
Bob Marlow is sent undercover to an Arizona town where an outlaw gang, comprised of the six Tolliver...
View Movie
Sunset Carson, ace driver for the Harding Stagecoach Line, persuades his boss Frank Harding (Edmund ...
View Movie
Steve O'Neil robs the stage and kidnaps Nita to keep Lopez from doing the same. Then he and Buckshot...
View Movie
With the advent of the American Civil War, three partners in a ranch see how this is destroyed. Need...
View Movie
A young man returns home after several years absence to find that a gang is after not only his famil...
View Movie
When Sundown wins a horse race he is paid with a deed to a ranch. Arriving at the ranch he finds the...
View Movie
Summoned by Ed Oliver, Jim Hale and sidekick Fuzz arrive at Oliver's ranch to find a range war in pr...
View Movie
Redwood Valley residents raise $50,000 for blasting a mountain tunnel to bring a new railroad there....
View Movie
After selling it to a cruel rodeo owner, a cowboy attempts to buy back the wild stallion he snared....
View Movie
A reformed gunfighter battles a crooked sheriff who used to be a member of his gang....
View Movie
Daggett is out to stop the completion of an oil well. He cheats Foster at poker and then forces him ...
View Movie
In 1937 the life in out West has not changed much. The boys are working at the Wyoming ranch of Capt...
View Movie
When the Nevada Kid gets caught in a stage robbery, the gang leader Cherokee gets him released by fo...
View Movie
The Rangers in New Mexico are being disbanded but Bob Houston gets them to make one more ride. They ...
View Movie
Billy the Kid fakes his own death at the hands of Pat Garrett, but is forced to come out of hiding t...
View Movie
Ted Warren returns from WWI to find that everyone thinks he was dead. The culprit is Kent who interc...
View Movie
Hank Davis kills Jack Lewis to get his gold mine. Bruce Conway brings him in but then realizes Davis...
View Movie
Just after the Civil War, Captain Thorn is sent west to help protect the new telegraph line that is ...
View Movie
A lawman who brings in a killer only to see him freed because of corruption turns in his badge &...
View Movie
A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features....
View Movie
Dan Ward, reformed and last member of an outlaw family, meets Molly Clark in a rocky draw near town....
View Movie
Lawyer Bowdre has started a war between the ranchers and the homesteaders planning to take over the ...
View Movie
Cowboy Larry O'Day and his sidekick Lucky Smith happen upon a distraught Barbara Hartwell, who is ab...
View Movie
It is 1853 and settlers are pouring into California which means trouble for the old Spanish landowne...
View Movie
Bob arrives looking for the killer of his uncle. When the Sheriff chases him and his partner Rusty, ...
View Movie
When Tex is brought in to fight in a range war between the cowmen and the nesters, he meets his old ...
View Movie
A man escapes from prison, then joins up with a gang of stage robbers while at the same time working...
View Movie
Trouble starts when Bill Larkins and his two sons move in with his brother Joe. They start rustling ...
View Movie
Dyer is buying ranches and then retrieving his check by having his gang kill the owner. Bob Worth ar...
View Movie
When Colt kills the men that murdered his father, he escapes his pursuers and joins Wolf and his out...
View Movie
In the first of the six films Bob Steele made in PRC's "Billy the Kid" series, gun law rules in Linc...
View Movie
Commissioner Tredwell is the law of the land and he gets whatever he wants with the help of hired gu...
View Movie
Carl Beldon has disappeared and the Trail Blazers have been sent to investigate. Arriving in town, t...
View Movie
After a payroll robbery the Mesquiteers catch up with the gang. But the members escape, the gang lea...
View Movie
An ex-convict (Bob Steele) returns to his ranch; he and his sidekick (Sid Saylor) prove he was frame...
View Movie
It's "The Three Mesquiteers" again. Gaucho escapes from Braden's gang only to be shot by them. The M...
View Movie
The Cherokee Strip is off limits to the Rangers, so that is where badman Lemar operates from. When t...
View Movie
Mountie Matt O'Brien is assigned to escort Miss Owens to a remote outpost. But when he finds an ille...
View Movie
When a fed-up businessman tires of watching gold shipments disappear without a trace, he calls in th...
View Movie
Learning that Montana is about to become a state and that property values will rise rapidly, Caldwel...
View Movie
US marshals Ken, Hoot and Bob stop a gang dressed as Indians from robbing the stage. After getting r...
View Movie
Gene and Pokie are on vacation in Mexico when they learn that their buddy Dusty has been bumped off....
View Movie
In the second of the "Billy the Kid" series from PRC that starred Bob Steele, Billy the Kid is being...
View Movie
Falsely accused of murder, Billy is able to escape thanks to his pals. Once in Santa Fe, he meets on...
View Movie
As prisoner Ed Archer is being transferred, the stage is attacked and crashes. Archer escapes the at...
View Movie
Fanning has his men rustle horses and then blame it on a wild horse named Wildfire. Happy and Alkali...
View Movie
Jimmy Dixon, pursued by a band of Mexicans, changes clothes with a tramp, who takes off on his horse...
View Movie
Tommy McCoy grew up poor and scrappy. As a young man he discovers that he can fight with his powerfu...
View Movie
Working under cover, Tex goes south of the border and joins Rand's gang where he befriends gang memb...
View Movie
A cowboy looking for his missing father, poses as an outlaw and joins the gang he thinks is responsi...
View Movie
The parents (Horace B. Carpenter)(Vane Calvert) of Smokey Smith (Bob Steele) are murdered while trav...
View Movie
Stone kills Thorton but only gets one half of the map to Thorton's gold mine. Tom arrives and, tryin...
View Movie
Verdugo finds a young boy on the desert and raises him as his son. Now a grown man, Dan is framed fo...
View Movie
A white girl raised by Indians sets out to find out who murdered her adoptive parents....
View Movie
Hoot Gibson and Bob Stanley ride into Arizona seeking the killer of Bob's father, who managed the st...
View Movie
The Utah Kid was a late entry in Monogram's "Trail Blazers" series. These low-budget westerns usuall...
View Movie
Sam is a parolee who has paid for his dirty deeds. Now determined to go straight and help take care ...
View Movie
Young Dave Austin hunts down the varmint who murdered his father in this B Western. Austin tracks ki...
View Movie
When Dr. Von Altermann's wife Lila dies mysteriously at his spooky mansion her relations suspect mur...
View Movie
After the Civil War, a cowboy who's a former Union soldier leads a cattle drive into Mexico now occu...
View Movie
When his Ranger father is shot down and seriously wounded by rustlers, young Bob Baxter is given a R...
View Movie
The Mesquiteers return to Texas after the Civil War to find Army carpetbaggers fighting the local bu...
View Movie
Cattle thieves attack every cattle drive that comes near Hagerstown. If they do not sell their cattl...
View Movie
Trains are being robbed by a gang led by an outlaw on a beautiful white horse. The marshal sent to i...
View Movie
The circus arrives in Great Shows. Rainey Big Ben and Kit Denton, the star of the show, are informed...
View Movie
When a fellow ranger (Julian Madison) is brutally murdered, the Captain sends Dave Austin to investi...
View Movie
The Shadow and his outlaw gang have control of Durango Valley. Keene Cordner arrives, and with the h...
View Movie
The Pal From Texas features the diminutive screen cowboy attempting to prevent old prospector pal fr...
View Movie
Dan Burke is after a mail contract and Stevens through his henchman Keno is out to stop him. When Bu...
View Movie
Ranger Ray plans to marry stage driver Bill Mason's daughter Mary, but there are problems ahead.......
View Movie
As Powers is dying he tells Lee to look for a man with a girl named Mitzi. Heading north by dog sled...
View Movie
Three men, each on their individual quest, meet at a deserted cabin and take the assumed names of Ac...
View Movie
In his final Western for Poverty Row's Metropolitan Pictures, Bob Steele played Bob Hall, a lawman l...
View Movie
Shadows on the Sage is a 1942 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by Lester Orlebe...
View Movie
Tom Logan is a railroad detective who takes it upon himself to halt the activities of his crooked br...
View Movie
It's time for the big rodeo and it's Bob of the Allen ranch against Luke Williams of the Barns ranch...
View Movie
When Hines kills the Colonel for his money, the Colorado Kid is arrested and then found guilt of the...
View Movie
Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Books, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly...
View Movie
Ageing, wealthy, rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numer...
View Movie
One of four western films made for PRC by bantam-weight Bob Steele, Ambush Trail stars Steele as cow...
View Movie
This late entry in Republic's long-running "Three Mesquiteers" series stars Bob Steele, Tom Tyler an...
View Movie
At the close of the Civil War, a band of Southern guerillas disguised themselves as Union soldiers, ...
View Movie
A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastelands of Labrad...
View Movie
Steele gets into a fight with a ranch foreman, knocking the foreman out. The foreman was supposed to...
View Movie
Intent on avenging his father's murder, Roy Neal and his sidekick Rusty find themselves in the borde...
View Movie
Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To c...
View Movie
The story opens as Stony returns to his home town, only to discover that his sheriff father has been...
View Movie
The Mesquiteers try to help their friend build a telegraph system, despite a local newspaper editor'...
View Movie
Yet another fast-paced western featuring the "Three Mesqueteers," pulp writer William Colt McDonald'...
View Movie
The Three Mesquiteers, as army scouts, soothe hostilities between the Army and Indians after both ha...
View Movie
The all-purpose title Westward Ho was applied in 1942 to this "Three Mesquiteers" western. This time...
View Movie
Fugitive Nazis threaten to take over the Wyoming range in this Three Mesqueteers outing, which also ...
View Movie
In this western, the Three Mesquiteers team up with a Texas Ranger to round up the outlaws who force...
View Movie
A horse called Brilliant is the only one who knows the location of a gold mine. When Brilliant's own...
View Movie
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young g...
View Movie
Escaping from the law once again, Billy, Fuzzy, and Jeff ride to the ranch of Jeff's uncle only to f...
View Movie
Bob rides into a border town where he runs into trouble with Lambert and his gang. Herb arrests him ...
View Movie
The Trail Blazers are bringing in a prisoner to stand trial for bank robbery, when several attempts ...
View Movie
Thanks to the chicanery of his crooked uncle Major Cosgrave, Jet has been cheated out of his father'...
View Movie
Ex-gunfighter Ned Britt returns to Fort Worth after the civil war to help run a newspaper which is a...
View Movie
A gunfighter takes the identity of a murdered judge in order to avenge his death....
View Movie
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and strug...
View Movie
When Clay Santell stops in the town of Sutterville after having his horse stolen, he is mistaken by ...
View Movie
Billy, Fuzzy, and Jeff are on the run from the law again. This time they travel to a new town where ...
View Movie
A beautiful woman with an ulterior motive hires two gunslingers to escort her through Indian territo...
View Movie
The Navajo Kid goes in search of the villains who murdered his foster-father and stole both ring and...
View Movie
For revenge the outlaw Morgan steals the Carruthers young son. Seventeen years later Carruthers arri...
View Movie
Joe has Cowboy-Race Driver Brent drive him to the border where his men slug Brent, and he shoots Sta...
View Movie
Bart Morgan controls the town of Cactus City and is keeping all men away from Jane Rankin. When John...
View Movie
After killing Billy the Kid, Sheriff Pat Garrett is relentlessly dogged by members of the Kid's gang...
View Movie
In 1899 Alaska, miners have to protect themselves from a phony legal team trying to steal their gold...
View Movie
Cowboy with a reputation as the fastest gun in Texas heads to Arizona to leave his past behind, but ...
View Movie
Sheriff Plummer and his men are using their badges to easily rob gold shipments and kill the drivers...
View Movie
Willie Duggans, a tenderfoot from the east, arrives in the wild west and soon experiences its violen...
View Movie
A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation f...
View Movie
Despite past friendliness, cattle ranchers Tom and Jim Bledsoe, father and son, fence off their rang...
View Movie
The man Bannister has sent to investigate the trouble at his mine has disappeared. This time his son...
View Movie
Brade has hired Rattler Haynes to kill Tom Shaw. But when Shaw intercepts a message between the two,...
View Movie
Bob Evans' Arabian stallion is stolen and Bob, with his friend Shag Williams starts on the trail tha...
View Movie
Manning breaks out of prison and joins Blake's gang of outlaws. Later a paroled Muggs arrives to rej...
View Movie
One of The Adventures of Bill and Bob shorts. The brothers enjoy exploring the wilds and sighting di...
View Movie
One of The Adventures of Bill and Bob shorts. The brothers decide to help the local zoo by capturing...
View Movie
One of The Adventures of Bill and Bob shorts. The brothers practice their skills by trapping a cunni...
View Movie
One of The Adventures of Bill and Bob shorts. Mysterious tracks lead to unexpected and exotic catch....
View Movie
One of The Adventures of Bill and Bob shorts. The young trappers are taken by surprise when these bo...
View Movie
One of The Adventures of Bill and Bob shorts. The brothers set out from their camp to trap the destr...
View Movie
One of The Adventures of Bill and Bob shorts. The boys are after the hated predatory prowler....
View Movie
One of The Adventures of Bill and Bob shorts.The brothers are after the dangerous cougar because the...
View Movie
Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish thi...
View Movie
Former Texas Rangers Sam Ward and Logan Keliher become enemies when Sam turns bank robber and Logan ...
View Movie
An aging doctor in a small town decides to pack up his little black bag, but when a young doctor ass...
View Movie
In the 1870s, two rival businessmen, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, on a stagecoach heading to Galvest...
View Movie
A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the forme...
View Movie
After robbing a bank Murphy assumes the identity of his pursuer, a famous US Marshal, when he stumbl...
View Movie
When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading ci...
View Movie