Bob Steele

actor • soundtrack • writer

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...

Born: January 23, 1907 in Portland, Oregon, USA

Died: December 21, 1988 (age 81)

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Known For

7.1

The Shootist

Movies & TV Credits

240 total credits across film and television

Title	Rating	Job	Role(s)	Year
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch Movie	7.4	Actor	(archive footage)	1976
The Shootist Movie	7.7	Actor	Books' Victim in Flashback (archive footage / uncredited)	1976
Nightmare Honeymoon Movie	4.2	Actor	Charlie	1974
Charley Varrick Movie	7.6	Actor	Bank Guard (uncredited)	1973
Something Big Movie	5.5	Actor	Teamster #3	1971
Skin Game Movie	6.8	Actor	Bidder (uncredited)	1971
Rio Lobo Movie	6.9	Actor	Rio Lobo Deputy (uncredited)	1970
The Great Bank Robbery Movie	5.4	Actor	First Guard	1969
Then Came Bronson TV Show	7.7	Actor	—(1 Episode)	1969
Doc Movie	6.0	Actor	Toby	1969
Hang 'em High Movie	7.1	Actor	Jenkins	1968
Family Affair TV Show	6.8	Actor	—(1 Episode)	1966
The Bounty Killer Movie	5.6	Actor	Red - Henchman	1965
Requiem for a Gunfighter Movie	6.3	Actor	Max Smith	1965
Shenandoah Movie	7.4	Actor	Union Train Guard	1965
Town Tamer Movie	5.6	Actor	Ken	1965
Taggart Movie	5.6	Actor	Earl (uncredited)	1965
F Troop TV Show	7.2	Actor	Trooper Duffy(65 Episodes)	1965
Bullet for a Badman Movie	6.6	Actor	Sheriff (uncredited)	1964
McLintock! Movie	7.3	Actor	Train Engineer	1963
4 for Texas Movie	5.6	Actor	Bank Board Member	1963
Wall of Noise Movie	5.8	Actor	Trainer	1963
Six Black Horses Movie	6.6	Actor	Puncher	1962
The Wild Westerners Movie	4.8	Actor	Casey Banner	1962
The Comancheros Movie	7.0	Actor	Pa Schofield (uncredited)	1961
Hell Bent for Leather Movie	6.4	Actor	Jared	1960
Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge Movie	8.4	Actor	Ben	1960
National Velvet TV Show	7.3	Actor	Clive(1 Episode)	1960
Rio Bravo Movie	8.1	Actor	Matt Harris (uncredited)	1959
The Atomic Submarine Movie	5.3	Actor	"Grif" Griffin	1959
Pork Chop Hill Movie	6.9	Actor	Col. Kern	1959
Rawhide TV Show	7.7	Actor	Deputy Art Gray(1 Episode)	1959
The Rebel TV Show	7.6	Actor	Jess Kirby(1 Episode)	1959
The Rebel TV Show	7.6	Actor	Will Randall(1 Episode)	1959
Giant from the Unknown Movie	4.3	Actor	Sheriff Parker	1958
Once Upon a Horse... Movie	5.6	Actor	Bob Steele	1958
The Bonnie Parker Story Movie	5.6	Actor	Armored Truck Guard (uncredited)	1958
Lawman TV Show	7.9	Actor	Telegraph Operator (uncredited)(1 Episode)	1958
The Texan TV Show	7.3	Actor	Luke Short(1 Episode)	1958
Duel at Apache Wells Movie	5.9	Actor	Joe Dunn	1957
The Parson and the Outlaw Movie	4.2	Actor	Ace Jardine	1957
Decision at Sundown Movie	6.7	Actor	Irv	1957
Have Gun - Will Travel TV Show	8.2	Actor	Jockey(1 Episode)	1957
Sugarfoot TV Show	7.2	Actor	Sam Shoulders(1 Episode)	1957
Maverick TV Show	7.8	Actor	Jailed Cowhand Billy (uncredited)(1 Episode)	1957
Maverick TV Show	7.8	Actor	Walter Jackson(1 Episode)	1957
Maverick TV Show	7.8	Actor	Wells(1 Episode)	1957
The Steel Jungle Movie	5.6	Actor	Dan Bucci	1956
Gun for a Coward Movie	5.8	Actor	Durkee	1956
Pardners Movie	6.3	Actor	Shorty	1956
Last of the Desperados Movie	6.4	Actor	Charlie Bowdre	1955
The Spoilers Movie	5.8	Actor	Miner	1955
The Fighting Chance Movie	7.4	Actor	Curly	1955
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp TV Show	7.4	Actor	Deputy Marshal Sam(1 Episode)	1955
Gunsmoke TV Show	7.9	Actor	Coe(1 Episode)	1955
Gunsmoke TV Show	7.9	Actor	Sam Gordon(1 Episode)	1955
Screen Director's Playhouse TV Show	—	Actor	Deputy Sheriff Dodd(1 Episode)	1955
Cheyenne TV Show	7.8	Actor	Dugan(1 Episode)	1955
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp TV Show	7.4	Actor	Deputy Marshal Sam (uncredited)(2 Episodes)	1955
The Outcast Movie	6.2	Actor	Dude Rankin	1954
Drums Across the River Movie	6.3	Actor	Billy Costa	1954
The Magical World of Disney TV Show	8.1	Actor	Rebel Arsonist (uncredited)(1 Episode)	1954
The Magical World of Disney TV Show	8.1	Actor	Ben(1 Episode)	1954
The Magical World of Disney TV Show	8.1	Actor	Soto Man (uncredited)(1 Episode)	1954
Island in the Sky Movie	6.6	Actor	Wilson	1953
Savage Frontier Movie	7.1	Actor	Sam Webb	1953
San Antone Movie	5.9	Actor	Bob Coolidge	1953
Column South Movie	6.0	Actor	McAfee	1953
The Lion and the Horse Movie	6.0	Actor	Matt Jennings	1952
Rose of Cimarron Movie	4.9	Actor	Rio	1952
Bugles in the Afternoon Movie	5.8	Actor	Rider Who Announces Custer Is Dead	1952
Cattle Drive Movie	6.8	Actor	Charlie "Careless" Morgan	1951
Fort Worth Movie	6.4	Actor	Shorty	1951
The Enforcer Movie	7.3	Actor	Herman	1951
Silver Canyon Movie	6.1	Actor	Walt Middler	1951
The Savage Horde Movie	6.5	Actor	Dancer	1950
South of St. Louis Movie	5.8	Actor	Slim Hansen	1949
Bandits of Dark Canyon Movie	5.9	Actor	Ed Archer	1947
Exposed Movie	5.5	Actor	Chicago	1947
Twilight on the Rio Grande Movie	5.7	Actor	Dusty Morgan	1947
Killer McCoy Movie	6.4	Actor	Sailor Graves	1947
Cheyenne Movie	6.3	Actor	Bucky	1947
Thunder Town Movie	5.6	Actor	Jim Brandon	1946
The Big Sleep Movie	8.0	Actor	Lash Canino	1946
Six Gun Man Movie	6.5	Actor	Stormy Storm	1946
Ambush Trail Movie	5.6	Actor	Curley Thompson	1946
Rio Grande Raiders Movie	7.1	Actor	Jeff Carson	1946
Sheriff of Redwood Valley Movie	6.5	Actor	The Reno Kid	1946
Northwest Trail Movie	5.6	Actor	RCMP Matt O'Brien	1945
Wildfire Movie	5.2	Actor	Happy Haye	1945
Navajo Kid Movie	5.9	Actor	Tom "The Navajo Kid" Kirk	1945
Marked Trails Movie	6.4	Actor	Bob Stevens	1944
Arizona Whirlwind Movie	5.6	Actor	Bob Steele	1944
Outlaw Trail Movie	5.7	Actor	Bob	1944
Sonora Stagecoach Movie	6.3	Actor	Bob Steele	1944
Westward Bound Movie	6.9	Actor	Bob Steele	1944
Trigger Law Movie	6.3	Actor	Bob Steele	1944
The Utah Kid Movie	5.7	Actor	Bob Roberts	1944
Revenge of the Zombies Movie	4.9	Actor	Sheriff	1943
Santa Fe Scouts Movie	7.6	Actor	Tucson Smith	1943
Riders of the Rio Grande Movie	7.0	Actor	Tucson Smith	1943
Thundering Trails Movie	7.0	Actor	Tucson Smith	1943
The Blocked Trail Movie	7.5	Actor	Tucson Smith	1943
Death Valley Rangers Movie	5.5	Actor	Bob Steele	1943
Valley of Hunted Men Movie	7.3	Actor	Tucson Smith	1942
Raiders of the Range Movie	6.6	Actor	Tucson Smith	1942
The Phantom Plainsmen Movie	7.1	Actor	Tucson Smith	1942
Shadows on the Sage Movie	7.7	Actor	'Tucson' Smith / Curly Joe	1942
Code of the Outlaw Movie	7.1	Actor	Tucson Smith	1942
Westward Ho Movie	7.0	Actor	Tucson Smith	1942
West of Cimarron Movie	6.2	Actor	Tucson Smith	1941
Outlaws of Cherokee Trail Movie	7.2	Actor	'Tucson' Smith	1941
Billy The Kid's Fighting Pals Movie	6.4	Actor	Billy the Kid	1941
Gangs of Sonora Movie	6.3	Actor	'Tucson' Smith	1941
Billy the Kid's Range War Movie	5.7	Actor	Billy the Kid	1941
Gauchos of El Dorado Movie	7.5	Actor	'Tucson' Smith	1941
Prairie Pioneers Movie	5.7	Actor	Tucson Smith	1941
Billy the Kid in Santa Fe Movie	5.9	Actor	Billy the Kid	1941
The Great Train Robbery Movie	7.3	Actor	Tom Logan	1941
Pals of the Pecos Movie	7.7	Actor	Tucson Smith	1941
Saddlemates Movie	7.2	Actor	Tucson Smith	1941
The Carson City Kid Movie	5.8	Actor	Lee Jessup, aka Morgan Reynolds	1940
Under Texas Skies Movie	7.1	Actor	Tucson Smith	1940
Billy the Kid Outlawed Movie	7.6	Actor	Billy the Kid	1940
Billy the Kid in Texas Movie	6.3	Actor	Billy the Kid	1940
Billy the Kid's Gun Justice Movie	5.8	Actor	Billy the Kid	1940
Pinto Canyon Movie	5.5	Actor	Sheriff Bob Hall	1940
Wild Horse Valley Movie	6.5	Actor	Bob Evans	1940
Lone Star Raiders Movie	7.9	Actor	Tucson Smith	1940
The Trail Blazers Movie	7.4	Actor	Tucson Smith	1940
City for Conquest Movie	7.1	Actor	Kid Callahan (uncredited)	1940
Feud of the Range Movie	5.9	Actor	Bob Gray	1939
Riders of the Sage Movie	5.4	Actor	Bob Burke	1939
The Pal from Texas Movie	6.0	Actor	Bob Barton	1939
Mesquite Buckaroo Movie	5.0	Actor	Bob Allen	1939
El Diablo Rides Movie	4.5	Actor	Bob	1939
Of Mice and Men Movie	7.6	Actor	Curley	1939
Smoky Trails Movie	6.6	Actor	Bob Archer	1939
Paroled - To Die Movie	5.1	Actor	Doug Redfern	1938
Thunder in the Desert Movie	6.0	Actor	Bob Radford	1938
The Feud Maker Movie	5.2	Actor	Tex Ryan aka Wind River Kid	1938
Durango Valley Raiders Movie	5.9	Actor	Keene Cordner	1938
Desert Patrol Movie	5.8	Actor	Dave Austin	1938
Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin Movie	6.2	Actor	Dan Stockton	1937
The Trusted Outlaw Movie	5.7	Actor	Dan Ward	1937
Border Phantom Movie	4.9	Actor	Larry O'Day	1937
Arizona Gunfighter Movie	6.1	Actor	Colt Ferron	1937
Doomed at Sundown Movie	5.3	Actor	Dave Austin	1937
Colorado Kid Movie	6.0	Actor	Colorado Kid	1937
Ridin' the Lone Trail Movie	5.8	Actor	Bob McArthur	1937
Lightnin' Crandall Movie	6.6	Actor	Bob Crandall, aka Lightnin' Crandall	1937
The Red Rope Movie	6.2	Actor	Tom Shaw	1937
The Law Rides Movie	6.0	Actor	Bruce Conway	1936
Cavalry Movie	5.8	Actor	Ted Thorne	1936
Brand of the Outlaws Movie	5.8	Actor	Gary Gray	1936
Last of the Warrens Movie	6.3	Actor	Ted Warren	1936
The Gun Ranger Movie	6.2	Actor	Dan Larson	1936
The Kid Ranger Movie	6.2	Actor	Ray Burton	1936
Sundown Saunders Movie	5.8	Actor	Jim Sundown Saunders	1935
Alias John Law Movie	5.7	Actor	Everett Tarkington 'John' Clark	1935
The Rider of the Law Movie	6.1	Actor	Bob Marlow	1935
No Man's Range Movie	6.2	Actor	Jim Hale	1935
Tombstone Terror Movie	6.2	Actor	Jimmy Dixon / Duke Dixon	1935
Smokey Smith Movie	6.7	Actor	Smokey Smith	1935
Big Calibre Movie	5.7	Actor	Bob Neal	1935
Kid Courageous Movie	6.6	Actor	Bob Bannister	1935
Trail of Terror Movie	6.7	Actor	Spike Manning	1935
Powdersmoke Range Movie	6.3	Actor	Jeff Ferguson aka Guadalupe Kid	1935
The Brand of Hate Movie	5.3	Actor	Rod Camp	1934
A Demon for Trouble Movie	5.7	Actor	Bob Worth	1934
Western Justice Movie	5.9	Actor	Jim / Ace	1934
The Mystery Squadron Movie	6.0	Actor	Fred Cromwell	1933
Galloping Romeo Movie	6.2	Actor	Bob Rivers	1933
The Gallant Fool Movie	6.1	Actor	Kit Denton	1933
Trailing North Movie	7.8	Actor	Lee Evans aka Curly the Kid	1933
Ranger's Code Movie	—	Actor	Bob Baxter	1933
Breed of the Border Movie	6.4	Actor	Speed Brent	1933
Young Blood Movie	6.4	Actor	Nick aka The Kid	1932
Texas Buddies Movie	5.7	Actor	Ted Garner	1932
Hidden Valley Movie	6.1	Actor	Bob Harding	1932
Riders of the Desert Movie	6.1	Actor	Bob Houston	1932
The Man from Hell's Edges Movie	5.9	Actor	Bob Williams aka 'Flash' Manning	1932
South of Santa Fe Movie	6.3	Actor	Tom Keene	1932
Son of Oklahoma Movie	6.3	Actor	Dan Clayton	1932
The Fighting Champ Movie	5.4	Actor	Brick Loring	1932
Law of the West Movie	5.9	Actor	Bob Carruthers, alias Bob Morgan	1932
The Nevada Buckaroo Movie	6.2	Actor	Buck Hurley, aka The Nevada Kid	1931
The Sunrise Trail Movie	6.2	Actor	Texas, aka Tex	1931
Near the Trail's End Movie	6.3	Actor	Marshal Johnny Day	1931
The Ridin' Fool Movie	7.3	Actor	Steve Kendall	1931
The Land of Missing Men Movie	6.1	Actor	Steve O'Neil	1930
The Oklahoma Cyclone Movie	3.7	Actor	Jim Smith aka The Oklahoma Cyclone	1930
Near the Rainbow's End Movie	6.1	Actor	Jim Bledsoe	1930
The Man from Nowhere Movie	5.7	Actor	Terry Norton	1930
The Oklahoma Sheriff Movie	—	Actor	—	1930
The Hunted Men Movie	7.3	Actor	Dick Stockdale	1930
Headin' North Movie	6.2	Actor	Jim Curtis	1930
Breezy Bill Movie	—	Actor	Breezy Bill	1930
Western Honor Movie	—	Actor	Bob	1930
The Cowboy and the Outlaw Movie	6.4	Actor	George Hardcastle	1929
The Invaders Movie	—	Actor	—	1929
A Texas Cowboy Movie	6.1	Actor	Dick Carlysle	1929
Come and Get It! Movie	6.3	Actor	Breezy Smith	1929
Laughing at Death Movie	5.9	Actor	Bob Thornton	1929
The Amazing Vagabond Movie	—	Actor	Jimmy Hobbs	1929
Captain Careless Movie	—	Actor	Bob Gordon	1928
Driftin' Sands Movie	—	Actor	'Driftin' Sands	1928
Lightning Speed Movie	3.6	Actor	Jack Pemberton	1928
Breed of the Sunsets Movie	4.7	Actor	Jim Collins	1928
The Riding Renegade Movie	6.1	Actor	Bob Taylor	1928
Trail of Courage Movie	—	Actor	Tex Reeves	1928
Headin' for Danger Movie	—	Actor	Jimmy Marshall	1928
Man in the Rough Movie	—	Actor	Bruce Sherwood	1928
Sliding Home Short Film	—	Actor	Student (as Robert Bradbury Jr.)	1928
Captain Careless Movie	—	Writing	Story	1928
With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre Movie	5.8	Actor	Bob Keefe (as Bob Bradbury Jr.)	1927
The Mojave Kid Movie	—	Actor	Bob Saunders	1927
The Bandit's Son Movie	—	Actor	Bob McCall	1927
The College Boob Movie	6.2	Actor	Shorty Buzelle (as Bob Bradbury Jr.)	1926
With Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness Movie	7.4	Actor	Jim Bryan	1926
With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo Movie	7.4	Actor	'Pinky' Smith	1926
Just Plain Folks Movie	—	Actor	—	1925
The Opossum Short Film	—	Actor	—	1922
Dangerous Trails Short Film	—	Actor	Bob	1922
Mysterious Tracks Short Film	—	Actor	—	1922
Catching a Coon Movie	6.4	Actor	Bob	1921
Trapping The Bob Cat Movie	—	Actor	Bob	1921
Trapping the Coyote Movie	—	Actor	Bob	1921
A Day in the Wilds Short Film	6.3	Actor	Bob	1921
The Skunk Short Film	6.1	Actor	Bob	1921
The Civet Cat Short Film	—	Actor	Bob	1921
The American Badger Short Film	7.6	Actor	Bob	1921
Trapping the Wildcat Short Film	5.9	Actor	Bob	1921
Catching a Koala Bear Short Film	—	Actor	Bob	1921
Capturing a Canadian Lynx Short Film	—	Actor	Bob	1921
The Mountain Lion Short Film	—	Actor	Bob	1921
Trailing the Coyote Short Film	5.4	Actor	Bob	1921
Outwitting the Timber Wolf Short Film	—	Actor	—	1921
The Fox Short Film	5.9	Actor	Bob	1921
The Adventures of Bob and Bill Movie	5.3	Actor	Bob	1920

Bob Steele

Known For

Hang 'em High

Rio Bravo

The Big Sleep

The Shootist

Movies & TV Credits