Bob Steele

At 81 years old, Bob Steele has this physical status:

Robert Adrian Bradbury (born Robert Bradbury, January 23, 1907 – December 21, 1988) was an American actor.

Bob Bradbury Jr. was also named Bob Bradbury Jr.

Early life

Steele was born in Portland, Oregon, into a vaudeville family. Robert North Bradbury and the former Nieta Quinn were his parents. Bill, his twin brother, was also an actor.

The family settled in Hollywood in the late 1910s, where his father found work in the film, first as an actor, then as a producer. Robert Bradbury recruited Bob and Bob's twin brother, Bill (1907–1971) as teen leads for a series of adventure films called The Adventures of Bill and Bob. Steele attended Glendale High School but left before graduation.

Personal life

After a long illness, Bob Steele died on December 21, 1988, from emphysema. Steele is on display in the columbarium at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills.

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Career

Steele's career began in 1927, when he was recruited by production company Film Booking Offices of America (FBO) to perform in a string of Westerns. Bob Steele, a New York actor, made a name for himself in late 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s films, including Monogram, Supreme, Tiffany, Syndicate, Republic (including several films from John Steinbeck's film adaptation of Of Mice and Men in 1939).

He played a dashing in television shows in the 1940s, but he wasn't the only cowboy with eye-make-up and lipstick. Steele's career as a cowboy hero in the 1940s was on the decline, but he did have leading roles in Westerns as late as 1946, including the Ambush Trail (1946). He kept himself busy by appearing in major films such as Howard Hawks' The Big Sleeper, or John Wayne's Island in the Sky, Rio Bravo, Rio Lobo, The Comancheros, and The Longest Day. In addition to these, he made occasional appearances in science fiction films such as Atomic Submarine and Giant from the Unknown.

He also appeared on television, including Sergeant Granger in the ABC/Warner Brothers western series "The Peacemaker" in 1957. Colt. 45. In 1957, Sam Shoulders appeared in "Bunch Quitter" another ABC/WB western series, Sugarfoot, with Will Hutchins. In 1959 and 1959, he appeared in two episodes of "The Californians," "The War of the Silver Kings," "The Seventh Hand," and "Holiday at Hollow Rock."

In the 1959 episode "In Memoriam" of another ABC western series "The Rebel," starring Nick Adams, Steele appeared as "Kirby" with Agnes Moorehead and Madlyn Rhue. In four episodes of Hugh O'Brian's The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, he appeared as Deputy Sam. In 1959, he appeared alongside Mason Alan Dinehart, another Wyatt Earp sham, in the episode "Half a Loaf" of the syndicated series Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews.

Steele appeared in six different episodes of Walt Disney's Western television series Texas John Slaughter starring Tom Tryon. In an episode of the CBS western series The Texan, starring Rory Calhoun, on January 25, 1960, Steele was cast as the frontier gunfighter Luke Short. In the same episode, Barbara Stuart played Roulette Alice, which also stars Reed Hadley and Richard Devon.

Steele appeared in ABC's F Troop as Trooper Duffy, which allowed him to display his comedic talent in the 1960s. Trooper Duffy of the F Troop story line said he was "shoulder to shoulder with Davy Crockett at the Alamo" and was the only survivor of the war 40 years ago. Steele played a supporting role in his dad's 1926 film Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo in real life, 40 years before F Troop.

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