Bob Steele (actor)

Bob Steele ( born January 23, 1907 in Portland, Oregon, † December 21, 1988 in Burbank, California), Robert Adrian Bradbury in fact, was an American actor.

Life

Steele was born into a vaudeville family. In the late 1910s the family settled in Hollywood, where his father, Robert N. Bradbury later worked as a film director and screenwriter. He attended Glendale High School, where he was a classmate of John Wayne. Steele appeared as a child actor in the 1920s in several films of his father. He got a film contract in 1927 when silent movie film production companies film Booking Offices of America and played under the stage name Bob Steele in numerous B-movie westerns. One of his few roles in major film productions he had in 1939 in Of Mice and Men on the novel by John Steinbeck.

Until the early 1940s, he played the role of Billy the Kid in the fuzzy film series, which aired later in Germany under the name of Western yesterday alongside Al St. John. After that, he played mainly supporting roles, including Howard Hawks ' The Big Sleep. He was also 1953-1970 in six films of his former classmate John Wayne on display, including Rio Bravo and Rio Lobo. He also appeared in the mid- 1950s in television series, including real Western series Maverick, one thousand miles of dust and Gunsmoke. He rarely occurred outside the Western genre, exceptions were for example the science fiction movie on U -17 all hell breaks loose and the war film The Longest Day. Between 1965 and 1967 he played alongside Forrest Tucker in 63 episodes of the Western series F Troop, the Trooper Duffy. In 1968, he played one of the men of the lynch mob that at the beginning of Clint Eastwood Depends hang him higher. He had his last film appearance in a non- Credited small supporting role in Don Siegel thriller The big coup, after which he retired from show business.

Steele was married three times and had no children.

Filmography ( excerpt)

Awards