Above, Bob Steele rode a bunch of hosses,          Above, twin brothers Bill (L) and Bob (R)
and the above is Brownie.  This image of            in one of their 1920s ADVENTURES OF
Steele was during his films for A. W. Hackel       BILL & BOB shorts.
which were released through Republic Pictures.

Twin boys, Robert Adrian Bradbury and William Curtis Bradbury, were born on January 23, 1907
at the familyresidence in Portland, Oregon (not Pendleton, Oregon).  The parents were Ronald (1886-1949)
and Nieta Bradbury (1886-1978) (that's Nieta not Nita). The parents were stage/vaudeville performers, and
toured throughout the U.S. and Canada, while the twins lived with their grandmother at a ranch in Washington.

Bob Steele was an American actor. He was born Robert Adrian Bradbury in 1907 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 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 like the John Steinbeck adaptation 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.
Bob Steele died in 1988 from emphysema after a long sickness.