Rob Steele
Died: 2022-05-14
Known For: Acting
Biography
Rob Steele (born 1940/1941 - May 14, 2022) was an Australian film and television character actor who appeared in Australian films spanning four decades and he racked up more than 80 credits in TV and film during that time. Steele began acting in the early 1970s and had guest roles in TV shows such as Homicide, Matlock Police, The Young Doctors, Cop Shop, Prisoner, Carson's Law, Sons and Daughters, E-Street, A Country Practice, All Saints, Police Rescue, The Flying Doctors and Blue Heelers. He also appeared in Muriel's Wedding (1994). His final on-screen appearances were in 2007.
Filmography
2007
- Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback as Judge MacGregor
2005
- Hell Has Harbour Views as Brian
2004
- Fireflies as Stewart MacTavish
2003
- The Postcard Bandit as Gina's Grandad
2000
1998
- All Saints as Jimmy Dwyer
1995
- Cody: Fall from Grace as Jock McKinney
- Round Up as Bob Hutton
1994
- Muriel's Wedding as Leo Higgins
1993
- Joh's Jury as George Dunstan
1992
- Greenkeeping as Manager
- The Time Game as Captain Piggott
1991
- Police Rescue as Bob
- Brides of Christ as Senator Kearney
1990
- The Paper Man as Frank Coates
1989
- E Street as Gus Molloy
1988
- Home and Away as Les Smart
- The True Believers as Clyde Cameron
- The Riddle of the Stinson as Keefe
- Barracuda as Patrick
- Around the World in Eighty Ways as Alex Moffatt
1987
- Rafferty's Rules as Bob Graham
- Going Sane as Sergeant
- Travelling North as Syd
1986
- The Flying Doctors as Kevin
- I Own the Racecourse as Evangelist
1984
- Strikebound as Charlie Nelson
1983
- Buddies as Policeman
1982
- Deadline as ASIO Agent
1980
- Breaker Morant as Cpt. Robertson
1978
- The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith as Claude Lewis
- Newsfront as Andy
1977
- The Singer and the Dancer as Jim Bilson
- Born to Run as Stranger #2
1976
- Barney as Trooper Perrin