Born Thomas Skeoch

Tom was in the Republic serial The Masked Marvel (1943), playing the lead. He doubled three other characters and played a bit part as a heavy. Because of an error, he never received any billing.

Stuntmen are often selected because of their resemblance to the star they are doubling for. In contrast to this, many of Republic Pictures' western stars in the 1940s and early 1950s, such as Allan Lane, Bill Elliot, Rex Allen and Monte Hale, were selected in part due to their resemblance to Steele, who would do their stunts.

Doubled for Roy Rogers, Rod Cameron, Clayton Moore and George Montgomery.

He doubled for James Arness in The Thing from Another World (1951), playing the creature when it was set on fire.

His trick for keeping his hat on in fight scenes (so the audience couldn't tell it wasn't the star) was to put rubber surgical tubing in the sweatband to make it fit tight.

Worked in the steel mills and played polo competitively in his younger days prior to becoming a stuntman.

Filmography:
Stunts (334 credits)
1986 Tough Guys (stunts - uncredited)
1984 Lovelines (stunts)
1983 Scarface (stunts)
1980 Alligator (stunt performer)
1980 The Blues Brothers (stunts)
1979 The Champ (stunts - uncredited)
1978 The Cat from Outer Space (stunt player)
1976 Bound for Glory (stunts)
1974 The Front Page (stunts - uncredited)
1974 The Towering Inferno (stunts - uncredited)
1974 Earthquake (stunts - uncredited)
1974 Freebie and the Bean (stunts - uncredited)
1974 Blazing Saddles (stunts - uncredited)
1972 The Poseidon Adventure (stunts - uncredited)
1972 Slaughterhouse-Five (stunts - uncredited)
1971 Diamonds Are Forever (stunts - uncredited)
1968 The Love Bug (stunt driver - uncredited)
1968 Bullitt (stunt driver - uncredited)
1967 The Gnome-Mobile (stunts - uncredited)
1967 Welcome to Hard Times (stunts - uncredited)
1966 Star Trek (TV Series) (stunts)
1966 The Silencers (stunts - uncredited)
1966 Our Man Flint (stunts - uncredited)
1966 Black Dragon of Manzanar (TV Movie) (stunt double: Rod Cameron - uncredited)
1966 R.C.M.P. and the Treasure of Genghis Khan (TV Movie) (stunt double: Jim Bannon - uncredited)
1966 Retik, the Moon Menace (TV Movie) (stunts - archive footage, uncredited)
1966 Slaves of the Invisible Monster (TV Movie) (stunt double: Richard Webb - uncredited)
1966 Sombra, the Spider Woman (TV Movie) (stunts - archive footage, uncredited)
1966 Target: Sea of China (TV Movie) (stunts - archive footage, uncredited)
1966 The Claw Monsters (TV Movie) (stunt double: Myron Healey - uncredited)
1965 The Great Race (stunts - uncredited)
1965 Requiem for a Gunfighter (stunts - uncredited)
1965 Cat Ballou (stunts - uncredited)
1964 Taggart (stunts - uncredited)
1964 Quick Before It Melts (stunts)
1963 McLintock! (stunts - uncredited)
1963 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (stunts - uncredited)
1961 The Great Impostor (stunts - uncredited)
1960 The Wizard of Baghdad (stunts - uncredited)
1960 Spartacus (stunts - uncredited)
1959 Laramie (TV Series) (stunts)
1959 Black Saddle (TV Series) (stunt double - 1 episode)
- Client: Brand (1959) ... (stunt double: Barry Atwater - uncredited)
1959 These Thousand Hills (stunts - uncredited)
1959 Peter Gunn (TV Series) (stunt double - 1 episode)
- Pecos Pete (1959) ... (stunt double: Craig Stevens - uncredited)
1957 State Trooper (TV Series) (stunt double - 1 episode)
- Ride Til You Die (1957) ... (stunt double: Phil Chambers - uncredited)
1957 The Restless Breed (stunts - uncredited)
1956 Tension at Table Rock (stunts - uncredited)
1956 Showdown at Abilene (stunts - uncredited)
1956 Flesh and the Spur (stunt double: John Agar - uncredited)
1955 Day the World Ended (stunt double: Mike Connors - uncredited)
1955 King of the Carnival (stunts - uncredited)
1955 Santa Fe Passage (stunt double - uncredited)
1955 Ten Wanted Men (stunt double: Randolph Scott - uncredited)
1955 Soldiers of Fortune (TV Series) (stunts - uncredited)
1955 Panther Girl of the Kongo (stunt double: Myron Healey - uncredited)
1954 Hell's Outpost (stunt double)
1954 Cattle Queen of Montana (stunts - uncredited)
1954 Man with the Steel Whip (stunt double: Dick Simmons - uncredited)
1954 Hell's Half Acre (stunt double - uncredited)
1954 Stories of the Century (TV Series) (stunts - 1 episode)
- Billy the Kid (1954) ... (stunts - uncredited)
1953 The Wild One (fight double: Lee Marvin - uncredited)
1953 All the Brothers Were Valiant (stunts - uncredited)
1953 El Paso Stampede (stunt double: Allan Lane - uncredited)
1953 Bandits of the West (stunt double: Allan Lane - uncredited)
1953 Savage Frontier (stunts - uncredited)
1953 Law and Order (stunts - uncredited)
1953 Iron Mountain Trail (stunt double - uncredited)
1953 Old Overland Trail (stunt double - uncredited)
1953 Marshal of Cedar Rock (stunt double: Allan Lane - uncredited)
1953 Jungle Drums of Africa (stunt double: Clayton Moore - uncredited)
1952 Montana Belle (riding double: Stanley Andrews - uncredited)
1952 Voodoo Tiger (stunt double: Robert Bray - uncredited)
1952 South Pacific Trail (stunt double - uncredited)
1952 Desperadoes' Outpost (stunt double - uncredited)
1952 Old Oklahoma Plains (stunt double - uncredited)
1952 Cripple Creek (stunt double: George Montgomery - uncredited)
1952 Black Hills Ambush (stunt double - uncredited)
1952 Leadville Gunslinger (stunt double - uncredited)
1952 Rose of Cimarron (stunts - uncredited)
1952 Captive of Billy the Kid (stunt double - uncredited)
1952 Radar Men from the Moon (stunt double: George Wallace - uncredited)
1951 Desert of Lost Men (stunt double: Allan Lane - uncredited)
1951 Fort Dodge Stampede (stunt double: Allan Lane - uncredited)
1951 Lost Planet Airmen (stunt double: Tristram Coffin - uncredited)
1951 Government Agents vs Phantom Legion (stunt double: Dick Curtis & Pierce Lyden - uncredited)
1951 Secrets of Monte Carlo (stunts - uncredited)
1951 Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (TV Series) (stunt double - 1 episode)
- Indian Pony Express (1951) ... (stunt double: Rory Mallinson - uncredited)
1951 Sealed Cargo (stunts - uncredited)
1951 In Old Amarillo (stunts - uncredited)
1951 Wells Fargo Gunmaster (stunt double: Allan Lane - uncredited)
1951 Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas (stunt double: Hugh O'Brian - uncredited)
1951 Don Daredevil Rides Again (stunt double: Ken Curtis - uncredited)
1951 The Thing from Another World (stunts - uncredited)
1951 Silver City Bonanza (stunt double - uncredited)
1951 Night Riders of Montana (stunt double - uncredited)
1951 Rough Riders of Durango (stunt double: Rocky Lane - uncredited)
1950 Flying Disc Man from Mars (stunt double: Harry Lauter & Michael Carr - uncredited)
1950 Rustlers on Horseback (stunt double - uncredited)
1950 Frisco Tornado (stunt double - uncredited)
1950 Vigilante Hideout (stunt double - uncredited)
1950 Desperadoes of the West (stunt double: Tom Keene - uncredited)
1950 The Old Frontier (stunt double - uncredited)
1950 Covered Wagon Raid (stunt double - uncredited)
1950 Trigger, Jr. (stunt double: Roy Rogers - uncredited)
1950 The Invisible Monster (stunt double: Richard Webb - uncredited)
1950 Salt Lake Raiders (stunt double - uncredited)
1950 Comanche Territory (stunts - uncredited)
1950 The Vanishing Westerner (stunt double - uncredited)
1950 Code of the Silver Sage (stunt double - uncredited)
1950 Gunmen of Abilene (stunt double - uncredited)
1950/II Flash Gordon (stunts - archive footage, uncredited)
1949 Powder River Rustlers (stunt double - uncredited)
1949 Radar Patrol vs. Spy King (stunt double: Anthony Warde & Kirk Alyn - uncredited)
1949 Ranger of Cherokee Strip (stunt double - uncredited)
1949 Navajo Trail Raiders (stunt double - uncredited)
1949 San Antone Ambush (stunt double - uncredited)
1949 The James Brothers of Missouri (stunt double - uncredited)
1949 Bandit King of Texas (stunt double: Allan Lane - uncredited)
1949 Brimstone (stunts - uncredited)
1949 Mighty Joe Young (stunts - uncredited)
1949 The Wyoming Bandit (stunt double: Allan Lane - uncredited)
1949 Arson, Inc. (stunt double - uncredited)
1949 King of the Rocket Men (stunt double: Tristram Coffin & House Peters, Jr. [Chs. 2, 8] - uncredited)
1949 Outcasts of the Trail (stunt double - uncredited)
1949 Frontier Investigator (stunt double - uncredited)
1949 Prince of the Plains (stunts - uncredited)
1949 Ghost of Zorro (stunt double: Clayton Moore - uncredited)
1949 Federal Agents vs. Underworld, Inc. (stunt double: Roy Barcroft, Tristram Coffin & Kirk Alyn - uncredited)
1948 Renegades of Sonora (stunt double: Allan Lane - uncredited)
1948 Thunder in the Pines (stunt double: George Reeves - uncredited)
1948 Sundown in Santa Fe (stunt double - uncredited)
1948 Angel on the Amazon (stunts - uncredited)
1948 Adventures of Frank and Jesse James (stunt double: Clayton Moore - uncredited)
1948 The Denver Kid (stunt double - uncredited)
1948 Jungle Goddess (stunt double: George Reeves - uncredited)
1948 Eyes of Texas (stunts - uncredited)
1948 Marshal of Amarillo (stunt double - uncredited)
1948 The Timber Trail (stunts - uncredited)
1948 The Gallant Legion (stunts - uncredited)
1948 Carson City Raiders (stunts - uncredited)
1948 Old Los Angeles (stunt double - uncredited)
1948 Dangers of the Canadian Mounted (stunt double: Jim Bannon - uncredited)
1948 The Bold Frontiersman (stunt double: Allan Lane - uncredited)
1948 Oklahoma Badlands (stunt double - uncredited)
1948 G-Men Never Forget (stunt double: Clayton Moore [Chs. 1, 6], Drew Allen & Roy Barcroft - uncredited)
1947 Under Colorado Skies (stunts - uncredited)
1947 The Fabulous Texan (stunts - uncredited)
1947 The Black Widow (stunt double: Bruce Edwards - uncredited)
1947 The Wild Frontier (stunts - uncredited)
1947 Marshal of Cripple Creek (stunt double: Allan Lane - uncredited)
1947 Jesse James Rides Again (stunt double: Clayton Moore - uncredited)
1947 Wyoming (stunts - uncredited)
1947 Blackmail (stunts - uncredited)
1947 Rustlers of Devil's Canyon (stunt double: Tom Steele - uncredited)
1947 Web of Danger (stunt double - uncredited)
1947 Oregon Trail Scouts (stunt double: Allan Lane - uncredited)
1947 Homesteaders of Paradise Valley (stunt double: Allan Lane - uncredited)
1947 Code of the West (stunt double: James Warren - uncredited)
1947 Apache Rose (stunt double: Olin Howlin - uncredited)
1947 Vigilantes of Boomtown (stunt double: Allan Lane - uncredited)
1947 Trail to San Antone (stunt double: Tristram Coffin - uncredited)
1947 Son of Zorro (stunt double - uncredited)
1946 Stagecoach to Denver (stunt double: Allan Lane - uncredited)
1946 Out California Way (stunt double: John Dehner - uncredited)
1946 Santa Fe Uprising (stunt double: Allan Lane - uncredited)
1946 The Crimson Ghost (stunt double: Clayton Moore & I. Stanford Jolley - uncredited)
1946 Rio Grande Raiders (stunt double: Sunset Carson - uncredited)
1946 Daughter of Don Q (stunts - uncredited)
1946 The Mysterious Mr. M (stunt double: Richard Martin [Ch. 7], Casey MacGregor [Ch. 9], Jack Ingram [Ch. 11] and Joe Haworth [Chs. 11-12] - uncredited)
1946 Night Train to Memphis (stunt double - uncredited)
1946 Man from Rainbow Valley (stunts - uncredited)
1946 In Old Sacramento (stunt double - uncredited)
1946 The El Paso Kid (stunt double - uncredited)
1946 Sun Valley Cyclone (stunts - uncredited)
1946 King of the Forest Rangers (stunt double: Larry Thompson - uncredited)
1946 Home on the Range (stunt double: Monte Hale - uncredited)
1946 Alias Billy the Kid (stunt double - uncredited)
1946 Sheriff of Redwood Valley (stunt double: Wild Bill Elliott - uncredited)
1946 The Phantom Rider (fight double: Phantom Rider - uncredited)
1946 The Scarlet Horseman (stunts - uncredited)
1945 Wagon Wheels Westward (stunt double: Bill Elliott - uncredited)
1945 Rough Riders of Cheyenne (stunt double - uncredited)
1945 Don't Fence Me In (stunts - uncredited)
1945 Marshal of Laredo (stunt double - uncredited)
1945 The Purple Monster Strikes (stunt double: Bud Geary - uncredited)
1945 Secret Agent X-9 (stunts - uncredited)
1945 Oregon Trail (stunt double - uncredited)
1945 Trail of Kit Carson (stunt double: Allan Lane - uncredited)
1945 Federal Operator 99 (stunt double: Wally Wales - uncredited)
1945 The Vampire's Ghost (stunts - uncredited)
1945 Lone Texas Ranger (stunts - uncredited)
1945 The Master Key (stunt double - uncredited)
1945 Corpus Christi Bandits (stunt double: Allan Lane - uncredited)
1945 Sudan (stunts - uncredited)
1945 Salome Where She Danced (stunts - uncredited)
1945 Utah (stunt double: Wally Wales - uncredited)
1945 Manhunt of Mystery Island (stunt double: Richard Bailey - uncredited)
1945 Great Stagecoach Robbery (stunt double - uncredited)
1945 The Topeka Terror (stunt double - uncredited)
1945 Jeep Herders (stunts - uncredited)
1944 Sheriff of Las Vegas (stunt double: Wild Bill Elliott - uncredited)
1944 The Big Bonanza (stunts - uncredited)
1944 Firebrands of Arizona (stunt double: Sunset Carson - uncredited)
1944 Zorro's Black Whip (stunt double: Wally Wales - uncredited)
1944 Vigilantes of Dodge City (stunt double - uncredited)
1944 Sheriff of Sundown (stunt double - uncredited)
1944 The Mystery of the Riverboat (stunt double: Arthur Hohl - uncredited)
1944 Code of the Prairie (stunt double - uncredited)
1944 Cheyenne Wildcat (stunt double: Bill Elliott - uncredited)
1944 San Fernando Valley (stunts - uncredited)
1944 Stagecoach to Monterey (stunt double - uncredited)
1944 Haunted Harbor (stunt double: Wally Wales [Ch. 1] & Bud Geary - uncredited)
1944 The San Antonio Kid (stunt double - uncredited)
1944 Bordertown Trail (stunt double - uncredited)
1944 Song of Nevada (stunt double - uncredited)
1944 Silver City Kid (stunt double: Allan Lane - uncredited)
1944 Call of the Rockies (stunt double: Sunset Carson - uncredited)
1944 Trigger Trail (stunts - uncredited)
1944 Marshal of Reno (stunt double: Wild Bill Elliott - uncredited)
1944 Man from Frisco (stunts - uncredited)
1944 The Tiger Woman (stunt double: Allan Lane - uncredited)
1944 Tucson Raiders (stunts - uncredited)
1944 Call of the South Seas (stunt double - uncredited)
1944 Outlaws of Santa Fe (stunts - uncredited)
1944 The Laramie Trail (stunt double: Bob Livingston - uncredited)
1944 Hidden Valley Outlaws (stunt double - uncredited)
1944 Mojave Firebrand (stunt double: Bill Elliott - uncredited)
1944 Beneath Western Skies (stunt double: Bob Livingston - uncredited)
1944 Captain America (stunts - uncredited)
1944 The Fighting Seabees (stunts - uncredited)
1944 Pride of the Plains (stunts - uncredited)
1943 California Joe (stunts - uncredited)
1943 In Old Oklahoma (stunts - uncredited)
1943 Canyon City (stunts - uncredited)
1943 Overland Mail Robbery (stunts - uncredited)
1943 The Masked Marvel (stunts - uncredited)
1943 Wagon Tracks West (stunt double - uncredited)
1943 Beyond the Last Frontier (stunt double: Eddie Dew - uncredited)
1943 The Lone Star Trail (stunt double: Robert Mitchum - uncredited)
1943 Secret Service in Darkest Africa (stunt double: Rod Cameron - uncredited)
1943 The Man from Thunder River (stunt double - uncredited)
1943 Daredevils of the West (stunt double: Allan Lane - uncredited)
1943 G-men vs. the Black Dragon (stunt double: Rod Cameron - uncredited)
1942 Outlaws of Pine Ridge (stunts - uncredited)
1942 King of the Mounties (stunts - uncredited)
1942 Texas to Bataan (stunt double - uncredited)
1942 Deep in the Heart of Texas (stunt double - uncredited)
1942 Overland Mail (stunt double - uncredited)
1942 The Secret Code (stunts - uncredited)
1942 Junior G-Men of the Air (stunt double: Turhan Bey - uncredited)
1942 Perils of Nyoka (stunt double: Tristram Coffin - uncredited)
1942 Powder Town (stunt double - uncredited)
1942 Spy Smasher (stunts - uncredited)
1942 Gang Busters (stunt double - uncredited)
1942 Captain Midnight (stunts - uncredited)
1942 Don Winslow of the Navy (stunts - uncredited)
1941 Holt of the Secret Service (stunts - uncredited)
1941 South of Tahiti (stunt double - uncredited)
1941 Sea Raiders (stunt double: Reed Hadley - uncredited)
1941 King of the Texas Rangers (stunt double: Sammy Baugh - uncredited)
1941 Badlands of Dakota (stunts - uncredited)
1941 Hurricane Smith (stunt double - uncredited)
1941 Jungle Girl (stunt double: Gerald Mohr - uncredited) / (utility stunts - uncredited)
1941 Cyclone on Horseback (stunt double - uncredited)
1941 Country Fair (stunts - uncredited)
1941 Sky Raiders (stunt double - uncredited)
1940 Mysterious Doctor Satan (stunt double - uncredited)
1940 Give Us Wings (stunt double - uncredited)
1940 Seven Sinners (stunts - uncredited)
1940 Under Texas Skies (stunts - uncredited)
1940 Wild Horse Range (stunt double: Jack Randall)
1940 The Kid from Santa Fe (stunt double - uncredited)
1940 Covered Wagon Trails (stunt double: Jack Randall)
1940 Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (stunt double - uncredited)
1940 The Cheyenne Kid (stunt double - uncredited)
1940 Pioneer Days (stunt double: Jack Randall)
1939 Destry Rides Again (stunts - uncredited)
1939 The Phantom Creeps (stunts - uncredited)
1939 Dick Tracy's G-Men (stunt double: Irving Pichel - uncredited)
1939 Flight at Midnight (stunts - uncredited)
1939 Oklahoma Terror (stunt double - uncredited)
1939 In Old Monterey (stunts - uncredited)
1939 The Oregon Trail (stunt double - uncredited)
1939 Across the Plains (stunt double: Jack Randall - uncredited)
1939 Missing Daughters (stunts - uncredited)
1939 Forged Passport (stunts - uncredited)
1939 Buck Rogers (stunts - uncredited)
1939 Flying G-Men (stunts - uncredited)
1939 Gunga Din (stunts - uncredited)
1939 Scouts to the Rescue (stunts - uncredited)
1938 Wild Horse Canyon (stunt double: Jack Randall)
1938 Gun Packer (stunt double: Jack Randall)
1938 Storm Over Bengal (stunt double - uncredited)
1938 Trouble at Midnight (stunts)
1938 The Storm (stunts - uncredited)
1938 Red Barry (stunt double: Stanley Price - uncredited)
1938 The Spider's Web (stunts - uncredited)
1938 The Renegade Ranger (stunts - uncredited)
1938 The Mexicali Kid (stunt double: Jack Randall - uncredited)
1938 Heroes of the Hills (stunts - uncredited)
1938 Flaming Frontiers (stunt double - uncredited)
1938 The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (stunts - uncredited)
1938 The Fighting Devil Dogs (stunt double - uncredited)
1938 Gunsmoke Trail (stunt double: Jack Randall)
1938 The Nurse from Brooklyn (stunt double: Detective - uncredited)
1938 Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (stunt double - uncredited)
1938 State Police (stunts - uncredited)
1938 Call the Mesquiteers (stunt double - uncredited)
1938 Forbidden Valley (stunt double - uncredited)
1937 Tim Tyler's Luck (stunt double - uncredited)
1937 Wild Horse Rodeo (stunts - uncredited)
1937 Danger Valley (stunt double: Jack Randall - uncredited)
1937 The Westland Case (stunt double - uncredited)
1937 That's My Story! (stunt double - uncredited)
1937 Radio Patrol (stunts - uncredited)
1937 Riders of the Dawn (stunt double: Jack Randall)
1937 California Straight Ahead! (stunts - uncredited)
1937 Secret Agent X-9 (stunt double: Henry Brandon & Jack Cheatham - uncredited)
1937 Bill Cracks Down (stunt double - uncredited)
1937 Jungle Jim (stunt double: Al Bridge & Henry Brandon - uncredited)
1937 The Mighty Treve (stunts - uncredited)
1937 The Riders of the Whistling Skull (stunts - uncredited)
1936 Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island (stunts - uncredited)
1936 The Charge of the Light Brigade (stunts - uncredited)
1936 Ace Drummond (stunts - uncredited)
1936 Crash Donovan (stunts - uncredited)
1936 The Glory Trail (stunts - uncredited)
1936 Parole! (stunt double - uncredited)
1936 Undersea Kingdom (stunt double - uncredited)
1936/I Flash Gordon (stunts - uncredited)
1936 The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (stunts - uncredited)
1935 Captain Blood (stunts - uncredited)
1935 The Call of the Savage (stunts - uncredited)
1934 The Red Rider (stunts - uncredited)