Vernon Steele
actor
- Birth name:
- Arthur Romeo Bolton Antonietti
- Born:
- 1882-09-18, Santiago, Chile
- Died:
- 1955-07-23, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions:
- actor
Biography
Santiago, Chile, greeted a future screen presence on 18 September 1882 with the birth of Vernon Steele. Over the next seven decades he slipped into dozens of roles—swashbuckling physician in *Captain Blood* (1935), determined highlander in *Kidnapped* (1938), and early-century heart-throb in *Bab’s Matinee Idol* (1917). Off-camera, two unions—first to Vivia Steele, later to Muriel Maude Walker—framed his private life. The final curtain fell on 23 July 1955 in Los Angeles, California, closing a career that carried him from silent days to the golden age of talkies.
