Print, Photographic

Freddie Steele

Freddie Steele

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Print, Photographic

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1810

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Freddie Steele was a world middle weight champion boxer in the 1930s and he then became a movie star in the 1940s. He appeared in a number of Hollywood movies in the 1940s, most notably in the Oscar-nominated Hail the Conquering Hero. He was also Sergeant Steve Warnicki in The Story of G.I. Joe. Steele was one of the three original inductees into the Tacoma-Pierce County Sports Hall of Fame when it opened in 1957.

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Boxing, Professional/Semi-Pro

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Steele, Freddie