Biography

Charles Stevens was born on May 26, 1893 in Solomonsville, Arizona, USA. He was an actor and assistant director, known for The Three Musketeers (1921), The Americano (1916) and Ebb Tide (1937). He was married to Lila Ethel Berry. He died on August 22, 1964 in Hollywood, California, USA.

Stevens was publicized as the grandson of famed Apache warrior Geronimo, but this was pure invention. His father was a white Arizona sheriff named George Stevens, and his mother was a Mexican woman named Eloisa Michalana. The story about Stevens being Apache may have started because his father's first wife, Francesca, was the daughter of a chief of the White Mountain Apache tribe (Geronimo was a member of another Apache tribe, the Chiricahua). She died in 1882, 11 years before Charles was born. His father's second wife--Charles' mother--had no Apache blood at all.

He played his purported real life grandfather Geronimo in two episodes of The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1954).

Played Indian Charley in three films - "Frontier Marshal" (1939), "Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die" (1942), and "My Darling Clementine" (1946).

In addition to his work as an actor, Stevens was the warden of the St. Mary of the Angels Episcopal Church in Hollywood, where the presiding reverend was Neal Dodd.