- 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.
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