Charles Stevens
actor, assistant_director
- Birth name:
- Carlos Stevens
- Born:
- 1893-05-26, Solomonsville, Arizona, USA
- Died:
- 1964-08-22, Hollywood, California, USA
- Professions:
- actor, assistant_director
Biography
A boy who drew his first breath in the heat-baked border town of Solomonsville, Arizona Territory, on 26 May 1893 grew up to trade desert dust for studio spotlights. Charles Stevens galloped through the silent era as a swashbuckling Musketeer, tangoed with danger in The Americano, and later surrendered to the languid pull of Ebb Tide. Between takes he doubled as an assistant director, orchestrating chaos behind the lens while courting leading-lady Lila Ethel Berry, who became his off-screen co-star for life. Six decades and a continent later, the final curtain fell on Hollywood Boulevard, 22 August 1964, closing the reel on a journeyman who had carried the frontier’s restless spirit into the flickering heart of cinema.
