Geronimo - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

Geronimo is a popular figure in cinema and television. Characters based on Geronimo have appeared in many films, including:

• Geronimo's Last Raid (1912)
• Hawk of the Wilderness (1938)
• Geronimo (1939 film) (1939)
• Stagecoach (1939)
• Valley of the Sun (1942)
• Fort Apache (1948)
• Broken Arrow (1950)
• I Killed Geronimo (1950)
• The Last Outpost (1951)
• Son of Geronimo (1952)
• The Battle at Apache Pass (1952)
• Indian Uprising (1952)
• Apache (1954)
• Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)
• Walk the Proud Land (1956)
• Geronimo (1962 film) (1962)
• Geronimo und die Räuber (West German, 1966)
• I Due superpiedi quasi piatti (1976)
• Mr. Horn (1979)
• Gunsmoke: The Last Apache (1990)
• Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
• Geronimo (TV film) (starring Joseph Runningfox) (1993)

In 1954, Chief Yowlachie appeared as Geronimo in an episode of the same name of Jim Davis's syndicated western television series, Stories of the Century. Brett King played Lieutenant Gatewood in the segment.

John Doucette played the role of Geronimo on the syndicated series Death Valley Days and in three segments of Tombstone Territory, starring with Pat Conway and Richard Eastham.

Geronimo's life is described and dramatised in Episode 4 of the 2009 Ric Burns/American Experience documentary We Shall Remain.

In How Few Remain, Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel depicting a world in which the Confederacy won the American Civil War, Geronimo becomes an ally to Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart, and then turns into Stuart's bitter foe, eventually assassinating him.

Thanks to a 1939 movie about Geronimo, US paratroopers traditionally shout "Geronimo" to show they have no fear of jumping out of an airplane. Other 'native American' traditions were also adopted in WWII, such as 'Mohawk' haircuts, face paint and spears on their unit patches.