Vautrin Vautrin The Thief (1943)

Born: 8 February 1943. William Charles Schneider. Father, William Frank Schneider died in World War II. Mother Cozzette, (who still lives in Coarsegold) remarried and I became Chuck Ertmoed. My paternal grandparents, Grace and Gus Schneider settled in Oakhurst in 1923. They homesteaded a ranch located off road 426.
"While traveling in Europe, I changed my name to Creed Bratton,. I was born into a very musical family and lived my childhood in a small town near Yosemite, "Coarsegold". Everyone played music - my father, banjo; mother, mandolin; maternal grandfather, guitar; grandmother, drums; my paternal grandfather could play almost any instrument and was the leader of "The Bull Dog Minstrels" (on board the U.S.S. Oregon in the Pacific theater during the Spanish American War) and played bones, danced buck and wing, and sang. He was the Art Director on the classic silent movie, "The Thief of Bagdad" starring Douglas Fairbanks." (Stars in US series "The Office")