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Joe Canutt was born on January 19, 1937 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and assistant director, known for The Omega Man (1971), Soylent Green (1973) and Patton (1970). He was married to Gail. He died on March 16, 2018 in Goleta, California, USA.
- January 19, 1937
- March 16, 2018
Joe Canutt. Stunts: The Omega Man. Joe Canutt was born on 19 January 1937 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and assistant director, known for The Omega Man (1971), Soylent Green (1973) and Patton (1970).
- January 1, 1
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- January 1, 1
- Goleta, California, USA
Canutt tried to get into directing; he was growing older and knew his stunting days were numbered. Harry Joe, Canutt's second son, was born in January 1937. Brothers Joe and Tap later got work as stuntmen with their father. [citation needed] In 1938, Republic Pictures started expanding into bigger pictures and budgets.
Dec 24, 2015 · Now as for the “unplanned event”, in a very specific shot, Joe Canutt was stunt doubling for Charlton Heston as Ben Hur. The stunt called for Joe Canutt to drive his chariot over the wreckage of two others — actually a short ramp placed in his path and blocked from camera sight by one pile of debris. In concept it was a pretty simple ...
Jul 12, 1997 · Joe Canutt, doubling for Heston, received the only injury when he was flipped out of chariot, catching himself on the center hitching rail before pulling himself back in place. ... This is the ...
Mar 16, 2018 · Joe Canutt is known as an Stunts, Stunt Coordinator, Actor, Stunt Double, and Second Unit Director. Some of his work includes Ben-Hur, Spartacus, The Drowning Pool, The Alamo, Charlton Heston and Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey, Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic, and The Dick Cavett Show.
Joe Canutt is an American actor and stuntman. A frequent stunt double for Charlton Heston (Ben-Hur, Soylent Green, Earthquake, The Last Hard Man), he worked as stunt coordinator on Planet of the Apes, in which he also played the primitive human who fought with Taylor after he had destroyed the words Taylor had scrawled in the dirt floor of their stockade. "I remember one day we'd been working ...
