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Enos Edward " Yakima " Canutt (November 29, 1895 – May 24, 1986) was an American champion rodeo rider, actor, stuntman, and action director. He developed many stunts for films and the techniques and technology to protect stuntmen in performing them.
Hollywood's most renowned stuntman and second unit director, a pioneer the field, Yakima Canutt was born on a ranch on Penewawa Creek in the Snake River Hills, 16 miles from Colfax, Washington. Canutt grew up riding and roping.
Jan 1, 1979 · One of Hollywood's most respected stunt men reveals the inside story on how he coached John Wayne on his walk, taught Gene Autry to ride, and doubled for Gable and Flynn, plus other fascinating movie-making tales. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more.
- Yakima Canutt, Oliver Drake
Oct 21, 2019 · Enos Edward "Yakima" Canutt was a champion rodeo star who parlayed his dexterity on horseback into a legendary career as a Hollywood stuntman. Born in 1895 on his family's ranch near Colfax, Washington, Canutt was 18 when a newspaper photographer at the Pendleton Roundup gave him the nickname "Yakima," and Canutt, who disliked his given name ...
Jun 8, 2017 · Yakima Canutt’s daredevil horse stunts from 1939’s Stagecoach (shown) were reused by MGM in two pictures. If John Wayne hadn’t brought Canutt onto John Ford’s set, who knows when, if ever, the Westerns genre would have advanced from kiddie fare to adult cinema.
Yakima Canutt. Second Unit or Assistant Director: Ben-Hur. Starting out as a rodeo cowboy and then becoming a stuntman in silent westerns, Yakima Canutt later doubled for such stars as Clark Gable and John Wayne, among others, in such dangerous activities as jumping off the top of a cliff on horseback, leaping from a stagecoach onto its runaway ...
Canutt famously performed the wild stunts in John Ford's landmark western "Stagecoach," leaping from horseback to a train of horses pulling the titular stagecoach, then dropping...
