Yakima Canutt

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Yakima Canutt
Yakima Canutt in The Man from Utah.jpg
Canutt in The Man From Utah (1934)
Background information
Born as: Enos Edward Canutt
Other names: Yak Canutt
Born Nov 29, 1895
Colfax, Washington, U.S.
Died May 24, 1986 - age  91
North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
 
Buried: Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
Spouse(s): Catherine "Kitty" Wilks
1916 - 1922 divorce
Minnie Audrea Yeager Rice
1931 - 1985 death
Children: 3
Occupation: Actor
director
stuntman
rodeo rider
Years active: 1912 - 1975

Enos Edward "Yakima" Canutt (✦November 29, 1895 – May 24, 1986), raised near Colfax, Washington, 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.

Career (Partial}

Ben Hur

For Ben Hur (1959), Canutt staged the chariot race with nine teams of four horses. He trained Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd to do their own charioteering. He and his crew spent five months on the race sequence. In contrast to the 1925 film, not one horse was hurt, and no humans experienced serious injuries. His son Joe Canutt, while doubling for Charlton Heston, cut his chin because he did not follow his father's advice to hook himself to the chariot when Judah Ben Hur's chariot bounced over the wreck of another chariot

More information is available at [ Wikipedia:Yakima_Canutt ]


A Personal Note from Robin

My grandfather, Ted Elder, worked with Yakima Canutt in the filming of Ben Hur.

See also [ Ted Elder ]

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