Yakima Canutt
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
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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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