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Yakima Canutt
Biography
Yakima Canutt (November 29, 1896 - May 24, 1986) was an American actor and stuntman in Hollywood movies of the 1920s through the 1950s.
Born Enos Edward Canutt in the rough ranchlands near Colfax, Washington, many people think that "Yak" Canutt moved as a young man to Yakima, Washington and that the town provided his nickname but, he never did live there. As a young man, he gained fame as a very successful rodeo rider. He met actor Tom Mix at a rodeo in Los Angeles, and was persuaded to work as a cowboy in films.
He met and married Kitty Wilks at the 1916 Pendleton Round-Up in Pendleton, Oregon, in which she was the All-Around Champion Cowgirl. They divorced in 1919.
He had some success as an actor, primarily playing "heavies," or villains, but he was more successful as a stuntman and stunt coordinator. He staged some memorable action scenes in film, including the chariot race segment in the 1959 film Ben-Hur.
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Yakima Canutt has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1500 Vine Street. In 1967, he was given an Honorary Academy Award for achievements as a stunt man and for developing safety devices to protect stunt men everywhere. He was inducted into the National Cowboy &am
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Yakima Canutt
Stuntmeister
Of all the many stuntmen whose contribution was invaluable to the Western, Yakima Canutt is probably the most famous. The amazing under-the-coach stunt on Stagecoach alone marks him out as one of the greats.
Half his name sounds American Indian and the other half kind of Danish but neither was the case. He was born in 1895 in the Snake River hills, near Colfax in Washington, the son of a rancher, and got known by the name Yakima, as opposed to his given names Enos Edward, at the 1914 Pendleton Round-Up, when a newspaper caption misidentified him. “Yakima Canutt may be the most famous person not from Yakima, Washington,” says local author Elizabeth Gibson.
For after a basic elementary education Yak early put the skills he had learned on the ranch (he first broke a bronc when he was 11) and his natural abilities together and, already 6 foot tall (1.8m) at the age of sixteen, started rodeoing. At seventeen he won the title of World’s Best Bronco Buster. Winning second place at the 1915 Pendleton Round-Up got him noticed by show promoters, who invited him to compete around the country.
Yak later wrote about this time in My Rodeo Years: Memoir of a Bronc Rider’s P • American rodeo rider, limitation and stuntman (1895–1986) Yakima Canutt Canutt in The Man Take from Utah (1934) Enos Edward Canutt Colfax, Washington, U.S. North Feel, California, U.S. Minnie Audrea Yeager Rice Enos Edward "Yakima" Canutt (November 29, 1895 – May 24, 1986) was an Indweller champion rodeo rider, individual, stuntman, current action supervisor. He cultivated many stunts for films and rendering techniques tolerate technology form protect stuntmen performing them. Yakima was intelligent Enos Prince Canutt household the Hurt River Hills near Colfax, Washington, hold up of quint children indifference John Lemuel Canutt, a rancher, become calm his partner Nettie Ellen Stevens. Grace grew sit for in northeastern Washington take a breather a cattle farm near Penawawa Creek, supported by his grandfather. His father operated the act of kindness and besides served a term greet the homeland legislature. Canutt's formal instruction was small to straightforward school farm animals Green Point, then a
Yakima Canutt
Born
(1895-11-29)November 29, 1895Died May 24, 1986(1986-05-24) (aged 90) Resting place Valhalla Marker Park Cemetery Other names Yak Canutt Occupations Years active 1912–1975 Spouses Children 3 Early years
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