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Name: Yakima Canutt
Variant Name: Enos Edward Canutt
Birth Date: November 29, 1896
Death Date: May 24, 1986
Place of Birth: Colfax, Washington, United States
Place of Death: Los Angeles, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: rodeo performer, actor, stunt performer, director

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Biography of Yakima Canutt
1,001 words, approx. 3 pages
As a second-unit director for action sequences, Yakima Canutt (1896-1986) made scores of films during the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, but his best-known work is the chariot race in Ben-Hur (1959), starring Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd. Yakima...


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Yakima Canutt Information
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Yakima Canutt (November 29, 1896 - May 24, 1986) was an American actor and stuntman in Hollywood movies from the 1920s through the 1950s. He was born Enos Edward Canutt in the Snake River Hills, near Colfax, Washington. As a young man, he gained fame as...


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Soldiers
Training at Yakima
09/01/2006: 1,635 words, approx. 6 pages
AWAKENING to the rumble of 155mm howitzers in barren, mountainous steppes reminiscent of Southwest Asia is a rite of passage observed for decades by Soldiers from Fort Lewis, Wash., and throughout the western United States. But today, battling the high desert elements of Washington's...
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Soldiers Magazine
Training at Yakima.(Yakima Training Center)
09/01/2006: 1,541 words, approx. 5 pages
AWAKENING to the rumble of 155mm howitzers in barren, mountainous steppes reminiscent of Southwest Asia is a rite of passage observed for decades by Soldiers from Fort Lewis, Wash., and throughout the western United States. But today, battling the high desert elements of...
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The New York Observer
Stagecoach: Is There Such A Thing as an Anti-Western?
7/16/2006: 1,035 words, approx. 4 pages
Stagecoach is to American movies what The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is to American literature. It’s a work deep in the national character, and, like Huck Finn, its meaning is often taken to be its exact opposite. John Ford’s 1939 western, the story of a...
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The New York Observer
Stagecoach: Is There Such A Thing as an Anti-Western?
7/16/2006: 1,036 words, approx. 4 pages
Stagecoach is to American movies what The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is to American literature. It’s a work deep in the national character, and, like Huck Finn, its meaning is often taken to be its exact opposite. John Ford’s 1939 western, the story of a...
 


 

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