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Yakima Canutt publicity photo c.1933 Framed Print
by David Lee Guss
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Yakima Canutt publicity photo c.1933 framed print by David Lee Guss. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
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Pioneer stunt man Yakima Canutt (1895-1986) worked with Duke from 1932 to Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo (1959).... more
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Pioneer stunt man Yakima Canutt (1895-1986) worked with Duke from 1932 to Howard Hawks' "Rio Bravo" (1959).
Yak's most daring stunt on a Wayne picture was retrieving the dangling reins from the out of control horse's hooves in "Stagecoach."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C43x88DbuIY
Yakima is best remembered today for his staging of the chariot race in William Wyler's "Ben-Hur" (1959). He also doubled for Charlton Heston.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La70eV1mTe0
Like Duke 'Yak' got into films with the help of Tom Mix. He last worked at 80 as stunt coordinator for "Breakheart Pass" (1975), having been awarded a special Oscar in 1966.
@2013 - David Lee Guss - Film homage, Yakima Canutt, c.1933-2013
About David Lee Guss
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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