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100 1 $aCanutt, Yakima,$d1895-1986.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79098039
245 10 $aStunt man :$bthe autobiography of Yakima Canutt with Oliver Drake /$cforeword by Charlton Heston ; introduction by John Crawford ; afterword by John Wayne.
260 $aNorman :$bUniversity of Oklahoma Press,$c[1997]
300 $ax, 252 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aOriginally published: New York : Walker, 1979.
500 $aIncludes index.
504 $aFilmography: p. 238-242.
520 $aEven before "talkies" came along, Yakima Canutt was thrilling motion-picture audiences with his daring stunts in blood-and-thunder Westerns - and starring in them too. The former rodeo champion stunted in or directed the action of some of the most famous Hollywood films: Stagecoach, Gone with the Wind, Spartacus, and Ivanhoe, to name a few.
520 8 $aIn Stunt Man, Yakima (with Oliver Drake) tells how he doubled for a galaxy of Hollywood stars - among others John Wayne, Clark Gable, Kirk Douglas, and Errol Flynn - and for a nameless Indian in the famous fall beneath a wagon in Stagecoach. He describes the ingenious equipment he invented for such stunts as toppling a horse-drawn wagon over a cliff, driving it through a deep river, or blowing it up - and how he arranged the convincing "death" of Messala in the 1959 remake of the Ben Hur chariot race.
520 8 $aHis achievements and safety standards in devising stunts earned him an Academy Award in 1966 - the only stunt man ever to receive one. Charlton Heston and John Wayne contributed a foreword and afterword to this book in his honor. In the introduction, John Crawford, an actor (and cousin of the author), provides a record of Yakima's achievements.
600 10 $aCanutt, Yakima,$d1895-1986.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79098039
650 0 $aStunt performers$zUnited States$vBiography.
700 1 $aDrake, Oliver.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79098042
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