No One Believed These Yakima Canutt Stories! Until They Watched This!

No One Believed These Yakima Canutt Stories! Until They Watched This! Yakima Canutt was the cowboy Hollywood erased — and then could not live without. He invented the modern stunt profession, taught John Wayne how to throw a punch, and staged the most famous action scene in movie history. Born Enos Edward Canutt on a ranch near Colfax, Washington in 1895, he broke his first wild bronco at age 11 and became a five-time world champion rodeo cowboy before Hollywood ever knew his name. He starred in 48 silent westerns as a handsome leading man — until the arrival of sound film exposed a voice scarred by the 1918 Spanish flu and ended his acting career overnight. Instead of going home, he reinvented himself as the greatest stuntman who ever lived. He doubled John Wayne and Clark Gable, drove a buggy through the burning of Atlanta in Gone with the Wind, and performed the legendary stagecoach fall that director John Ford refused to ever shoot again. He invented the screen fist fight, designed safety devices that saved countless lives, and staged the thunderous Ben-Hur chariot race that helped the film win 11 Oscars. In 1967, he became the first stuntman in history to receive an Academy Award. A champion rodeo rider, a silent film star, a Hollywood legend who spent 50 years making other men look brave — and one of the most important figures in movie history that most people have never heard of. What is your favorite Yakima Canutt stunt or film? Tell us in the comments — we read every single one. Subscribe to Tinsel Town Legends and hit the bell so you never miss another deep dive into the forgotten stars of Golden Age Hollywood. 0:00 The Cowboy Hollywood Erased 1:10 Number 1 — A Ranch Boy Who Broke Broncos Before He Broke His Own Rules 2:21 Number 2 — The Name That Was Never Even His 3:22 Number 3 — The Champion Who Owned the Rodeo Circuit 4:46 Number 4 — The Silent Cowboy Star Nobody Remembers 5:58 Number 5 — The Afternoon His Own Voice Betrayed Him 7:12 Number 6 — The Man Who Invented a Whole New Job 8:30 Number 7 — The Duke and the Fake Punch That Fooled the World 9:56 Number 8 — The Inventor Who Made Dying on Camera Survivable 11:16 Number 9 — The Stagecoach Fall That No One Would Dare Film Twice 13:07 Number 10 — The Broken Body, the Golden Statue, and the Chariot Race Facts and stories used to write the script of this video are well-researched. The following references are used: Yakima Canutt — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakima_... Yakima Canutt — IMDb https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0134831/ Yakima Canutt — National Rodeo Hall of Fame https://nationalcowboymuseum.org/coll... Yakima Canutt — Hollywood Walk of Fame https://walkoffame.com/yakima-canutt/ Yakima Canutt — Hollywood Stunts Hall of Fame https://stuntmen.org/inductee/yakima-... Yakima Canutt — HistoryLink (Washington State) https://www.historylink.org/file/20843 Stagecoach (1939) Trivia — IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031971/... In Praise of Yakima Canutt — BFI https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/yakim... Yakima Canutt Filmography — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakima_... Stunt Man: The Autobiography of Yakima Canutt — Goodreads   / stunt-man   #YakimaCanutt #HollywoodStuntman #GoldenAgeHollywood #TinselTownLegends #JohnWayne --- Tinsel Town Legends does not own all content featured in this video. All rights remain with the original copyright owners. We use portions of copyrighted material under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act (Fair Use) for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. If you are the copyright owner and believe any content is used incorrectly, please contact us and we will promptly review the request. Viewers may also contact us if they see any problem in the content being used Contact Email: tinseltownlegends@gmail.com