JOE CANUTT
Information from IMDb
Date of Birth
19 January 1937,
Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Name
Harry Joe Canutt
Height
6' 2" (1.88 m)
Trivia
Son of director/stuntman Yakima Canutt, brother of stuntman Tap Canutt.
Joe doubled for Charlton Heston in the famous chariot race in Ben-Hur (1959).
Joe was driving in the sequence in which Heston's chariot is launched
over the wreck of another chariot and the driver is seen falling almost under the horses.
Joe suffered a four-stitch cut to his chin while filming that sequence.
He here is a fascinating link to a blog,
highlighting this very sequence
with a series of great stills.
Filmography
Stunts
1977 MacArthur, the Rebel General (stunt coordinator)
1976 The Last Hard Men (stunt coordinator, stunt double: Charlton Heston, stunts - uncredited)
1975 Breakheart Pass (stunts)
1975 Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (stunts - uncredited)
1975 The Drowning Pool (stunts - uncredited)
1975 Mandingo (stunt coordinator)
1974 Earthquake (stunt double: Charlton Heston - uncredited, stunts - uncredited)
1974 Airport 1975 (stunt coordinator, stunts - uncredited)
1974 Call Harry Crown (stunts - uncredited)
1973 Papillon (stunt gaffer)
1973 Soylent Green (stunt coordinator - uncredited, stunt double: Charlton Heston - uncredited)
1972 Across 110th Street (stuntman)
1972 When the Legends Die (stunt coordinator)
1972 Jeremiah Johnson (stunts - uncredited)
1972 Skyjacked (stunts - uncredited)
1971 The Omega Man (action coordinator, stunts - uncredited)
1970 Rio Lobo (stunts - uncredited)
1970 Dirty Dingus Magee (stunts - uncredited)
1970 Macho Callahan (stunts - uncredited)
1970 Chisum (stunts - uncredited)
1970 The Cheyenne Social Club (stunts - uncredited)
1970 Patton (action coordinator, stunt coordinator - uncredited)
1969 The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (stunts - uncredited)
1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (stunts - uncredited)
1969 The Wild Bunch (stunt double: "Lyle" - uncredited)
1969 Mackenna's Gold (stunts - uncredited)
1968 Bandolero! (stunts - uncredited)
1968 The Scalphunters (stunts - uncredited)
1968 Will Penny (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
1968 Planet of the Apes (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
1967 Lost in Space (TV series) (stunt double: Guy Williams - 1 episode)– The Anti-Matter Man (1967) (stunt double: Guy Williams - uncredited)
1967 Camelot (stunts - uncredited)
1966 El Dorado (stunts - uncredited)
1966 Texas Across the River (stunts - uncredited)
1966 The Monroes (TV series) (stunts)
1966 Khartoum (stunts - uncredited)
1966 The Rare Breed (stunts - uncredited)
1965 The War Lord (stunt coordinator, stunts)
1965 The Great Race (stunts - uncredited)
1965 Shenandoah (stunts - uncredited)
1965 Major Dundee (stunts - uncredited)
1963 McLintock! (stunts - uncredited)
1961 The Comancheros (stunts - uncredited)
1961 El Cid (stunts - uncredited)
1960 The Alamo (stunts - uncredited)
1960 Spartacus (stunts - uncredited)
1959 Ben-Hur (stunt double: Charlton Heston - uncredited, stunts - uncredited)
1959 Laramie (TV series) (stunts)
1959 Pork Chop Hill (stunts - uncredited)
1957 Old Yeller (stunts - uncredited)
1957 Gun Glory (stunts - uncredited)
1956 Westward Ho, the Wagons! (stunts - uncredited)
1955 The King's Thief (stunts - uncredited)
1955 The Last Command (stunts - uncredited)
1955 Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (stunts - uncredited)
1955 The Far Horizons (stunts - uncredited)
1955 Seven Angry Men (stunts - uncredited)
1955 The Prodigal (stunts - uncredited)
1954 20000 Leagues Under the Sea (stunts - uncredited)
1954 The Adventures of Hajji Baba (stunts - uncredited)
1954 King Richard and the Crusaders (stunts - uncredited)
Actor
1975 The Drowning Pool...Glo
1972 Skyjacked...Hunter
1965-1967 Daniel Boone (TV series)
Pushmataha / Settler #2
– The Wolf Man (1967) … Settler #2
– The Courtship of Jericho Jones (1965) … Pushmataha
1960 The Alamo...Bowie's Man (uncredited)
1960 Spartacus...Soldier (uncredited)
1959 Ben-Hur...Sportsman (uncredited)
1957 The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (TV series)– The Indian Hater (1957) … Brave
1956 The Swan...Mounted Hussar (uncredited)
1955 The Far Horizons...Joe (uncredited)
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (7 titles)
1990 Treasure Island (TV movie) (second unit director)
1983 The Golden Seal (second unit director)
1982 Mother Lode (second unit director)
1980 The Mountain Men (second unit director)
1972 Antony and Cleopatra (second unit director)
1970 Julius Caesar (second unit director)
1965 The War Lord (action sequences director)
