Anecdotes

He was the first to do a "horse transfer" (transferring from a galloping horse to another moving object).

1917, 1919-1920 & 1923 World All-Around Rodeo Champion.

Named Yakima after the city of Yakima, Washington. Installed in the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, OK (USA).

His widow Audrea passed away at the ripe old age of 98 on Feb. 12, 2006.

Yak had 2 sons, Edward "Tap" (born 1932), Harry Joe (born 1937) and a daughter, Audrea Elaine "Honey" (born 1940). Both of his sons became stunt professionals.

Inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame of the Rodeo Historical Society (a support group of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum) in 1975.

Father of stuntmen Joe Canutt and Tap Canutt. His daughter Audrea married the stuntman Tom L. Dittman.

The Notices of Intention to Marry in the LA Times on November 14, 1929 lists Enos E. Canutt (33); Helene M. Dearholt (31). There is no verified record of their marriage. Yakima Canutt married Minnie Rice in 1931. That marriage ended at his death after 54 years. Helene Rosson Dearholt (1899-1985) did not marry again following her 1926 Ashton Dearholt divorce.

Yakima Canutt received an Honorary Academy Award in 1967 as recognition for creating the modern profession known today as Stunt Man. The Award was presented by Bob Hope and Charlton Heston.

Was a guest at the 1980 Memphis Film Festival.

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 160-162. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.

Cousin to Nona Bittle from Lewiston-Clarkston; who is the Great Grandmother of "Magnificent Kaaboom" creator Zachary Whitmore.

While making a picture near Harding, Montana., Yakima Canutt, a Hal Roach actor, was seriously burned, according to word received here last week. Canutt was galloping toward the camera with a torch in his hand when one of the flares exploded.