George Brent

George Brent has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for his contributions to Motion Pictures at 1707 Vine St, and for his contributions to Television at 1614 Vine St. He has been inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame. He died shortly after in Solana Beach, California, from emphysema. His autobiography "Stuntman" was published in 1979. She expressed great remorse at his ill health, and sadness that such a virile and attractive man could have deteriorated so dramatically. His sons Joe Canutt and Tap Canutt also worked as stuntmen. Davis recounted in her final years, what would be her last meeting with Brent after many years of estrangement. He staged some of the most memorable action scenes ever committed to film, including the heart-stopping chariot race segment in the 1959 film Ben-Hur.

He was married six times including three marriages to actresses - Ruth Chatterton (1932-1934), Constance Worth (1937) and Ann Sheridan (1942-1943). He had some success as an actor, primarily playing "heavies," but his real talent was as a stuntman and stunt coordinator. Brent was known as a womaniser in Hollywood, and had a lengthy relationship with his co-star Bette Davis. He met actor Tom Mix at a rodeo in Los Angeles, and was persuaded to work as a cowboy in films. He retired from acting in 1956 but made a return in 1978 in the made-for-television production Born Again. There he gained fame as a very successful rodeo rider. When not playing against a popular female lead, Brent's few starring roles failed to achieve success, and he drifted into "B" pictures from the late 1940s. Born Enos Edward Canutt in the rough ranchlands near Colfax, Washington, "Yak" Canutt moved as a young man to Yakima, Washington (the town from which he borrowed his nickname).

Ames (1936), Jean Arthur in More Than a Secretary (1936), Myrna Loy in The Rains Came (1939), Merle Oberon in 'Til We Meet Again (1940), Ann Sheridan in Honeymoon For Three (1941), Joan Fontaine in The Affairs of Susan (1945), Barbara Stanwyck in My Reputation (1946), Claudette Colbert in Tomorrow is Forever (1946), Dorothy McGuire in The Spiral Staircase (1946), Lucille Ball in Lover Come Back (1946) and Yvonne De Carlo in Slave Girl (1947). Yakima Canutt (November 29, 1896 - May 24, 1986) was an actor and stunt man in Hollywood movies of the 1920s through the 1950s. He also played opposite Greta Garbo in The Painted Veil (1934), Madeleine Carroll in The Case Against Mrs. Highly regarded by Davis, he became her most frequent male co-star, appearing with her in twelve films, including Jezebel (1938), The Old Maid (1939), Dark Victory (1939) and The Great Lie (1941). As a leading man for many of the studios leading stars, most notably Bette Davis, Brent was usually overshadowed by them, however this was a deliberate choice of the studio who wanted to ensure that the actress was shown as the key player.