Gary Kent, stuntman who inspired Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood,’ dies at 89

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Gary Kent, stuntman who inspired Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood,’ dies at 89
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Kent's earliest films include 'Battle Flame,' horror flick 'The Thrill Killers,' the original 'The Black Klansman' and biker film 'The Savage Seven.'

in 2018 that the most dangerous stunt he’d ever performed was on that particular set and no, it wasn’t the drugs.“I had to climb into this building and hang by my hands on the edge of this glass dome at this old art museum in L.A.,” he told the outlet. “I had to hang by my hands and swing onto this balcony and because of where the camera was, they couldn’t put any pads down. I barely made it.”

“My first stunt was going down the cellar stairs and I broke my arm,” Kent said in the 2018 documentary ““I went down the stairs on my tricycle, and the only one around was my sister Patty, and my mother said, ‘You were always that way, that started your stunt career.’”Film reporters and critics from The Times discuss Quentin Tarantino’s highly personal historical epic “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood.

“There was a bridge that went across Cedar River [in Washington] and there was a pipe railing on both sides that people could hold onto, and during the winter that would freeze over,” he recalled in the documentary. Eager to break into the film industry, Kent spent all day working in a production office and attended small drama groups at night, acting in plays until 1 a.m.

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