The Australian film stunt actor was 85 years old

Grant Page in 1975 after he jumped off a cliff while surrounded by fire and fell down a rope more than 300 feet high.

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Grant Page, the famous Australian actor who is known for his amazing work in films including Mad Max, The guy is from Hong Kong And Mad Dog Morgan, He died. He was 85 years old.

Page died on Thursday when the car he was driving near his home in Kendall on the New South Wales coast collided with a tree, his son Leroy Page said. Daily Mail Australia.

Page has worked with director Brian Trenchard Smith on more than a dozen projects, including… Acrobats (1973), King Fu’s killers (1974), The guy is from Hong Kong (1973) – where Page fights martial arts expert Jimmy Wang Yu in scenes using knives, cleavers, and meat hooks – Death cheaters (1976), Stunt rock (1978) and Hospitals don’t burn! (1978).

And for the documentary Dangerfreaks (1987), Trenchard Smith photographed Page standing on a ledge outside the perimeter fence on the observation deck of the Empire State Building in New York.

The page “successfully manipulated the laws of physics and probability,” Trenchard Smith wrote Thursday in a blog post. “The spirit of ‘Get started’, ‘Think on your feet, set a good goal and go for it’ is the quality which has distinguished distinguished Australians in all fields of endeavour, was clearly present in Grant.

“He had courage and daring, tempered with a matter-of-fact attitude about the dangers of his profession in an era before computer-generated stunts.”

By George Miller Mad Max (1979), Page crashes a car in a convoy and emerges with only a limp (after all, he started the mission with a broken leg). Then he returned to Miller’s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985).

After attending the University of Adelaide, Page spent years training with the Commandos, Australia’s special forces unit. He developed skills such as abseiling and parachuting that he would use in films, and Trenchard Smith served as his early manager.

Page jumped backwards from an 80-foot cliff as it caught fire Mad Dog Morgan (1976), starring Dennis Hopper. And in the mockumentary Stunt rockPage, playing a version of himself, performed daredevil stunts on a TV show during a visit to Los Angeles to visit the heavy metal band Sorcery.

Page was featured in the documentary Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Exploitation Story! (2008), about forgotten Australian cinema, and before its premiere, he did a favor to director Mark Hartley and set himself on fire as a publicity stunt. (Page often eschewed the traditional fire suit.)

George Lazenby (for whom the page has been doubled The guy is from Hong Kong), Stacy Keach (Peg’s character’s enemy in the 1980s Road games) and Quentin Tarantino speaks glowingly about it in the documentary.

“Everyone agreed that he was the bravest man they had ever met — and perhaps the luckiest,” Hartley wrote in the introduction to Page’s 2009 memoir. Man on Fire: A Life Hack.

Page has worked continuously since the mid-1970s, most recently working as a stunt coordinator on films including Hartley’s. Patrick: Evil awakens (2013), Egyptian gods (2016), Mechanic: Resurrection (2016), Maverick (2018) and The myth of the five (2020).

Survivors include his son Gulliver, also a stunt performer (X-Men: Origins, Suicide squad); Leroy, also a stuntman and fist performer; Adrian; And Jeremy.

Page also received high praise in Scott McGee’s 2022 book Danger on the silver screenwhich celebrates the greatest stunts in movies.

“He was the type of stuntman reminiscent of those living in the silent era, when men and women often approached a stunt act simply by moving it,” McGee wrote. “If I worried about getting out of stunts alive, my intestines would be full of ulcers,” he said in an interview.

Rhett Bartlett contributed to this report.