Grant Page died in a car accident at the age of 85. If his name means nothing to you, know that he was an Australian icon of the stunt world.
According to statements given to Daily Mail Australia by his son, Leroy Page, he crashed into a tree near their home in Kendal, New South Wales. “He died in a very good mood and was very motivatedLeroy Page told the newspaper. “He was very happy.“
Australian film legend Grant page He worked with Oscar winner George Miller on the 1979 action classic Mad Max, which introduced the world to Mel Gibson. He was a stuntman himself and also served as a stunt coordinator for the energy post-apocalyptic thriller as well as its 1985 sequel, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, which also starred Tina Turner.
For the anecdote, even though he was on his way to the set Mad Max, Grant page He had a car accident and broke his leg. He still manages to pull off some of the film’s most impressive stunts, including one in which he crashes a trailer into an Interceptor vehicle.
He found it George Miller Look forward to his 2022 film Three Thousand Years, as well as his upcoming Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, which is set to premiere at Cannes in May.
A master of danger
Born in 1939 in Adelaide. Grant page Spent his formative years training with the Commandos where he honed his skills”safety first”. He was a master of abseiling and tank flying before he found himself on set, where his daredevil skills were a huge asset and never ceased to amaze audiences.
His film career began in the mid-1970s when he became a confidant to director Brian Trenchard-Smith. Together they would create brilliant stunts for classics such as The Hong Kong Man (1975) – a film cited as an influence by Quentin Tarantino – Jimmy Wang Yu and former James Bond actor George Lazenby.
The stuntman went on to work on dozens of other projects, including the 1978 mockumentary Stunt Rock, in which he played himself, and the cult horror film Death Ship (1980), all after jumping off a 25-metre cliff while Mad Dog Morgan was on fire. in (1976) for Dennis Hopper’s nightmare sequence.
It was also the focus of the 2008 documentary Not So Hollywood, written and directed by Mark Hartley, which examined the Australian New Wave of the 1970s and low-budget films of the 1980s. Tarantino, Miller, Jamie Lee Curtis and Dennis Hopper were also part of the project. in the movie Brian Trenchard Smith He talks about it Grant page like “The guys you hire to dodge cars, jump over flaming rocks, jump into water, and fight sharks.“
He was also known for his failed stunt attempt on the Don Lane Show in 1977, in which he attempted to jump onto a moving car – a stunt he finally performed on the same show in 1983.
Documentary Dangerfreaks Trenchard-Smith (1987) also dealt with him and his legendary career as a stuntman.
“Heroic in the full sense of the word”
for that Grant page“The essence of stunts is to make them as dangerous as possible and ensure that they are not”: This is what he said in 2002 on the movie show (SBS).
In 2016, the year of the release of Gods of Egypt, with Gerard Butler and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and The Mechanics: Resurrection, with Jason Statham, Jessica Alba and Tommy Lee Jones, two projects that he particularly worked on, Grant page Screen NSW honored him with his first Screen NSW award, which he received from his friend. George Miller who then stated:
“Working in a brutal and unusual situation on the first Mad Max, I discovered the caliber of Grant Page. A masterful and innovative stuntman, he has a deep and elegant intellect. He taught me a lot about cinema, but even more about life. Inspirations that have helped me ever since. Grant is a hero in every sense of the word.“
Source: Allocine
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