Gary Kent, Fabled B-Movie Stuntman, Actor and Director, Dies at 89
Gary Kent, the iconic B-movie stunt performer, actor and director who worked with Peter Bogdanovich , Richard Rush and Monte Hellman and served as ...
Gary Kent, the iconic B-movie stunt performer, actor and director who worked with Peter Bogdanovich , Richard Rush and Monte Hellman and served as an inspiration for Brad Pitt 's character in Quentin Tarantino 's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood , has died. He was 89. Kent died Thursday evening at an assisted care facility in Austin, his son Chris Kent told . Kent suffered two of his most painful injuries as a stunt performer in Rush films. He sliced up his arm on broken glass during a barfight fracas in Hells Angels on Wheels (1967) and was run over by an out-of-control motorcycle in The Savage Seven (1968), where he shared scenes with Penny Marshall .