Tributes have flowed in after the death of Australian Mad Max stunt man Grant Page in a car accident.
The 85-year-old screen legend was driving alone near his home in Kendall on the mid-north coast of New South Wales on Thursday when he hit a tree.
His long time friend and former manager Brian Trenchard-Smith posted a touching tribute to Page on his blog on Thursday.
‘Grant Page was Australia’s pioneer stunt performer and my friend for fifty-two years,’ Trenchard-Smith shared.
‘I will miss him terribly. He was an inspiring man, who lived uncompromisingly.
Tributes have flowed in after the death of Australian Mad Max stunt man Grant Page in a car accident. Pictured: Grant Page
The 85-year-old screen legend was driving alone near his home in Kendall on the mid-north coast of New South Wales on Thursday when he hit a tree
‘Most people accept that age weighs upon us, gravity holds us down, death awaits us if we dare too much. Not necessarily, said Grant, as he successfully tampered with the laws of physics and probability.’
Director Jamie Blanks posted to X: ‘I just learned the devastating news of the passing of legendary Australian stuntman, and my dear friend, GRANT PAGE.
‘Grant was one of the most wonderful, kind and brave men I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. I mourn the loss of this Aussie legend deeply today. RIP Grant.’
Film critic Dr Luke Buckmaster posted to X: ‘Australia’s greatest stuntman. I’ve never met anyone like him: a bold, brilliant, devilishly cheeky man whose legacy is written in tyre streaks and burn marks’.
His long time friend and former manager Brian Trenchard-Smith posted a touching tribute to Page on his blog on Thursday
Director Jamie Blanks posted to X: ‘I just learned the devastating news of the passing of legendary Australian stuntman, and my dear friend’
Film critic Dr Luke Buckmaster posted to X: ‘Australia’s greatest stuntman. I’ve never met anyone like him: a bold, brilliant, devilishly cheeky man whose legacy is written in tyre streaks and burn marks’
In the documentary film Not Quite Hollywood, Trenchard-Smith summed up Page’s extraordinary skill and daring.
‘He’s the guy you get to dodge the cars, slide down the cliff on fire, jump into the water and fight the shark.’
His son Leroy Page told Daily Mail Australia that ambulance and police were at the scene within minutes. No further details of the accident have been released.
Leroy, 49, described his father as a ‘legend’ and said the tragic accident came at a time when Grant was making plans for new projects.
‘He died in very high spirits and he was very motivated. He was very happy.’
Pictured: Grant Page in a scene from Stunt Rock (1978)
Page recently worked on George Miller’s films Three Thousand Years of Longing and the Mad Max prequel Furiosa as a stunt performer
Grant Page was a pioneer of Australia’s golden age of cinema in the 1970s.
His long list of credits include such action-oriented films as Mad Max (1979), Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985), The Man from Hong Kong (1975) and Roadgames (1981).
Page also had a secondary career as an actor and starred in Deathcheaters (1976) and Stunt Rock (1978).
He recently worked on George Miller’s films Three Thousand Years of Longing and the Mad Max prequel Furiosa as a stunt performer.
Known for extraordinary ability to stage eye-popping stunts with vehicles, Page was famed for a trick known as the ‘transfer’.
Pictured: A Grant Page stunt scene in Mad Max (1979)
Grant was known as ‘indestructable’ in the film world
This entailed Page climbing out the window of one car into another car travelling side by side at high speed.
He was also famous for leaping off cliffs on fire and his ability to withstand being ‘hit’ by a fast moving vehicle.
Page was survived by his four sons Adrian, 52, Jeremy, 51, Leroy, 49, Gulliver, 47, ex-wife Joy and former partner Ulli.
