Gary Kent Net Worth At The Time of Death

Gary Kent, the iconic stunt performer, actor, and director best known for his work in B-movies and collaborations with directors such as Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Rush, and Monte Hellman, died at the age of 89. Brad Pitt’s character in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was inspired by Kent’s portrayal of a real-life stuntman.

Gary Kent died on Thursday evening in an assisted care facility in Austin, Texas, according to his son, Chris Kent, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter.

Kent had serious injuries while working on Richard Rush films during his stunt career. In Hells Angels on Wheels (1967), he received a major arm cut from broken glass during a bar brawl scene, and in The Savage Seven (1968), he was inadvertently run over by a motorcycle.

Kent’s stunt career spanned five decades and ended when he slid down a hill and hurt his leg on the set of Bubba Ho-Tep (2002). He does, however, continue to work as a stunt coordinator, most recently in Sex Terrorists on Wheels in 2019.

Aside from stunt work, Kent has had prominent appearances in films directed by Peter Bogdanovich and Richard Rush. In Bogdanovich’s career-launching film Targets (1968), he played a gas tank worker and did fire stunts, in Rush’s Psych-Out (1968), he played a hitman in Hell’s Bloody Devils (1970), a motorcyclist in The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971), and a rapist in Angels’ Wild Women (1971).

Tarantino interviewed Kent while writing the story for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, according to Joe O’Connell, director of the documentary Danger God. Brad Pitt’s enthralling portrayal as the flamboyant Cliff Booth, the stunt double for Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, Rick Dalton, won Pitt an Academy Award nomination.

Gary Kent’s Net Worth At The Time of Death

Gary Kent’s net worth at the time of his death is estimated to be between $1 million and $5 million dollars according to reports.