Grant Page Dies: Aussie Stuntman In ‘Mad Max’ Films & 100-Plus Others Was 85

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Grant Page, the Australian stunt icon who performed in and coordinating stunts for the original Mad Max, sequel Beyond Thunderdome, the upcoming prequel Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and more than 100 other films and TV series, died Thursday in a car crash.

He was 85. His son, Leroy Page, told Daily Mail Australia that his father hit a tree while he was driving near his home in Kendall, New South Wales. “He died in very high spirits, and he was very motivated,” the younger Page told the paper. “He was very happy.” A legend of Aussie cinema, Page worked with his Oscar-winning countryman George Miller on the 1979 action classic Mad Max, which introduced the world to Mel Gibson.

He performed and served as stunt coordinator on that gas-guzzling post-apocalyptic thriller as well as its 1985 second sequel Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, which also starred Tina Turner.

He also worked on Miller’s upcoming prequel, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, which is on the radar to premiere at Cannes in May, and on his 2022 pic Three Thousand Years of Longing. RELATED: Tina Turner Dies: Legendary Rock & Soul Singer Was 83 Born in 1939 in Adelaide, Page launched his career in the mid-1970s and coordinated and performed stunts for The Man from Hong Kong, starring Jimmy Wang Yu and one-time James Bond actor George Lazenby.