Trivia

Interviewed in "Wild Beyond Belief: Interviews with Exploitation Filmmakers of the 1960s and 1970s" by Brian Albright (McFarland & Co.).

Interviewed in the book "Nightmare USA" by Stephen Thrower (FAB Press, 2007).

Father of Greg Kent.

Is the subject of the documentary film Danger God (2018).

Interviewed twice by James M. Tate and Laura Wagner on the Cult Film Freak podcast. Once along with fellow actor Robert Dix and Scott Brady's son, Tim Tierney; another time by himself.

Interviewed extensively about the movies "Dracula vs. Frankenstein" and "The House of Seven Corpses" in Tom Weaver's book "Creature Feature Creators" (McFarland & Co., 2025).

In his 2009 memoir Shadows and Light, Kent wrote of an "outlaw" cinema aimed at breaking film taboos and barriers. In the book he talks of shooting at Spahn Ranch when Charles Manson and his followers were there.

He retired from stunts in 2003 after an accident on Don Coscarelli's film Bubba Ho-Tep, for which Kent served as stunt coordinator, but continued to act in independent films.

Gary Kent was an American film director, actor, and stuntman notable for his appearances in various independent and exploitation films.

In 1955 Kent moved to Hollywood with his wife, Joyce, and son, Greg, and worked as a parking lot attendant while looking for acting jobs.

Gary Kent doubled Jack Nicholson in stunts in the Richard Rush films Hells Angels on Wheels, The Savage Seven and Psych-Out, and also did his very first stunts in 1966 Nicholson films Ride in the Whirlwind and The Shooting, which shot back to back in Kanab, Utah, under the direction of Monte Hellman.

Kent studied at the University of Washington before later embarking on a film career.

Kent attended the University of Washington, where he studied journalism, played football and pole-vaulted on the track team. In 1952, after one quarter at UW, he dropped out to join the U.S. Navy. Stationed in Texas, he wrote promotion and publicity for the elite flying team, The Blue Angels. He was honorably discharged in 1954.

Kent and his experiences as a stuntman in Hollywood (specifically his experience working at Spahn Ranch while the Manson family resided there) served as one of the inspirations for Cliff Booth, the character portrayed by Brad Pitt in Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" (2019).

He made his feature film debut in Battle Flame (1959) and had roles in several additional low-budget films in the 1960s, including The Black Klansman (1966) and the biker film The Savage Seven (1968). He also served as a stunt double for Bruce Dern in Psych-Out (1969).