He worked on Peter Bogdanovich's 'Targets' and Richard Rush's 'Psych-Out' and chatted with Quentin Tarantino as the filmmaker was writing 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.'
Tarantino interviewed Kent as he was putting together his script for, a nifty documentary about Kent that was released in 2018.
In Tarantino’s film, Pitt portrayed the charismatic Cliff Booth, a stunt double for Leonardo DiCaprio’s fading actor Rick Dalton, in an Oscar-winning turn.Gary Warner Kent was born on June 7, 1933, on a ranch in Walla Walla, Washington, and raised about four hours north in Renton, Washington. He attended Renton High School and the University of Washington, where he studied journalism and was a backup quarterback and pole vaulter for the Huskies.
Kent left college to enter the U.S. Naval Air Force and was posted at Corpus Christi, Texas. There, he handled publicity for the famed flight demonstration squadron the Blue Angels and acted on local stages. He then moved to Houston and wrote, directed and acted at the Alley and Playhouse theaters. Kent came by bus to Los Angeles in 1958 and worked in film production offices while landing parts in movies including
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