The Action Edition
Lights, camera, roundhouse kick to the head.
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Henry Kingi is the recipient of Vultures second Stunt Award: Lifetime Achievement.
Read about the winners of the 2024 celebration of stunt professionalshere.
He screams, raises his arms in two rigid lines just above the cop, and starts spraying bullets.
At 80 years old, Kingi has over 80 acting credits on IMDb.
He was onThe Bionic Woman,T.J.
He has over twice as many stunt credits, most recently in theJohn WickandFast & Furiousuniverses.
Yet his role as the gun-toting, free-falling El Scorpio inPredator 2remains his most recognizable.
One thing about Henry, he has always been a humble and unassuming man, Baxley says.
A stuntman who was always under the radar, not like most of the blowhard stuntmen in the industry.
People would see most of the stunts he did and ask, Who did that?
To this day, they still dont know he did them.
Kingi says he never thought film, let alone stunt work, was a possibility for his future.
Where has this been?
His love for driving was more accidental.
Everybody was like, Shit!
How did you do that?
I said, I dont know!
At the time, Hollywood was embracing a practice known as painting down.
Bring me one, Kramer responded.
Smith and Kingi would do more than bring him one stuntman.
Between protests, BSA members would bring mattresses out to Athens Park in Los Angeles, and practice maneuvers.
These trainings helped Kingi jump feet first into Hollywood action, first showing up uncredited in Alfred HitchcocksTopazin 1969.
Hed team again with Baxley on a few of his more beloved features too,Action JacksonandStone Cold.
When he finally halted at the bottom of the run, he noticed a graze on his hand.
I was worried about the cliff, he said, not a piece of pine cheap, little softwood.
With stuntwork comes endless planning and meticulous attention to detail, along with a willingness to take what comes.
The stakes of Kingis vehicular stuntwork only skyrocketed when he joinedThe Fast and the Furiouscrew.
(If youre wondering if Kingi was roasting inside the glorified box, he was.
But it isnt just awards ceremonies that are leaving stunt performers out.
(Ignored by everyone except, according to Kingi, Cruise.
