He had most recently worked on Three Thousand Years of Longing and Furiosa, a prequel to Mad Max that will come out later this year.

Friends in the business have paid tribute to the stuntman, who first appeared on the scene in the 1970s.

“Grant Page was Australia’s first stunt performer and my friend for fifty-two years,” his former manager Brian Trenchard-Smith said yesterday.

“I’ll really miss him. He was an amazing person who lived a completely honest life.

“Age makes us heavy, gravity pulls us down, and death waits for us if we dare too much,” Grant said, “Not necessarily, since he was able to change the rules of physics and probability.”

He had a “extraordinary ability” as a stuntman, Trenchard-Smith said.

“He’s the guy you get to dodge the cars, slide down the cliff on fire, jump into the water and fight the shark.”