Get the latest gossip
Everyone Should Know What Henry Kingi Did
The 80-year-old journeyman has given so much more to Hollywood than his Fast & Furious driving credits let on.
He was on The Bionic Woman, T.J. Hooker, The A-Team(he did all the major jumps in the van) and Walker, Texas Ranger; he appears in Scarface, the original Road House, Batman Returns, Blade, and (fast forward many years to a very different superhero era) Ant-Man and the Wasp. Even though his mom was friends with Dorothy Dandridge, who when she visited would tell Kingi and his perfect head of hair, “I’m going to get you in the movies.” He did a little modeling in the all-Black publication Elegant Magazine here, worked in venues like Maverick’s Flat there, until a chance meeting with prolific photographer and vocalist for the music group the Hi-Fis, Lamonte McLemore, who had come by the club with stuntman Eddie Smith looking for Black extras for a scene in the 1967 Dr. Dolittle. Kingi says that when he was scouting the location, he realized the abandoned shacks had iron beds, stoves, and refrigerators inside of them, which forced the production to gut the buildings before barreling cars full speed through them.
Or read this on VULTURE