HB Halicki

Halicki escribió, dirigió, produjo y protagonizó la película 60 Segundos en 1974. ^{[ 7 ]} No existía un guion oficial para la película, aparte de varias páginas que describían las secuencias de diálogo principales. Halicki proporcionó la mayoría de los coches y utilizó tomas repetidas de los mismos vehículos y tomas de incidentes públicos para aumentar el metraje. La escena en la que se observa un descarrilamiento de tren no formaba parte del guion original; de hecho, se trata de un tren real que descarriló. Cuando el director se enteró del accidente, quiso incorporarlo a la película.

Halicki se fracturó 10 vértebras al realizar el salto final de 39 metros (128 pies) de la película y después cojeó. ^{[ 8 ]} 

Halicki met Denice Shakarian, an Armenian American, in 1983. They dated for six years, before marrying on May 11, 1989. After returning from their honeymoon, he began filming his 1989 sequel, Gone in 60 Seconds 2, in which both of them would star – Halicki as car thief Colt and Shakarian as computer guru / thief Alaska Wells.^[9] After Halicki's death, Shakarian began dating her third cousin, Robert Kardashian, best known for representing O. J. Simpson.^[10]

Halicki bought over 400 automobiles to destroy in the film, which was to feature improved car chases and storyline.

On August 20, 1989, while filming in Dunkirk and Buffalo, New York, Halicki was preparing for the most dramatic stunt sequence in the film, during which a 160-foot-tall (49 m) water tower was supposed to topple to the ground. When a cable attached to the tower snapped unexpectedly, it sheared off a telephone pole, which fell on Halicki, killing him instantly. The accident occurred in an area behind the former J.H. Williams Tool factory at 400 Vulcan Street in Buffalo.^[11]