Buddy Van Horn, Clint Eastwood’s Stunt Double and Director, Dies at 92
He collaborated with the actor-filmmaker on dozens of features, from 'Coogan's Bluff' and 'Dirty Harry' to 'Million Dollar Baby' and 'J. Edgar.'
His family announced that Buddy van Horn, a stuntman who often doubled for Clint Eastwood and the actor in the movies Any Way You Can, The Dead Pool and Pink Cadillac died. He was 92 years old.
Van Horn worked with Eastwood and his Malpaso Productions in nearly three dozen films over more than four decades.
A charter member of the Stuntmen Association of Motion Pictures and a member of the Stuntmen Hall of Fame, Van Horn debuted as Eastwood's stunt double on Don Siegel's Coogan Bluff (1968).
She was cast in Siegel-helmed films such as Two Mules for Sister Sarah (1970), The Beguiled (1971) and Dirty Harry (1971), before Eastwood hired her to direct a film called High Plains Drifter (1973). was.
About Eastwood, "He is a pretty physical guy and loves to do his own stunts. Van Horn said in a 2011 interview," Some of the things he does are very easy. "" I have sometimes asked him. Have tried to talk, but not very successfully most of the time. He went and did them anyway, many of them. He has been beaten many times. "
Van Horn served as the director of the second unit in the Eastwood-starring Magnum Force (1973), then took over the reins of Any What They Can (1980), The Dead Pool (1988) and Pink Cadillac (1989). Movies he ever hegemony.
In a 1988 interview, Eastwood said that he and Van Horn "have a similar interest in terms of getting the story in front of the camera. Taste is an elusive kind of thing that you can't really explain to anyone. It's just there." To have or not to have."
Van Horn was also stunt coordinator at several Eastwood facilities, including The Gauntlet (1977), Sudden Impact (1983), Pale Rider (1985), In the Line of Fire (1993), Space Cowboy (2000), Mystic River (2003) Are included. ), Million Dollar Baby (2004), Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) and Jay Edgar (2011), his last credits.
Wayne Van Horn was born on August 20, 1928, on the backlot of Universal Studios, where his father was a veterinarian. He debuted in films as an additional cavalryman, then returned to business after serving two years in Germany with the US Army in the early 1950s.
Van Horn worked as a stuntman in films such as Prince Valiant (1954), Coventry's Lady Godiva (1955) – Eastwood had a small role in that – and Around the World in 80 Days (1956), then Guy in 1957 Doubled for Williams. -58 on the ABC series Zorro, where he demonstrated his fencing and equestrian skills.
His credits also include It's a Mad Mad Mad World (1963), Our Man Flint (1966), The Dear Hunter (1978), Heaven's Gate (1980), Barfly (1987) and The Stars Fail on Henrietta (1995).
Survivors include his wife, Konne; daughters Erica and Jennifer; and grandchildren Morgan, Cade, Hayden, Cole and Landon.