Biography
Buddy Van Horn (August 20, 1929 - May 11, 2021) was a Hollywood stunt coordinator. A long-time stunt double for Clint Eastwood, he directed such Eastwood films as Any Which Way You Can, The Dead Pool, and Pink Cadillac. He doubled for Gregory Peck and Guy Williams on Disney's Zorro and on the 2004 Oscar-winning Best Picture Million Dollar Baby, directed by Eastwood. Description above from the Wikipedia article Buddy Van Horn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

J. Edgar
2011
Stunt Coordinator
As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind close...

Gran Torino
2008
Stunt Coordinator
Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possessi...

Changeling
2008
Stunt Coordinator
Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mothe...

Letters from Iwo Jima
2006
Stunt Coordinator
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who...

Million Dollar Baby
2004
Stunt Coordinator
Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggi...

Mystic River
2003
Stunt Coordinator
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.

Waking Up in Reno
2002
Stunt Coordinator
Candy and Lonnie Earl are just crazy about each other. The problem: she's married to Roy and he's married to Darlene. So far it's been a secret affair...

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002
as Self
Behind the scenes of Unforgiven (1992)

Blood Work
2002
Stunt Coordinator
Still recovering from a heart transplant, a retired FBI profiler returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a seri...

All the Pretty Horses
2000
Stunt Coordinator
The year is 1949. A young Texan named John Grady finds himself without a home after his mother sells the ranch where he has spent his entire life. Lur...

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000
as Self - Director / Stunt Coordinator
Hollywood careers are full of make-or-break moments. For Clint Eastwood, one such moment came when studio powers agreed to let him make his directing ...

Space Cowboys
2000
Stunt Coordinator
Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the Air Force's test program for space travel...

True Crime
1999
Stunt Coordinator
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row ...

Absolute Power
1997
Stunt Coordinator
A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of the United States is involved—occurs in front of his eyes. H...

The Net
1995
Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit Director
Angela Bennett is a freelance computer systems analyst who tracks down software viruses. At night she hooks up to the internet and chats to others 'su...

Outbreak
1995
Stunt Coordinator
A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col. Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus sprea...

Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
1994
as Self
A look at the life and career of actor/director Clint Eastwood, including scenes from his past film and television work and interviews with friends, f...

A Perfect World
1993
Stunt Coordinator
A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.

In the Line of Fire
1993
Stunt Coordinator
Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirt...

Diplomatic Immunity
1991
Stunts
Cole Hickel, a Marine, pursues his daughter's killer when he is allowed to go back to Paraguay because of "diplomatic immunity."

The Rookie
1990
Stunts, Second Unit Director
Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result o...

Pink Cadillac
1989
Director
A bounty hunter helps out the wife of a bail-jumper after her child is kidnapped by neo-Nazi types.

The Dead Pool
1988
Director
Dirty Harry Callahan returns for his final film adventure. Together with his partner Al Quan, he must investigate the systematic murder of actors and ...

Shakedown
1988
Stunts
When a local drug dealer shoots a dishonest cop in self-defense, lawyer and renegade undercover cop join forces to clear him. But when their investiga...

Off Limits
1988
Stunt Coordinator
McGriff and Albaby are probably doing the worst law enforcement job in the world - they are plain clothes U.S. military policemen on duty in war-time ...

Three O'Clock High
1987
Stunt Coordinator
Nerdy high schooler Jerry Mitchell is assigned to write an article for the school paper about the infamous new delinquent transfer student, Buddy Reve...

Barfly
1987
Stunts
Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But, they like each other's...

Nadine
1987
Stunts
Hairdresser Nadine Hightower wants to retrieve the risqué photos she once posed for, but when she visits the photographer at his office, he's murdered...

Heartbreak Ridge
1986
Stunt Coordinator
A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad...

The Big Easy
1986
Stunts
Remy McSwain is a New Orleans police lieutenant who investigates the murder of a local mobster. His investigation leads him to suspect that fellow mem...

Ratboy
1986
Stunt Coordinator
A failed window dresser exploits a being with rat-like features in an effort to make money.

The Night Stalker
1986
Stunts
A tough homicide cop is assigned to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes.

Legal Eagles
1986
Stunts
District Attorney Tom Logan is set for higher office, at least until he becomes involved with defence lawyer Laura Kelly and her unpredictable client ...

Year of the Dragon
1985
Stunt Coordinator
In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster...

Pale Rider
1985
as Stage Driver
A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.

Pale Rider
1985
Stunt Coordinator
A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.

City Heat
1984
Stunt Coordinator
Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye na...

Tightrope
1984
Stunts, Stunt Coordinator, Stunt Double
Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women. The murders are getting personal when the ...

Sudden Impact
1983
Stunt Coordinator
When a young rape victim takes justice into her own hands and becomes a serial killer, it's up to Dirty Harry Callahan, on suspension from the SFPD, t...

Yellowbeard
1983
Stunt Coordinator
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sent...

The Beastmaster
1982
Stunts
Dar, is the son of a king, who's hunted by a priest after his birth and grows up in another family. When he becomes a grown man, his new father is mur...

The Sword and the Sorcerer
1982
Stunts
A mercenary with a three-bladed sword rediscovers his royal heritage when he is recruited to help a princess foil a brutal tyrant and a powerful sorce...

The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies
1981
as Townsman
Jed Clamplett and his backwoods family help solve an energy crisis in their own rustic ways for their Beverly Hills neighborhood they still cannot adj...

Any Which Way You Can
1980
Director
Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight – as he does – to make more money than he can earn from his car repair business. He decides to retire, but wh...

Heaven's Gate
1980
Stunt Coordinator
Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., standing at the center of a conflict between impoverished imm...

The Fantastic Seven
1979
Stunts
An intrepid team of stunt experts stage a daring air, sea and land rescue of a kidnapped movie star from the clutches of a suave, modern-day pirate wh...

Every Which Way but Loose
1978
Stunt Coordinator
Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best bar-room brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound ora...

The Deer Hunter
1978
Stunt Coordinator
A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they im...

FM
1978
Stunts
When a liberal music station's owners decide to introduce army recruitment ads, despite the protests of its manager, the rebellious DJs are determined...

The Gauntlet
1977
Stunt Coordinator, Stunts
Phoenix cop Ben Shockley is well on his way to becoming a derelict when he is assigned to transport a witness from Las Vegas. The witness turns out to...

The Enforcer
1976
Stunt Coordinator
Dirty Harry Callahan returns again, this time saddled with a rookie female partner. Together, they must stop a terrorist group consisting of angry Vie...

Swashbuckler
1976
Stunt Coordinator
A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.

Harry Callahan/Clint Eastwood: Something Special in Films
1976
as Self
A promotional short which details the making of 'The Enforcer'.

The Master Gunfighter
1975
Stunts
Don Santiago (Richard Angarola) is a vicious man who helps provoke an Indian massacre that will allow him to steal the Indians' land and claim it as h...

Bite the Bullet
1975
as Slim
At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, amo...

Bite the Bullet
1975
Stunts
At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, amo...

The Eiger Sanction
1975
Stunts
A classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.

The Great Waldo Pepper
1975
Stunts
A biplane pilot who had missed flying in WWI takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory he had missed.

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
1974
Stunt Coordinator
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.

Magnum Force
1973
Stunts
"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When sha...

High Plains Drifter
1973
as Marshall Jim Duncan
A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the ...

High Plains Drifter
1973
Stunt Coordinator
A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the ...

Joe Kidd
1972
Stunt Coordinator, Stunt Double
A band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied and all the records destroyed in a courthouse fire. Their leader, Louis Chama, encourages them ...

Prime Cut
1972
Stunts
A group of ruthless Chicago mob enforcers are sent to Kansas City to settle things with the owner of a slaughterhouse who has taken money that is not ...

Dirty Harry
1971
Stunt Coordinator, Stunt Double
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement...

Big Jake
1971
Stunts
An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson.

The Beguiled
1971
as Soldier
Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, ...

The Beguiled
1971
Stunt Coordinator, Stunt Double
Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, ...

I Walk the Line
1970
Stunts
Henry Tawes, a middle-aged sheriff in a rural Tennessee town, is usually the first man to criticize others for their bad behavior. Miserable in his ma...

The Cheyenne Social Club
1970
Stunt Double
Two cowboys inherit a "social club" specializing in satisfying men.

Two Mules for Sister Sara
1970
Stunt Coordinator
When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he has...

Marooned
1969
Stunt Double
After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only to find their de-orbit thrusters won't activate. Af...

Mackenna's Gold
1969
Stunt Double
A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to ke...

The Stalking Moon
1968
Stunts
While moving a group of Apaches to a Native American reservation in Arizona, an American scout named Sam Varner is surprised to find a white woman, Sa...

Coogan's Bluff
1968
Stunt Double
Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff goes to New York to pick up a prisoner. While escorting the prisoner to the airport, he escapes and Coogan heads int...

Bandolero!
1968
Stunts
Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, including his brother, from the gallows. Mace urges ...

Firecreek
1968
Stunt Double
A peace-loving, part-time sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vicious outlaws takes over his town.

Stranger on the Run
1967
Stunts
A drifter finds himself wrongly accused of murder by a power-crazed sheriff. The sheriff gives him a horse, some supplies, and a one-hour head start i...

Chamber of Horrors
1966
Stunts
A one-handed madman (he lost the hand while escaping a hanging) uses various detachable devices as murder weapons to gain revenge on those he believes...

Alvarez Kelly
1966
Stunts
In 1864, during the American Civil War, Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly supplies the Union with cattle until unexpected circumstances force him to cha...

The Rare Breed
1966
Stunts
When her husband dies en route to America, Martha Price and her daughter Hilary are left to carry out his dream: the introduction of Hereford cattle i...

Our Man Flint
1966
Stunts
When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top agen...

The War Lord
1965
Stunts
A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal village where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild the ...

Mirage
1965
Stunts
In New York City, David Stillwell struggles to recover his memory before the people who are trying to kill him succeed. Who is he, who are they, and w...

Major Dundee
1965
Stunts
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on a...

Kings of the Sun
1963
Stunts
In order to flee from powerful enemies, young Mayan king Balam leads his people north across the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of what will become the U...

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963
Stunts
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is t...

The Swordsman of Siena
1962
Stunts
A 16th-century Spanish overlord hires Thomas Stanswood (Stuart Granger) to protect his, less than eager, fiancee (Sylva Koscina) from rebels. Thomas f...

Spartacus
1960
as Soldier (uncredited)
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena,...

Spartacus
1960
Stunts
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena,...

Last of the Badmen
1957
Stunts
Chicago detectives in the 1880s head west to find the killers of their colleague.

Around the World in Eighty Days
1956
Stunts
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a ve...

Lady Godiva of Coventry
1955
Stunts
Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers everything) of the militant Saxon lady.

The Man from Bitter Ridge
1955
Stunt Double
The Man from Bitter Ridge is a film directed by Jack Arnold. Jeff Carr, a special investigator, arrives in Tomahawk. His assignment is to discover who...

Escape to Burma
1955
A fugitive in British Burma hides on a tea plantation, thanks to a mutual attraction with owner Gwen Moore.

Escape to Burma
1955
Stunts
A fugitive in British Burma hides on a tea plantation, thanks to a mutual attraction with owner Gwen Moore.

Chief Crazy Horse
1955
Stunts
When young Crazy Horse, of whom great things were predicted, wins his bride, rival Little Big Man goes to villainous traders with evidence of gold in ...

Destry
1954
Stunts
Western remake of "Destry Rides Again", starring Audie Murphy, Mari Blanchard, Thomas Mitchell, Lori Nelson and Lyle Bettger.

Prince Valiant
1954
Stunts
A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.

Taza, Son of Cochise
1954
Stunts
Three years after the end of the Apache wars, peacemaking chief Cochise dies. His elder son Taza shares his ideas, but brother Naiche yearns for war.....

Ride Clear of Diablo
1954
Stunts
A young railroad surveyor returns to his hometown to find the man who murdered his father and brother.

Gunsmoke
1953
Stunts
Kittridge is hired by the villans but turns to defend the rancher Saxon after learning the true situation. Kittrige wins Saxon's ranch with a cut of t...

Son of Paleface
1952
Stunts
Peter Potter Jr. returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found.

Silver City
1951
Stunts
Having masterminded the hold up of his company office, a mining engineer is barred from the industry. He then sets up shop as an assayer, scheming to ...

Warpath
1951
Stunts
John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He finds one, Woodson, and kills him in a gunfight, but ...

Cave of Outlaws
1951
Stunts
Having served a prison sentence for robbery, Pete Carver decides to go back for the hidden loot. But someone is on his trail.

I Killed Geronimo
1950
Stunts
Going undercover as the notorious "Waco Kid," U.S. Army Captain Jeff Packard manages to infiltrate a gang of gold-shipment thieves lead by nasty Walt ...