Buddy Van Horn

Buddy Van Horn

1929-08-20 Los Angeles, California, USA 107 Credits

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.

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J. Edgar

J. Edgar

2011

Stunt Coordinator

6.2

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

Gran Torino

2008

Stunt Coordinator

8.0

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

Changeling

2008

Stunt Coordinator

7.6

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

Letters from Iwo Jima

2006

Stunt Coordinator

7.5

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

Million Dollar Baby

2004

Stunt Coordinator

8.0

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

Mystic River

2003

Stunt Coordinator

7.7

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.

Waking Up in Reno

Waking Up in Reno

2002

Stunt Coordinator

5.0

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'

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

2002

as Self

7.2
Acting

Behind the scenes of Unforgiven (1992)

Blood Work

Blood Work

2002

Stunt Coordinator

6.2

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

All the Pretty Horses

2000

Stunt Coordinator

5.7

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

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

2000

as Self - Director / Stunt Coordinator

7.1
Acting

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

Space Cowboys

2000

Stunt Coordinator

6.4

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

True Crime

1999

Stunt Coordinator

6.5

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

Absolute Power

1997

Stunt Coordinator

6.6

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

The Net

1995

Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit Director

6.0
Directing

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

Outbreak

1995

Stunt Coordinator

6.6

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

Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso

1994

as Self

7.4
Acting

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

A Perfect World

1993

Stunt Coordinator

7.5

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

In the Line of Fire

1993

Stunt Coordinator

7.0

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

Diplomatic Immunity

1991

Stunts

3.4

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

The Rookie

The Rookie

1990

Stunts, Second Unit Director

5.9
Directing

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

Pink Cadillac

1989

Director

5.5
Directing

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

The Dead Pool

The Dead Pool

1988

Director

6.3
Directing

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

Shakedown

1988

Stunts

5.8

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

Off Limits

1988

Stunt Coordinator

5.6

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

Three O'Clock High

1987

Stunt Coordinator

6.8

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

Barfly

1987

Stunts

6.8

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

Nadine

1987

Stunts

5.4

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

Heartbreak Ridge

1986

Stunt Coordinator

6.9

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

The Big Easy

1986

Stunts

6.2

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

Ratboy

1986

Stunt Coordinator

3.4

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

The Night Stalker

The Night Stalker

1986

Stunts

3.7

A tough homicide cop is assigned to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes.

Legal Eagles

Legal Eagles

1986

Stunts

6.1

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

Year of the Dragon

1985

Stunt Coordinator

6.8

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

Pale Rider

1985

as Stage Driver

7.2
Acting

A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.

Pale Rider

Pale Rider

1985

Stunt Coordinator

7.2

A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.

City Heat

City Heat

1984

Stunt Coordinator

5.5

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

Tightrope

1984

Stunts, Stunt Coordinator, Stunt Double

6.2

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

Sudden Impact

1983

Stunt Coordinator

6.5

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

Yellowbeard

1983

Stunt Coordinator

5.5

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

The Beastmaster

1982

Stunts

6.3

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

The Sword and the Sorcerer

1982

Stunts

5.5

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

The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies

1981

as Townsman

5.0
Acting

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

Any Which Way You Can

1980

Director

5.8
Directing

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

Heaven's Gate

1980

Stunt Coordinator

6.8

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

The Fantastic Seven

1979

Stunts

1.5

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

Every Which Way but Loose

1978

Stunt Coordinator

6.1

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

The Deer Hunter

1978

Stunt Coordinator

8.0

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

FM

1978

Stunts

6.7

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

The Gauntlet

1977

Stunt Coordinator, Stunts

6.6

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

The Enforcer

1976

Stunt Coordinator

6.7

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

Swashbuckler

1976

Stunt Coordinator

6.2

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

Harry Callahan/Clint Eastwood: Something Special in Films

Harry Callahan/Clint Eastwood: Something Special in Films

1976

as Self

Acting

A promotional short which details the making of 'The Enforcer'.

The Master Gunfighter

The Master Gunfighter

1975

Stunts

4.5

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

Bite the Bullet

1975

as Slim

6.4
Acting

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

Bite the Bullet

1975

Stunts

6.4

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

The Eiger Sanction

1975

Stunts

6.1

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

The Great Waldo Pepper

1975

Stunts

6.4

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

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

1974

Stunt Coordinator

6.8

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

Magnum Force

1973

Stunts

7.1

"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

High Plains Drifter

1973

as Marshall Jim Duncan

7.3
Acting

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

High Plains Drifter

1973

Stunt Coordinator

7.3

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

Joe Kidd

1972

Stunt Coordinator, Stunt Double

6.4

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

Prime Cut

1972

Stunts

6.4

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

Dirty Harry

1971

Stunt Coordinator, Stunt Double

7.4

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

Big Jake

1971

Stunts

6.9

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

The Beguiled

The Beguiled

1971

as Soldier

7.0
Acting

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

The Beguiled

1971

Stunt Coordinator, Stunt Double

7.0

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

I Walk the Line

1970

Stunts

5.8

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

The Cheyenne Social Club

1970

Stunt Double

6.4

Two cowboys inherit a "social club" specializing in satisfying men.

Two Mules for Sister Sara

Two Mules for Sister Sara

1970

Stunt Coordinator

7.0

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

Marooned

1969

Stunt Double

5.9

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

Mackenna's Gold

1969

Stunt Double

6.6

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

The Stalking Moon

1968

Stunts

5.9

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

Coogan's Bluff

1968

Stunt Double

6.4

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!

Bandolero!

1968

Stunts

6.5

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

Firecreek

1968

Stunt Double

6.4

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

Stranger on the Run

1967

Stunts

5.4

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

Chamber of Horrors

1966

Stunts

5.5

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

Alvarez Kelly

1966

Stunts

6.2

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

The Rare Breed

1966

Stunts

6.0

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

Our Man Flint

1966

Stunts

6.4

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

The War Lord

1965

Stunts

6.3

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

Mirage

1965

Stunts

7.0

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

Major Dundee

1965

Stunts

6.7

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

Kings of the Sun

1963

Stunts

6.1

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

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

1963

Stunts

7.0

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

The Swordsman of Siena

1962

Stunts

2.5

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

Spartacus

Spartacus

1960

as Soldier (uncredited)

7.5
Acting

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

Spartacus

1960

Stunts

7.5

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

Last of the Badmen

1957

Stunts

5.7

Chicago detectives in the 1880s head west to find the killers of their colleague.

Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days

1956

Stunts

6.6

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

Lady Godiva of Coventry

1955

Stunts

5.5

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

The Man from Bitter Ridge

1955

Stunt Double

6.0

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

Escape to Burma

1955

5.8
Acting

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

Escape to Burma

Escape to Burma

1955

Stunts

5.8

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

Chief Crazy Horse

Chief Crazy Horse

1955

Stunts

5.6

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

Destry

1954

Stunts

6.1

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

Prince Valiant

Prince Valiant

1954

Stunts

5.9

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

Taza, Son of Cochise

1954

Stunts

5.5

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

Ride Clear of Diablo

1954

Stunts

5.8

A young railroad surveyor returns to his hometown to find the man who murdered his father and brother.

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke

1953

Stunts

6.4

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

Son of Paleface

1952

Stunts

6.3

Peter Potter Jr. returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found.

Silver City

Silver City

1951

Stunts

6.4

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

Warpath

1951

Stunts

5.8

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

Cave of Outlaws

1951

Stunts

5.2

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

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 ...