Buddy Van Horn
| Buddy Van Horn | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 20, 1929 United States |
| Occupation | Film director, stunt coordinator |
Buddy Van Horn (b. August 20, 1929) is a Hollywood stunt coordinator and film director.[1] A long-time stunt double for Clint Eastwood, he directed such Eastwood films as Any Which Way You Can,[1] The Dead Pool,[1] and Pink Cadillac.[1] 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.
Van Horn's most prominent onscreen appearance is the role of Marshal Jim Duncan in the Clint Eastwood film High Plains Drifter, a role which he and Eastwood play the same character. Van Horn is the murdered Marshal who was planning to report a gold stake to the government that the town of Lago wanted to keep for itself and Eastwood is the avenging spirit who returned to make the townspeople of Lago pay for their actions and to seek retribution against the three outlaws who bull-whipped the Marshal to death in front of the town who paid them to keep the Marshal from talking.