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Buddy Van Horn, Clint Eastwood stunt double & director dies at 92

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Director and veteran stunt double Wayne “Buddy” Van Horn had died on the age of 92. Van Horn died on Could 11, in line with an obituary notice within the “Los Angeles Occasions.”

Van Horn began working with Clint Eastwood as his stunt double in 1967 and labored with the actor-director and his group at his manufacturing firm Malposo as a stunt coordinator on greater than 30 movies over 44 years, together with movies like Excessive Plains Drifter and Within the Line of Fireplace. In 2011, Van Horn spoke about his time working with Eastwood by saying, “He is a reasonably bodily man and likes to do his personal stunts. A number of the issues he does have been fairly straightforward to get banged up. I’ve tried to speak him out of it generally, however not very efficiently more often than not. He went and did ’em anyway, a number of of ’em. He is been banged up a number of occasions.”

The veteran stuntman additionally directed three movies starring Eastwood throughout his profession: Any Which Means You Can which served because the sequel to James Fargo’s Each Which Means however Unfastened, the final movie within the Soiled Harry sequence titled The Lifeless Pool, and Pink Cadillac. Based on the obituary, Van Horn was “born on the again lot of Common Studios in Common Metropolis, California,” the place his father labored as a veterinarian for the studio’s horses and enormous animals.

Van Horn is survived by his spouse Konne, his daughters Erika and Jennifer, and grandchildren Morgan, Cade, Hayden, Cole, and Landon. R.I.P. Van Horn. You will be tremendously missed.

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