FILM DIRECTOR

Buddy Van Horn

1928 - 2021

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Wayne "Buddy" Van Horn (August 20, 1928 – May 11, 2021) was an American stunt coordinator and film director. He directed the Clint Eastwood films Any Which Way You Can (1980), The Dead Pool (1988), and Pink Cadillac (1989). A long-time stunt double for Eastwood, he was credited as the stunt coordinator on Eastwood's films from 1972 to 2011, and as second unit director on Magnum Force (1973) and The Rookie (1990). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Buddy Van Horn has received more than 228,834 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Buddy Van Horn is the 1,296th most popular film director (up from 1,311th in 2019), the 8,728th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,280th in 2019) and the 330th most popular American Film Director.

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  • 230k

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  • 45.31

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  • 17

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  • 3.00

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  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Buddy Van Horn ranks 1,296 out of 2,041Before him are Rian Johnson, Nikos Koundouros, Rafael Gil, Iosif Kheifits, André Roosevelt, and Alain Jessua. After him are Neil Burger, Nunnally Johnson, Werner Klingler, Jacques Baratier, Neill Blomkamp, and Benoît Lamy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Buddy Van Horn ranks 476Before him are Judith Krantz, Peter Taylor, Jorma Valkama, Kate Wilhelm, Joseph Kruskal, and Anna-Lisa Eriksson. After him are José Antonio Roca, Andrés Prieto, Břetislav Dolejší, Cyril Mango, Giovanni Giacomazzi, and Monty Norman. Among people deceased in 2021, Buddy Van Horn ranks 497Before him are Walter Graf, Paddy Moloney, Giacomo Capuzzi, John Madden, Karl-Friedrich Haas, and Marco Maciel. After him are G. Gordon Liddy, Ignacio Achúcarro, Al Unser, Cyril Mango, José Manuel Caballero, and Svante Thuresson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Buddy Van Horn ranks 8,728 out of 20,380Before him are Cyril M. Kornbluth (1923), Dee Brown (1908), Ted Kaufman (1939), James Cruze (1884), Tom Vilsack (1950), and Ruth Patrick (1907). After him are Neil Burger (1963), Yakima Canutt (1895), Anne Gwynne (1918), Nunnally Johnson (1897), John Aylward (1946), and James Parrott (1897).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Buddy Van Horn ranks 330Before him are Dudley Nichols (1895), William C. deMille (1878), Joseph Ruben (1950), Wesley Ruggles (1889), Owen Roizman (1936), and Rian Johnson (1973). After him are Neil Burger (1963), Nunnally Johnson (1897), David Frankel (1959), Max Hardcore (1956), Charles Reisner (1887), and Melville Shavelson (1917).

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