Buddy Van Horn

The Profile

American stuntman and film director, longtime collaborator with Clint Eastwood.

Directed Pink Cadillac (1989) and Any Which Way You Can (1980). Worked extensively as a stunt coordinator and second-unit director on many films with Clint Eastwood.

The provided review considers Pink Cadillac a minor, almost minimal episode in Clint Eastwood's career, set in neon-lit casinos with Bernadette Peters as a disinhibited femme fatale. The critic reads the film as emblematic of a declining Hollywood macho epic and as marking the end of Eastwood's classic action-thriller persona. Neo-Nazi villains are described as soulless and unintentionally comical, and the film is compared to later directors' renewals.