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Bud Cort

Bud Cort
Bud Cort
Born: Mar 29, 1950 in New Rochelle, New York
Occupation: Actor, Writer, Director,
Active: '70s-'90s
Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: Harold and Maude, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Why Shoot the Teacher
First Major Screen Credit: Brewster McCloud (1970)
22 Videos for Bud Cort
The Big Empty (2003) Heat (1995) Invaders from Mars (1986)
Pollock (2000) Girl in the Cadillac (1994) Electric Dreams (1984)
South of Heaven, West of Hell (2000) And the Band Played On (1993) The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud (1984)
The Million Dollar Hotel (2000) Brain Dead (1989) Love Letters (1983)
But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) Out of the Dark (1988) Harold and Maude (1971)
Dogma (1999) The Chocolate War (1988) Brewster McCloud (1970)
Sweet Jane (1997) Love at Stake (1987) M*A*S*H (1970)
Theodore Rex (1996)
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Biography:

Inasmuch as there was already a Wally Cox, American actor Walter Edward Cox chose the stage name Bud Cort when applying for his Equity card. Straight off the stage, Cort was cast in the small role of an intern browbeaten into tears by Robert Duvall in M*A*S*H* (1970). This brief appearance was enough to encourage M*A*S*H director Robert Altman to entrust Cort with the lead in his next film, Brewster McCloud (1971), a Vonnegut-like pastiche about a flying boy.

Cort was not standard leading man material, thus many of his roles were in the offbeat vein of Brewster McCloud, even in more down-to-earth material like The Strawberry Statement (1971). Thus Cort was in many ways perfect for the suicidal teen protagonist of Hal Ashby's Harold and Maude (1972), whose life would be turned inside out (and back on track) by septuagenarian free spirit Ruth Gordon.

It wasn't that Cort quit acting after Harold and Maude; it's simply that many of his subsequent films tried too hard to emulate Harold and Maude's cult status, and fell so short of this goal as to be forgettable. The later Cort films in this midnight movie wannabe vein included Electric Dreams (1984), Invaders From Mars (1989), Love at Stake (1991), and Ted & Venus (1992), a charmingly outdated crazy for love opus which Cort also directed.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.