Bud Cort

Bud Cort

Walter Edward Cox, known professionally as Bud Cort (March 29, 1948 – February 11, 2026) was an American film and stage actor, writer, and director. He is best known for his portrayals of Harold in Hal Ashby's 1971 film Harold and Maude and the titular hero in Robert Altman's 1970 film Brewster McCloud. Both films have large cult followings today.

On screen

  • Affections
  • The Little Prince
  • The Source Family
  • The Number 23
  • This Is an Adventure
  • Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal
  • The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
  • The Big Empty
  • Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron'
  • The Million Dollar Hotel
  • But I'm a Cheerleader
  • South of Heaven, West of Hell
  • Pollock
  • Coyote Ugly
  • Altman on His Own Terms
  • Dogma
  • I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
  • Sweet Jane
  • Jitters
  • Theodore Rex
  • Crazy for a Kiss
  • Girl in the Cadillac
  • Heat
  • And the Band Played On
  • Ted & Venus
  • Brain Dead
  • Out of the Dark
  • The Chocolate War
  • Martini Ranch: Reach
  • Bates Motel
  • Love at Stake
  • Invaders from Mars
  • Telephone
  • Electric Dreams
  • Maria's Lovers
  • The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
  • The Nightingale
  • Love Letters
  • Hysterical
  • Rumpelstiltskin
  • Night of 100 Stars
  • She Dances Alone
  • Brave New World
  • Die Laughing
  • Son of Hitler
  • Pumping Iron
  • Why Shoot the Teacher?
  • Bernice Bobs Her Hair
  • Hallucination Strip
  • Harold and Maude
  • Brewster McCloud
  • The Strawberry Statement
  • The Traveling Executioner
  • Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It.
  • M*A*S*H
  • Sweet Charity
  • Up the Down Staircase

Behind the camera

  • Ted & Venus

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