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included Electric Dreams (1984), Invaders From Mars (1989), Love at Stake (1991), and Ted & Venus (1992), a charmingly outdated "crazy for love" opus which Cort also directed.
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The Big Empty
Actor |
2003 | |||
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Pollock
Actor |
2000 | |||
| 2000 | ||||
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The Million Dollar Hotel
Actor |
2000 | |||
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But I'm a Cheerleader
Actor |
1999 | |||
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Dogma
Actor |
1999 | |||
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Jitters
Actor |
1997 | |||
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Sweet Jane
Actor |
1997 | |||
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Theodore Rex
Actor |
1996 | |||
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Heat
Actor |
1995 | |||
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Girl in the Cadillac
Actor |
1994 | |||
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And the Band Played On
Actor |
1993 | |||
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Ted and Venus
Actor, Director, Screenwriter |
1993 | |||
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Going Under
Actor |
1991 | |||
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Brain Dead
Actor |
1989 | |||
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Out of the Dark
Actor |
1988 | |||
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The Chocolate War
Actor |
1988 | |||
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Bates Motel
Actor |
1987 | |||
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Love at Stake
Actor |
1987 | |||
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Invaders from Mars
Actor |
1986 | |||
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Electric Dreams
Voice |
1984 | |||
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Maria's Lovers
Actor |
1984 | |||
| 1984 | ||||
| 1983 | ||||
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Hysterical
Actor |
1983 | |||
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Love Letters
Actor |
1983 | |||
| 1982 | ||||
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She Dances Alone
Actor |
1981 | |||
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Brave New World
Actor |
1980 | |||
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Die Laughing
Actor |
1980 | |||
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Hitler's Son
Actor |
1978 | |||
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Why Shoot the Teacher
Actor |
1977 | |||
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Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Actor |
1976 | |||
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Harold and Maude
Actor |
1971 | |||
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Brewster McCloud
Actor |
1970 | |||
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Gas-S-S-S!
Actor |
1970 | |||
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M*A*S*H
Actor |
1970 | |||
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The Strawberry Statement
Actor |
1970 | |||
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