Bud Cort
1948–2026 · American actor
Walter Edward Cox, known professionally as Bud Cort, was an American actor and voice artist, known for his unorthodox starring roles in Robert Altman's Brewster McCloud (1970), for which he was nominated for a Golden Laurel Award, and Hal Ashby's Harold and Maude (1971), for which he was nominated for both a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award. He also had supporting roles in films such as M*A*S*H (1970), Electric Dreams (1984), Heat (1995), Dogma (1999), Coyote Ugly (2000), Pollock (2000), and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004).
Bud Cort, in order
- 1969 Sweet Charity: acted · directed by Bob Fosse
- 1970 Brewster McCloud: acted · directed by Robert Altman · critics 86%, audiences 80%
- 1970 Gas-s-s-s: acted · directed by Roger Corman
- 1970 MASH: acted · directed by Robert Altman · critics 86%, audiences 82% · streaming on fuboTV
- 1970 The Strawberry Statement: acted · directed by Stuart Hagmann
- 1970 The Traveling Executioner: acted · directed by Jack Smight
- 1971 Harold and Maude: acted · directed by Hal Ashby · critics 85%, audiences 93% · streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, YouTube (free)
- 1975 Hallucination Strip: acted · directed by Lucio Marcaccini
- 1977 Why Shoot the Teacher?: acted · directed by Silvio Narizzano
- 1980 Brave New World (TV movie): acted · directed by Burt Brinckerhoff
- 1980 Die Laughing: acted · directed by Jeff Werner
- 1982 Hysterical: acted · directed by Chris Bearde
- 1983 Love Letters: acted · directed by Amy Holden Jones
- 1984 Electric Dreams: acted · directed by Steve Barron
- 1984 Maria's Lovers: acted · directed by Andrei Konchalovsky
- 1984 The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud: acted · directed by Danford B. Greene
- 1986 Invaders from Mars: acted · directed by Tobe Hooper
- 1987 Bates Motel (TV movie): acted · directed by Richard Rothstein
- 1988 The Chocolate War: acted · directed by Keith Gordon
- 1990 Brain Dead: acted · directed by Adam Simon
- 1991 Ted & Venus: directed, acted
- 1993 And the Band Played On: acted · directed by Roger Spottiswoode
- 1995 Girl in the Cadillac: acted · directed by Lucas Platt
- 1995 Heat: acted · directed by Michael Mann · critics 84%, audiences 94% · streaming on Netflix, Prime Video
- 1995 Theodore Rex: acted · directed by Jonathan R. Betuel
- 1998 I Woke Up Early The Day I Died: acted · directed by Aris Iliopulos
- 1999 But I'm a Cheerleader: acted · directed by Jamie Babbit
- 1999 Dogma: acted · directed by Kevin Smith · critics 72%, audiences 85% · streaming on YouTube (free)
- 2000 Coyote Ugly: acted · directed by David McNally · critics 23%, audiences 71%
- 2000 Pollock: acted · directed by Ed Harris · critics 79%, audiences 74% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel
- 2000 The Million Dollar Hotel: acted · directed by Wim Wenders · critics 26%, audiences 67% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Kanopy
- 2003 The Big Empty: acted · directed by Steve Anderson
- 2004 Imaginary Witness: acted · directed by Daniel Anker · critics 88%, audiences 83%
- 2004 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: acted · directed by Wes Anderson · critics 57%, audiences 82%
- 2007 The Number 23: acted · directed by Joel Schumacher