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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.2321 |
| Birthday | 1948-03-29 |
| Place of Birth | Rye, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Walter Edward Cox, |
2000
The Million Dollar Hotel
5.895/380
A federal agent searches for a potential killer among the bizarre residents of a dilapidated Los Angeles hotel.
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The Million Dollar Hotel
1971
Harold and Maude
7.587/1241
A deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.
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Harold and Maude
2004
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
7.073/3263
Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is...
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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
1999
Dogma
6.942/2961
An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to...
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Dogma
1993
And the Band Played On
6.4/114
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
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And the Band Played On
1998
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
4.826/23
A mental patient escapes from the looney bin in drag, robs a bank, and goes on the lam!
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I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
1977
Pumping Iron
7.154/550
Amateur and professional bodybuilders prepare for the 1975 Mr. Olympia and Mr. Universe contests as five-time champion Arnold Schwarzenegger defends h...
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Pumping Iron
1990
Brain Dead
5.652/139
In a battle of man versus machine, Martin, a top neurosurgeon who's studying brain malfunctions that cause mental illness, delves deep into his own mi...
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Brain Dead
2000
But I'm a Cheerleader
7.091/883
Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy wit...
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But I'm a Cheerleader
1988
Out of the Dark
5.602/49
A deranged killer wearing a clown mask begins preying on a group of young women working at a phone-sex company.
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Out of the Dark
1969
Sweet Charity
6.9/94
Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally...
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Sweet Charity
1986
Invaders from Mars
5.562/289
A boy tries to stop aliens that have taken over his town and are brainwashing its inhabitants.
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Invaders from Mars
2000
South of Heaven, West of Hell
4.792/24
Valentine Casey is a Marshal in the desolate Tucson territory of the early 1900s. On Christmas Eve, his outlaw family pays him a disturbing visit. He...
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South of Heaven, West of Hell
2007
The Number 23
6.405/3620
Animal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between hims...
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The Number 23
1988
The Chocolate War
6.266/47
Jerry, a new student at an elite Catholic prep school, must face the hazing practices handed down by the Vigils, a group of powerful students. When te...
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The Chocolate War
1971
Brewster McCloud
6.3/100
Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines of...
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Brewster McCloud
2000
Pollock
6.661/366
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United Sta...
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Pollock
1995
Theodore Rex
3.634/123
In an alternate futuristic society, a tough female police detective is paired with a talking dinosaur to find the killer of dinosaurs and other prehis...
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Theodore Rex
2003
The Big Empty
6.08/83
Struggling actor John Person agrees to drive a blue suitcase from Los Angeles to the small town of Baker, Calif., and hand it over to a mysterious cow...
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The Big Empty
1980
Brave New World
6.109/32
A man who grew up in a primitive society educating himself by reading Shakespeare is allowed to join the futuristic society where his parents are from...
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Brave New World
1984
Electric Dreams
6.4/214
Miles Harding buys a state-of-the-art computer that starts expressing conscious thought and emotion after an interaction with spilled champagne. Thing...
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Electric Dreams
1970
The Strawberry Statement
5.9/42
A college student joins a group of revolutionaries to meet girls but ends up committed to their goals.
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The Strawberry Statement
1982
Hysterical
4.529/17
Frederic Lansing is a writer who hopes to find inspiration while vacationing in Hellview, Oregon; however, the lighthouse in which he's staying is hau...
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Hysterical
1970
The Traveling Executioner
5.893/14
Jonas Candide performs his job as state executioner in early 20th century Mississippi like a combination preacher and carnival barker, persuading cond...
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The Traveling Executioner
1979
Son of Hitler
5.833/6
The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actually the son of Adolf Hitler.
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Son of Hitler
1970
Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It.
4.3/44
A gas is let loose upon the world that kills anyone over 25 years old.
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Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It.
1991
Ted & Venus
4.5/12
Ted is a 1970s Venice Beach poet who spends his days drifting along the boardwalk, reciting his poetry to anyone who will listen. His life changes whe...
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Ted & Venus
1987
Bates Motel
4.523/65
A mentally disturbed man who roomed with the late Norman Bates at a psychiatric facility inherits the infamous Bates Motel after his death and attempt...
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Bates Motel
1987
Love at Stake
5.588/17
Salem, 1692. The mayor and judge are accusing land owner of witchery in order to grab their land. No one knows that are handsome stranger is a real wi...
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Love at Stake
1984
Maria's Lovers
6/66
A World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers that he has to compete to win her love.
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Maria's Lovers
1975
Hallucination Strip
5.4/8
The story is about a youth named Massimo Monaldi, who, living in Rome, is a part-time college student who has some involvement in the protests that oc...
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Hallucination Strip
2013
The Source Family
6.121/33
A feature documentary film set in Hollywood, examining a radical experiment in '70s utopian living. The Source Family were the darlings of the Sunset...
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The Source Family
1977
Why Shoot the Teacher?
6.357/7
It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadian prairie town - on his first teaching job in a o...
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Why Shoot the Teacher?
2005
This Is an Adventure
6.8/5
During production on the film "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou", documentary filmmakers followed the cast and crew of a film which depicts other do...
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This Is an Adventure
2005
Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal
6.433/15
Documentary created by Matthew Gray Gubler during, and about, his time on the set of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
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Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal
1995
Crazy for a Kiss
7/1
On a hot sunny day in Kansas, 1973, Mike Kinross's parents tell him he's going on holiday to his Uncle Dan's house. But instead they drop him off at t...
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Crazy for a Kiss
1995
Girl in the Cadillac
4.8/10
A runaway teenage girl and a drifter rob a bank, hit the road to elude the Texas Rangers and find love on the run.
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Girl in the Cadillac
1988
Out of the Dark
5.602/49
A deranged killer wearing a clown mask begins preying on a group of young women working at a phone-sex company.
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Out of the Dark
1980
Die Laughing
4.556/9
A San Francisco cab driver find himself in possession of a monkey that is carrying a formula for turning atomic waste into a plutonium bomb. He finds...
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Die Laughing
1997
Jitters
7/1
An independent, professional woman has second thoughts about getting married.
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Jitters
2016
Affections
5.5/4
A comedy about isolation and loneliness, Affections follows a young woman, adrift, seeking intimacy in the most unlikely places.
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Affections
1995
Heat
7.9/8663
Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna p...
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Heat
2015
The Little Prince
7.62/3028
Based on the best-seller book 'The Little Prince', the movie tells the story of a little girl that lives with resignation in a world where efficiency...
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The Little Prince
1970
M*A*S*H
6.947/1190
One of the world's most acclaimed comedies, M*A*S*H focuses on three Korean War Army surgeons brilliantly brought to life by Donald Sutherland, Tom Sk...
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M*A*S*H
1998
Sweet Jane
5.5/12
Jane, an HIV-positive heroin addict, meets Tony, a young AIDS victim with no family, and the two form a bond.
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Sweet Jane
1982
Rumpelstiltskin
5.9/7
Desperate to save her own life, a miller's daughter makes a bargain with a strange elf-like character. When she cannot cover her debt she is faced wit...
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Rumpelstiltskin
1983
The Nightingale
5.25/4
A kitchen maid and a nightingale help save an emperor with the power of song and friendship.
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The Nightingale
1976
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
5.286/14
Bernice, a shy young woman, leaves her safe home to go visit her flapper cousin. When her cousin tries to teach Bernice how to be much more modern, Be...
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Bernice Bobs Her Hair
1992
Carol Leifer: Gaudy, Bawdy & Blue
0/0
Carol Leifer stars as Rusty Berman, a 1950's burlesque queen with an outrageous, risque act.
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Carol Leifer: Gaudy, Bawdy & Blue
1967
Up the Down Staircase
7.111/27
Sylvia, a novice schoolteacher, is hired to teach English in a high school, but she’s met with an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an...
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Up the Down Staircase
1984
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
4.625/8
Screwball account of the legendary psychologist's life leading up to his ground-breaking theories.
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The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
1983
Love Letters
5.607/28
After discovering a box of old love letters sent to her mother by a mysterious stranger, Anna, a young radio deejay, begins a torrid affair with a mar...
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Love Letters
2000
Coyote Ugly
6.258/2325
Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sid...
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Coyote Ugly
1981
She Dances Alone
10/1
Director Robert Dornhelm casts Bud Cort for alter-ego purposes in She Dances Alone. Cort plays a documentary director, seeking to produce a film on th...
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She Dances Alone
2002
Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron'
7.13/23
A documentary on the making of "Pumping Iron" to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Aired on Cinemax.
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Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron'
1986
Telephone
8/1
An emotionally-distraught and suicidal woman dials a random telephone number and gets a lonely man on the phone. With pistol in hand, she threatens to...
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Telephone
1982
Night of 100 Stars
5.8/5
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...
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Night of 100 Stars
2000
Altman on His Own Terms
9/2
A look at the life and career of acclaimed independent filmmaker Robert Altman...on his own words. The genius director who shook the cinema industry w...
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Altman on His Own Terms
1988
Martini Ranch: Reach
3.5/2
Music video for Bill Paxton's band Martini Ranch where an outlaw biker arrives at a rough small western town to visit his gal in the local brothel. Wh...
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