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Bud Cort
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Actor Born: March 29, 1950 in New Rochelle, NY 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... Full Biography
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