{"id":14138,"date":"2026-02-11T14:06:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14138"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:09:17","slug":"bud-cort-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2026\/02\/11\/bud-cort-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Bud Cort Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/02\/bud-cort-dead-1236716241\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Deadline<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bud Cort Dies: \u2018Harold And Maude\u2019 Actor Was 77<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/greg-evans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Greg Evans<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Harold and Maude (1\/8) Movie CLIP - Harold Meets Maude (1971) HD\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WuHkE1eU2AY?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bud-cort\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bud Cort<\/a>, whose indelible portrayal of the gawky, death-obsessed young man barely out of his teens who falls in love with a spirited 79-year-old Holocaust survivor played by Ruth Gordon in 1971\u2019s<em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/harold-and-maude\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Harold and Maude<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0died Wednesday in Connecticut following a lengthy illness. He was 77.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born Walter Edward Cox on March 29, 1948, in Rye, NY, the young actor \u2014 instantly recognizable with his owlish looks and rail-thin frame \u2014 was discovered and cast by director Robert Altman in two 1970 hit films&nbsp;<em>MASH&nbsp;<\/em>and<em>&nbsp;Brewster McCloud.&nbsp;<\/em>He would go on to play character roles in such films as&nbsp;<em>Heat<\/em>&nbsp;(1995),&nbsp;<em>Dogma<\/em>&nbsp;(1999) and&nbsp;<em>The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou&nbsp;<\/em>(2004) among others, but it was his co-starring role in Hal Ashby\u2019s midnight movie classic&nbsp;<em>Harold and Maude&nbsp;<\/em>that would establish his place in the cinema of the 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/02\/bud-cort-dead-1236716241\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Deadline<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Deadline Bud Cort Dies: \u2018Harold And Maude\u2019 Actor Was 77 By\u00a0Greg Evans Bud Cort, whose indelible portrayal of the gawky, death-obsessed young man barely out of his teens who falls in love with a spirited 79-year-old Holocaust survivor played by Ruth Gordon in 1971\u2019s\u00a0Harold and Maude,\u00a0died Wednesday in Connecticut following a lengthy illness. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14139,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14138\/revisions\/14139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}