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Bud Cort

バッド・コート　/　ばっど・こーと

Film director from USA

March 29, 1948 (age 78)　・　Rye, New York, USA

From New York
Film director
Character actor
Stage actor

My Take

Bud Cort will forever be Harold, the morbid rich kid faking suicides until Ruth Gordon's Maude teaches him to actually live. That performance is so specific and strange that it basically defined a whole vein of darkly funny outsider cinema. What I appreciate is that he leaned into being odd rather than chasing leading-man roles, working with Altman early and then becoming a beloved character actor you spot in all sorts of films. 'Harold and Maude' flopped on release and became a cult monument, and Cort's deadpan vulnerability is the reason it still hits people decades later. A genuine cult treasure.

Overview

Bud Cort (born March 29, 1948, in Rye, New York) is an American actor, director and screenwriter. He rose to prominence with director Robert Altman in films such as 'M*A*S*H' and 'Brewster McCloud', but is best remembered for the title role of the death-obsessed young man in Hal Ashby's 1971 cult classic 'Harold and Maude'. He has remained a working character actor across film and television for decades.

1. Profile

Name (English): Bud Cort
Name (Japanese): バッド・コート
Reading: ばっど・こーと
Born: March 29, 1948 (age 78)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Aries / Rat
Origin: Rye, New York, USA
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: Film director / Character actor / Stage actor / Film actor / Screenwriter

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Iona College

3. Relationships

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Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

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6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88

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