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Walter Edward Cox (born March 29, 1948), known professionally as Bud Cort, is an American actor known for his unorthodox starring roles in Robert Altman's Brewster McCloud (1970) and Hal Ashby's Harold and Maude (1971).
Bud Cort. Actor: Harold and Maude. Bud Cort, American actor/comedian, was born Walter Edward Cox in New Rochelle, New York.
- January 1, 1
- 1.75 m
- New Rochelle, New York, USA
- Bud Cort Nearly Killed Himself with His Method Acting.
- Vivian Pickles Brought Her Own Clothes For Mrs. Chasen’s Wardrobe.
- Harrison Ford Worked For Screenwriter Colin Higgins—As A Carpenter.
- One of The Film’S Lost Scenes Involved Harold Serving Up His Own head.
- Elton John Passed on Doing The Soundtrack.
- Harold and Maude Was Based on Colin Higgins’ Thesis Film at UCLA.
- Hal Ashby Almost Withdrew from The Film A Month Before Shooting began.
On the Harold and Maudeset, Bud Cort was infamous for his Method acting. In an interview with , Cort shared that among the many scenes he improvised were his breaking of the fourth wall to give a cheeky glance at the camera and raising his middle finger at Vivian Pickles during her entire monologue after she tells him he’s joining the army. As furt...
Pickles, who played Harold’s detached, socialite mother, flew in her own costumes for the character. “I had brought some of my own clothes over from England, which we had altered, and, in the week before shooting began, I shopped endlessly for the rest with the costume designer, Bill Theiss,” wrote Pickles for The Criterion Collection. “He was spot...
Here’s a fun fact separate from the production of the film: According to The Criterion Collection cut, Colin Higgins employed Harrison Ford, then working as a carpenter, to build a hot tub and deck for his backyard.
“It opened up with a shot of a large, silver-plated serving dish," Colin Higgins told in 1972. "A hand comes in and removes the cover and there, on a little bed of parsley, is Harold's head. Two hands come into the frame and pick up the head, and we move back and there's Harold holding his head and looking at it. He sort of peels off the latex bloo...
According to The Criterion Collectionversion of the film, producer Charles Mulvehill initially approached Elton John to write the music for the movie, as Ashby was a fan of the pop star. John passed—but not before suggesting his friend, Cat Stevens, for the job.
At the time, Higgins was working as producer Edward Lewis’ pool boy. According to , Lewis’ wife loved the script so much that she got her husband to give it to Stanley Jaffe at Paramount. At first, Higgins was going to direct the film, but screen tests proved to the studio that he wasn’t ready. Thus, Hal Ashby was brought on.
Frustrated with several issues he was having with the studio, including not being able to hire cinematographer Gordon Willis, Ashby considered leaving the picture altogether. “My creative juices have indeed finally been tapped and it would, I’m afraid, have to take its toll on the film, and Harold and Maude deserves better,” Ashby wrote to Robert E...
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Bud Cort as Harold Parker Chasen, a young man who is obsessed with death. He drives a hearse, attends funerals of strangers and stages elaborate fake suicides. Through meeting and falling in love with Maude, he discovers joy in living for the first time.
Mar 18, 2021 · Much like a precocious college student, Harold (Bud Cort) maintains his own sense of self through constant acts of resistance against these authority figures, and appears unable to communicate...
Dec 20, 1971 · Harold and Maude: Directed by Hal Ashby. With Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack. Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.
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Bud Cort (born Walter Edward Cox on March 29, 1948) is 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.
