# Bud Cort RIP **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 11, 2026, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-cort-rip/1027589 "2026-02-11T20:17:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-cort-rip/1027589/1 "2026-02-11T20:17:17Z")
He was probably most famous for Harold and Maude but he will always be the voice of the Computer in Electric Dreams to me. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-cort-rip/1027589/2 "2026-02-11T20:18:04Z")
I was about to start a thread, and post this: > **[Bud Cort Dies: ‘Harold And Maude’ Actor Was 77](https://deadline.com/2026/02/bud-cort-dead-1236716241/)** > > 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’s Harold and Maude, died today in Connecticut following... ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-cort-rip/1027589/3 "2026-02-11T20:22:45Z")
I also liked _Brewster McCloud._ Early Altman and very weird. I hadn’t seen in many decades, but saw it again about a year ago. Enjoyed it more than I expected, too, after all that time. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-cort-rip/1027589/4 "2026-02-11T20:30:34Z")
Damn. They used to show Harold and Maude four times a year at the Blue Mouse theater in Salt Lake City. Once every time they put out a new schedule. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-cort-rip/1027589/5 "2026-02-11T20:36:29Z")
Harold and Maude is probably my favorite movie of all time. Definitely in my top three. This makes me very sad. RIP Walter (aka Bud). ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-cort-rip/1027589/6 "2026-02-11T20:38:27Z")
One of the crazier aspects of Cort’s career: he was originally supposed to be the effective star of the documentary _Pumping Iron_. The original idea for the documentary was to have a seemingly average guy (i.e. Cort) begin to train with professional bodybuilders; you would then hopefully watch him transform into a muscle man over the course of a couple of hours. Cort actually did train with Arnold Schwarzenegger for a while but he eventually decided he didn’t want to continue. The filmmakers by that point had realized that they already had their movie in front of them, in the form of the relationships and rivalries between the various bodybuilders training to compete at Mr. Olympia (Schwarzenegger, Franco Columbu, Lou Ferrigno). ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-cort-rip/1027589/7 "2026-02-11T20:52:28Z")
Sad to hear. Harold and Maude is probably my #1 or #2 favorite comedy of all time. Seen it at least a dozen times. His Wiki page is sadly sparce. RIP Bud. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-cort-rip/1027589/8 "2026-02-11T21:25:32Z")
Too late, Boone, you killed him. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-cort-rip/1027589/9 "2026-02-11T23:46:29Z")
Harold and Maude is one of my favorite movies, too. This is sad. RIP Bud. ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-cort-rip/1027589/10 "2026-02-12T01:56:58Z")
Harold and Maude is an excellent movie that I need to rewatch. I’ll also mention his 1987 series the Bates Motel. He was a fellow patient who befriended Norman, then inherited his hotel. I do have it on DVD but haven’t watched it yet. This weekend might be in honor of Bud Cort. I watched the Bates Motel when it aired and recall it was kind of a mix between the Love Boat and Twilight Zone. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-cort-rip/1027589/11 "2026-02-12T07:32:27Z")
If you haven’t seen [But I’m a Cheerleader (Film) - TV Tropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/ButImACheerleader), check it out. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-cort-rip/1027589/12 "2026-02-12T07:40:59Z")
Well, damn. Did not know he was 77. Oldish, I guess? Maybe not a great run, but a good one. I “know” (as in, “I think I remember from random stuff I read about him on line”) far more about Bud Cort as an actor and a human than simply his role as Harold in _Harold and Maude_, and all of it is pretty cool. Maybe I’ll post more later, if I confirm the accuracy of my recollections and no one beats me to it. Anyway … thanks, Bud. Good actor, good man, excellent human. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-cort-rip/1027589/13 "2026-02-12T08:48:57Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > If you haven’t seen [But I’m a Cheerleader (Film) - TV Tropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/ButImACheerleader), check it out. You beat me to it. Cort plays Megan’s (Natasha Lyonne’s) father in that one. Fun to see him again so many years after _Harold and Maude_; and yeah, I can see the resemblance to Harold, even after decades. Sad news. I enjoyed _Harold and Maude_, and still do, but he had a nice catalog of work, and did well in everything. Thanks, Bud. Rest well. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-cort-rip/1027589/14 "2026-02-12T14:44:52Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I was about to start a thread, and post this: Same here. RIP Bud. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-cort-rip/1027589/15 "2026-02-12T15:51:15Z")
I wonder what he would have looked like as a big muscle boy. ---
**Author:** ![JohnnyEcks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnnyecks/32/18197_2.png) [@JohnnyEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnnyEcks)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-cort-rip/1027589/16 "2026-02-12T16:46:50Z")
I know him best as Toyman from the animated Superman and Justice League shows. He did an exceptional job in portraying a creepy, disturbing man-child. It’s by far the best version of the character. ---
**Author:** ![Awb78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@Awb78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Awb78)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-cort-rip/1027589/17 "2026-02-12T16:47:44Z")
I prefered “Mock Trial with J. Reinhold.” ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-cort-rip/1027589/18 "2026-02-12T17:15:55Z")
We did a pet rescue of two cats, named Harold and Maude. When we tell people their names, only certain generations recognize the reference. But I thought the cat would go before he did. RIP ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-cort-rip/1027589/19 "2026-02-12T18:47:59Z")
According to IMDB, the fourth best episode of Criminal Minds is Mosely Lane (and one of my favorite episodes). Bud Cort was one of the bad guys in the episode. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2026, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-cort-rip/1027589/20 "2026-02-13T03:05:07Z")
Posted this in the death pool. Some (a lot of background on the Jag-Hearse) in Harold & Maude. More info on other movies he was in. A meeting with Boy George who wanted to meet him! Many more stories in the comments. > **[RIP Bud Cort So Let's Talk About The Jaguar E-Type Hearse He Made Famous -...](https://www.theautopian.com/rip-bud-court-so-lets-talk-about-the-jaguar-e-type-hearse-he-made-famous/)** > > Sometimes actors do something so memorable at the beginning of their careers that is tends to define them for the rest of their lives; actor Bud Cort was one such actor. Fortunately for him, that work that he would come to be associated with for the... [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-cort-rip/1027589.md?page=2)