Walter Edward Cox (March 29, 1948 – February 11, 2026), known professionally as Bud Cort, was an American actor. In his early career he had uncredited roles in Robert Mulligan’s Up the Down Staircase (1967), with Sandy Dennis, Eileen Heckart, Patrick Bedford, and Jean Stapleton; and Bob Fosse’s Sweet Charity (1969), with Shirley MacLaine, John McMartin, Chita Rivera, Paula Kelly, Stubby Kaye, Ricardo Montalbán, and Sammy Davis Jr. He had his first credited role in Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H (1970), with Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, Elliott Gould, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, René Auberjonois, Gary Burghoff, Roger Bowen, Murphy, and Fred Williamson. In the same year Altman cast him in the title role for Brewster McCloud (1970), with Kellerman, Michael Murphy, Shelley Duvall, William Windom, and Auberjonois.
Other notable films in the early 1970s include The Strawberry Statement (1970), with Bruce Davison, Kim Darby, Andrew Parks, Kristin Van Buren, Kristina Holland, and Bob Balaban; Jack Smight’s The Traveling Executioner (1970), with Stacy Keach, Stefan Gierasch, Marianna Hill, M. Emmett Walsh; Roger Corman’s Gas-s-s-s (1970), with Robert Corff, Elaine Giftos, Ben Vereen, Cindy Williams, and Talia Shire; and Hal Ashby’s Harold and Maude (1971), with Ruth Gordon, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner, Ellen Geer, Eric Christmas, G. Wood, and Tom Skertitt – the latter earning him a Golden Globe nomination.
Films in the mid to late 1970s include Hallucination Strip (1975), with Marcel Bozzuffi, Eva Czemerys, Guido Alberti, Leopoldo Trieste, Maurizio Arena, Ennio Balbo, Umberto Raho, and Sammy Barbot; Silvio Narizzano’s Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977), with Samantha Eggar, Kenneth Griffith, and Chris Wiggins; and Son of Hitler (1979), with Peter Cushing, Leo Gordon, Felicity Dean, Anton Diffring, Heinz Bennett, and Lynn Cartwright.
Films in the early 1980s include Die Laughing (1980), with Robby Benson, Linda Grovenor, Charles Durning, Elsa Lanchester, and Rita Taggart; She Dances Alone (1981), with Max von Sydow; Hysterical (1982), with Bill Hudson, Mark Hudson, Brett Hudson, Cindy Pickett, Richard Kiel, Julie Newmar, Robert Donner, Murray Hamilton, Clint Walker, Franklyn Ajaye, Charlie Callas, Keenan Wynn, Gary Owens, and John Larroquette; The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud (1984), with Carol Kane, Klaus Kinski, Marisa Berenson, Carroll Baker, Ferdy Mayne, and Dick Shawn; Amy Holden Jones’s Love Letters (1984), with Jamie Lee Curtis, James Keach, Amy Madigan, and Matt Clark; a voice role in Steve Barron’s Electric Dreams (1984), with Lenny Von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, and Maxwell Caulfield; and Andrei Konchalovsky’s Maria’s Lovers (1984), with Nastassja Kinski, John Savage, Robert Mitchum, Keith Carradine, Vincent Spano, and John Goodman.
Films in the mid to late 1980s include Tobe Hooper’s Invaders from Mars (1986), with Hunter Carson, Karen Black, Timothy Bottoms, Laraine Newman, James Karen, and Louise Fletcher; Love at Stake (1988), with Patrick Cassidy, Kelly Preston, Barbara Carrera, Dave Thomas, and Stuart Pankin; Steve Gordon’s The Chocolate War (1988), with John Glover, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Wallace Langham, Doug Hutchison, and Jenny Wright; and Out of the Dark (1988), with Karen Witter, Black, Geoffrey Lewis, Tracey Walter, Divine, and Cameron Dye.
Films in the early 1990s include Brain Dead (1990), with Bill Pullman, Bill Paxton, Patricia Charbonneau, Nicholas Pryor, and George Kennedy; an uncredited role in Going Under (1991), with Pullman, Wendy Schall, Ned Beatty, Elmarie Wendell, Robert Vaughn, Roddy McDowall, and Richard Mauser; Ted & Venus (1991), with James Brolin, Kane, Martin Mull, Rhea Perlman, Woody Harrelson, Vincent Schiavelli, Andrea Martin, Cassandra Paterson, Tracy Reiner, Arleen Sorkin, Pat McCormick, and Gena Rowlands; Roger Spottiswoode’s TV movie And the Band Played On (1993), with Matthew Modine, Alan Alda, Phil Collins, Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Steve Martin, Ian McKellen, Lily Tomlin, Glenne Headly, Swoosie Kurtz, Masur, Saul Rubinek, Charles Martin Smith, and BD Wong; Girl in the Cadillac (1995), with Erika Eleniak, William McNamara, Michael Lerner, Valerie Perrine, and William Shockley; and an uncredited role in Michael Mann’s Heat (1995), with Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora, Amy Brenneman, Ashley Judd, Mykelti Williamson, Wes Studi, Ted LevineJon Voight, and Natalie Portman.
Films in the mid to late 1990s include Theodore Rex (1996), with Whoopi Goldberg,
Armin Mueller-Stahl, Juliet Landau, Stephen McHattie, Richard Roundtree, Jack Riley, and Joe Dallesandro; I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998), with Billy Zane, Ron Perlman, Tippi Hedren, Andrew McCarthy, Will Patton, Nicollette Sheridan, Sandra Bernhard, Black, Eartha Kitt, Summer Phoenix, Christina Ricci, and John Ritter; Sweet Jane (1998), with Samantha Mathis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt; Dogma (1999), with Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith (who also directed), Chris Rock, Alan Rickman, Salma Hayek, Jason Lee, George Carlin, and Alanis Morissette; and Jamie Babbit’s But I’m a Cheerleader (1999), with Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, Melanie Lynskey, RuPaul Charles, Eddie Cibrian, Wesley Mann, Richard Moll, Douglas Spain, Katharine Towne, and Cathy Moriarty.
Films in the early 2000s include South of Heaven, West of Hell (2000), with Dwight Yoakam (who also directed), Billy Bob Thornton, Vince Vaughn, Bridget Fonda, Peter Fonda, Paul Reubens, Michael Jeter, Bo Hopkins, Luke Askew, and Joe Ely; Wim Wenders’s The Million Dollar Hotel (2000), with Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich, Mel Gibson, Jimmy Smits, Peter Stormare, Amanda Plummer, Gloria Stuart, Tom Bower, Donal Logue, and an uncredited Tim Roth; Coyote Ugly, with Piper Perabo, Adam Garcia, Maria Bello, Lynskey, Bridget Moynahan, and Goodman; Pollock (2000), with Ed Harris (who also directed), Marcia Gay Harden, Jennifer Connelly, Kilmer, Robert Knott, Molly Regan, and Sada Thompson; and an uncredited role in Made (2001), with Jon Favreau (who also directed), Vaughn, Peter Falk, and Famke Janssen.
Films in the 2000s to 2010s include The Big Empty (2003), with Favreau, Joey Lauren Adams, Jon Gries, Daryl Hannah, Adam Beach, Gary Farmer, Rachael Leigh Cook, Brent Briscoe, Melora Walters, Kelsey Grammer, and Sean Bean; Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), with Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett, Willem Dafoe, Michael Gambon, Jeff Goldblum, Huston, and Seu Jorge; an uncredited role in Joel Schumacher’s The Number 23 (2007), with Jim Carrey, Madsen, Logan Lerman, and Danny Huston; and a voice role in The Little Prince (2015), with Jeff Bridges, Rachel McAdams, Paul Rudd, Marion Cotillard, Benicio del Toro, James Franco, Ricky Gervais, Paul Giamatti, Riley Osborne, Albert Brooks, and Mackenzie Foy.
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- Up the Down Staircase (1967) – directed by Robert Mulligan – uncredited
- Sweet Charity (1969) – directed by Bob Fosse – uncredited
- M*A*S*H (1970) – directed by Robert Altman
- The Strawberry Statement (1970) – directed by Stuart Hagmann
- Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It. (1970) – directed by Roger Corman
- The Traveling Executioner (1970) – directed by Jack Smight
- Brewster McCloud (1970) – directed by Robert Altman
- Harold and Maude (1971) – directed by Hal Ashby
- Hallucination Strip (l1975) – directed by Lucio Marcaccini
- Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976) – directed by Joan Micklin Silver – TV movie
- Why Shoot the Teacher (1977) – directed by Silvio Narizzano
- Son of Hitler (1979) – directed by Rod Armateau
- Brave New World (1980) – directed by Burt Brinckerhoff – TV movie
- Die Laughing (1980) – directed by Jeff Werner
- She Dances Alone (1981) – directed by Robert Dornhelm
- Hysterical (1982) – directed by Chris Bearde
- Love Letters (1983) – directed by Amy Holden Jones
- Electric Dreams (1984) – directed by Steve Barron
- Maria’s Lovers (1984) – directed by Andrei Konchalovsky
- The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud (1984) – directed by Danford B. Greene
- Telephone (1986) – directed by Eric Red – short
- Invaders from Mars (1986) – directed by Tobe Hooper
- Love at Stake (1987) – directed by John C. Moffitt
- Out of the Dark (1988) – directed by Michael Schroeder
- The Chocolate War (1988) – directed by Keith Gordon
- Brain Dead (1990) – directed by Adam Simon
- Going Under (1991) – directed by Mark W. Travis – uncredited
- Ted & Venus (1991) – also director, co-writer
- And the Band Played On (1993) – directed by Roger Spottiswoode – TV movie
- Crazy for a Kiss (1995) – directed by Chris Bould – TV movie
- Girl in the Cadillac (1995) – directed by Lucas Platt
- Heat (1995) – directed by Michael Mann – uncredited
- Theodore Rex (1996) – directed by Jonathan Betuel
- Jitters (1997) – directed by Bob Saget – TV movie
- Sweet Jane (1998) – directed by Joe Gayton
- I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998) – directed by Aris Iliopulos – credited as Lord Hienrich ‘Binky’ Alcoa III
- Dogma (1999) – directed by Kevin Smith
- But I’m a Cheerleader (1999) – directed by Jamie Babbit
- South of Heaven, West of Hell (2000) – directed by Dwight Yoakam
- The Million Dollar Hotel (2000) -directed by Wim Wenders
- Coyote Ugly (2000) – directed by David McNally
- Pollock (2000) – directed by Ed Harris
- Made (2001) – directed by Jon Favreau – uncredited
- The Big Empty (2003) -directed by Steve Anderson
- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) – directed by Wes Anderson
- The Number 23 (2007) – directed by Joel Schumacher – uncredited
- Dream Corps LLC (2014) – directed by Daniel Stessen – TV short
- The Little Prince (2015) – directed by Mark Osborne
- Affections (2016) – directed by Bridey Elliott – short
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