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Bud Cort (* 29. März 1948 als Walter Edward Cox in New Rochelle, New York) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler und Komiker sowie gelegentlicher Regisseur und Drehbuchautor. Seine bekannteste Rolle spielte er 1971 in dem Klassiker Harold und Maude .
Actor, comedian. Years active. 1967–2015. 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).
YearFilmRole2015The King2014Dream Corps LLCCarl Kwartz2007Dr. Sirius Leary2004Bill UbellBud Cort. Actor: Harold and Maude. Bud Cort, American actor/comedian, was born Walter Edward Cox in New Rochelle, New York. The second of five children, he grew up in Rye, New York, the son of Joseph P. Cox, an orchestra leader, pianist, and owner of a successful men's clothing store in Rye, and Alma M. Court a former newspaper and Life ...
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Bud Cort is an American actor, director, and writer. He is best known for his roles in the films Harold and Maude (1971) and Brewster McCloud (1970). He has also appeared in numerous television shows, including M*A*S*H, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and The Bob Newhart Show. Cort was born in New Rochelle, New York, and began his acting career at ...
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Harold Chasen is a young man obsessed with death. He stages elaborate fake suicides, attends funerals (usually for people that he doesn't know), and drives a hearse, all to the chagrin of his self-obsessed, wealthy socialite mother. His mother sends Harold to a psychoanalyst, sets him up with blind dates, and buys him a luxury car, all schemes he s...
Ruth Gordon as Dame Marjorie "Maude" Chardin, a 79-year-old free spirit. Maude believes in living each day to the fullest, and "trying something new every day". Her view of life is so joyful that,...Vivian Pickles as Mrs. Chasen, Harold's opulently wealthy mother, is controlling, snooty and seemingly incapable of affection. Hoping to force him into respectability, Mrs. Chasen replaces Harold's...UCLA film school student Colin Higgins wrote Harold and Maude as his master's thesis. While working as producer Edward Lewis's pool boy, Higgins showed the script to Lewis's wife, Mildred. Mildred was so impressed that she got Edward to give it to Stanley Jaffe at Paramount. Higgins sold the script with the understanding that he would direct the fi...
A novelization by Higgins was released alongside the film; they differ in several respects, including the film's omission of certain scenes and characters. Other different details include the novel's version of Maude having white hair (unlike Ruth Gordon in the film) and introducing herself as "the Countess Mathilde Chardin," a different name and t...
Harold and Maude was released with a vague, text-only poster and very little marketing. The initial release was a box-office flop, but it gradually found success in repertory theatres and recouped its costs after several years. According to Danny Peary, author of the Cult Movies series: "The film was a runaway cult favorite, and, most memorably, in...
Critical response
At the time of its release, Harold and Maude received mixed reviews, with several critics being offended by the film's dark humor. Roger Ebert, in a review dated January 1, 1972, gave the film one-and-a-half out of four stars. He wrote, "And so what we get, finally, is a movie of attitudes. Harold is death, Maude life, and they manage to make the two seem so similar that life's hardly worth the extra bother. The visual style makes everyone look fresh from the Wax Museum, and all the movie lac...
Retrospective appraisal
The reputation of the film has since increased greatly. Rotten Tomatoesgave it a score of 85% based on 46 reviews, with an average score of 7.80/10. A consensus on the site read, "Hal Ashby's comedy is too dark and twisted for some, and occasionally oversteps its bounds, but there's no denying the film's warm humor and big heart." In 2005, the Writers Guild of America ranked the screenplay#86 on its list of 101 Greatest Screenplays ever written. In Sight & Sound's 2012 poll of the greatest fi...
Awards and accolades
At the 29th Golden Globe Awards, Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon were nominated as Best Actor and Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy film, respectively. The film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1997, along with others deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress. In September 2008 Empire ranked Harold and Maude #65 among their 500 Greatest Movies of All Time. Entertainment Weeklyranked the film #4 on their list of "The Top...
The music in Harold and Maude was composed and performed by Cat Stevens. He had been suggested by Elton John to do the music after John had dropped out of the project. Stevens composed two original songs for the film, "Don't Be Shy" and "If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out" and performed instrumental and alternative versions of the previously release...
Stage play adaptation
Colin Higgins adapted the story into a stage play. A French adaptation by Jean-Claude Carrière opened in 1973 at the Théâtre Récamier in Paris, where Yves Saint Laurent designed costumes for Madeleine Renaud as Maude. Renaud would reprise the role in Harold et Maude[fr]for multiple productions. The original Broadway production, starring Janet Gaynor as Maude and Keith McDermottas Harold, closed after four performances in February 1980. The Yugoslav premiere of Harold i Mod was staged at the B...
French television adaptation
A French adaptation for television, translated and written by Jean-Claude Carrière, appeared in 1978. It was also adapted for the stage by the Compagnie Viola Léger in Moncton, New Brunswick, starring Roy Dupuis.
Musical adaptation
A musical adaptation, with songs by Joseph Thalken and Tom Jones, premiered at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ, in January 2005. The production starred Estelle Parsons as Maude and Eric Milleganas Harold.
Dawson, Nick (2009). Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. pp. 120–121. doi:10.5810/kentucky/9780813125381.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-8131-2538-1.Peary, Danny (1998). Cult Movies: The Classics, The Sleepers, The Weird and the Wonderful. Gramercy Books. ISBN 978-0517201855.[permanent dead link]Harold and Maude at IMDbHarold and Maude at AllMovieHarold and Maude at Rotten TomatoesHarold and Maude at the American Film Institute Catalog10. Dez. 2021 · But 50 years on, the touching, droll and subversive story of a troubled teenager, played by Bud Cort, who falls in love with a nearly 80-year old free spirit, played by Ruth Gordon, still...
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. Both films have large cult followings today.
