Bud Cort Star Of Cult Classic Harold And Maude Dead At 77 – Entertainment News

By Karen Beishuizen

Another great one gone…

Bud Cort, who played death-obsessed Harold in “Harold and Maude” died on Wednesday, 11 February. He was 77.

Born Walter Edward Cox on March 29, 1948, in Rye, New York, was discovered by Robert Altman who cast him in two 1970 hit movies “M*A*S*H” and “Brewster McCloud”.

But his big break came as Harold in Hal Ashby’s “Harold and Maude” where his character is a death-obsessed young man who develops a relationship...