Bud CortFilmography

The Big Empty

Actors: Jon Favreau, Joey Lauren Adams, Bud Cort, Daryl Hannah

Synopsis: A guy looking for easy money gets a lot more than he bargained for in this noir-flavored independent comedy. John Person (Jon Favreau) is a struggling actor living in Los Angeles who is starting to buckle under the pressure of his own failures. With no acting jobs coming in and a massive credit Read More

South of Heaven, West of Hell

Actors: Dwight Yoakam, Vince Vaughn, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda, Peter Fonda

Synopsis: Popular country & western singer and well-regarded character actor Dwight Yoakam steps behind the camera for this revisionist Western, his first effort as a director and screenwriter. Valentine Casey (Yoakam) is the sheriff of the town of Los Tragos in the Arizona Territory. Valentine, an orphan Read More

Pollock

Actors: Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Amy Madigan, Jennifer Connelly, Jeffrey Tambor

Synopsis: Artist Jackson Pollock revolutionized American painting in the 1940's with his exciting abstract canvases that used dripped and splattered paint in a manner at once excitingly physical and structurally intelligent. While Pollock became a heroic figure in the art world, his private life was nothing Read More

Sweet Jane

Actors: Samantha Mathis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bud Cort, Mary Woronov, William McNamara

Synopsis: Drug user Jane (Samantha Mathis) lives on the streets, but Jane's addiction puts her in the hospital after she overdoses. A doctor determines she's HIV-positive and plans tests, but she slips away and returns to the streets. She's followed by sick teen Tony (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who sees her as Read More

But I'm a Cheerleader

Actors: Natasha Lyonne, Cathy Moriarty, Bud Cort, Mink Stole, RuPaul, Clea Duvall

Synopsis: In this satire, parents who are worried that their children might not be walking the straight and narrow path discover a rehabilitation camp designed to curb alternative lifestyles. Megan (Natasha Lyonne), a high school student and member of the cheerleading squad, seems like an ordinary enough Read More

The Million Dollar Hotel

Actors: Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich, Mel Gibson, Jimmy Smits, Peter Stormare

Synopsis: Legendary filmmaker Wim Wenders returns to the screen with this loosely structured murder mystery. The Million Dollar Hotel unites Wender's obsession with cool music, lost souls, and American trash culture. Set in 2001, the film opens with Tom Tom (Jeremy Davies) taking a flying leap off the roof Read More

Dogma

Actors: Ben Affleck, George Carlin, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Salma Hayek, Jason Lee, Jason Mewes, Alan Rickman, Chris Rock

Synopsis: Would you believe that the last living descendent of Jesus Christ is a woman working at an abortion clinic in Illinois? And that she's been sent on a holy mission with two minor characters from Clerks and Mallrats as her guides? Prepare to suspend any and all disbelief as you watch the religious Read More

Jitters

Actors: Joely Fisher, Brian Wimmer, Anne Meara, James Acheson, Bud Cort

Synopsis: The closer she gets to her wedding day, the more a bride-to-be suffers from the title afflictions. Though she has loved her future husband for years, she is afraid that becoming a wife will cause an identity crisis. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Theodore Rex

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Juliet Landau, Bud Cort, Stephen McHattie

Synopsis: Whoopi Goldberg headlines this youth-oriented comedy fantasy set in a near future where scientists for some reason have genetically resurrect dinosaurs. This time, the revitalized reptiles are intelligent and equipped with humanoid articulatory tracts so they can speak. They also wear shoes. Read More

Heat

Actors: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora

Synopsis: A successful career criminal considers getting out of the business after one last score, while an obsessive cop desperately tries to put him behind bars in this intelligent thriller written and directed by Michael Mann. Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) is a thief who specializes in big, risky jobs Read More

Girl in the Cadillac

Actors: Erika Eleniak, William McNamara, Michael Lerner, Bud Cort, Valerie Perrine

Synopsis: Erika Eleniak and William McNamara star as a couple of young lovers on the run in this breezy road movie, based on James M. Cain's novella The Enchanted Isle. Mandy Baker (Erika Eleniak) is a bored 17-year-old looking for adventure outside of her small hometown of Paint Rock, Texas. She finds it Read More

Ted and Venus

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bud Cort, James Brolin, Kim Adams, Carol Kane, Pamella D'Pella

Synopsis: Bud Cort's directorial debut is a dark comedy about a romantic obsession that leads to tragedy, featuring a wide array of cameo performances including James Brolin, Carol Kane, Rhea Perlman, Martin Mull, Andrea Martin, Woody Harrelson, Timothy Leary, and Gena Rowlands. Cort is Ted Whitley, a local Read More

And the Band Played On

Actors: Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Alan Alda, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: The late journalist Randy Shilts' best-selling book on the burgeoning AIDS crisis was adapted for cable TV by Arnold Schulman. In 1981, researchers begin discerning a mysterious new disease that apparently affects only homosexual males (or so they thought at that time). Working independently, and Read More

Going Under

Synopsis: In this Navy spoof, a mismatched bunch of sailors are sent to sea as the incompetent crew of the U. S. S. Substandard, a faulty, unfinished submarine. Little does the crew of the Substandard know that the government doesn't intend for them to make it back to shore, as they encounter all kinds of Read More

Brain Dead

Actors: Bill Pullman, Bill Paxton, Bud Cort, Nicholas Pryor, Patricia Charbonneau

Synopsis: Brain Dead was based on a script by Charles Beaumont, leading some obtuse fans to hail the "return" of that frequent Twilight Zone contributor. Actually Beaumont has been dead since 1967, so this cookie spent a long time in the oven. Stalwart supporting actor Bill Pullman is given star billing as Read More

Out of the Dark

Actors: Cameron Dye, Karen Black, Bud Cort, Lynn Danielson, Starr Andreeff

Synopsis: In this suspense thriller with a few humorous touches, an employee of a phone-sex service (Lynn Danielson) is being stalked by a clown-masked psychotic killer (Cameron Dye) who has already murdered a number of her colleagues. ~ Yuri German, All Movie Guide Read More

The Chocolate War

Actors: John Glover, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Wally Ward, Doug Hutchison, Adam Baldwin

Synopsis:
The independently produced Chocolate War marked actor Keith Gordon's directorial debut. Adapted from the popular novel by Robert Cormier (I Am the Cheese), it functions as a political allegory set in a curricular context, in the same vein as Rene Daalder's Massacre at Central High (1976). In Read More

Love at Stake

Actors: Patrick Cassidy, Kelly Preston, Bud Cort, David Graf, Stuart Pankin

Synopsis: John Moffitt directed this silly Canadian comedy about a falsely accused Salem witch (Kelly Preston). Terry Sweeney's script seems to find most of its humor in sex, drugs, and bathroom jokes, none of which are very amusing. Genre devotees will be quite pleased, however, with a cast featuring Barbara Carrera Read More

Bates Motel

Actors: Bud Cort, Jason Bateman, Moses Gunn

Synopsis: This busted TV pilot film is set in the sinister family-operated motel made infamous by Hitchcock's Psycho. Former mental patient Bud Cort inherits the motel from its cross-dressing owner Norman Bates (played in Psycho by Anthony Perkins, who wisely passed up this TV film). With the help of Read More

Invaders from Mars

Actors: Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Laraine Newman, James Karen

Synopsis: Invaders from Mars, horror-film director Tobe Hooper's remake of the classic 1950's science fiction film, directed by William Cameron Menzies, centers on a young boy named David (Hunter Carson) who tries to stop an invasion of his town as aliens take over the minds of his parents George (Timothy Bottoms Read More

Maria's Lovers

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, John Savage, Robert Mitchum, Keith Carradine, Anita Morris

Synopsis: Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky's first American film is a romantic tale about an American war veteran whose dreams of his childhood sweetheart are countered by a less sunny reality. John Savage stars as Ivan Bibic, who has returned home to a small town in Pennsylvania, having suffered a Read More

Electric Dreams

Actors: Lenny Von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, Bud Cort, Don Fellows

Synopsis: Dweebish architect Miles Harding (Lenny Von Dohlen) is hopelessly in love with neighboring musician Madeline (Virginia Madsen). He soon learns that Madeline already has an ardent suitor: Harding's own computer (voiced by Harold and Maude star Bud Cort)! When the electronic device, nicknamed Edgar Read More

The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud

Actors: Bud Cort, Carol Kane, Klaus Kinski, Marisa Berenson, Carroll Baker

Synopsis: Supposedly focusing on the life of Sigmund Freud by means of a fictional secret diary, this attempt at satirizing the man from his childhood through his first forays into psychoanalysis is weak on laughter, especially since it is difficult to tell whether a scene is serious or not. Freud (Bud Read More

Love Letters

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, James Keach, Amy Madigan, Bud Cort, Matt Clark

Synopsis: Unmarried disc jockey Jamie Lee Curtis happens across a packet of love letters, written by her late mother. As she peruses these missives, she learns that her mother had carried on a lengthy extramarital affair. At firt appalled by mom's "double life," Curtis is slowly brought around to another Read More

Faerie Tale Theatre: The Nightingale

Synopsis: The Nightingale is a 60-minute cable TV presentation starring Mick Jagger, Barbara Hershey, Bud Cort and Mako. The basic storyline follows the classic Hans Christian Andersen tale The Emperor's Nightingale. A cruel and overbearing Chinese emperor (Jagger) is given the present of a nightingale by a Read More

Hysterical

Actors: Bill Hudson, Mark Hudson, Brett Hudson, Cindy Pickett, Richard Kiel, Bud Cort, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: During the peak of the slasher-movie boom of the early '80s, there were numerous attempts at Airplane!-style horror parodies, all of which fell considerably short of their comic targets and vanished into cable-TV obscurity. Hysterical, an abortive vehicle for the questionable comic talents of the Read More

Faerie Tale Theatre: Rumpelstiltskin

Synopsis: This charming fantasy was originally part of Shelly Duvall's HBO series Faerie Tale Theatre and features actor Herve Villechaize as the irascible gnome who grants the wish of an impoverished but boastful miller who claims his lovely daughter can spin straw into gold. While Rumpelstiltskin is Read More

She Dances Alone

Actors: Bud Cort, Patrick Dupond, Sauncey LeSuer, Walter Kent

Synopsis: Director Robert Dornhelm casts Bud Cort for alter-ego purposes in She Dances Alone. Cort plays a documentary director, seeking to produce a film on the life of controversial ballet star Vaslav Nijinsky. He finds his goal of objectivity blocked by Nijinsky's elderly real-life daughter Kyra, who is Read More

Brave New World

Actors: Julie Cobb, Keir Dullea, Kristoffer Tabori, Dick Anthony Williams, Bud Cort

Synopsis: This 3-hour TV adaptation of the 1932 Aldous Huxley novel is set 600 years in the future. In this "well- ordered" society, the citizens are required to take mind-controlling drugs, sex without love is compulsory, and test-tube babies are commonplace because of a ban on pregnancy. Keir Dullea heads Read More

Die Laughing

Actors: Robby Benson, Linda Grovenor, Charles Durning, Elsa Lanchester, Bud Cort

Synopsis: In this black comedy, a humble cab driver spends his days daydreaming of becoming a rock-star. His blissful reverie is one day interrupted when ends up inadvertently blamed for the assassination of a world-renowned nuclear scientist. Soon afterward he finds that he has a stowaway, the late Read More

Hitler's Son

Actors: Bud Cort, Peter Cushing

Synopsis: The leader of a right-wing political party discovers that a young man named Willi (Bud Cort), an illiterate woodcarver, is actually the son of Adolf Hitler. He and his chauffeur kidnap the boy from a mental hospital and then set out to prepare him to start the Fourth Reich. Believe it or not, this Read More

Why Shoot the Teacher

Actors: Bud Cort, Samantha Eggar, Chris Wiggins, Gary Reineke, John Friesen

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Max Braithwaite, this film follows the trials of young schoolteacher Max Brown (Bud Cort) as he travels to Saskatchewan to serve as a teacher in a one-room, small-town schoolhouse. Struggling with the hardships presented by the Depression, the local townsfolk prove to be Read More

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Actors: Shelley Duvall, Henry Fonda, Polly Holliday, Veronica Cartwright, Dennis Christopher, Gary Springer, Bud Cort, Lane Binkley, Patrick Reynolds

Synopsis: Many observers consider the 60-minute Bernice Bobs Her Hair to be the best-ever filmed adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Bernice (Shelley Duvall), a shy retiring girl of the Roaring 20s, yearns to be popular. On the advice of her flapper cousin Marjorie (Veronica Cartwright), Bernice cuts her Read More

Harold and Maude

Actors: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner

Synopsis: A young man with a death wish and a 79-year-old high on life find love in Hal Ashby's cult black comedy. Deadpan rich boy Harold (Bud Cort) keeps staging elaborate suicide tableaux to get the attention of his mother (Vivian Pickles), but she keeps planning his brilliant future for him instead. Read More

M*A*S*H

Actors: Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Jo Ann Pflug, Robert Duvall, Roger Bowen, Gary Burghoff

Synopsis: Although he was not the first choice to direct it, the hit black comedy MASH established Robert Altman as one of the leading figures of Hollywood's 1970s generation of innovative and irreverent young filmmakers. Scripted by Hollywood veteran Ring Lardner, Jr., this war comedy details the exploits Read More

The Traveling Executioner

Actors: Stacy Keach, Marianna Hill, Bud Cort, Graham Jarvis, James J. Sloyan

Synopsis: In this unusual black comedy, Stacy Keach plays Jonas Candide, a former carnival showman who roams the southern U.S. in 1918 with a portable electric chair. He offers his services as a freelance executioner for $100 a pop. He takes a job in a prison in Alabama, where he is supposed to execute a Read More

Brewster McCloud

Actors: Bud Cort, Sally Kellerman, Michael Murphy, William Windom, Shelley Duvall

Synopsis: A boy yearns to fly in Robert Altman's whimsical youthquake parable. With the aid of seraphic Louise (Sally Kellerman), owlish Brewster (Bud Cort) constructs a pair of human-size wings in his Houston Astrodome nest to realize his dream. Meanwhile, conservative creeps, including a witchy Read More

Gas-S-S-S!

Actors: Robert Corff, Elaine Giftos, George Armitage, Alex Wilson

Synopsis: They used to say "don't trust anyone over 30," but there's no one over 30 left to distrust in this loosely plotted satirical comedy directed by Roger Corman. During the opening ceremonies for a chemical and biological weapons facility in Alaska, an experimental gas is accidentally released which Read More

The Strawberry Statement

Actors: Bruce Davison, Kim Darby, James Coco, Murray MacLeod

Synopsis: This film is based on the James Simon Kunen book about student unrest on the Columbia University campus. Simon (Bruce Davison) joins the campus protest movement to socialize with the various hippie girls. When a violent police assault breaks up the protest, Simon's thoughts quickly turn from Read More