. . . Where Are They Now? . . .
Hello fans,

I hope this issue finds everyone doing well. Is it just me, or is this year going by way too fast? I can't believe it is already November. It's going to be a hard month for me with homework and school projects. I am excited for December just to have Christmas break!

Anyway, today we are catching up with Bud Cort, who played Harold in 1971's Harold & Maude. Let's find out more about his life and what he is doing now...

Take care,
Melissa

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--DEAD OR ALIVE?--
See if you know if the following celebrities have had a visit from the "Grim Reaper":

Genevieve Bujold: French-Canadian actress, starred in the movies "Anne of the Thousand Days", "The Trojan Women", "Coma" and "Dead Ringers"

Sheryl Lee Ralph: She has been seen in the TV series "It's A Living", "Designing Women" and "Moesha", as well as the Broadway musical "Dreamgirls"

Patrick Macnee: Starred as John Steed in the TV series "The Avengers"

(Answer at the bottom)
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Bud Cort
Learn More About Bud Cort on Celebrity Nooz

BIRTH DATE: March 29, 1948, New Rochelle, New York

BIRTH NAME: Walter Edward Cox

CLAIM TO FAME: He is best known for playing Harold in Hal Ashby's 1971 film Harold and Maude.

INFO: Cort was born in New Rochelle, New York, and grew up in Rye, New York. Cort's father had multiple sclerosis, and so Cort spent a lot of time in his youth caring for his sisters and father. His father died of the disease in 1971.

During his teen years, Cort was a painter and also began taking acting lessons. He was discovered in a revue by director Robert Altman, who cast him in MASH and Brewster McCloud. His next role, as the suicide-obsessed Harold, in Harold and Maude, became his most famous, and the movie went on to become an American film classic.

He went on to appear in a bunch of movies, television, and stage roles, including Endgame, He Who Gets Slapped, Sledge Hammer!, The Chocolate War, The Big Empty, Theodore Rex, Dogma, But I'm A Cheerleader, Pollock, The Twilight Zone, The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud and The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou.

TRIVIA: Has three younger sisters and one older brother. His parents ran a clothing business in downtown Rye from the 1950s until the mid-1980s.

Attended Catholic schools and graduated from Iona Preparatory School in New Rochelle in 1966.

His father, Joseph Parker Cox, was a bandleader and pianist, as well as a World War II veteran and merchant.

His mother, Alma Mary Cox (née Court), was a reporter and a merchant, who also worked in MGM studios. Is a founding member of the L.A. Classical Theatre.

In 1979, he was nearly killed in a car accident where he suffered a fractured skull, severe facial lacerations, the loss of several teeth and a broken arm and leg.

Used to have a band who called themselves "Bud Cort and the Medflies." They occasionally performed at a "night spot" on the Sunset Strip in L.A. and at The Roxy Theatre.

Changed his name from Walter Edward Cox to Bud Cort when he realized he could not share his name with well-known character actor Wally Cox. He chose "Bud," as it was a nickname he'd been called, and "Cort" derived from his mother's maiden name, being Court, and the Cort Theatre in New York City.

First used the name "Bud Cort" when applying for an Equity card.

Proposed (twice) to actress Patti D'Arbanville.

Was a close friend of Orson Welles and Ruth Gordon, and is very good friends with Sally Kellerman.

When asked who he wanted to play Maude in Harold and Maude, he suggested Greta Garbo.

WHERE IS HE NOW: Cort has lent his voice to a number of projects over the years. He was the voice of the computer in the movie Electric Dreams, of Toyman/Winslow Schott in various DCAU series, and the voice of Josiah Wormwood in the animated television series Batman: The Animated Series.

He played himself in a cameo role in the Arrested Development episode "Fakin' It," where he hosted a daytime court show called Bud Cort.

Some recent television appearances include the November 8, 2007 original episode of Ugly Betty, and the 2010 episode of Criminal Minds entitled "Mosley Lane."

CREDITS:
2010 Passion Play (uncredited)

2010 Funny or Die Presents... (TV series)...Robert Rubbie
Episode #1.8

2010 Criminal Minds (TV series)...Roger Roycewood
Mosley Lane

2007 Ugly Betty (TV series)...Priest
A Nice Day for a Posh Wedding

2007 The Number 23...Dr. Sirius Leary (uncredited)

2006 Justice League (TV series)...Toyman / Winslow Schott
Alive!

2004 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou...Bill Ubell

2003 The Big Empty...Neely

2003 Static Shock (TV series)...Toyman / Winslow Schott
Toys in the Hood

2001 Made...Gay House Owner (uncredited)

2000 Pollock...Howard Putzel

2000 Coyote Ugly...Romero

2000 The Million Dollar Hotel...Shorty

2000 South of Heaven, West of Hell...Agent Otts

1999 But I'm a Cheerleader...Peter

1999 Dogma...John Doe Jersey

1996-1998 Superman (TV series)...The Toyman
Obsession
Fun and Games

1998 Sweet Jane...Dr. Geiler

1998 I Woke Up Early the Day I Died...Shopkeeper (as Lord Hienrich 'Binky' Alcoa III)

1997 Jitters (TV movie)...Michael

1997 Gun (TV series)...Lazy Eye Pete
Ricochet

1996 The Mask (TV series)...Tempest / Fritz Drizzle
Convention of Evil
Rain of Terror

1995 Heat...Solenko, Restaurant Manager (uncredited)

1995 Theodore Rex (video)...Spinner

1995 Crazy for a Kiss (TV movie)...Dr. Webb

1995 Girl in the Cadillac...Bud

1993 And the Band Played On (TV movie)...Antique shop owner

1993 Jack's Place (TV series)...Jules Philpott
An Affair to Vaguely Remember

1993 Tom & Jerry Kids Show (TV series)...Additional Voices
Penthouse Mouse/Twelve Angry Sheep/The Ant Attack

1992 Bob (TV series)...Malcolm Tibbets
The Lost Episode

1992 Dream On (TV series)...Creepy Guy
No Deposit, No Return

1992 Batman (TV series)...Josiah Wormwood
The Cape and Cowl Conspiracy

1991 Ted & Venus...Ted Whitley

1990 Brain Dead...Jack Halsey

1990 Going Under...McNally (uncredited)

1989 Out of the Dark...Doug Stringer

1989 Midnight Caller (TV series)...Gaddis
No Exit

1988 The Twilight Zone (TV series)...Willy Gardner
The Trunk

1988 The Chocolate War...Brother Jacques

1988 Reach (TV short)

1987 Sledge Hammer! (TV series)...Zeff Campbell
The Last of the Red Hot Vampires
1987 Bates Motel (TV movie)...Alex West

1987 Love at Stake...Parson Babcock

1987 The Hitchhiker (TV series)...Wax
Made for Each Other

1986 Invaders from Mars...Mark Weinstein

1986 Telephone (short)

1985 Tales of the Unexpected (TV series)...Newt
Nothin' Short of Highway Robbery

1985 Tales from the Darkside (TV series)...Abe North
Snip, Snip

1984 Maria's Lovers...Harvey

1984 Electric Dreams...Edgar (voice)

1984 The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud...Sigmund Freud

1982-1983 Faerie Tale Theatre (TV series)...Music Master / The Page
The Nightingale
Rumpelstiltskin
1983/II Love Letters...Danny De Fronso

1983 Hysterical...Dr. John

1982 Insight (TV series)...Teddy Nathans
Teddy

1981 She Dances Alone...Director

1980 Die Laughing...Mueller

1980 Brave New World (TV movie)...Bernard Marx

1978 Son of Hitler...Willi Hitler

1977 Why Shoot the Teacher?...Max Brown

1976 Bernice Bobs Her Hair (TV movie)...Warren

1975 Hallucination Strip...Massimo Monaldi

1972 Beware! The Blob...Eating ice cream in Bowling Alley (uncredited)

1971 Harold and Maude...Harold

1970 Brewster McCloud...Brewster McCloud

1970 The Traveling Executioner...Jimmy Croft

1970 Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It....Hooper

1970 The Strawberry Statement...Elliot - Coxswain

1970 MASH...Pvt. Boone

1969 The Governor & J.J. (TV series)...Marvin Harris
Profile in Discourage

1969 Room 222 (TV series)...Jerry Shaffer
Clothes Make the Boy

1969 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (TV series)...Jeff
The Education of Longfellow Deeds

1969 Sweet Charity...Flower Child (uncredited)

1967 Up the Down Staircase...Student (uncredited)

1963 The Doctors (TV series)...Delivery Boy (late 1960s)

To see Then & Now pictures of Bud Cort visit: Celebrity Nooz

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--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--
Genevieve Bujold - ALIVE
Born: 07/01/1942

Sheryl Lee Ralph - ALIVE
Born: 12/30/1956

Patrick Macnee - ALIVE
Born: 2/6/1922

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WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...
11/2
Stan Bergstein, 87, American harness racing executive.
Sickan Carlsson, 96, Swedish actress and singer.
Rijk de Gooyer, 85, Dutch actor, pancreatic cancer.
Ricardo Guzman Romero, Mexican politician, Mayor of La Piedad, shot.
Ilmar Kullam, 89, Estonian basketball player.
Boots Plata, 67, Filipino film director, cancer.
Nikolay Saksonov, 88, Russian world champion weightlifter.

11/1
Gumaa Al-Shawan, 74, Egyptian intelligence agent.
Cahit Aral, 84, Turkish engineer and politician.
Fanny Edelman, 100, Argentine politician, President of the PCA.
Richard Gordon, 85, British horror film producer.
André Hodeir, 90, French author, jazz arranger and composer.
Dorothy Howell Rodham, 92, American homemaker, mother of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Christiane Legrand, 81, French jazz singer.
Hector Rueda Hernandez, 90, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Medellín (1991â??1997).

10/31
Florian Albert, Sr., 70, Hungarian footballer, European Footballer of the Year (1967).
Alberto Anchart, 80, Argentine actor (Venga a bailar el rock), cancer.
Liz Anderson, 81, American country music singer-songwriter, mother of Lynn Anderson, complications from heart and lung disease.
Gilbert Cates, 77, American film director and producer
(Academy Awards Telecast, Oh, God! Book II), founder of
Geffen Playhouse.
James Forrester, 74, American physician and politician, North Carolina State Senator (since 1990).
Alfred Hilbe, 83, Liechtenstein politician, Prime Minister (1970â??1974).
Len Killeen, 72, South African rugby league player.
Borivoj Navratil, 78, Czech actor.
José Reyez Meza, 86, Mexican muralist, stomach cancer.
Ali Saibou, 71, Nigerien politician, President (1987â??1993).