Bud Cort, Who Starred in 1971’s ‘Harold and Maude,’ Dies at 77

The role, one of his first, made him a household name and a film idol of the anti-establishment 1970s. But it also limited his growth as an actor.Bud Cort as the teenager Harold Chasen who falls in love with a 79-year-old woman in Hal Ashby’s movie “Harold and Maude,” from 1971. Panned at first, it became a cult classic.