The veteran actor of stage and screen appeared in more than 80 films and TV series.

Actor best-known for role in Hal Ashby’s black comedy also appeared in films by Robert Altman and Wes Anderson

The veteran actor of stage and screen appeared in more than 80 films and TV series.

Bud Cort durante un festival di cinema a Karlovy Vary, in Repubblica Ceca, nel luglio del 2007 (EPA via ANSA)

"Harold and Maude" and "M*A*S*H*" actor Bud Cort has died from complications of pneumonia at an assisted living facility in Connecticut. He was 77.

As the death-obsessed, hearse-driving Harold, he attracted obsessive fans who ‘used to come to my hotel and leave tombstones’