Talk:Bud Cort

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"He subsequently lost a court case against the driver of the abandoned car he had the accident with, and suffered career difficulties."

Right... Tell me, how is it an abandoned car had a driver to go to court against? Surely that wasn't how the case was presented. Perhaps the case was against the owner of the car? --Afrayer 21:01, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Better? No need to be snotty, just fix it next time. Ckessler

Much better... and certainly better than I could have done, so it's just as well I didn't fix it myself, though I must apologize for the attitude. Snotty wasn't what I was going for, but subsequent reading tells me you were spot on, and I was wrong to write it that way. --Afrayer 13:19, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

To answer the question to the information at the top of the page, when Bud had his accident, the driver and passengers of the car were on the scene at the highway, and didn't do anything to help him. Some other drivers called for an ambulance for him, which saved his life, as he would have bled to death. I recall reading that he said they were foreigners, so maybe the driver of the car didn't understand US road rules for making a disabled car "safe" for other drivers to drive by, or the driver didn't have enough any warning flares to put around their car which could have spared Bud the accident in the first place. --njbcfan (User:njbcfan, 00:39, June 18, 2006)

Bud's accident
I served on the jury at Bud Cort's civil trial, in which his own attorney insisted on reading into the trial record evidence which damaged his case. He was driving a compact car and slammed full speed into a heavier sedan, shoving it forward on a slight incline, with no evidence he ever tried to swerve or apply his brakes. There also was evidence, though not presented at trial, that he was not wearing a seat belt. The driver of the stopped car was from Israel, and the jury believed she did not apply her blinkers when her car was forced to stop. The plaintiff called witnesses to testify that he was not drunk at the time, and the jury believed them; however, he could have been asleep at the wheel or unattentive for other reasons. The fact remains that he was at fault for the accident. As to the other car's occupants' alleged neglect of him, that's all rumor (he had an axe to grind) and none of it was presented in his civil trial.Raryel (talk) 18:40, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

I've reinstated the story of the 1979 car accident Bud Cort had. There is documentation of this from the November 12, 1984 People Magazine interview about that accident and how his career had gone since then. Njbcfan 03:57, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

The article says that the car accident was in 1979 and that Cort went to live with Groucho afterwards, with Groucho dying nine years later. But Groucho Marx died in 1977! Something is wrong with the timeline. Ahkond (talk) 03:26, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Electric Dreams
At his civil trial, the jury learned that Bud Cort's was the voice of the computer in the movie "Electric Dreams." Why is that not credited in this article?Raryel (talk) 18:47, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Trimmed drastically
I've trimmed this drastically to the roles he's most famous for playing: the Altman movies, Harold and Maude, and the part in the Bill Murray film. I've cut the car accident because a brief search didn't show a reliable source. I've cut the biography because I see no source. Please freely restore stuff alongside good references. --Tony Sidaway 23:07, 21 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I have the November 1980 Wet magazine here with ts Bud COrt Drives Us Crazy interview where he says he lived with Groucho the last six years of his live, and Groucho invited him to live with him, after "a" car accident (not the bad one). I want to add this reference. Ruggedrobot (talk) 14:11, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

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Date of birth?
Lede says 1948, but infobox says 1951. Which is the real date of birth? 2602:306:B83C:D570:D87E:77F0:4560:2A85 (talk) 22:21, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

External links / ref ideas
Moving excess external links from the article to the talk page; see below. Jmertel23 (talk) 17:17, 9 December 2019 (UTC)