FrameThrower · Actors · Bud Cort
Bud Cort
5 films · 320 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1970–2004
Born 29 March 1948 · Rye, New York, USA · died 11 February 2026
Walter Edward Cox, known professionally as Bud Cort was an American film and stage actor, writer, and director. He is best known for his portrayals of Harold in Hal Ashby's 1971 film Harold and Maude and the titular hero in Robert Altman's 1970 film Brewster McCloud. Both films have large cult followings today.
How their films are shot
Measured across 320 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Bud takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 47% of their frames are day, 50% natural — the look of the work Bud takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 320 frames from Bud Cort's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.