Talk:Bud Cort

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More information about this article... The following comments have been left for this page: Unsourced, & lacks a filmography. Yksin 00:58, 24 February 2007 (UTC) (edit)

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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)

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)

[edit] 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)