His longtime friend Dorian Hannaway reported his death.

Cort also starred in Robert Altman’s “Brewster McCloud” and had roles other films and TV shows.

Cort played a 20-year old man obsessed by thoughts of suicide whose life changes when he meets Maude, a Holocaust survivor of 79, played by Ruth Gordon.

“I was only 14 when I met Bud at the backstage door at my sister’s play,” Roslyn Kind recalled in a statement. “He was majoring in art at the time in high school. We became close friends who shared interest in entertainment. When I got married, Bud and our songwriter friend, Bruce Roberts, wrote a special song performed at the ceremony. His unique spirit will always be with me.”

“We were in the line for lunch when I spotted him,” she later recalled. “Although I didn’t know who he was, I said ‘Oh, boy. We’re going to be best friends.’”

“A young man obsessed with death falls in love with an old woman obsessed with life. She dies and teaches the kid how to live,” Cameron Crowe described it for AFI in 2011. “And it’s done with music by Cat Stevens that scratches at your soul. . . . that movie holds up — to this minute.”

He also voiced the character Toyman in “Superman: The Animated Series,” “Static Shock” and “Justic League Unlimited.” He co-wrote, starred in and directed the 1991 film “Ted and Venus.”

In 1979, Cort narrowly survived devastating car accident, which called for numerous surgeries and affected his career.