Actor Bud Cort, who played the lead role in the 1971 classic film “Harold and Maude,” has died. He was 77. Cort’s longtime friend Dorian Hannaway reported his death to Variety, saying he died at his Connecticut home on Wednesday following a long illness. Born Walter Edward Cox in Rye, N.Y., Cort got his first film role in Robert Altman’s 1970 comedy “M*A*S*H,” playing private Lorenzo Boone. Altman then cast him in the titular lead role for his next film, “Brewster McCloud,” about a young recluse who lives in a fallout shelter and is building a pair of wings in...