Little Known Western actors ~ Max Cort

[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]

Thanks for information from Abel Haro, Max Cort is an alias used by Juan Cortés who was a Spanish character actor who appeared in over 85 films and TV series from 1941 to 1974. I can find no biographical information on the man. He must have been born sometime in the early 1920s and by the quick termination of his career I’m guessing he died sometime in the mid-1970s. He was also billed as Clyde Ceryll a few times.

It amazes me how many of these actors who had either long careers or appeared in many films and some major titles are basically unknown entities. Cortés for example appeared in 19 Euro westerns with such hits as “Bullets Don’t Argue”, “A Fistful of Dollars”, “Adios Gringo”, “A Few Dollars for Django” and “For a Few Bullets More”. Although his roles may have been small his career was long.

We can add him to the long list of forgotten or ignored actors who made the genre what it was and now is forgotten.

For a complete list of Juan Cortes' westerns see my previous post on him on June 16, 2021.

CORTES, Juan (aka Clyde Ceryll, Max Cort, Juan Cortés, Juan Cortez) (Juan Cortés) [192?, Spain -     ] – film, TV actor.

Veinte mil dolares un cadaver ($20,000 for Every Corpse) – 1969 (railroad representative)