‘Good Time’ actor Buddy Duress passes away at 38
Buddy Duress's first acting role was in Benny and Josh Safdie's 2014 feature 'Heaven Knows What'
Buddy Duress, known for his role alongside Robert Pattinson in the Safdie brothers' 2017 crime thriller Good Time, passed away at the age of 38.
His brother Christopher Stathis confirmed the news to PEOPLE as The Flinch star lost his life on November 2023 due to “cardiac arrest from a drug cocktail.”
Duress debuted his acting by performing in Benny and Josh Safdie's 2014 feature Heaven Knows What.
While conversing at an SSense interview in 2017, he reflected on his first meeting with Josh in 2013 following his release from Rikers Island in New York City for drug charges.
"You know, I still look back at it. If I had went to that program, I wouldn’t have been in Heaven Knows What, and I probably wouldn’t be an actor right now. That’s the honest truth. I wouldn’t," Duress told SSense.
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Further, after the three years of his debut project Heaven Knows What, he played the role opposite Robert Pattinson in Good Time.
Duress also starred in several feature and short films including 86’d, The Mountain and The Great Darkened Days and, in 2019, he was apprehended for third-degree grand larceny charges and returned to Rikers Island.
Duress is survived by his mother, Jo-Anne and younger brother, Christopher.
