Roberts Blossom

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Roberts Blossom

Born	January 1, 1924 (age 83) New Haven, Connecticut
Notable roles	Deranged (1974)

Bartholomew Roberts Blossom (born January 1, 1924) is an American actor and poet.

Blossom was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He began acting on stage during the 1950s. During the 1960s, he formed Filmstage, a multimedia avante garde theatrical troupe.^[1] Tall, thin, and with penetrating eyes, he has portrayed authority figures and cantankerous rural types in a variety of film and TV roles. As he grew older, Blossom was often typecast as crazy old men in films such as Home Alone and Christine. Notable film roles include:

Home Alone Rap, as Marley in the music video by Rowan & Hastings^[2]
Slaughterhouse-Five, as military officer Wild Bob Cody
Deranged, as a killer based on Ed Gein
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, as a farmer who has had several brushes with the paranormal
The Hospital, as the patient Guernsey, who dies as a result of medical malpractice.
Resurrection, as the estranged father of a woman who has had a near-death experience
Home Alone, as Marley the alleged shovel slayer, who salts the snow in Kevin (Macaulay Culkin)'s suburban Chicago neighborhood
Doc Hollywood, as a judge who sentences Michael J. Fox's character to perform community service but later pardons his case.
Escape from Alcatraz, as Doc, an inmate with a fondness for painting
"Christine" as the old man who sells Arnie Cunningham the infamous 1958 Plymouth Fury Christine.