1. Roberts Scott Blossom was an American poet and character actor of theatre, film, and television.
20 Facts About Roberts Blossom
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Roberts Blossom is best known for his roles as Old Man Marley in Home Alone and as Ezra Cobb in the horror film Deranged.
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Roberts Blossom is remembered for his supporting roles in films such as The Great Gatsby, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Escape from Alcatraz, Christine, and The Last Temptation of Christ.
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Roberts Scott Blossom was born on March 25,1924, in New Haven, Connecticut, to John Blossom, an athletic director at Yale University.
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Roberts Blossom was raised in Cleveland, but later moved to Shaker Heights, Ohio.
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Roberts Blossom attended Hawken School and graduated from Asheville School in 1941 and attended Harvard University for a year until he joined the United States Army and served in World War II in Europe.
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Roberts Blossom trained as a therapist and later decided to be an actor.
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Roberts Blossom began directing and acting in productions at Karamu House and the Candlelight Theater in Cleveland and later moved to New York City, where he supported himself by bundling feathers for hats, and practicing Dianetics.
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Roberts Blossom waited tables until he became a full-time actor.
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Roberts Blossom won three Obie Awards for his performances in the off-Broadway plays Village Wooing, which was his debut, Do Not Pass Go and The Ice Age.
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Roberts Blossom is remembered for his role as Ezra Cobb in the 1974 horror film Deranged based on American murderer Ed Gein.
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Roberts Blossom is known for starring in the 1983 horror film Christine, a film directed by John Carpenter which is an adaptation of the book by Stephen King.
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Roberts Blossom is best known for his role in the 1990 film Home Alone, in which he played Old Man Marley alongside Macaulay Culkin.
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Roberts Blossom appeared in his final film role in 1995 alongside Sharon Stone and Leonardo DiCaprio in The Quick and The Dead.
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Roberts Blossom made his first television appearance in 1958 in the television series Naked City.
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Roberts Blossom was formerly married to Beverly Schmidt Roberts Blossom, with whom he had a son, Michael.
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Roberts Blossom was later married to Marylin Orshan Blossom until her death in 1982, with whom he had a daughter, Deborah Blossom.
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Roberts Blossom later moved to Santa Monica, where he died in 2011.
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Roberts Blossom died on July 8,2011, at the age of 87 from cerebrovascular disease.
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Roberts Blossom was residing in a nursing home at the time of his death.