Roberts Blossom
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Roberts Blossom (born January 1, 1924 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American character actor and poet. Tall, thin, and with penetrating eyes, he has excelled in portraying 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:
- 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.
