Roberts Blossom

Roberts Blossom
Blossom in 2010
Born	Roberts Scott Blossom (1924-03-25)March 25, 1924 New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Died	July 8, 2011(2011-07-08) (aged 87) Santa Monica, California
Cause of death	Stroke
Occupation	Actor, poet
Years active	1955–2000
Notable work	Deranged (1974) Home Alone (1990)
Spouse(s)	Beverly Schmidt Blossom (m.1966–1970; divorced; 1 child) Marilyn Orshan (m.?-1982; her death; 1 child)
Children	2

Roberts Scott Blossom (March 25, 1924 – July 8, 2011) was an American theatre, film and television character actor and poet. He is best known for his roles as Old Man Marley in Home Alone (1990) and as Ezra Cobb in the horror film Deranged (1974). He is also remembered for his supporting roles in films such as The Great Gatsby (1974), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Escape from Alcatraz (1979), Christine (1983), and The Last Temptation of Christ (1988).

Roberts Scott Blossom was born on March 25, 1924 in New Haven, Connecticut to John Blossom, an athletic director at Yale University. He was raised in Cleveland but later moved to Shaker Heights, Ohio. He 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. He trained as a therapist and later decided to be an actor, and began directing and acting in productions at Karamu House and the Candlelight Theater in Cleveland and later moved to New York, where he supported himself by bundling feathers for hats and he practiced a disputed therapy called Dianetics. He also waited tables until he became a full-time actor.