Roberts Blossom

Roberts Blossom

Born: March 25, 1924
Died: July 8, 2011
in New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Roberts Scott Blossom (March 25, 1924 – July 8, 2011) was an American poet and character actor of theatre, film, and television. He was best known for his roles as Old Man Marley in Home Alone (1990)

Movies for Roberts Blossom...

Balloon Farm
Title: Balloon Farm
Character: Weasel Mayfield
Released: March 28, 1999
Type: Movie
As soon as Harvey S. Potter descends upon a drought-stricken farmland, he begins to grow a mysterious but beautiful crop of balloons. Mystified by the new resident's abilities, the people of the town are mesmerized by Potter, who immediately becomes the best thing to happen to the dejected area in a long time. The happiness doesn't last long, however, when talk begins to surface about Potter's true identity.
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The Quick and the Dead
Title: The Quick and the Dead
Character: Doc Wallace
Released: February 9, 1995
Type: Movie
A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.
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Title: Murder in the Heartland
Character: Gus
Released: May 3, 1993
Type: TV
Murder in the Heartland tells the grotesque true story of Charlie Starkweather, 19, who killed 11 people in Nebraska in 1957-58, and his 14-year-old girlfriend,
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The American Clock
Title: The American Clock
Released: January 2, 1993
Type: Movie
Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the stock market crash of 1929. Lee, a college-age young man, who now faces no possibility of entering college, decides to go on the road to see what is happening to the rest of the country.
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The Habitation of Dragons
Title: The Habitation of Dragons
Character: Mr. Charlie
Released: September 8, 1992
Type: Movie
Two brothers of totally different natures live in a small town in Texas. Since the death of their father they confront one another all the time for all kind of major and minor problems.
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Doc Hollywood
Title: Doc Hollywood
Character: Judge Evans
Released: August 2, 1991
Type: Movie
After leaving Washington D.C. hospital, plastic surgeon Ben Stone heads for California, where a lucrative practice in Beverly Hills awaits. After a car accident, he's sentenced to perform as the community's general practitioner.
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Death Falls
Title: Death Falls
Character: Hals Johnson
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A terminally ill man gets his buddy to bust him out of the hospital. But, in the process, the duo antagonizes a city policeman, who trails them to the boonies surrounding their hometown. The local sheriff and their lady friend (who think more kindly of the pair) strive to find the fugitives before the less-compassionate posse, which includes a deranged, rifle-toting foe of the two. Written by Kim Williams, IMDb.
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Home Alone
Title: Home Alone
Character: Marley
Released: November 16, 1990
Type: Movie
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. But when a pair of bungling burglars set their sights on Kevin's house, the plucky kid stands ready to defend his territory. By planting booby traps galore, adorably mischievous Kevin stands his ground as his frantic mother attempts to race home before Christmas Day.
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Always
Title: Always
Character: Dave
Released: December 22, 1989
Type: Movie
Aerial firefighter Pete risks himself and his vintage World War II airplane in a constant and death-defying quest to fight forest wildfires, much to the dismay of his girlfriend, Dorinda . His love for Dorinda and the advice of fellow pilot Al convince Pete to give up his perilous career, but he flies one last mission. Pete heroically saves Al's plane from certain destruction, but with supernatural consequences.
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The Last Temptation of Christ
Title: The Last Temptation of Christ
Character: Aged Master
Released: May 28, 1988
Type: Movie
Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas -- despite his protestations that love, not violence, is the path to salvation. The burden of being the savior of mankind torments Jesus throughout his life, leading him to doubt.
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Candy Mountain
Title: Candy Mountain
Released: January 20, 1988
Type: Movie
A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker
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Title: Amazing Stories
Character: Ohpa Globe
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg with guest appearances by many famous actors, actresses, and directors.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Mordecai Hawkline
Released: September 27, 1985
Type: TV
This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Man
Released: September 27, 1985
Type: TV
This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy.
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Title: The Equalizer
Character: Oscar Peabody
Released: September 18, 1985
Type: TV
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
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Title: Moonlighting
Character: Lawrence Everette
Released: March 3, 1985
Type: TV
After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other.
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Vision Quest
Title: Vision Quest
Character: Grandpa
Released: February 15, 1985
Type: Movie
After deciding he needs to do something meaningful with his life, high school wrestler Louden Swain sets out on a mission to drop weight and challenge the area's undefeated champion, which creates problems with his teammates and health. Matters are complicated further when Louden's father takes in an attractive female drifter who's on her way to San Francisco.
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Title: Tales from the Darkside
Character: Inquisitor
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot twist. The series' episodes spanned the genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, and some episodes featured elements of black comedy or more lighthearted themes.
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Flashpoint
Title: Flashpoint
Character: Amarillo
Released: April 19, 1984
Type: Movie
Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. Before they decide whether to keep the money or report it, they privately investigate the clues and unravel a decades old mystery.
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Reuben, Reuben
Title: Reuben, Reuben
Character: Frank Spofford
Released: December 19, 1983
Type: Movie
A drunken Scottish poet who has not written a word in years feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young woman.
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Christine
Title: Christine
Character: George LeBay
Released: December 9, 1983
Type: Movie
Nerdy high schooler Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind the wheel of his exotic beauty. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis reach out to him, only to be met by a Fury like no other.
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Johnny Belinda
Title: Johnny Belinda
Character: John McAdam
Released: October 19, 1982
Type: Movie
While attempting to set up a communal garden in a poverty stricken rural community, Bill Richmond becomes aware of a mute, disheveled girl named Belinda. Written off as mentally handicapped by the community, including her harsh father, Belinda intrigues Bill. He persists in making contact, discovering that Belinda is in fact deaf. Bill finds that he can communicate with Belinda using sign language, and teaches her to sign.
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The Wall
Title: The Wall
Character: Kuchaski
Released: February 16, 1982
Type: Movie
A dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of the Jewish Fighting Organization of Poland held off a 3,000 strong Nazi force in which only a handful of Jews survived. Tom Conti plays Dolek Berson, a Jewish smuggler who joins the resistance movement and is aided on the Aryan side of the wall by a former teacher named Regina Kowalski played by Rachel Roberts in her final role.
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Family Reunion
Title: Family Reunion
Character: Phil King
Released: October 11, 1981
Type: Movie
Elizabeth Winfield is a retired teacher, who desperately tries to keep her family together. While she's traveling through the country and meeting her relatives, back in her hometown, a group of shopping mall developers are planning to take over her family land in order to begin their ambitious project. Now she needs to find ways to stop this construction in time before the town's annual festivities.
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Resurrection
Title: Resurrection
Character: John Harper
Released: September 26, 1980
Type: Movie
The story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people. She becomes an unwitting celebrity, the hope of those in desperate need of healing, and a lightning rod for religious beliefs and skeptics.
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The Gold Bug
Title: The Gold Bug
Character: Mr. LeGrand
Released: February 2, 1980
Type: Movie
Shortly after the Civil War, while exploring the long deserted and reputedly haunted Sullivan's Island off Charleston S.C., a boy encounters two obsessed eccentrics living there. These men chase him away and warn him never to return or to tell anyone about them. Soon, however, they locate him and summon him back, because he has unknowingly given them a clue vital to their quest and they need his help to unravel the rest of the mystery. If he can do so, they will find buried pirate treasure and all become rich. But in joining the search, he falls under the same obsession and curse -- an ominous fate suggested by the unearthly electronic music which contributes to the film's atmosphere.
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Escape from Alcatraz
Title: Escape from Alcatraz
Character: Doc
Released: June 22, 1979
Type: Movie
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan.
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Title: Mourning Becomes Electra
Character: Seth
Released: December 6, 1978
Type: TV
In a Greek tragedy updated to the 1860s, young New Englanders exact vengeance after the murder of their father.
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Title: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Character: Farmer
Released: December 14, 1977
Type: Movie
After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
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Citizens Band
Title: Citizens Band
Character: Papa Thermodyne
Released: May 18, 1977
Type: Movie
The interlaced stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen's band) radio.
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The Great Gatsby
Title: The Great Gatsby
Character: Mr. Gatz
Released: March 27, 1974
Type: Movie
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.
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Deranged
Title: Deranged
Character: Ezra Cobb
Released: February 2, 1974
Type: Movie
A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies he misses her, so a year later he digs her up and takes her home. He learns about taxidermy and begins robbing graves to get materials to patch her up, and inevitably begins looking for fresher sources of materials. Based closely on the true story of Ed Gein.
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Murder on the Emerald Seas
Title: Murder on the Emerald Seas
Character: Sherwood Gates
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
In order to infiltrate a gang of drug smugglers, a cop is sent undercover to participate in a drag-queen beauty contest aboard a cruise ship.
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The Rimers of Eldritch
Title: The Rimers of Eldritch
Character: Judge/Preacher
Released: November 4, 1972
Type: Movie
Lanford Wilson's prize-winning drama about life in a played-out coal town in the Midwest. Against the background of a murder trial, the people recall their lives.
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Please Stand By
Title: Please Stand By
Released: June 6, 1972
Type: Movie
Young New York City activists, led by street singer Freemont Zappata and his girl friend, Marian, hijack broadcasting equipment that enables them to interrupt network television. Delivering their own message on the air, the group promotes peace and ecological awareness while decrying war and consumerism. After one group member divulges their location to authorities, federal agents arrest Freemont, send him to trial and convict him. The group subsequently frees Freemont from a detention center, then continues their broadcasts, while Freemont rides his horse alone along a bridle path.
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Title: Slaughterhouse-Five
Character: Wild Bob Cody
Released: March 15, 1972
Type: Movie
Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.
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The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
Title: The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A bizarre series of events focused on young women in the village of Salem causes paranoia in the late 1600s. It ends with the lynching of the accused and subsequent releases from jail. Dark and gritty, but not frightening.
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The Hospital
Title: The Hospital
Character: Guernsey
Released: December 14, 1971
Type: Movie
Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a hospital bed, it appears to Bock to be a case of unforgivable malpractice. Hours later, another doctor, who happens to be responsible for another case of malpractice, is found dead. Despondent, Bock finds himself drawn to Barbara, the daughter of a comatose missionary.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Judge / Preacher
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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Taylor Mead Dances
Title: Taylor Mead Dances
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Tayor travels in his white Rolls Royce to the Second City nightclub, where he dances. With Tayor Mead, Katherine Roberts, and Roberts Blossom.
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The Sin of Jesus
Title: The Sin of Jesus
Released: December 10, 1961
Type: Movie
An egg-sorting woman shrugs off even the appearance of Christ. From Isaak Babel story.
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John Brown's Raid
Title: John Brown's Raid
Released: October 25, 1960
Type: Movie
White abolitionist John Brown and twenty of his men attempt to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Based on true events.
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Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom
Title: Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Full Blossom: The Life Of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom takes a look at Blossom's work onscreen, as well as the man behind the camera, examining his political and spiritual convictions, his belief in reincarnation (Blossom is certain his son was Michelangelo in a previous life), his career as a poet, and his relationship with his family.