Roberts Scott Blossom (March 25, 1924 – July 8, 2011) was an American actor and poet.
Roberts Scott Blossom was born in 1924 in New Haven, Connecticut, and began acting on stage during the 1950s. During the 1960s, he formed Filmstage, a multimedia avant-garde theatrical troupe.
Blossom graduated from Asheville School in 1941 and attended Harvard University. He acted several theater roles in the 1950s, for which he won the Obie Award four times.
In the thriller Deranged, Blossom played the lead role of killer Ezra Cobb. In the Oscar-winning film drama The Great Gatsby (1974), he was accompanied on-screen by Robert Redford. He won the Soapy Award for his role on Another World, on which he appeared from 1976-1977. In 1990, he starred in Home Alone as Old Man Marley. Blossom's other TV credits include Moonlighting, Northern Exposure and In the Heat of the Night.
He retired from acting in the late 1990s to pursue writing poetry.
He is survived by a son and a daughter.
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