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Related: About this forum'Home Alone' Actor Dies in Santa Monica
SANTA MONICA (KTLA) -- A veteran actor, best known, for playing "old man Marley" in 1990's movie "Home Alone" has died.
Roberts Blossom died of natural causes at the age of 87 in a Santa Monica nursing home.
Blossom starred in numerous Broadway shows, winning three Obie Awards for his work on stage.
His movie credits include "The Hospital," "Slaughterhouse-Five," "The Great Gatsby," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Escape From Alcatraz," "Resurrection," "Doc Hollywood," "The Quick and the Dead," "Always" and "The Last Temptation of Christ."
Roberts Blossom died of natural causes at the age of 87 in a Santa Monica nursing home.
Blossom starred in numerous Broadway shows, winning three Obie Awards for his work on stage.
His movie credits include "The Hospital," "Slaughterhouse-Five," "The Great Gatsby," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Escape From Alcatraz," "Resurrection," "Doc Hollywood," "The Quick and the Dead," "Always" and "The Last Temptation of Christ."
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/ktla-home-alone-actor-roberts-blossom,0,6857719.story?obref=obnetwork
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'Home Alone' Actor Dies in Santa Monica (Original Post)
MADem
Apr 2012
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Javaman
(63,100 posts)1. RIP Mr. Blossom.
I have always enjoyed your work.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)2. RIP...Roberts Blossom....
Sounds like he had a full life doing what he enjoyed.
2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)3. Saw this topic and thought it was Macaulay Culkin.
MADem
(135,425 posts)4. Nope, but you'd know the old guy if you saw him.
He was quite the character actor.
Paladin
(28,755 posts)5. A Fine Character Actor. RIP. (n/t)
Still Blue in PDX
(1,999 posts)6. He was great in Christine.
There were lots of creepy aspects to that movie, but he was superbly creepy.