Roberts Blossom
出生 : 1924-03-25, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
死亡 : 2011-07-08
略歴
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)
Weasel Mayfield
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.
Doc Wallace
鬼才サム・ライミ監督のガン・アクション。荒野の町の早撃ちトーナメントを舞台に、タフな女ガンマンの活躍と復讐を描く。シャロン・ストーン、ラッセル・クロウからレオナルド・ディカプリオまで、豪華キャストが集結している。
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.
Mr. Charlie
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.
Judge Evans
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.
Hals Johnson
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.
Marley
クリスマス休暇をパリで過ごそうと計画する、ある家族の親戚を含む15人。無事出発したと思った矢先、ママは飛行機の中で重大な忘れ物に気付く。なんと8歳の息子ケビンを家に置き忘れてしまったのだ! こうして、ケビンはひとりぼっちで夜を過ごすことになるが、さらにその夜、空巣狙いの泥棒2人組が家に忍び込む。それに気付いたケビンは自分が家を守らなくちゃと、2人組相手にたったひとりで奇想天外な撃退作戦を展開する。
Dave
無茶な飛行でいつも周囲をはらはらさせているコロラド州の森林火災の消火隊員ピートは、非番の日に起きた山火事の消火活動に出動した際、飛行機にトラブルが起こった同僚のアルを助けようとして、爆死してしまう。天国に行ったピーターはハップという天使と出会い、彼女の命で現世に舞い戻り、パイロット養成学校の生徒テッドに守護霊としてアドバイスを与えることになる。
Aged Master
ニューヨークを代表する映画作家、マーティン・スコセッシ監督が新約聖書を独自の解釈でとらえた問題作。救世主イエス・キリストを、苦悩する1人の人間として描いていく。デヴィッド・ボウイの出演にも注目。
A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker
Grandpa
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.
Amarillo
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.
Frank Spofford
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.
George LeBay
変わり者の青年はボロボロの中古車に一目ぼれし、愛情を注いで車を修理する。だが、彼はまるで車の邪悪な力に魅入られたかのように、危険な男へと変貌してゆく。
John McAdam
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.
Kuchaski
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.
Phil King
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.
John Harper
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.
Mr. LeGrand
Doc
誰ひとりとして脱獄に成功したことのない刑務所―――アルカトラズ島。ここに一人の囚人が送り込まれた。彼の名はフランク・モーリス。所内で以前、別の刑務所で一緒だったアングリン兄弟と彼は脱獄計画の実行を決める……。あの『ダーティハリー』の名コンビ、ドン・シーゲル監督=クリント・イーストウッドが放つ、873日をかけた脱出作戦を事実に基づいて描く脱獄映画の秀作。
Farmer
ある日、ラコーム率いる調査団がメキシコの砂漠で第二次大戦時の戦闘機を発見する。それは、消失当時と変わらぬ姿で残っていた。一方アメリカのインディアナ州では、町一帯の停電を調べていた電気技師ロイがUFOのような光を発見。以来、彼はこの不思議な光にすっかり魅了され、その正体を探っていく。やがて、光が行き着く先はワイオミング州のデビルズ・タワーという山だと判明するのだが…。
Papa Thermodyne
The interlaced stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen's band) radio.
Mr. Gatz
F・スコット・フィッツジェラルドの小説をフランシス・F・コッポラの脚色で映画化。1920年代のアメリカを舞台に、上流社会に生きる青年の愛と野望を描くロマン大作。
ニューヨーク郊外のロングアイランドに建つ豪邸で、夜ごとパーティーを催す謎の富豪ギャツビー。貧しい家に生まれた彼は、第1次大戦中に出会った恋人のデイジーに裏切られたことをきっかけに、終戦後、努力して財界でのし上がっていった。やがて、人妻となったデイジーと再会、2人の愛はよみがえったかに見えたが…。
R・レッドフォードが出世欲に燃える青年ギャツビーを熱演。アカデミー衣装デザイン賞、歌曲・編曲賞受賞。
Ezra Cobb
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.
Sherwood Gates
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.
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.
Wild Bob Cody
第二次世界大戦の退役軍人であるビリー・ピルグリムは、不思議なことに時間から切り離され、幼少時代から遠い惑星トラルファマドールでの特異な生活まで、否応なしに旅することができる。
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.
Guernsey
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.
Tayor travels in his white Rolls Royce to the Second City nightclub, where he dances. With Tayor Mead, Katherine Roberts, and Roberts Blossom.
An egg-sorting woman shrugs off even the appearance of Christ. From Isaak Babel story.
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.