<Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Beverly Schmidt Blossom (m. 1966--1970; divorced) Marilyn Orshan (m.? - 1982; her death;) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> Roberts Scott Blossom (March 25, 1924--July 8, 2011) was an American theatre, film and television character actor, and poet . He was 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). </P> <P> 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 . He began directing and acting in productions at Karamu House and the Candlelight Theater in Cleveland and later moved to New York City, 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 . </P>

Who plays the old man in home alone