Filmography from Roberts Blossom

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Christine, John Carpenter, 1983
In 1957, in Detroit, a red Plymouth Fury is built and is the cause of two accidents, one of them fatal, still in the assembly line. Twenty-one years later, the outcast and bullied nerd Arnold "Arnie" Cunningham is getting a ride with his best and only friend Dennis Guilder and he sees the wrecked car for sale in a garden. Arnie immediately falls in love with the car. The car was given the name Christine by it's first owner. He brings the car to...

Escape from Alcatraz, Don Siegel (as Donald Siegel), 1979
A dramatization of the one possibly successful escape from the notorious prison....

Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Steven Spielberg, 1977
Cableman Roy Neary is one of several people who experience a close encounter of the first kind, witnessing UFOs flying through the night sky. He is subsequently haunted by a mountainlike image in his head and becomes obsessed with discovering what it represents, putting severe strain on his marriage. Meanwhile, government agents around the world have a close encounter of the second kind, discovering physical evidence of otherworldly visitors in...

Deranged, Jeff Gillen, Alan Ormsby, 1974
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....

Slaughterhouse-Five, George Roy Hill, 1972
Billie Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." The opening words of the famous novel are the quickest summary of this haunting, funny film. Director Hill faithfully renders for the screen Vonnegut's obsessive story of Pilgrim, who survives the 1945 firebombing of Dresden, then lives simultaneously in his past as a young American POW, in the future as a well-cared-for resident of a zoo on the planet Tralfamadore, and in the present as a middle-aged...

Amazing Stories, Lesli Linka Glatter (3 episodes, 1986-1987), Phil Joanou (2 episodes, 1985-1986), Steven Spielberg (2 episodes, 1985), Paul Bartel (2 episodes, 1986-1987), Thomas Carter (2 episodes, 1986), Joe Dante (2 episodes, 1986), Joan Darling (2 episodes, 1986), Todd Holland (2 episodes, 1986), Norman Reynolds (2 episodes, 1986), Bob Balaban (1 episode, 1985), Bob Clark (1 episode, 1985), William Dear (1 episode, 1985), Clint Eastwood (1 episode, 1985), Peter Hyams (1 episode, 1985), Michael D Moore (1 episode, 1985), Donald Petrie (1 episode, 1985), Burt Reynolds (1 episode, 1985), Matthew Robbins (1 episode, 1985), Danny DeVito (1 episode, 1986), Mick Garris (1 episode, 1986), Tom Holland (1 episode, 1986), Timothy Hutton (1 episode, 1986), Irvin Kershner (1 episode, 1986), Robert Markowitz (1 episode, 1986), Kevin Reynolds (1 episode, 1986), J Michael Riva (1 episode, 1986), Martin Scorsese (1 episode, 1986), Robert Zemeckis (1 episode, 1986), Graham Baker (1 episode, 1987), Brad Bird (1 episode, 1987), Nick Castle (1 episode, 1987), Paul Michael Glaser (1 episode, 1987), Tobe Hooper (1 episode, 1987), Ken Kwapis (1 episode, 1987), Robert Stevens (1 episode, 1987), 0
Television series created, produced, and twice directed by Steven Spielberg. Truly amazing, and sometimes odd stories are narrated. Many famous actors and actresses made guest appearances....