Roberts Blossom in The Hospital
Roberts Blossom (1924 - 2011)
Poet
Film Deaths[]
- The Hospital (1971) [Guernsey]: Dies of respiratory failure in the hospital, after being given the wrong medication due to misdiagnosis.
- Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) [Wild Bob Cody]: Dies (off-screen) of a respiratory infection and exposure while being transported to a POW camp in Germany by rail, his body is shown in a pile alongside others who didn't survive the journey.
- Flashpoint (1984) [Amarillo]: Shot in the chest by Kurtwood Smith's henchman.
- The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) [Aged Master]: Dies (off-screen) of old age/natural causes; his body is shown afterwards when Willem Dafoe sees him being carried off (with the implication the Roberts, whom Willem had encountered the night before that been his spirit).
- Death Falls (1991) [Hals Johnson]: Shot in the chest by Jeffrey Combs while talking to Rip Torn in woods toward the end of movie.
Television Deaths[]
- Amazing Stories: Ghost Train (1985) [Opa Globe]: Departs into the afterlife on a supernatural train whose crash he had witnessed (and inadvertently caused) as a child decades earlier.