This tall, gaunt and grizzled character player of film and TV has also enjoyed a significant career on the New York stage as an actor-director. Tending to stand out even in the smallest bits, Blossom has delivered convincing portrayals of addled oldsters, creepy hicks, and lovable eccentrics. Steven Spielberg took notice of Blossom's special qualities and deployed them to memorable effect in several projects: "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977) where he plays a seemingly crazy rustic UFO enthusiast who proclaims "I saw Bigfoot once!"; "Ghost Train" (NBC, 1985), the lavish
