lead role of killer Ezra Cobb.  He also appeared in The Great Gatsby (1974), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Escape from Alcatraz (1979), Vision Quest (1985), and in Home Alone (1990), as Marley, Kevin McCallister's reclusive, unfairly stigmatized snow-shoveling neighbor.  He retired from acting in the late-1990s to pursue writing