Len Blum
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Leonard Solomon Blum (born December 29, 1951) is a Canadian screenwriter, film producer and film composer.[1]
Early life
Blum was born into a Jewish family.[2] He attended Westdale Secondary School in Hamilton, Ontario. He later graduated from McMaster University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1975.
Career
He has written many films, specializing in comedy, including Meatballs,[1] Stripes,[1] Heavy Metal, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, Beethoven's 2nd, Private Parts,[1] The Pink Panther remake and Over the Hedge. Prior to his film career, early on he was a rock musician and songwriter did studio productions, produced radio commercials.
In 2015, the Toronto International Film Festival created a screenwriter's residency program named after Blum, specifically for up and coming Canadian screenwriters to develop their projects.[3] The inaugural resident was Stephen Dunn.[4] In 2016, Andrew Cividino was announced as the new resident.[5]
Accolades
He won the Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay, in 1980, for the film Meatballs.[6]
Personal life
He has been married to Heather Munroe-Blum since 1970, with whom he has a daughter, Sydney.[2]
Filmography
- Meatballs (with Dan Goldberg and Harold Ramis) (1979)
- Stripes (with Dan Goldberg and Harold Ramis) (1981)
- Heavy Metal (with Dan Goldberg) (1981)
- Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (with Dan Goldberg) (1983)
- Feds (with Dan Goldberg) (1988)
- Beethoven's 2nd (1993)
- Dream Tower (with Ron Mann and Bill Schroeder) (1994)
- Private Parts (1997)
- The Pink Panther (with Steve Martin) (2006)
- Over the Hedge (with Lorne Cameron, David Hoselton, and Karey Kirkpatrick) (2006)
- Altman (2014)
- Summer of Love (2018)
- Carmine Street Guitars (2018) directed by Ron Mann
References
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- ↑ Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. Template:ISBN.
External links
- Template:Trim/ Template:PAGENAMEBASE at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidataScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Len Blum fonds (R497) at Library and Archives Canada
- Pages with script errors
- 1951 births
- Film producers from Quebec
- Canadian film score composers
- Canadian male film score composers
- Canadian male screenwriters
- Jewish Canadian screenwriters
- Jewish Canadian musicians
- McMaster University alumni
- Living people
- Musicians from Montreal
- Writers from Montreal
- Best Screenplay Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners
- 20th-century Canadian screenwriters
- 20th-century Canadian male writers
- 21st-century Canadian screenwriters
- 21st-century Canadian male writers
- Screenwriters from Quebec