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Leonard Solomon Blum (born December 29, 1951) is a Canadian screenwriter, film producer and film composer.
Len Blum was born on 29 December 1951 in Montreal, Québec, Canada. He is a writer, known for Meatballs (1979), The Pink Panther (2006) and Heavy Metal (1981). He has been married to Heather Munroe-Blum since 1970.
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Len Blum was born on 29 December 1951 in Montreal, Québec, Canada. He is a writer, known for Meatballs (1979), The Pink Panther (2006) and Heavy Metal (1981). He has been married to Heather Munroe-Blum since 1970.
- December 29, 1951
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- Early life
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Leonard Solomon "Len" Blum (born December 29, 1951) is an award-winning Canadian screenwriter, film producer and film composer of Over the Hedge.
Blum was born into a Jewish family. He attended Westdale Secondary School in Hamilton, Ontario. He later graduated from McMaster University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1975.
He has written many films, specializing in comedy, including Meatballs, Stripes, Heavy Metal, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, Beethoven's 2nd, Private Parts, 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. The inaugural resident was Stephen Dunn. In 2016, Andrew Cividino was announced as the new resident.
He won the Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay, in 1980, for the film Meatballs.
He has been married to Dr. Heather Munroe-Blum since 1970, with whom he has a daughter, Sydney.
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Len Blum is known as an Screenplay, Writer, Sound Assistant, Story, Characters, Producer, and Original Music Composer. Some of his work includes Over the Hedge, The Pink Panther, Beethoven's 2nd, Stripes, Heavy Metal, Private Parts, Meatballs, and Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone.
Oct 23, 2011 · Sitting in the study of his Forest Hill home, Len Blum hands the visitor a paperback copy of Howard Stern’s scatalogical memoir Private Parts, whose cover bears the promise, “Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture.”
Leonard Solomon Blum is a Canadian screenwriter, film producer and film composer.
