Len Blum

Len Blum
Born	Leonard Solomon Blum 1951 (age 72–73) Montreal, Canada
Occupation	Screenwriter, composer, filmmaker
Years active	1979–present
Spouse(s)	Heather Munroe-Blum

Leonard Solomon “Len” Blum (born 1951) is an award winning Canadian screenwriter, film producer and film composer. He graduated from McMaster University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1975 and wrote many films including Meatballs, Stripes, Heavy Metal, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, Meatballs III: Summer Job, Feds, Beethoven's 2nd, Private Parts, The Pink Panther and Over the Hedge. Prior to his film career, he was a songwriter and produced radio commercials. He won the Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay, in 1980, for the film Meatballs.

He also attended Westdale Secondary School in Hamilton, Ontario. He has been married to Dr. Heather Munroe-Blum since 1970 with whom he has one child. Len now teaches Yoga in Montreal.

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 and Michael Saltzman) (2006)
• Over the Hedge (with Lorne Cameron, David Hoselton, and Karey Kirkpatrick) (2006)

External links

• Len Blum at the Internet Movie Database
• Leonard Blum archives at the Media Archives of the University of Toronto Media Commons