---
name: "Len Birman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/len-birman"
fi1m_id: "len-birman"
imdb_id: "nm0083640"
tmdb_id: 136104
wikidata_id: "Q16738925"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1932"
died: "10 February 2023"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T04:32:54.382957+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Len Birman

## Identity

Len Birman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/len-birman
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** len-birman
- **IMDb ID:** nm0083640
- **TMDB ID:** 136104
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16738925
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Birman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16738925, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0083640/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/136104

Actor. Born 1 January 1932 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Died 10 February 2023.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1932, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- **Died:** 10 February 2023
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Birman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16738925, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0083640/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/136104

## Biography

Len Birman (28 September 1932 – 10 February 2023) was a Canadian-American actor. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he began his career there and worked extensively on stage, screen and radio for over four decades.

He is known for film roles including Harry Herman in *Lies My Father Told Me* (1975) and Chief Donaldson in *Silver Streak* (1976), as well as television appearances in series such as *Airwolf* (1984) and the television films *Captain America* (1979) and *Captain America II: Death Too Soon* (1979). Birman also performed in classical and contemporary theatre, with stage credits including Macbeth and Stanley Kowalski in *A Streetcar Named Desire*. He was the father of actor and stuntman Matt Birman.

*Sources: imdb.com, wikiwand.com, everloved.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Silver Streak* (1976), Fi1m 63, as Chief — [page](https://film.one/film/silver-streak.md)

## Complete filmography (29)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Web of Deceit* (1990), as Judge Byron Heath
- *Without Her Consent* (1990), as Judge Wasserman
- *The Magic Boy's Easter* (1989), as Lazarus
- *Assassin* (1986), as Sen. Corbin
- *Picking Up the Pieces* (1985), as Carew
- *The Undergrads* (1985), as Verne Adler
- *Passions* (1984), as Sam Cooper
- *Draw!* (1984), as Ephraim
- *Airwolf* (1984), series, as Kenneth Langhom, Jaggerman
- *Knots Landing* (1979), series, as Salmaggio
- *Captain America II: Death Too Soon* (1979), as Dr. Simon Mills
- *Buck Rogers in the 25th Century* (1979), series, as Admiral Zite
- *Captain America* (1979), as Dr. Simon Mills
- *The Great Brain* (1978), as Papa Fitzgerald
- *Escapade* (1978), as Arnold Tolliver
- *Dallas* (1978), series, as Claude Brown
- *Killer on Board* (1977), as Marvin Luck
- *Logan's Run* (1977), series, as Positive 14 / Brawn
- *The Man Inside* (1977), as Paint
- *The Rhinemann Exchange* (1977), series, as Asher Field
- *Silver Streak* (1976), as Chief — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/silver-streak.md)
- *Lies My Father Told Me* (1975), as Harry Herman
- *The Six Million Dollar Man* (1974), series, as Chilton Kane
- *She Cried Murder* (1973), as Marvin
- *A Christmas Tree* (1972), Actor
- *Jack O'Lantern* (1972), as (voice)
- *Doctor Simon Locke* (1971), series, as Chief Dan Palmer
- *Rocket Robin Hood* (1966), series, as Rocket Robin Hood (voice)
- *Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine* (1962), Actor

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