---
name: "Len Blum"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/len-blum"
fi1m_id: "len-blum"
imdb_id: "nm0089676"
tmdb_id: 52871
wikidata_id: "Q1516446"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "29 December 1951"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T17:18:58.449669+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 Blum

## Identity

Len Blum

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/len-blum
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** len-blum
- **IMDb ID:** nm0089676
- **TMDB ID:** 52871
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1516446
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Blum, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1516446, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0089676/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/52871

Writer. Born 29 December 1951 in Montreal.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 29 December 1951, Montreal
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Blum, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1516446, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0089676/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/52871

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Stripes*](https://film.one/film/stripes.md) (70)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Len Blum is a Canadian screenwriter, composer and filmmaker. Born Leonard Solomon Blum on 29 December 1951 in Montreal, he attended Westdale Secondary School in Hamilton, Ontario, and graduated from McMaster University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1975.

He began his screenwriting career collaborating with Dan Goldberg and Ivan Reitman on comedies. His credits include *Meatballs* (1979), *Stripes* (1981), *Heavy Metal* (1981), *Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone* (1983), *Beethoven's 2nd* (1993), *Private Parts* (1997), *Over the Hedge* (2006) and *The Pink Panther* (2006). He won the Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay for *Meatballs* in 1980.

In 2015 the Toronto International Film Festival established the Len Blum Residency programme to support emerging Canadian screenwriters.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Stripes* (1981), Fi1m 70, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/stripes.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

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

- *The Sadies Stop and Start* (2022), Writer
- *Carmine Street Guitars* (2018), Writer
- *Altman* (2014), Screenplay
- *Over the Hedge* (2006), Screenplay
- *The Pink Panther* (2006), Screenplay, Story
- *Private Parts* (1997), Screenplay
- *Beethoven's 2nd* (1993), Screenplay
- *Feds!* (1988), Writer, Producer
- *Meatballs III: Summer Job* (1986), Characters
- *Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone* (1983), Screenplay
- *Heavy Metal* (1981), Screenplay, Story
- *Stripes* (1981), Screenplay — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/stripes.md)
- *Meatballs* (1979), Writer
- *Rabid* (1977), Sound Assistant
- *East End Hustle* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *Shivers* (1975), Sound Assistant

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