Len Birman

Len Birman

Born: January 1, 1932
Died: February 10, 2023
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Leonard Birman (September 28, 1932 – February 10, 2023) was a Canadian-American actor, who began his career in Montreal. In his 45 years on stage, screen and radio, he portrayed a wide variety of characters, including some choice roles in classical and contemporary theatre. Description above from the Wikipedia article Len Birman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Web of Deceit
Title: Web of Deceit
Character: Judge Byron Heath
Released: October 17, 1990
Type: Movie
After making a name for herself on the West Coast, a defense lawyer returns to her hometown of Atlanta to argue a controversial rape-murder case. But it's not all work and no play: once there, she reenters high society and has a reunion with an old flame -- who just happens to be the prosecuting attorney on her case. As she investigates her client's claims of innocence, she uncovers a sinister conspiracy that threatens both her life and her new romance.
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The Magic Boy's Easter
Title: The Magic Boy's Easter
Character: Lazarus
Released: March 1, 1989
Type: Movie
12-year-old Josh has a crippling disease in his leg and is cynical about the abilities of his doctor to assist him. After a visit from a Magician, he has a vivid dream in which he discovers that he doesn't need to be alone and that miracles are real. His faith in Jesus Christ is renewed and Josh wakes up with confidence that a miracle can save his leg.
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Assassin
Title: Assassin
Character: Sen. Corbin
Released: March 19, 1986
Type: Movie
A retired agent from an Intelligence Agency is contacted by the Agency in order to stop an ultra-secret robot who is killing some government officials. That will be not an easy task, because the robot looks human and it was specifically built to be an efficient killer, not to mention that it is almost invulnerable.
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Picking Up the Pieces
Title: Picking Up the Pieces
Character: Carew
Released: October 22, 1985
Type: Movie
A sheltered wife of a surgeon suddenly finds herself thrust into the middle of a messy divorce.
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The Undergrads
Title: The Undergrads
Character: Verne Adler
Released: May 5, 1985
Type: Movie
An elderly man discovers that his son wants to put him in an old-age home. However, the old man's grandson refuses to allow it, and the man and his grandson wind up becoming roommates at the boy's college dorm.
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Passions
Title: Passions
Character: Sam Cooper
Released: October 1, 1984
Type: Movie
A man with a wife and daughter also has a son with another woman. When he dies this little secret is revealed to the wife. She then sets out to make her and her son suffer by trying to throw them out of the house he bought for them but now it legally belongs to his wife. And at the same time, wanting to ensure her son's future, she sues his estate for her son's education fund. While they are butting heads, they both discover that they were both deceived by him.
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Draw!
Title: Draw!
Character: Ephraim
Released: June 15, 1984
Type: Movie
In the final days of the Old West, a former desperado faces down a now drunken ex-sheriff, who was his long time nemesis.
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Title: Airwolf
Character: Kenneth Langhom
Released: January 22, 1984
Type: TV
As part of a deal with an intelligence agency to look for his missing brother, a renegade pilot goes on missions with an advanced battle helicopter.
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Title: Airwolf
Character: Jaggerman
Released: January 22, 1984
Type: TV
As part of a deal with an intelligence agency to look for his missing brother, a renegade pilot goes on missions with an advanced battle helicopter.
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Captain America II: Death Too Soon
Title: Captain America II: Death Too Soon
Character: Dr. Simon Mills
Released: November 23, 1979
Type: Movie
Crimefighting Captain America rights more wrongs by doing battle with a fanatical terrorist who uses his deadly drug that causes accelerated aging to finance his world revolution.
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Title: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Character: Admiral Zite
Released: September 20, 1979
Type: TV
20th-century astronaut Buck Rogers awakens in the 25th century after a freak accident puts him in suspended animation for 500 years. Upon returning to Earth and discovering the planet is recovering from a nuclear war, Buck uses his combat skills and ingenuity to protect Earth and fight evil throughout the galaxy alongside starfighter pilot Colonel Wilma Deering and robot companion Twiki.
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Captain America
Title: Captain America
Character: Dr. Simon Mills
Released: January 19, 1979
Type: Movie
An artist, Steve Rogers, is nearly murdered by spies, looking for his late father's national secrets. He is saved during surgery when a secret formula is injected into him; this serum not only heals him but also gives him fantastic strength and lightning reflexes. To help him solve the mystery behind his father’s murder and bring those guilty to justice, a government agency equips him with a special motorcycle loaded with gadgets and an indestructible shield. Now armed, he battles against the nation's enemies as the Sentinel of Liberty, Captain America.
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Evening in Byzantium
Title: Evening in Byzantium
Character: Len Birman
Released: August 14, 1978
Type: Movie
While the prestigious Cannes Film Festival goes on around him, American movie producer Jesse Craig struggles to develop a pitch-worthy thriller about a terrorist plot. Before long, Craig becomes concerned that a shocking act of real-life terrorism already may be underway. Meanwhile, radical actor Bret Easton works in cahoots with a group of extremists to coordinate the hijacking of a trio of passenger planes in a devastating, multi-city nuclear attack.
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The Great Brain
Title: The Great Brain
Character: Papa Fitzgerald
Released: June 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Based on the book by John D. Fitzgerald, this movie stars Jimmy Osmond as a mischievous boy out to swindle his whole town for everything they're worth...and who occasionally puts his smarts to use for a good cause.
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Title: Dallas
Character: Claude Brown
Released: April 2, 1978
Type: TV
The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful women, expensive cars, and men playing Monopoly with real buildings. Famous for one of the best cliffhangers in TV history, as the world asked "Who shot J.R.?" A slow-burner to begin with, Dallas hit its stride in the 2nd season, with long storylines and expert character development. Dallas ruled the airwaves in the 1980's.
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Killer on Board
Title: Killer on Board
Character: Marvin Luck
Released: October 10, 1977
Type: Movie
The passengers on a cruise ship are seized by panic when a deadly virus begins killing off passengers and crew.
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The Man Inside
Title: The Man Inside
Character: Paint
Released: June 25, 1977
Type: Movie
An undercover cop infiltrates a major heroin ring. He soon finds himself in a position to take $2 million without anyone knowing about it, a situation made all the more tempting because of his girlfriend's griping about their constant struggles to make ends meet and their need to change their lives for the better.
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Title: The Rhinemann Exchange
Character: Asher Field
Released: March 10, 1977
Type: TV
During World War II, an intelligence officer is dispatched by the U.S. government to arrange an exchange in Argentina of industrial diamonds needed by the Germans for a secret gyroscope needed by the Allies.
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Silver Streak
Title: Silver Streak
Character: Chief
Released: December 3, 1976
Type: Movie
A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.
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Lies My Father Told Me
Title: Lies My Father Told Me
Character: Harry Herman
Released: September 26, 1975
Type: Movie
A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work.
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Title: The Six Million Dollar Man
Character: Chilton Kane
Released: January 18, 1974
Type: TV
Follow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent, employed by the OSI, under the command of Oscar Goldman and supervised by the scientist who created his cybernetics, Rudy Wells. Steve uses the superior strength and speed provided by his bionic arm and legs, and the enhanced vision provided by his artificial eye, to fight enemy agents, aliens, mad scientists, and a wide variety of other villains.
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She Cried Murder
Title: She Cried Murder
Character: Marvin
Released: September 25, 1973
Type: Movie
Fashion model Sarah Cornell, from the front car of a subway, witnesses a man pushing a woman onto the tracks to her death. Hoping to dispel the presumption that the woman committed suicide, Sarah contacts the police. But when they arrive to take her statement, she recognizes one of the detectives as the killer. Can she get anyone to believe her before she becomes his next victim?
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Title: Dr. Simon Locke
Character: Chief Dan Palmer
Released: September 13, 1971
Type: TV
Dr. Simon Locke was a Canadian medical drama The series was initially a medical drama that originated from the fictional rural town of Dixon Mills, where a young physician, Dr. Simon Locke, arrived in town to assist veteran physician Dr. Andrew Sellers. The plot lines were more fitting for a big city medical drama, including a typhoid epidemic, child abuse, and even a murder. In 1972 the series was renamed as Police Surgeon, where Dr. Locke moved back to the city and worked for the police department's emergency unit, where he assists the cops in solving crimes that require medical research.
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Title: Rocket Robin Hood
Character: Rocket Robin Hood (voice)
Released: October 9, 1966
Type: TV
Rocket Robin Hood is a Canadian animated television series, placing the characters and conflicts of the classic Robin Hood legend in a futuristic, outer space setting, produced by Krantz Films, Inc. from 1966 to 1969. For Canadians who grew up between 1966 and 1984, the tale of Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest may be more familiar as the Space Age version, Rocket Robin Hood of Sherwood Asteroid. This descendant of the medieval outlaw, along with his modern-day Merry Men including Little John, Friar Tuck, and Will Scarlet, carries on his ancestor's fight against heavy taxes, tyranny, and all things evil. "Three. Two. One. Blast off! Band of brothers, marching together. Heads held high in all kinds of weather. With fiery blasts, our roaring rockets rise, beyond the Earth, beyond the skies! At the side of Robin, take your stand, with the gallant leader of our band. Send a joyous shout throughout the land! For Rocket Robin Hood!"
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30 Minutes, Mister Plummer
Title: 30 Minutes, Mister Plummer
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
This film profiles Canadian actor Christopher Plummer of the Shakespearean Theatre, Stratford, Ontario. As the minutes tick by, cameras register the transformation as he dons his make-up for the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac. We also see Toronto actress Kate Reid as well as actors Len Birman and Martha Henry.
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Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine
Title: Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
This short film offers a glimpse into the life of Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine, the Chief Justice who died prematurely but left French Canada a legacy of political freedom. Shot entirely in Montreal, the film begins on the day of his death, and flashes back to tense moments throughout his life. French with English subtitles.