Jack Blum

Jack Blum is a Canadian actor, writer and director. Born in Toronto in 1954 and raised in Hamilton, he studied acting at the National Theatre School of Canada before taking roles in feature films and television shows, among them the comedy Meatballs (1979). He began writing for television in the early 1980s, contributing episodes of Sons and Daughters and The Edison Twins and co-writing and associate producing Hockey Night for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film Board short drama The Umpire. He then collaborated with Sharon Corder on the long-running series Traders, which they co-created, and on Catwalk and Power Play as story editor and supervising producer. Blum directed and co-wrote the feature Babyface, which premiered at Cannes in 1998, and he and Corder founded Reel Canada in 2005, which launched National Canadian Film Day in 2014. His honors include a C.F.T.A. Award for Hockey Night and a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Getting out.