Served as guest lecturer and/or instructor at the National Theatre School of Canada, Manitoba School of Theatre and Allied Arts, The Okanagan Summer Arts Festival and The Hub of Hollywood.
Canadian character actor, born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of millinery designer Maurice Lieb Birman and his wife Anna.
Best known for his roles as Harry Herman, the father in Lies My Father Told Me (1975), and FBI Chief Donaldson in Silver Streak.
On stage from 1955 to 1995, his roles including Macbeth, Brutus in Julius Caesar, Thomas Cromwell in Anne of the Thousand Days and Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar named Desire.
Also an accomplished multi-medium artist who loved working in everything from watercolor and oil to clay and bronze.