Biography
Harvey Atkin was born on December 18, 1942 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Meatballs (1979), Cagney & Lacey (1981) and Heavy Metal (1981). He was married to Celia Tessler. He died on July 17, 2017 in Toronto.
Known For
Complete Filmography

A Change of Heart
2017
as Cardiologist
Discouraged with cards that life has felt him, Hank is a man whose circumstances have steered him to fear change, but his town is adhering less to tra...

Barney's Version
2010
as 2nd Mrs. P's Father
The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.

Super Mario World: Koopa's Stone Age Quests
2009
as King Koopa (Voice)
The Wheel Thing: Mario invents the wheel and the Cave People discover traffic jams and fender benders. Send in the Clowns: To feed his hungry, evil di...

Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
2006
as Geralyn's Father
A young woman tries to keep a positive attitude while battling breast cancer.

Maxwell Saves the Day
2005
as (voice)
Maxwell, the silly rabbit, wants to deliver the this year's Easter eggs, and challenges the arrogant Star for the job. Subsequently, Maxwell becomes a...

Hello Kitty Tells Fairy Tales
2004
Join Hello Kitty and her friends in five exciting storybook adventures!

Out of Sync
2000
as Sidney Golden
Roger Deacon, a down-and-out record producer, is given the job of making a singing star out of an industry mogul's girlfriend, an attractive but talen...
Something from Nothing
1999
as Mr. Fischbein / Herschel / Rotund Customer (voice)
A holiday special based on Phoebe Gilman's award-winning book, this is the heartwarming story of a boy named Joseph, his beloved Grandfather and his s...

One Tough Cop
1998
as Rudy
A detective tries to remain loyal to his partner, and his best friend - a mobster.

Love and Death on Long Island
1998
as Lou
Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an E....

Critical Care
1997
as Judge Fatale
Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their com...
Joe's Wedding
1996
as Rankin
Joe loves to rock and be wild, but the time has come for him to settle down. He is to marry a conservative daughter of a well-to-do man. On his weddin...

Radiant City
1996
as Mr. Lewis
Driven to the brink by her overworked and insensitive husband and horrendously selfish children, Brooklyn-based housewife Gloria Goodman seeks a meani...

Family of Cops
1995
as Avrum Weiss
Paul Fein is a veteran police detective whose son Eddie is also a cop. Paul is assigned to investigate the murder of a prominent businessman, and he s...

Hello Kitty: Santa's Missing Hat
1995
A collection of Hello Kitty and Friends holiday specials. Includes Hello Kitty - Santa's Missing hat, Keroppi - the Christmas Eve GIft, and Santa and ...

Hello Kitty: Mom Loves Me After All
1995
as Mr. Jones (Voice)
While her mom is looking after a baby named Julianna Scott, Hello Kitty doesn’t feel loved anymore and feels depressed. She runs away from home to her...

Between Love and Honor
1995
as Lerner
Steve Collura is an undercover cop out to infiltrate Carlo Gambino's mob. He soon falls in love with Gambino's daughter Maria and must make a choice b...

Seasons of the Heart
1994
After her own daughter abandons her child, an ambitious and orderly publisher has little choice but to raise the grandchild as her own.

Guilty as Sin
1993
as Judge Steinberg
Before a criminal lawyer knows what has happened, she is forced to defend a wife killer she knows is guilty.

Tintin in America
1992
as Additional Voices (voice)
In order to assassinate the inquisitive Belgian reporter Tintin, the evil gangster Al Capone orders Smiles, an executive under his command, to lure hi...

Terror on Track 9
1992
as Verona
A New York detective tracks a serial killer who injects his victims with poison at Grand Central Station.
The Lump
1991
as voice
An ugly man rises to power with the benefit of a handsome looking lump on his head.

Every Dog's Guide to the Playground
1991
as (voice)
In this animated film our hero, Wally the Safety Dog, continues to suffer a host of injuries as he instructs his master in the rules of playground saf...
Back to the Beanstalk
1990
as Sidekicks
Jack Jr., son of Jack the Giant Killer, grows his own beanstalk in a quest to find his father and along the way meets some unusual characters.

Mindfield
1989
as Bob Champlain
In the long shadow of an experimental CIA mind control program, Sergeant Kellen O'Reilly begins experiencing violent flashbacks of his “treatments” at...

Sorry, Wrong Number
1989
as Det. Kiley
Based on a famous play, follows a bedridden wife who overhears a murder plan on her phone. She tries to piece the puzzle together and prevent it.

Snake Eater II: The Drug Buster
1989
as Sidney Glassberg
A Vietnam vet breaks out of a mental institution to go after drug-dealing gangsters who are selling contaminated product that is killing people.

Mario's Magic Carpet
1989
as King Bowser Koopa, Sultan Pasbah, Pidgit #3
Our heroes are counting on the magic of Aladdin's Lamp to help them defeat Koopa when they are captured by an evil Sultan. The Marios and Toad are ens...

Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!
1989
as Lew Eisen
In the sixties, Eddie and the cruisers was the hottest band around. But the tragic death of its lead singer broke the band up. Only Eddie is not dead....

Speed Zone
1989
as Gus Gold
An illegal race that takes place over the United States and nothing will stop this bunch of racers except for the occasional cop or a damsel in distre...

Every Dog's Guide to Complete Home Safety
1987
as (voice)
This hilarious short animation offers over 40 safety tips for homes with infants and young children. The film's hero is a very earnest, somewhat pompo...

Mr. Nice Guy
1987
as Jerry Reeman
A hitman by the name of Mr. Nice Guy is about to be married and his fiancee doesn't know his true profession. On top of that, his future father-in-law...

Separate Vacations
1986
as Henry Gilbert
A young architect finds himself in a situation that he never had to deal with before--now that he is successful (and married), sexy young women are th...

Joshua Then and Now
1985
as Dr. Jonathan Cole
Based on a novel by Mordecai Richler, allegedly his autobiography, it tells the story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to ...

The Guardian
1984
as Mr. Wallace
The residents of a New York apartment building are shocked when one of them is shot during a burgulary. They decide to hire a security expert to patro...

Finders Keepers
1984
as Salesman in Train
On the run from the police and a female roller derby team, scam artist Michael Rangeloff steals a coffin and boards a train, pretending to be a soldie...

All in Good Taste
1983
as Cochrane
A filmmaker is upset to find out that his wholesome script about an orphan and his dog has been warped into a film about strippers.

Visiting Hours
1982
as Vinnie Bradshaw
A deranged, misogynistic killer assaults a journalist. When he discovers that she survived the attack, he follows her to the hospital to finish her of...

Incubus
1982
as Joe Prescott
In the small New England town of Galen, a young teenage boy claims he has dreams of young women being brutally raped and murdered. A doctor and the lo...

If You Could See What I Hear
1982
as Bert
A light comedy/love story based on the life of blind musician Tom Sullivan.

Ticket to Heaven
1981
as Mr. Stone
David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of ...

Heavy Metal
1981
as Alien / Henchman (voice)
The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

Improper Channels
1981
as Police Sergeant
A father brings a young child to an emergency room to get treatment for a minor injury occurring in an innocent accident, but he gets accused of child...

The Last Chase
1981
as Jud
Twenty years after the American people have been told the oil has run out and disease has scared them into complacency, the United States has become a...

Cries in the Night
1980
as Harry Browning
A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they...

Atlantic City
1980
as Bus Driver
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs a...

The Wordsmith
1979
Penned by Mordecai Richler and set in wartime Montreal, this touching telefilm stars Saul Rubinek as Mervyn Kaplansky, a young writer from Toronto who...

Meatballs
1979
as Morty
Tripper is the head counselor at a budget summer camp called Camp Northstar. In truth, he's young at heart and only marginally more mature than the ca...

Power Play
1978
as Anwar
A group of military officers frustrated by government corruption and brutality attempts a coup.

High-Ballin'
1978
as Buzz
When a rash of targeted hijackings threatens to derail the independent trucking business, rig driver "Iron" Duke and his visiting friend Rane put the ...

The Making of a President
1978
In wartime Sault Ste. Marie, the mayor invites the president of the Jewish congregation to speak at the town’s upcoming ecumenical war bonds rally. Ho...

Silver Streak
1976
as Conventioneer
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 ...