Mel Oppenheim was born in 1937 in Montreal, Quebec. He was an actor, known for L'ange gardien (1978). He was married to Rosemary Schirme. He died on 27 July 2022 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Cinema and media businessman, he founded Mel's Cité du Cinéma studios and thus secured Montréal's place as a film city. He was a philanthropist for many other organizations.