Mardik Martin

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1936-09-16 (83 years old)

Deathday

2019-09-11

Place of Birth

Iran

Mardik Martin

Biography

Mardik Martin (September 16, 1934 – September 11, 2019) was an American screenwriter of such classics as Mean Streets, New York, New York, and Raging Bull directed by his lifelong friend Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro. Mardik Martin is among the revered screenwriters on the Writers Guild of America's list of 101 Greatest Screenplays. Martin Mardik was born into a family of Armenian genocide survivors that fled to Iran. They later moved to Iraq. Although his family in Iraq was wealthy, he fled the country to avoid the draft and arrived in New York City in a penniless state. In Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Peter Biskind’s 1998 book...

Production

1973

Mean Streets

as Screenplay

1977

New York, New York

as Screenplay

1978

The Last Waltz

as Screenplay

1977

Valentino

as Writer

2014

The Cut

as Screenplay

1964

It's Not Just You, Murray!

as Assistant Director

1980

Raging Bull

as Screenplay

1968

Who's That Knocking at My Door

as Assistant Director

1974

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