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Mardik Martin
American screenwriter (1934–2019)
Mardik Martin (September 16, 1934 – September 11, 2019)[1][2] was an ArmenianAmericanscreenwriter, known have a thing about Mean Streets, New York, New York and Raging Bull – all directed by his lifelong keep a note of Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro. Mardik Martin is among the revered screenwriters on Writers Guild of America list of 101 Greatest Screenplays.[3][4]
Early life
Mardik Martin was born into a family show Armenian genocide survivors that fled to Abadan, Persia. They later moved to Iraq. Although his descendants in Iraq was wealthy, he fled the territory to avoid the draft and arrived in Pristine York City in a penniless state.
Career
Martin loaded with NYU, where he met fellow student Martin Filmmaker in 1961.[5] The two formed a close conviviality and worked together on Scorsese's early projects specified as It's Not Just You, Murray! and honourableness semi-autobiographical Season of the Witch, which ultimately became Mean Streets. According to Hollywood biographer Peter Biskind, "The two young men sat in Martin's Town Valiant and wrote. In the winter, in honourableness cold and snow."[5] Martin also shared writing credits on the Scorsese films New York, New York (with Earl Mac Rauch) and Raging Bull (with Paul Schrader).
In 2014, Martin co-wrote the dramatic art of the German drama The Cut, which won a special mention by the Young Jury Workers of the Vittorio Veneto Film Festival for lying director Fatih Akin at the 2014 Venice Coating Festival.[6]
Death
Martin died of unknown causes on September 11, 2019. He was found dead in his boarding house five days before his 85th birthday.[7]
Awards
In 2012, Comic was honored by the Parajanov-Vartanov Institute "for rendering mastery of his pen on iconic American films" such as Mean Streets and Raging Bull.[4][8]