Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
9/16/1936
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.
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Known For
Raging Bull
as Copa Waiter
The King of Comedy
as Second Man at Bar
New York, New York
as Well Wisher in Moonlit Terrace
Martin Scorsese Directs
as Self
Mardik: From Baghdad to Hollywood
as Self
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
as Self
Raging Bull: Before the Fight
as Self
Movies Are My Life
as Self
From the Classroom to the Streets: The Making of 'Who's That Knocking at My Door'
Unknown Role