Mardik Martin, a longtime friend and collaborator of Martin Scorsese whose writing credits included “Mean Streets,” “New York, New York,” and “Raging Bull,” died Wednesday from undisclosed causes.
He was 82.The Armenian Film Society first announced the news Wednesday afternoon.“My friend and colleague Mardik Martin died this morning,” his friend, former WGA West president Howard A.
Rodman, said Wednesday night.
“To say that Mardik was one of a kind is a wild understatement.
No one–no one–will ever fill those shoes.
May he rest in well-earned peace.”Mardik’s representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment from TheWrap.Born in Iran to an Armenian family and raised in Iraq, Martin immigrated from Iraq to the United States as a young man.
He received a master’s degree in 1968 from New York University and subsequently taught at the school,
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