Mardik Martin, Screenwriter of ‘Raging Bull,’ ‘Mean Streets,’ Dies at 82

Screenwriter Mardik Martin, a frequent collaborator with Martin Scorsese on films including “Raging Bull,” “Mean Streets” and “New York, New York,” died Wednesday in Los Angeles at 82.Born in Iran to an Armenian family and raised in Iraq, where he worked for a film distributor as a teenager, Martin moved to the U.S.

to study economics at NYU, then gravitated to the film department, where he met Scorsese in 1961.

Soon after, he began working with the director on some of his early films such as the 1964 short “It’s Not Just You, Murray,” then on Scorsese’s feature debut, “Who’s That Knocking at My Door?” and documentary “Italianamerican.”Screenwriter Howard Rodman was among those who recalled his career.My friend and colleague Mardik Martin died this morning.

You may know him for his writing in Mean Streets, Raging Bull, New York New York.To say that Mardik was

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