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Martyn Burke is a Director, Scriptwriter and Executive producer Canadien born on 14 september 1952 at Hamilton (Canada)
Martyn Burke is a director, novelist and screenwriter from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Burke lives in Santa Monica, California with his wife, Laura Morton.
(1984)
(Scriptwriter)
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Born in Hamilton, Ontario, to Freda and Les Burke who immigrated from England to Canada during World War II as part of the British Civilian Military Authority, Martyn Burke graduated from Royal York High School in Toronto, Ontario. He attended McMaster University, where he played on the football team, the McMaster Marauders, and graduated with a degree in Economics. After a brief stint working in television programming for a major advertiser, Burke paid his own way over to Viet Nam to work as a freelance journalist and photographer covering the war. His experience reporting on the Viet Nam War was the beginning of his writing and film making career and served as the background for his first novel, Laughing War which was short-listed for a Books in Canada First Novel Award.Burke lives in Santa Monica, California with his wife, Laura Morton.
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Avenging Angelo (2002)
, 1h36Directed by Martyn Burke
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Sylvester Stallone, Madeleine Stowe, Anthony Quinn, Tobey Maguire, Raoul Bova, Billy Gardell
Rating51%
Years ago, a mob boss named Lucio Malatesta (George Touliatos) pinned the murder of rival Sammy Carboni (Gino Marrocco) on another rival named Angelo Allieghieri (Anthony Quinn), which led to Sammy's son Gianni vowing revenge.
Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
, 1h35Directed by Martyn Burke
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary
Themes Films about computing, Sécurité informatique
Actors Noah Wyle, Anthony Michael Hall, Joey Slotnick, John DiMaggio, Josh Hopkins, Jeffrey Nordling
Rating71%
The film opens with the creation of the 1984 commercial for Apple Computer, which introduced the first Macintosh. Steve Jobs (Noah Wyle) is speaking with director Ridley Scott (J. G. Hertzler), trying to convey his idea that "We're creating a completely new consciousness." Scott, however, is more concerned at the moment with the technical aspects of the commercial.
The Last Chase (1981)
, 1h41Directed by Martyn Burke
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Lee Majors, Burgess Meredith, Chris Makepeace, Alexandra Stewart, Trudy Young, Harvey Atkin
Rating44%
At an unspecified future time, the United States is a police state. A substantial percentage of the population was wiped out by a devastating viral pandemic twenty years previously. Amidst the resulting chaos and general panic, democracy collapsed and a totalitarian cabal seized power. After moving the seat of government to Boston, the new dictatorship outlawed ownership and use of all automobiles, boats, and aircraft, on the pretext (later proven false) that an even bigger crisis, the exhaustion of fossil fuel supplies, was imminent. The loss of other personal freedoms followed, and surveillance cameras now monitor private citizens' every move.
Power Play (1978)
, 1h42Directed by Martyn Burke
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Monde imaginaire
Actors Peter O'Toole, David Hemmings, Donald Pleasence, Harvey Atkin, Michael Ironside, Dick Cavett
Rating59%
Un coup d'État éclate pour renverser le régime totalitaire d'un pays mais, cependant, chacun se bat aussi pour ses propres ambitions. Le colonel Narriman espère bien devenir le nouveau président si le régime change. Quant au colonel Zeller, il est partagé entre son devoir de militaire et les dissidents. Tout se trouble et chacun compte tirer son épingle du jeu...
The Clown Murders (1976)
, 1h36Directed by Martyn Burke
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Stephen Young, John Candy, Lawrence Dane, Cec Linder, Gary Reineke, Al Waxman
Rating37%
Four friends put on clown costumes, kidnap one of their old girlfriends from a costume party and hold her in a remote farmhouse in what is supposed to be an innocent Halloween prank. Tensions flare quickly, but old jealousy and resentment turn to suspicion and terror when the group realizes that a masked clown among them has a real axe.
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Animal Farm (1999)
, 1h31Directed by John Stephenson, John Stephenson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Environmental films, Films about anarchism, Politique, Political films
Actors Kelsey Grammer, Ian Holm, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Patrick Stewart, Julia Ormond, Paul Scofield
Rating59%
As a storm washes away the ruins of Manor Farm, Jessie, a female Border Collie, Benjamin the donkey, Muriel the goat, and other farm animals make their return to the farm after years of hiding in the wilderness. Jessie reflects on the events that led them to their current situation. The film flashes back years earlier.
Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
, 1h35Directed by Martyn Burke
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary
Themes Films about computing, Sécurité informatique
Actors Noah Wyle, Anthony Michael Hall, Joey Slotnick, John DiMaggio, Josh Hopkins, Jeffrey Nordling
Rating71%
The film opens with the creation of the 1984 commercial for Apple Computer, which introduced the first Macintosh. Steve Jobs (Noah Wyle) is speaking with director Ridley Scott (J. G. Hertzler), trying to convey his idea that "We're creating a completely new consciousness." Scott, however, is more concerned at the moment with the technical aspects of the commercial.
The Pentagon Wars (1998)
, 1h43Directed by Richard Benjamin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy
Actors Kelsey Grammer, Cary Elwes, John C. McGinley, Viola Davis, Olympia Dukakis, Richard Benjamin
Roles Teleplay
Rating70%
U.S. Army Major General Partridge (Grammer) appears before the House Armed Services Committee to defend his recent actions; the story is told mostly as a series of flashbacks:
The Second Civil War (1997)
, 1h37Directed by Joe Dante
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about immigration, Political films
Actors Beau Bridges, Phil Hartman, James Earl Jones, Denis Leary, Joanna Cassidy, Dan Hedaya
Roles Writer
Rating65%
The 1997 film is set in a United States in which foreign immigration has skyrocketed: The mayor of Los Angeles speaks only in Spanish, Rhode Island is populated mostly by Chinese-Americans, and Alabama has a congressman from India. Politics is openly reduced to a matter of catering to various ethnic groups for their votes - the Alabama congressman will only support the president if his state receives more money for Hindu temples. When an atomic weapon is used in Pakistan, an international organization makes plans to bring orphans to Idaho.
Top Secret! (1984)
, 1h30Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Political films
Actors Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Omar Sharif, Peter Cushing, Michael Gough, Jeremy Kemp
Rating71%
Nick Rivers (Kilmer), a United States rock star, has the number one song in America ("Skeet Surfing"). He travels to East Germany to perform at a cultural festival, and at a dinner, he sees the beautiful Hillary Flammond (Gutteridge), a member of the resistance movement, attempting to avoid the authorities. He pretends to be her date to get to know her, and performs an impromptu song and dance ("Tutti-Frutti") mistakenly thinking that he was asked to do so, to the delight of Hillary and the crowd but to the annoyance of the emcee who intended to introduce someone else. He later sees Hillary at a ballet, where she is trying to meet with a resistance contact, but is met by the police instead. Nick saves her and they try to escape, but Nick turns himself in so that Hillary can get away. He is taken to a prison where he is questioned and tortured, but he knows nothing and does not break. In an escape attempt, he ends up in the secret lab of Dr. Paul Flammond (Gough), a brilliant scientist developing the "Polaris naval mine", a device that can destroy the entire NATO submarine fleet; the Germans force him to work by threatening to kill his daughter Hillary. Nick is recaptured and scheduled for execution.
The Last Chase (1981)
, 1h41Directed by Martyn Burke
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Lee Majors, Burgess Meredith, Chris Makepeace, Alexandra Stewart, Trudy Young, Harvey Atkin
Rating44%
At an unspecified future time, the United States is a police state. A substantial percentage of the population was wiped out by a devastating viral pandemic twenty years previously. Amidst the resulting chaos and general panic, democracy collapsed and a totalitarian cabal seized power. After moving the seat of government to Boston, the new dictatorship outlawed ownership and use of all automobiles, boats, and aircraft, on the pretext (later proven false) that an even bigger crisis, the exhaustion of fossil fuel supplies, was imminent. The loss of other personal freedoms followed, and surveillance cameras now monitor private citizens' every move.
Power Play (1978)
, 1h42Directed by Martyn Burke
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Monde imaginaire
Actors Peter O'Toole, David Hemmings, Donald Pleasence, Harvey Atkin, Michael Ironside, Dick Cavett
Roles Writer
Rating59%
Un coup d'État éclate pour renverser le régime totalitaire d'un pays mais, cependant, chacun se bat aussi pour ses propres ambitions. Le colonel Narriman espère bien devenir le nouveau président si le régime change. Quant au colonel Zeller, il est partagé entre son devoir de militaire et les dissidents. Tout se trouble et chacun compte tirer son épingle du jeu...
The Clown Murders (1976)
, 1h36Directed by Martyn Burke
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Stephen Young, John Candy, Lawrence Dane, Cec Linder, Gary Reineke, Al Waxman
Roles Writer
Rating37%
Four friends put on clown costumes, kidnap one of their old girlfriends from a costume party and hold her in a remote farmhouse in what is supposed to be an innocent Halloween prank. Tensions flare quickly, but old jealousy and resentment turn to suspicion and terror when the group realizes that a masked clown among them has a real axe.
Producer
The Pentagon Wars (1998)
, 1h43Directed by Richard Benjamin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy
Actors Kelsey Grammer, Cary Elwes, John C. McGinley, Viola Davis, Olympia Dukakis, Richard Benjamin
Roles Executive Producer
Rating70%
U.S. Army Major General Partridge (Grammer) appears before the House Armed Services Committee to defend his recent actions; the story is told mostly as a series of flashbacks: