---
name: "Martyn Burke"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/martyn-burke"
fi1m_id: "martyn-burke"
imdb_id: "nm0121789"
tmdb_id: 15872
wikidata_id: "Q465673"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "14 September 1952"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T18:53:56.954545+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Martyn Burke

## Identity

Martyn Burke

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/martyn-burke
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** martyn-burke
- **IMDb ID:** nm0121789
- **TMDB ID:** 15872
- **Wikidata ID:** Q465673
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn_Burke, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q465673, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0121789/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15872

Writer. Born 14 September 1952 in Hamilton.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 14 September 1952, Hamilton
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn_Burke, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q465673, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0121789/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15872

## Biography

Martyn Burke is a Canadian writer, director, producer and novelist. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, he studied economics at McMaster University and began his career as a freelance journalist and photographer covering the Vietnam War.

Burke co-wrote the screenplay for the 1984 Paramount comedy *Top Secret!*. He wrote and directed the 1999 television film *Pirates of Silicon Valley*, and wrote the teleplays for *The Second Civil War* (1997) and *The Pentagon Wars* (1998). His other credits include the screenplay for the 1999 television adaptation of *Animal Farm* and directing the 2002 feature *Avenging Angelo*.

He has received a Peabody Award for the 2011 documentary *Under Fire: Journalists in Combat* and Emmy and Writers Guild of America nominations for his television work. Burke has also published several novels.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, martynburke.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Top Secret!* (1984), Fi1m 76, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/top-secret.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Under Fire: Journalists in Combat* (2011), Director
- *Avenging Angelo* (2002), Director
- *Animal Farm* (1999), Screenplay
- *Pirates of Silicon Valley* (1999), Director, Screenplay
- *The Pentagon Wars* (1998), Teleplay, Executive Producer
- *The Second Civil War* (1997), Writer
- *Sugartime* (1995), Screenplay, Co-Executive Producer
- *Witnesses: The Untold War in Afghanistan* (1988), Narrator, Director, Writer
- *Top Secret!* (1984), Screenplay — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/top-secret.md)
- *The KGB Connections: An Investigation into Soviet Operations in North America* (1981), Writer, Director
- *The Last Chase* (1981), Director, Screenplay
- *Power Play* (1978), Director, Writer
- *The Clown Murders* (1976), Director, Writer
- *Carnivals* (1973), Director, Producer

## Gallery

- ![Martyn Burke at the 72nd Annual Peabody Awards ceremony and luncheon, in May 2013, held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, in New York. PHOTO CREDIT: ANDERS KRUSBERG](https://film.one/media/person/5546018/gallery-b066f0b4cd61.jpg) Martyn Burke at the 72nd Annual Peabody Awards ceremony and luncheon, in May 2013, held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, in New York. PHOTO CREDIT: ANDERS KRUSBERG — Peabody Awards, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Martyn_Burke_at_Peabody_Awards_in_2013.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![PHOTO CREDIT: ANDERS KRUSBERG / PEABODY AWARDS Laura Morton and Martyn Burke, 72nd Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon Waldorf-Astoria Hotel May 20, 2013](https://film.one/media/person/5546018/gallery-c38edf2420a1.jpg) PHOTO CREDIT: ANDERS KRUSBERG / PEABODY AWARDS Laura Morton and Martyn Burke, 72nd Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon Waldorf-Astoria Hotel May 20, 2013 — Peabody Awards, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Martyn_Burke_accepts_the_Peabody_Award%2C_May_2013.jpg/1280px-Martyn_Burke_accepts_the_Peabody_Award%2C_May_2013.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![PHOTO CREDIT: ANDERS KRUSBERG / PEABODY AWARDS Laura Morton, Martyn Burke and Anthony Feinstein, 72nd Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon Waldorf-Astoria Hotel May 2 (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/5546018/gallery-a4290a1198ed.jpg) PHOTO CREDIT: ANDERS KRUSBERG / PEABODY AWARDS Laura Morton, Martyn Burke and Anthony Feinstein, 72nd Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon Waldorf-Astoria Hotel May 2 (2013) — Peabody Awards, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Laura_Morton%2C_Martyn_Burke_and_Anthony_Feinstein%2C_May_2013_%283%29.jpg/1280px-Laura_Morton%2C_Martyn_Burke_and_Anthony_Feinstein%2C_May_2013_%283%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![PHOTO CREDIT: ANDERS KRUSBERG / PEABODY AWARDS Laura Morton, Martyn Burke and Anthony Feinstein, 72nd Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon Waldorf-Astoria Hotel May 2 (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/5546018/gallery-0c21c2d6fed8.jpg) PHOTO CREDIT: ANDERS KRUSBERG / PEABODY AWARDS Laura Morton, Martyn Burke and Anthony Feinstein, 72nd Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon Waldorf-Astoria Hotel May 2 (2013) — Peabody Awards, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Laura_Morton%2C_Martyn_Burke_and_Anthony_Feinstein%2C_May_2013_%281%29.jpg/1280px-Laura_Morton%2C_Martyn_Burke_and_Anthony_Feinstein%2C_May_2013_%281%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![PHOTO CREDIT: ANDERS KRUSBERG / PEABODY AWARDS Laura Morton, Martyn Burke and Anthony Feinstein, 72nd Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon Waldorf-Astoria Hotel May 2 (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/5546018/gallery-c1a8391081c5.jpg) PHOTO CREDIT: ANDERS KRUSBERG / PEABODY AWARDS Laura Morton, Martyn Burke and Anthony Feinstein, 72nd Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon Waldorf-Astoria Hotel May 2 (2013) — Peabody Awards, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Laura_Morton%2C_Martyn_Burke_and_Anthony_Feinstein%2C_May_2013_%282%29.jpg/1280px-Laura_Morton%2C_Martyn_Burke_and_Anthony_Feinstein%2C_May_2013_%282%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Martyn Burke](https://film.one/media/person/5546018/gallery-e4bba6992673.jpg) Martyn Burke — Lauradawn58, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Martyn_Burke.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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