Philip Martin

Writing

Birthday

1938/07/03

Day of death

2020/12/13 (82 years old)

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Liverpool, England

Also know as

Biography

Philip Martin (3 July 1938 – 13 December 2020) was an English television screenwriter. He created the BBC television drama series Gangsters in the 1970s and later wrote two television serials for Doctor Who during Colin Baker's tenure as the Sixth Doctor in the 1980s. His early work included regular series such as Z-Cars in the late 1960s/early 1970s, but his most famous work is the postmodern television series Gangsters. This was an examination of race seen through an increasingly surreal visi...Read more