Troy Kennedy Martin

Birthday: feb 15, 1932 Date of death: set 15, 2009

Place of birth: Rothesay, Isle of Bute, S

Troy Kennedy Martin (15 February 1932 – 15 September 2009) was a Scottish-born film and television screenwriter best known for creating the long running BBC TV police series Z-Cars, and for the award-winning 1985 anti-nuclear drama Edge of Darkness. Kennedy Martin's best-known work for the cinema was the screenplay for the original version of The Italian Job.