Toronto, Ontario.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 filmmaking career and served as the
background for his first novel, Laughing War which was short-listed
for a Books in Canada First Novel Award.In 2018, the BBC listed the
Paramount Pictures film Top Secret which Burke co-wrote as one of the
top one hundred film comedies of all time.In 2012 he won the Peabody
Award and was short-listed for an Academy Award for the film Under
Fire: Journalists In Combat; in 2015 he was named winner of the Auteur
Award by the International Press Association in Los Angeles; and in
2018 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by McMaster University in
Hamilton, Ontario. Martyn Burke Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter
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