# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/troy-kennedy-martin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:40:44.392Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/troy-kennedy-martin"
name: "Troy Kennedy Martin"
slug: "troy-kennedy-martin"
description: "Troy Kennedy Martin was a Scottish-born film and television screenwriter. He created the long-running BBC TV police series Z-Cars (1962–1978), and the award-winning 1985 anti-nuclear drama Edge of Darkness. He also wrote the screenplay for the original version of The Italian Job (1969). His last film was Ferrari (2023), which was posthumously released."
tagline: "British screenwriter (1932–2009)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/9MRWvuRir9YoQ56bumlvwMhRwZt.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-02-15"
deathDate: "2009-09-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.202344231955583
  historical:           9.004541333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0448392/"
    handle:    "nm0448392"
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    title: "Troy Kennedy Martin"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Troy Kennedy Martin"
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    title: "Troy Kennedy Martin"
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    title: "Troy Kennedy Martin"
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    title: "تروی کندی مارتین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Troy Kennedy-Martin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Kennedy-Martin"
    title: "Troy Kennedy-Martin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Kennedy-Martin"
    title: "Troy Kennedy-Martin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Troy Kennedy Martin"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump