Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese is one of the most well known and recognized directors, producers, and actors in the world. He is regarded as an influential filmmaker and most notably is known for his work in Raging Bull, Goodfellas, the King of Comedy, and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. He also produced the Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, but is most well known for Goodfellas, his mob depiction that starred his friend Robert De Niro.

If you thinking about Martin Scorsese in terms of just being an actor and a director, he so much more. As he has had a legacy of over 80 films, this New York native, has written, directed, and produced so many pieces of work that we utilize now and that we reference now, that he was he's considered a pioneer of his time. Because his work focused on top actors and actresses like Robert De Niro, Jessica Lane, and Leonardo De Caprio, and included other actors such as Sharon Stone, and Chazz Palminteri, his work is so well rounded, and he is so well versed, that his pictures actually show real life dramas taking place on screen.

Many times his work is referenced because of its insightfulness, its poignancy, but also how true to real life it is. For example, when he created Good Fellows, about the mob and drugs, and how an investigation went after the mob bosses, you saw an inside look at what they went through, and what the mob was plagued with. Series that developed from the origins of this movie include The Sopranos.

Because a lot of his work was developed around New York and New Jersey, and he focused on the things that the modern man knew about, Martin Scorsese’s work that he did included Boardwalk Empire, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Departed, and other feature works that gave an insightful look at crime, mobs and police investigations that people readily identified with.

Martin Scorsese actually started out in Queens and comes from very small and humble beginnings, to two parents who worked in the garment district. It was his father who was an actor and his mother an actress, who were the influential pioneers in helping him to want to get into movies and write about his origins from a small Sicilian family to fighting off bullies. As he was a child with asthma who grew up sickly, his older brother would care for him, and they would go to movie theaters frequently. It was this passion for movies and story telling that inspired him to start working in the film industry.