Martin Gooch

Martin Gooch was born in St. Albans, England. In 1992, at the age of 19 he went to Modoc County, California to work with the US Forest Service, as an archaeological assistant, which gave him a great love of the outdoors. He graduated from Christ Church College Canterbury in 1995 with a Joint Honours in Radio, Film &TV with Fine Art. Martin then worked in London as a 1st and 2nd AC on many short and feature films as well as TV for many of Britain's leading production companies, including the BBC. After writing and directing several award-winning short films, including The Orgasm Raygun and Arthur's Amazing Things, which was a winner with BBC New Talent in 2001, Martin was offered Doctors (BBC) to direct, and one of his episodes won used by ITV Soap Awards for the best onscreen chemistry award (2007). Martin went on to Direct Hollyoaks and the BAFTA winning and EMMY nominated Spooks Interactive Martin made his feature-directing debut in 2011 with the mysterious comedy 'Death' starr