[2] Donovan has developed his career working mainly in United Kingdom's and Hollywood's cinema, and he is mostly recognized as the co-writer and director of the cult film Apartment Zero (1989),[3] and for his co-written script for Death Becomes Her (1992).
In 1963 he was sent to boarding school at Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepción in Santa Fe Province, where Eduardo Peralta Ramos SJ, Martin's mother's elder brother, was a teacher and the spiritual father of Jorge Bergoglio, known today as Pope Francis.
[1] After traveling to England in the mid-60s he joined a theater company called Nuvact Studio International and collaborated with other directors such as Peter Brook, John Schlesinger and Vittorio De Sica.
[4] Donovan's second work as a director, Apartment Zero (1989), a British-Argentine coproduction, was entirely filmed in Buenos Aires and features Hart Bochner and a then relatively unknown Colin Firth in one of his first starring roles, together with a mostly Argentine cast.
[3] His most important work in Hollywood was the screenplay for the big budget black comedy Death Becomes Her (1992), which was directed by Robert Zemeckis and starred Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis.