Mark Lester

Mark Lester

Born: July 11, 1958
in Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Mark attended stage school in London, England as a young child and made his film debut in The Counterfeit Constable (1964) at the age of six. He made countless TV appearances and became very well known in England. Worldwide fame developed as a result of his portrayal of a stuttering child in Our Mother's House (1967). Producers ofOliver! (1968) auditioned 250 child actors for the title role and finally chose him. Many roles for TV, film and stage followed. His last major film was The Prince and the Pauper(1977).

Movies for Mark Lester...

Michael Jackson: Who Was the Man in the Mirror?
Title: Michael Jackson: Who Was the Man in the Mirror?
Released: November 24, 2020
Type: Movie
Michael Jackson is remembered as the King of Pop, and is a renowned incredibly talented singer and dancer. His style, music and dance moves are celebrated worldwide. He was a one of a kind performer and once in a lifetime entertainer, but few people really know the man he was behind the mask and and the man that the media portrayed him to be. From the age of 5 and up until his last days, the pressure that was put on him was enormous and it had serious repercussions on his physical and mental health. His success was overshadowed by child abuse allegations, and his addiction for prescription drugs and plastic surgery. The show reveals who was the real Michael Jackson, the deeply conflicted man, the man that never really grew up, the man in the mirror.
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Michael Jackson: Chase the Truth
Title: Michael Jackson: Chase the Truth
Character: Himself
Released: August 13, 2019
Type: Movie
Taking an investigative look into the legal battles of the global superstar. Close friends, former staff and researchers paint an intimate portrait of Jackson's complicated world and put allegations of sexual abuse under the microscope. The film defends American singer Michael Jackson against allegations of child sexual abuse made in the documentary Leaving Neverland.
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13 Moments that Destroyed Michael Jackson
Title: 13 Moments that Destroyed Michael Jackson
Released: June 16, 2019
Type: Movie
A look at how Michael Jackson's life was far from charmed.
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Michael Jackson: Man In The Mirror
Title: Michael Jackson: Man In The Mirror
Character: Himself - Friend of Michael's
Released: March 31, 2017
Type: Movie
A biopic drama-documentary about the 'King of Pop', that mixes real footage and new interviews with people around him (most notably his mother Katherine Jackson) with re-enactments of times of Michael's life until his untimely death on the 25th of June in 2009.
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The Unforgettable Harry Secombe
Title: The Unforgettable Harry Secombe
Character: Self
Released: December 20, 2010
Type: Movie
A celebration of the life and career of Sir Harry Secombe, one of Britain's best-loved entertainers.
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Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop?
Title: Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop?
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 26, 2010
Type: Movie
Documentary that traces the last months of Michael Jackson's life, examines the circumstances that led to his untimely passing, and explores the controversy surrounding a death that many say could have been prevented.
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Title: Celebrity Shock List 2009
Released: December 24, 2009
Type: TV
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Louis, Martin & Michael
Title: Louis, Martin & Michael
Released: November 16, 2003
Type: Movie
Louis Theroux sets out on a personal quest to meet the ultimate pop idol - Michael Jackson - and examine the often bizarre world that surrounded him and those that worshipped at his altar. The journey began in the summer of 2002 with a simple phone call to Uri Geller - a personal friend of Jackson's - to fix a meeting for Louis. What happened next resulted in a fantastical trek into a weird world of characters who orbited around the self-proclaimed 'King of Pop'. Majestic Magnificent, Michael's personal magician, could be the gatekeeper to a meeting or just a fraud. Would Louis, a lifelong fan of Jackson, eventually meet his hero?
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Title: The Salon
Released: January 16, 2003
Type: TV
The Salon was a British reality TV show where various members of the public were invited daily to have treatments in a studio built beauty salon situated in Balham, south-west London, and in the second series, a purpose-built studio inside the Trocadero, Piccadilly Circus.
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Title: This Morning
Character: Self
Released: October 3, 1988
Type: TV
This Morning features a variety of news, as well as show business, fashion, beauty, lifestyle, home and garden, food, tech, live phone-ins, and competitions.
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The Prince and the Pauper
Title: The Prince and the Pauper
Character: Prince Edward / Tom Canty
Released: June 3, 1977
Type: Movie
Tom Canty is a poor English boy who bears a remarkable resemblance to Edward, Prince of Wales and son of King Henry VIII. The two boys meet and decide to play a joke on the court by dressing in each other's clothes, but the plan goes awry when they are separated and each must live the other's life.
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Love Under the Elms
Title: Love Under the Elms
Released: September 8, 1975
Type: Movie
An adolescent boy and girl meet at a rural, turn-of-the-century Austrian resort where they are vacationing with their respective liberal-minded, single parents. Their budding love affair hits a serious snag when their two parents fall in love as well.
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Scalawag
Title: Scalawag
Character: Jamie
Released: April 22, 1973
Type: Movie
A crew of land locked pirates, led by the aptly named Peg, go in search of buried treasure hidden by the treacherous Mudhook and his twin brother. They meet up with good natured landowner, Don Aragon, who goes along for the ride with his sister and a young boy, Jamie. Along the way, Peg and Jamie form a father son relationship that is put to the test due to Peg's naturally dishonest ways.
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Little Adventurer
Title: Little Adventurer
Character: Mike Richard
Released: March 3, 1973
Type: Movie
Mickey, a smart student from England, is on his trip to Japan for vacation. He meets with a Chinese girl Lin Fang on the way. They each have the same model of camera. But they have their cameras exchanged without their knowing it prior to their departure.
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Redneck
Title: Redneck
Character: Lennox Duncan
Released: February 2, 1973
Type: Movie
Franco Nero and Telly Savalas star in the story of a trio of jewel thieves on the lam after a heist goes very wrong. Wrecking their car they take another unaware that there is a teenager hiding in the back. As the flight becomes more frantic, the young man is discovered, upsetting the balance of the thieves.
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What the Peeper Saw
Title: What the Peeper Saw
Character: Marcus
Released: October 14, 1972
Type: Movie
A wealthy author's second wife begins to suspect that her 12-year old stepson may have murdered his mother, who mysteriously died in a bathtub accident.
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Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
Title: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
Character: Christopher Coombs
Released: February 11, 1972
Type: Movie
A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist.
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Melody
Title: Melody
Character: Daniel Latimer
Released: March 28, 1971
Type: Movie
Two youngsters declare to their parents that they want to get married. Not sometime in the future but as soon as possible.
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Black Beauty
Title: Black Beauty
Character: Joe Evans
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Anna Sewell's classic 1877 novel beautifully comes to life in this family drama set in England. Told from the point of view of Black Beauty himself, the story sheds light on the details surrounding the colt's birth and his perception of humans (he has various owners throughout his life). While some owners are compassionate -- none more than Joe Evans (Mark Lester), the boy who first owns the colt.
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The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
Title: The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
Character: Davey
Released: September 20, 1970
Type: Movie
A frontier huckster, Colonel Ryder, and a young orphan, Davey, operate a travelling tent show. They are loaned an elephant by an old friend, Molly, who is also a rival circus owner. Davey trains the elephant and the two soon become inseparable. When the Colonel loses the elephant in gambling, Davey steals the elephant and begins a 20-mile search for Molly, the rightful owner.
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Eyewitness
Title: Eyewitness
Character: Ziggy
Released: June 5, 1970
Type: Movie
A boy who cries wolf witnesses a political assassination on the island of Malta. But will anyone other than his granddad believe him?
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Title: Then Came Bronson
Released: September 17, 1969
Type: TV
Then Came Bronson is an American adventure/drama television series starring Michael Parks that aired on NBC from 1969 to 1970, and was produced by MGM Television. The series, created by Denne Bart Petitclerc, began with a movie pilot on Monday, March 24, 1969. The series was approved for one year and began its first run on September 17, 1969. The pilot was also released in Europe as a feature film.
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Run Wild, Run Free
Title: Run Wild, Run Free
Character: Phillip Ransome
Released: March 28, 1969
Type: Movie
Directed by Richard C. Sarafian, this 1969 British children's film stars Mark Lester as a young boy, unable to speak, who befriends both a wild colt with blue eyes and a falcon named "Lady". The cast also includes John Mills, Gordon Jackson and Sylvia Sims.
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Oliver!
Title: Oliver!
Character: Oliver
Released: September 26, 1968
Type: Movie
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
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Title: The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
Released: September 21, 1968
Type: TV
Derived from the 1947 movie with the same name, a house is haunted by a deceased sea captain who wreaks havoc with the new tenants who were not advised of his existence.
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Our Mother's House
Title: Our Mother's House
Character: Jiminee
Released: September 14, 1967
Type: Movie
Seven British children bury their mother and hide her death, until their long-lost father returns.
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Fahrenheit 451
Title: Fahrenheit 451
Character: Second Schoolboy (uncredited)
Released: September 7, 1966
Type: Movie
In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation…
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Spaceflight IC-1
Title: Spaceflight IC-1
Character: Don Wolcott
Released: August 1, 1965
Type: Movie
In the year 2015, a spaceship, the IC-1, travels through outer space looking for a suitable planet to settle on. The commander, Captain Ralston, is stern and brutal in which one cadet, Steven, plots a revolt to turn the leadership of the command over to him.
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The Counterfeit Constable
Title: The Counterfeit Constable
Character: Gérald
Released: October 10, 1964
Type: Movie
An extremely funny film about a group of French rugby supporters who go to see a match at Twickenham and one of them inadvertently receives a blow in the mouth from someone else's elbow. In the process he loses some front teeth and needs to see a dentist urgently ... this is only the beginning of a long series of adventures befalling our poor friend who doesn't speak a word of English and who nevertheless needs to return urgently to France to get married in the following days sporting a decent mouth !
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
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Seven Sinners
Title: Seven Sinners
Character: Chief Constable
Released: June 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at an hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery which lies behind will lead him and Caryl Fenton, a female insurance agent, who will become his companion, first to Paris, then to London, later through the English countryside and finally to Southampton, in search of a criminal train wrecker.