Mark Lee

Mark Lee

Born: January 1, 1958
in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Mark Lee (born 1958) is an Australian actor and director, whose most prominent role was the lead in the film Gallipoli (1981), alongside Mel Gibson. He has worked extensively in Australian film, television and theatre for over thirty years.

His debut was in 1969 in the film Strange holiday (based on the novel by Jules Verne). He starred in the 1987 Australian television drama Vietnam (one of Nicole Kidman's early roles) and the 1989 cult film Everlasting Secret Family. Most of his work has drawn little notice outside of Australia, save for a short film Stranger so familiar, shown in the 2005 Reno Film Festival. He starred as a gay man in Sex is a four letter word.

In 2001, Mark starred in the one man show The time machine, adapted by Frank Gauntlett from the novelette by H.G. Wells, and directed by Penny Young.

His feature film directorial debut was an Australian feature titled The bet, released in 2007. He also made a documentary Mountains to the sea, about a couple of pub bands; and directed the play Unit 46 in 1999.

He has been married twice, and has children.

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Title: La Brea
Character: Silas Mason
Released: September 28, 2021
Type: TV
An epic adventure begins when a massive sinkhole opens in the middle of Los Angeles, pulling hundreds of people and buildings into its depths. Those who fell in find themselves in a mysterious and dangerous primeval land, where they have no choice but to band together to survive. Meanwhile, the rest of the world desperately seeks to understand what happened. In the search for answers, one family torn apart by this disaster will have to unlock the secrets of this inexplicable event to find a way back to each other.
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Title: Paper Giants: Magazine Wars
Character: Richard Walsh
Released: June 2, 2013
Type: TV
The battle between Nene King, editor of Woman's Day, and Dulcie Boling, editor of New Idea, from the rival Packer and Murdoch empires, to make their publication the number one seller in Australia.
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Entrenched: The Making of 'Gallipoli'
Title: Entrenched: The Making of 'Gallipoli'
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Documentary about the making of 'Gallipoli'.
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Title: The Mystery of Natalie Wood
Character: WIlliam Russell
Released: March 1, 2004
Type: TV
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The Mystery of Natalie Wood
Title: The Mystery of Natalie Wood
Character: William Russell
Released: February 10, 2004
Type: Movie
Natalie Wood marries Robert Wagner and faces inner conflicts about her Hollywood persona.
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Nowhere to Land
Title: Nowhere to Land
Character: Phillip
Released: March 12, 2000
Type: Movie
A pilot must safely land a 747 on which deadly nerve gas has been planted.
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Chameleon II: Death Match
Title: Chameleon II: Death Match
Character: Steven Myers
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
In this sequel to the made-for-TV sci-fi thriller Chameleon, Bobbie Phillips returns as Kam, a beautiful but deadly (and genetically altered) government agent who is called into action when a criminal genius stages a daring raid, taking the clientele of an exclusive casino hostage.
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Chameleon
Title: Chameleon
Character: Milo
Released: October 22, 1998
Type: Movie
A super-killer female cyborg with chameleon-like powers discovers maternal instincts when she protects a child from government operatives in this science fiction tale set in the year 2028.
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Title: Tales of the South Seas
Character: Révérend Colin Trent
Released: February 3, 1998
Type: TV
Tales of the South Seas is an Australian TV series.
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Blackwater Trail
Title: Blackwater Trail
Character: Chris
Released: May 20, 1997
Type: Movie
A US criminal profiler (of sorts) is sent over to Queensland to help catch a serial slayer, who leaves biblical scriptures behind at the scene of his crimes.
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Twisted
Title: Twisted
Character: Frank (segment 'The Confident Man')
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Four unsuspecting victims find themselves beyond "The Twilight Zone" in a twisted and altered reality: an airline passenger thinks he's lost his identity... a bored housewife thinks she's found romance... a conman thinks he's made his mark... and a hired killer thinks she's ready to retire. Unfortunately for all of them, they soon discover that there's nothing like reality to get in the way of an otherwise perfectly twisted perspective. Things are never quite that simple.
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Title: Water Rats
Character: Harry Pierce
Released: February 12, 1996
Type: TV
Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001.
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Sex Is a Four Letter Word
Title: Sex Is a Four Letter Word
Character: John
Released: October 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Some people say love is sex, sex is love. While others say sex is a four letter word. Sylvia is a love columnist who is writing a book on love stories. On a warm summer night she has invited six friends to tell true stories of their intimate love and sexual experiences. During the course of the evening the boundaries between love, sex and friendship narrow. People are exposed, fears are shared, friendships tested and relationships are destroyed and new ones formed. SEX IS A FOUR LETTER WORD is a contemporary film about love in the 1990s.
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Sahara
Title: Sahara
Character: Doyle
Released: April 25, 1995
Type: Movie
After the fall of Tobruk in June 1942, U.S. Army sergeant Joe Gunn leads his tank into the Sahara desert, in order to evade advancing Rommel's forces and reach Allied lines. Along the way he picks up few Allied soldiers, but soon they are running out of water. They find water at the ancient well, but the well is a goal of an entire German battalion. Despite the impossible odds, Sergeant Gunn decides to defend the well.
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Trapped in Space
Title: Trapped in Space
Character: Tug 1st Officer
Released: February 1, 1994
Type: Movie
After an accident during a routine trip to Venus, a spaceship has only enough oxygen left for three people... out of five on board.
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Title: Bony
Character: Dave O'Dwyer
Released: August 15, 1992
Type: TV
Bony is an Australian television series made in 1992. The series of 13 episodes followed on from a telemovie made in 1990. The series was criticised for casting a white man (Cameron Daddo) as the title character Detective David John Bonaparte, under the tutelage of "Uncle Albert", an elderly Aborigine (Burnham Burnham). Bony was supposed to be a descendent of the Bony character created by Arthur Upfield in dozens of novels from the late 1920s until his death in 1964.
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The Riddle of the Stinson
Title: The Riddle of the Stinson
Character: Bert Shepherd
Released: July 25, 1988
Type: Movie
A true story. In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane and Sydney. A local bushman begins his own search, and finds the wreckage and two survivors ten days after the crash.
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The Everlasting Secret Family
Title: The Everlasting Secret Family
Character: Youth
Released: March 10, 1988
Type: Movie
A beautiful, if ambitious and amoral, youth is tapped to become the lover of a powerful senator. The young man quickly realizes that he can hold this place, with all its perks, only as long as he is young. He has no other function than being young. With the help of an aged judge, the young man, referred to only as The Lover, contrives a plan to make a change in the way of the world, a plan that will take him years to realize. To succeed, he must manipulate, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, the senator, his wife, the family chauffeur (who was, when young, a lover), and, by implication, the entire well-planned and controlling everlasting secret family.
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Title: Home and Away
Character: Rick Booth
Released: January 17, 1988
Type: TV
Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional lives of the people living in the area. The show initially focused on the Fletcher family, Pippa and Tom Fletcher and their five foster children Frank Morgan, Carly Morris, Steven Matheson, Lynn Davenport and Sally Keating, who would go on to become one of the show's longest-running characters. The show also originally and currently focuses on the Stewart family. During the early 2000s, the central storylines focused on the Sutherlands and later, the Hunters. Home and Away had proved popular when it premiered in 1988 and had risen to become a hit in Australia, and after only a few weeks, the show tackled its first major and disturbing storyline, the rape of Carly Morris; it was one of the first shows to feature such storylines during the early timeslot. H&A has tackled many adult-themed and controversial storylines; something rarely found in its restricted timeslot.
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Title: Vietnam
Character: Laurie Fellows
Released: February 23, 1987
Type: TV
The Goddard family is about to be torn apart by the arrival of Australian conscription during the Vietnam War.
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Vietnam
Title: Vietnam
Character: Laurie Fellows
Released: February 23, 1987
Type: Movie
The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War.
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Emma's War
Title: Emma's War
Character: John Davidson
Released: December 26, 1986
Type: Movie
After the start of WW2, a mother takes her children from Sydney to the countryside.
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Title: The Flying Doctors
Character: Stewart Collins
Released: May 15, 1986
Type: TV
The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. It was initially a 1985 mini-series based in the fictional outback town of Cooper's Crossing starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. Tom Callaghan. The success of the mini series led to its return the following year as an on-going series with McFarlane being joined by a new doctor, Chris Randall, played by Liz Burch. McFarlane left during the first season and actor Robert Grubb came in as new doctor Geoff Standish. The series' episodes were mostly self-contained but also featured ongoing storylines, such as Dr. Standish's romance with Sister Kate Wellings. Other major characters included pilot Sam Patterson, mechanic Emma Plimpton, local policeman Sgt. Jack Carruthers and Vic and Nancy Buckley, who ran the local pub/hotel, The Majestic. Andrew McFarlane also later returned to the series, resuming his role as Dr. Callaghan. The popular series ran for nine seasons and was successfully screened internationally.
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The City's Edge
Title: The City's Edge
Character: Jim Wentworth
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
In an effort to come to terms with his father's death, a young man (Weaving) moves into a rooming house amidst the decaying grandeur of Bondi Beach, where he gets enmeshed in the lives of the other boarders, including a junkie, his sister, and an Aboriginal activist.
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The Best of Friends
Title: The Best of Friends
Character: Bruce
Released: October 9, 1982
Type: Movie
The Best of Friends is a 1982 Australian romantic comedy about two best friends who have an affair one night, resulting in the woman becoming pregnant.
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Gallipoli
Title: Gallipoli
Character: Archy Hamilton
Released: August 13, 1981
Type: Movie
As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank—both agile runners—become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves part of the Dardanelles Campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula, a brutal eight-month conflict which pit the British and their allies against the Ottoman Empire and left over 500,000 men dead.
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Title: Bailey's Bird
Character: Nick
Released: April 15, 1979
Type: TV
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Title: Number 96
Released: March 13, 1972
Type: TV
Number 96 was a popular Australian soap opera set in a Sydney apartment block. Don Cash and Bill Harmon of the Cash Harmon Television production company, produced the series for Network Ten, which requested a Coronation Street-type serial, and specifically one that explored adult subjects. The premise, original story outlines, and the original characters were devised by David Sale who also wrote the scripts for the first episodes and continued as script editor for much of the show's run. The series proved to be a huge success, running from 1972 until 1977. Number 96 was so popular it spawned a feature film version, filmed in December 1973. Number 96 was known for its sex scenes and nudity, somewhat risque at the time, and for its comedy characters. The series was the first Australian soap opera to feature an openly gay character.
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Strange Holiday
Title: Strange Holiday
Character: Costar
Released: August 28, 1970
Type: Movie
Ten boys and a dog are shipwrecked on an island in the Pacific. After a storm they discover another boat has been shipwrecked on the island. They make friends with two of the survivors, a nurse and ship's carpenter, but discover there are three other survivors who are ruthless mutineers.