Mark Lester
Also Known As: Марк Лестер, مارک لستر
Biography: 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).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Birthday: July 11, 1958
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Gender: Male
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Our Mother's House
Overview: Seven British children bury their mother and hide her death, until their long-lost father returns.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-14
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The Prince and the Pauper
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-03
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Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
Overview: A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-11
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Black Beauty
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-01
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Oliver!
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-26
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Melody
Overview: Two youngsters declare to their parents that they want to get married. Not sometime in the future but as soon as possible.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-28
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Redneck
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-02
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Run Wild, Run Free
Overview: A young boy, unable to speak, befriends a wild colt with blue eyes and a falcon named "Lady".
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-28
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What the Peeper Saw
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-10-14
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Eyewitness
Overview: A boy who cries wolf witnesses a political assassination on the island of Malta. But will anyone other than his granddad believe him?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-05
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Scalawag
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-22
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Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop?
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-26
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Love Under the Elms
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-09-08
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Michael Jackson: Who Was the Man in the Mirror?
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-24
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When 60s TV Goes Horribly Wrong
Overview: Famous faces from 60s relive moments they'd rather forget. Bloopers include Doris Day's wardrobe fail, Star Trek outtakes, and things getting out of hand on a live discussion show.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-31
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The Counterfeit Constable
Overview: 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 !
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-10-10
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Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano
Overview: Perhaps at first glance, the filmography of Silvio Narizzano appears unremarkable. Thanks to his sleeper hit Georgy Girl (1966), he's known largely as a "one-hit wonder" director. Upon closer inspection, however, likely no other filmmaker used cinema as effectively to exorcise personal demons in ways both ugly and beautiful. And few directors' sensibilities were more gay, both overtly and covertly. Film historian Daniel Kremer is your tour guide through an obscure, perplexing body of work heretofore ignored and often unfairly shunned. Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano is an essay documentary of discovery.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-30
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Michael Jackson: Man In The Mirror
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-31
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Spaceflight IC-1
Overview: 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.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-01
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Little Adventurer
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-03-03
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The Unforgettable Harry Secombe
Overview: A celebration of the life and career of Sir Harry Secombe, one of Britain's best-loved entertainers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-20
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The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
Overview: 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.
Genres: Family Drama Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-20
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Fahrenheit 451
Overview: 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…
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-09-07
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Michael Jackson: Chase the Truth
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-13
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Louis, Martin & Michael
Overview: 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 '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?
Genres: Documentary Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-16
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13 Moments that Destroyed Michael Jackson
Overview: A look at how Michael Jackson's life was far from charmed.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-16
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