# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-l-lester
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:27:20.888Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-l-lester"
name: "Mark L. Lester"
slug: "mark-l-lester"
description: "Mark L. Lester is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is known as a prolific director of cult films, including the disco musical Roller Boogie (1979), the vigilante thriller film Class of 1984 (1982), the Stephen King adaptation Firestarter (1984), the Arnold Schwarzenegger action film Commando (1985), the action-comedy Armed and Dangerous (1986), starring John Candy, Eugene Levy, and Meg Ryan and the buddy movie Showdown in Little Tokyo, starring Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee."
tagline: "American film director (born 1946)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/pHsMo59bw7ztoLCgkKgS0vXmB1A.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1946-11-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.77
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.568732
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    title: "Лестер, Марк (кинорежиссёр)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump