Mark Lester
British actor · United Kingdom · On the map · Actors · Born 1958 · age 68
Mark Lester is an English former child actor who starred in a number of British and European films in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1968 he played the title role in the film Oliver!, a musical version of the stage production by Lionel Bart based on Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist.
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Michael Jackson: Who Was the Man in the Mirror?Film2017
Michael Jackson: Man In The MirrorFilm2010
Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop?Film2009Celebrity Shock List 2009Series2003The SalonSeries
Louis, Martin & MichaelFilm, 20031988
This MorningSeries1975
Love Under the ElmsFilm1973
Little AdventurerFilm, Mike Richard1972
What the Peeper SawFilm, Marcus1971
Black BeautyFilm, Joe Evans1969
Then Came BronsonSeries, John Beaman
Run Wild, Run FreeFilm, 1969Phillip Ransome1968
The Ghost & Mrs. MuirSeries
Oliver!Film, 1968Oliver1967
Our Mother's HouseFilm, Jiminee1965
Spaceflight IC-1Film, Don Wolcott1964
The Counterfeit ConstableFilm, Gérald1958Born11 July 1958People around Mark
Close ties
Harry Andrews Also in The Prince and the Pauper (1980)
Andrea Bianchi Directed Night Hair Child (1972)- Harry Alan Towers Produced Black Beauty (1971)
Kirk Douglas Directed Scalawag (1974)
François Truffaut Directed Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Lilli Palmer Also in Night Hair Child and What the Peeper Saw
Oliver Reed Also in The Prince and the Pauper and Oliver!
Dylan Sprouse Duets: Tom Canty
Hardy Krüger Also in Night Hair Child and What the Peeper Saw
Richard Fleischer Directed The Prince and the Pauper (1980)
Jack Wild Also in Oliver! and Melody- Lionel Jeffries Also in Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? and Eyewitness
Artur Brauner Produced Black Beauty (1971)
Anne Buydens Produced Scalawag (1974)
David Puttnam Produced Melody (1971)
Nicholas Lyndhurst Duets: Tom Canty
Ricardo Palacios Also in Black Beauty and Night Hair Child
Waris Hussein Directed Melody (1971)
Samuel Z. Arkoff Produced Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1980)
John Hough Directed Eyewitness (1970)
Lionel Bart Wrote Oliver! and Black Beauty- Bernard Knowles Directed Spaceflight IC-1 (1965)
- Irving Allen Produced Eyewitness (1970)
Pierre Spengler Produced The Prince and the Pauper (1980)
Known for
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Our Mother's House 1967
Fahrenheit 451 1966
Melody 1971
Oliver! 1968
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? 1972
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 26
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Television 6
Media & music
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About this person
He also made several appearances in many British television series. In 1977, after appearing in The Prince and the Pauper, an all-star international action adventure film, he retired from acting. In the 1980s, he trained as an osteopath specialising in sports injuries.
