Mark LesterFilmography

Born:: July 11, 1958 in Oxford, England, UK
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Angel-faced child star Mark Lester was the son of British actors Michael and Rita Lester. Mark made his professional debut at age 2 1/2 in a TV commercial featuring his father. The youngster studied acting and mime at the Corona Stage School, then played supporting roles in several British TV...Read More

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The Prince and the Pauper

Actors: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Mark Lester, Ernest Borgnine, George C. Scott

Synopsis: A poor commoner and a young prince each find out how the other half lives in this adventure story based on the classic tale by Mark Twain. Tom Canty (Mark Lester) is a young man from a laboring family who bears a striking resemblance to Prince Edward (also played by Lester), the son of King Henry Read More

1977
La Prima Volta Sull' Erba

Actors: Anne Heywood, Claudio Cassinelli, Mark Lester, Monica Guerritore, Bruno Zanin

Synopsis: A Frenchwoman vacationing with her daughter and a Viennese professor vacationing with his son meet in the Tyrolean Alps of Italy. Of a liberal persuasion, both parents actively encourage the two young people to get to know one another, and perhaps have their first sexual liaison; the two adults Read More

1975
Senza ragione

Synopsis: A pair of crazed and violent fleeing criminals kidnap a young boy and hold him hostage as they try to escape the law. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1/26/73
Scalawag

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Mark Lester

Synopsis: In this exciting adventure, based on a tale by Robert Louis Stevenson and shot in Yugoslavia, a one-legged pirate must rely on the memory of a boozy, uncooperative parrot if he is to find the location of a tremendous treasure. He is later assisted by two plucky youths who help him battle it out Read More

1973
What the Peeper Saw

Synopsis: Oliver! star Mark Lester undertook a change of pace - and then some - with this uncomfortable, Bad Seed-like shocker. He plays Marcus, the preteen son of a recently-remarried, well-to-do writer, whose first wife (Marcus's mother) died a mysterious death. Marcus simultaneously resents his Read More

1971
Black Beauty

Actors: Mark Lester, Uschi Glas, Walter Slezak, Peter Lee Lawrence, John Nettleton

Synopsis: This internationally produced adaptation of Anna Sewell's Black Beauty is essentially a vehicle for Oliver star Mark Lester. The young Lester spends most of the film trying to reclaim his beautiful black horse, which passes through several hands over the course of 90 minutes. All the setpieces of Read More

1971
Who Slew Auntie Roo?

Actors: Jacqueline Cowper, Charlotte Sayce, Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, Ralph Richardson

Synopsis: In this English film, a group of orphans visiting the home of a wealthy, retired singer (Shelley Winters) discover that the woman is hiding a disturbing secret. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1971
Melody

Actors: Camille Davies, Billy Franks, Craig Marriott, Kay Skinner, William Vanderpuye, Peter Walton, Tim Wylton, Jack Wild, Mark Lester, Tracy Hyde, Sheila Steafel, Roy Kinnear

Synopsis: An excellent musical score by the Bee Gees adds appeal to this curious little movie about two ten-year olds, Daniel and Melody (Mark Lester and Tracy Hyde) who are completely taken with each other and announce to their parents, in all seriousness, that they plan to get married. This marriage is Read More

1971
The Boy Who Stole the Elephant

Synopsis: Mark Lester, star of the 1968 Oscar-winner Oliver!, heads the cast of the made-for-TV The Boy Who Stole the Elephant. Lester plays a young employee of a 19th century travelling circus. He befriends the circus' elephant (played by "Margie"), which is appearing on loan. When the larcenous circus Read More

1970
Eyewitness

Actors: Mark Lester, Lionel Jeffries, Susan George, Tony Bonner, Jeremy Kemp

Synopsis: Ziggy (Mark Lester) is the young boy who witnesses the murder of a visiting black official by the police. Much like the boy who cried wolf, Ziggy has been known to stretch the truth and exaggerate. He is unable to convince the adults that he witnessed the killing. The murderous cops are soon on Read More

1970
Run Wild, Run Free

Actors: John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Bernard Miles, Mark Lester, Gordon Jackson

Synopsis: Child actor Mark Lester proved that his sudden ascension to stardom in Oliver wasn't a fluke with Run Wild, Run Free. Lester plays a psychosomatically mute young Dartmoor boy, who avoids all human contact whenever possible. He is fascinated by nature, but cannot convey this love to his Read More

1969
Oliver!

Actors: Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed, Harry Secombe, Hugh Griffith, Mark Lester, Jack Wild

Synopsis: Inspired by Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist, Lionel Bart's 1961 London and Broadway musical hit glossed over some of Dickens' more graphic passages but managed to retain a strong subtext to what was essentially light entertainment. For its first half-hour or so, Carol Reed's Oscar-winning 1968 Read More

1968
Our Mother's House

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Brooks, Pamela Franklin, Louis Sheldon Williams, John Gugolka

Synopsis: Dirk Bogarde is a no-good rotter who returns to his family after several years' absence. Only his seven children are present to greet Bogarde as he enters his shabby London home, and they're somewhat vague as to the whereabouts of the mother. What Bogarde doesn't know is that his wife had died Read More

1967
Fahrenheit 451

Actors: Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring, Jeremy Spenser

Synopsis: In the future, an oppressive government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers known as "firemen" to perform the necessary book burnings. This is the premise of Ray Bradbury's acclaimed science-fiction novel Fahrenheit 451, which became the Read More

1966
Spaceflight IC-1

Actors: Bill Williams, Kathleen Breck, John Cairney, Donald Churchill, Jeremy Longhurst

Synopsis: In this sci-fi film set in the near future, the civilized world is controlled by an all-powerful computerized government that is carefully choosing colonists for its newest space launch. The candidates are selected on the basis of their age, health and IQ. They are only in space a few weeks when Read More

1965
Allez France!

Actors: Robert Dhéry, Diana Dors, Colette Brosset, Robert Rollis, Catherine Sola, Pierre Olaf

Synopsis: Henri (Robert Dhery) joins a group of rowdy soccer fans who travel from France to London two days before he is supposed to be married, and he goes to the dentist after his two front teeth are knocked out in a melee with rival fans. Sight gags include a busload of drunken fans trying to evade the Read More

1964