Mark Lester was born on Mark A Letzer; 11 July 1958 and is an English former child actor, osteopath, and acupuncturist who starred in a number of British and European films in the 1960s and 1970s.
15 Facts About Mark Lester
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Mark Lester was born in the city of Oxford to actress Rita Keene Lester and actor and producer Michael Lester.
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Mark Lester was educated at three independent schools: at Corona Theatre School in Ravenscourt Park in West London, followed by Tower House School, a boys' preparatory school near Richmond Park, and at Halliford School in Shepperton in Surrey.
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Mark Lester initially had small roles in several British television series, including The Human Jungle and Danger Man.
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Mark Lester appeared in Spaceflight IC-1: An Adventure in Space, played a small part as the second schoolboy in Fahrenheit 451 and had a larger role in Our Mother's House.
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Mark Lester was reunited with Wild in Melody, which depicted schoolchildren in love, based on a script by Alan Parker.
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Mark Lester starred in a film version of Black Beauty.
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Mark Lester was announced for a version of Treasure Island but it was never made.
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Mark Lester remained in demand for films outside England: What the Peeper Saw with Britt Ekland; Senza ragione, in Italy with Franco Nero; Little Adventurer, a Japanese film; Scalawag, a pirate film with Kirk Douglas shot in Yugoslavia; and the costume drama La Prima volta sull'erba, which was nominated for the Golden Bear prize at the 25th Berlin International Film Festival.
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At the age of 18, Mark Lester had access to some of his earnings from his films.
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Mark Lester bought a Ferrari and a house in Belgravia and went to parties, nightclubs and restaurants, often paying for friends, and taking drugs.
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Mark Lester became an osteopath, studying at the British School of Osteopathy, and in 1993, Lester opened the Carlton Clinic, an acupuncture clinic in Cheltenham.
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Mark Lester is a patron of the theatre charity The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America.
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Mark Lester has four children with his first wife, Jane, whom he married in January 1993 and divorced in 2005.
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Mark Lester was a close friend of Michael Jackson and is godfather to Jackson's three children, while Jackson was godfather to Mark Lester's four children, for which they did a ceremony in Las Vegas in 2003.