
Mark Lester net worth is
$950,000
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Mark Lester (born Mark A. Letzer; 11 July 1958) is an English former child star and actor known for playing the title role in the 1968 musical film version of Oliver! and starring in a number of other British and European films of the 1960s and 1970s and in a number of television series. Net Worth | $950,000 |
Date Of Birth | July 11, 1958 |
Place Of Birth | Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK |
Height | 6' (1.83 m) |
Profession | Actor, Assistant Director, Miscellaneous Crew |
Spouse | Jane |
Nicknames | Mark Lester, Lester, Mark |
Star Sign | Cancer |
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1 | I tried everything that was going - drink, dope, acid, whatever was on offer. Coke was selling at £60 a gram and I was buying it for myself and my house guests at the rate of four grams a day. I abused it mercilessly. |
2 | I've no regrets, you live and learn from your mistakes and I've had opportunities to travel and meet people that I might not otherwise have had. Obviously it was more glamorous then, but I certainly prefer what I do now. |
3 | Michael was absolutely sharp as a razor, really focused. It's the best I've known him in a long time. He said he couldn't wait to get back on stage and that his kids were going to see him perform - it was one of the main reasons for him doing the shows. That's why the whole thing is such a shock. I've never seen him taking anything or any evidence that he was on something. I'm an acupuncturist. One time he got a bad spider bite that wasn't healing. I offered to treat it but he said, 'No, I hate needles, hate them.' That's why I find it so bizarre that he was supposed to be having these injections. We were on the phone for about an hour and all of the kids spoke to him. We were talking about the show. He said he'd been rehearsing and he'd just done a Pop Idol-type competition with the dancers. We wanted to sit at the front and he said we could have the whole front row. He was supposed to be coming over next week for rehearsals. People have said he was suffering from stage fright but I don't think Michael ever had stage fright. Performing was what charged him. He told Harriet he wanted her to come on stage with him when he sang his song Dirty Diana. He was really fired up. I asked him what was in the show but he didn't want to tell us too much. He said, 'I want it to be a surprise. You're going to be amazed by it.' He was so excited. His children had never seen him perform and he wanted them to see Daddy at what Daddy did best. That's what Michael does. He loved the attention. He loved being 'Michael Jackson'. He was driven by it. I was with him in the car on the way and he was really relaxed. Afterwards the whole family went to stay with him at The Lanesborough hotel. We went out to see Oliver! at the Theatre Royal and spent the whole weekend with him. He did not look like a person who would drop dead a couple of months later. He wasn't unfit. He showed no signs of being unwell. |
4 | On meeting Michael Jackson in 1982: I was with my sister at the time and she nearly fell off the chair. A few days later we went to see him at the Montcalm Hotel in Park Lane. He came over, gave me a hug and said, 'Mark, it's so nice to meet you.' I was very nervous but we had tea and then ordered up burgers and chatted. We shared a common baseline. He was much more famous than me but we had both been child stars and we were the same age. He said that in the teeny mags in America it would be him on one page, me on another and David Cassidy on another. He always used to say we were like the positive and negative, the black and white. |
5 | Michael loved junk food. In March 2007 he came back to Cheltenham with us. It was the first time he'd been here. We watched DVDs and the kids played computer games. I think we had pizza from Pizza Hut for lunch and in the evening we had fish and chips from the local shop. Michael loved fish, chips and mushy peas with lots of ketchup. It was his favourite thing. Wherever we were, whatever restaurant, he'd have to have fish and chips. Everyone imagines he'd have some kind of weird macrobiotic diet, but he wasn't like that. The thing people never understood about Michael was that he was very clever at illusions. The thing with the veils was just an act. He used to say to me, 'I do it to create an illusion. I'm an illusionist.' We saw Billy Elliot and he was quite shocked at the language. He said he wouldn't have taken the children if he had known. He was very firm with his own children. They weren't spoilt. He was much more normal than people realised. We'd go out for dinner or a coffee and he would notice women walking past and say, 'She's so cute, she's got a nice tush,' but then he would be very apologetic. In many ways Michael was asexual, but he had an eye for beauty. |
6 | We were together in Miami when he saw it. Michael was just dumbstruck. He didn't shout. I never heard him once raise his voice his whole life but he was very upset. Most of all he just seemed confused by it all. That was Michael. He didn't see a problem with it. He just loved children. He saw himself as the Pied Piper. At Neverland he had an enormous oil painting covering one wall and it was Michael as the Pied Piper leading hundreds of children of all colours, races, sizes. Some were in wheelchairs. Michael was dancing and these kids were in a huge crocodile line behind him. He always told me he wrote his songs for the age group of ten to fourteen. He would never do anything to hurt anyone and I don't believe that anything ever happened with Gavin Arvizo. When I thought about what Michael did for that family, it made me sick to think that they could do that to him. The experience did make him more withdrawn. He took himself away and hid from everyone. |
7 | Jack was like a brother to me during the making of the film and was always very protective. I gained a lot. The chemistry between us was just something very, very special, which lasted throughout our lives. [Remarks following the death of Jack Wild] |
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1 | Mark is an osteopath (one who treats patients with joint or muscle pain) in Cheltenham, England. He and his ex-wife, Jane, lived in a three-story Georgian house with their four children until their 2005 divorce. [2004] |
2 | Gave up acting in the early Eighties, but was coaxed back to acting, for the first time in over 30 years, in 2012 as King Harold in a historical drama, 1066, about the Norman conquest of England in the year 1066. |
3 | In an interview with the British newspaper News of the World in August 2009 he confirmed that he had donated sperm to his longtime friend Michael Jackson as a gift. He claims that Michael's daughter Paris-Michael K. Jackson could be his own child and expressed a willingness to take a paternity test to prove either way. |
4 | He is of Russian Jewish and English descent. |
5 | Remained close friends with his Oliver! (1968) co-star Ron Moody. |
6 | Made several films in Italy when he was not receiving film offers in Britain. |
7 | By the age of fourteen, was earning £100,000 a year as he starred in an average of two films a year. |
8 | His singing voice in Oliver! (1968) was dubbed by Kathe Green, although this was not made public until 1988. |
9 | He was a close, long-time friend of American rock singer and songwriter Michael Jackson, and they were godfathers to each other's children. Lester spent Christmas 2003 at the Neverland Ranch, and vocally defended Jackson throughout his trial on child molestation charges in 2005. |
10 | He is a black belt in karate. |
Actor
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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1066 | | pre-production | King Harold II |
Finding Driscoll | | filming | Dominic Driscoll |
Metered | 2011 | Short | |
Crossed Swords | 1977 | | Edward / Tom |
Closed Up-Tight | 1975 | | |
Love Under the Elms | 1975 | | Franz |
Scalawag | 1973 | | Jamie |
Sotsugyô ryokô | 1973 | | Mike Richard |
Senza ragione | 1973 | | Lennox Duncan |
What the Peeper Saw | 1972 | | Marcus |
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? | 1972 | | Christopher Coombs |
Black Beauty | 1971 | | Joe |
Melody | 1971 | | Daniel |
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | 1970 | TV Series | Davey |
The Boy Who Stole the Elephant | 1970 | TV Movie | Davey |
Sudden Terror | 1970 | | Ziggy |
The Ghost & Mrs. Muir | 1969 | TV Series | Mark Helmore |
Then Came Bronson | 1969 | TV Series | John Beaman |
Run Wild, Run Free | 1969 | | Philip / Philip Ransome |
Oliver! | 1968 | | Oliver |
Our Mother's House | 1967 | | Jiminee |
Fahrenheit 451 | 1966 | | Second Schoolboy (uncredited) |
Secret Agent | 1966 | TV Series | Boy |
Court Martial | 1965 | TV Series | Paolo Stevens |
Spaceflight IC-1: An Adventure in Space | 1965 | | Don Saunders |
The Human Jungle | 1964 | TV Series | Small boy |
The Counterfeit Constable | 1964 | | Gérald |
Assistant Director
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Metered | 2011 | Short assistant director | |
Miscellaneous
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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The 10 Faces of Michael Jackson | 2015 | TV Movie documentary archive | |
Thanks
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Metered | 2011 | Short special thanks | |
A Sense of Carol Reed | 2006 | Video documentary short special thanks | |
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Who's Doing the Dishes? | 2016 | TV Series | Himself |
Loose Women | 2016 | TV Series | Himself |
The One Show | 2016 | TV Series | Himself |
Pointless Celebrities | 2015 | TV Series | Himself - Contestant |
The 10 Faces of Michael Jackson | 2015 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Longtime Friend & Godfather to Michael's Children |
Secret Voices of Hollywood | 2013 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Actor, Oliver! |
The Unforgettable Harry Secombe | 2010 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Gone Too Soon | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
Michael Jackson and Bubbles: The Untold Story | 2010 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop? | 2010 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Celebrity Shock List 2009 | 2009 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Entertainment Tonight | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
5 News | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
This Morning | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
The Podge and Rodge Show | 2008 | TV Series | Himself |
I'd Do Anything | 2008 | TV Series | Himself - on screen contributor (uncredited) |
The Alan Titchmarsh Show | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
British Film Forever | 2007 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
Celebrate 'Oliver!' | 2005 | TV Movie | Himself |
The 100 Greatest Family Films | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
After They Were Famous | 1999-2005 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
The 100 Greatest Musicals | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
The Salon | 2003 | TV Series | Himself |
GMTV | 2003 | TV Series | Himself |
Louis, Martin & Michael | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Child Stars | 2002 | TV Movie | Himself |
Wogan | 1987 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
Film Night | 1971 | TV Series | Himself |
The David Frost Show | 1969 | TV Series | Himself |
The 41st Annual Academy Awards | 1969 | TV Special | Himself - Co-Presenter: Honorary Award to Onna White |
Archive Footage
Nominated Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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1970 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Male New Face | Oliver! (1968) |
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