---
name: "Mark Lester"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mark-lester"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "11 July 1958"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T05:02:05.138333+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Mark Lester

Actor. Born 11 July 1958 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 11 July 1958, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- **Also known as:** Марк Лестер, مارک لستر
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lester, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q620799, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0504492/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/25638

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Oliver!*](https://film.one/film/oliver.md) (76)

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## Biography

Mark Lester (born Mark A. Letzer) is an English former child actor. He was born on 11 July 1958 in Oxford and trained at the Corona Theatre School in London. He made his film debut in *The Counterfeit Constable* (1964).

Lester appeared in several British films in the 1960s and 1970s. He played the title role in the musical *Oliver!* (1968), a performance that brought him international recognition. His other credits include *Our Mother's House* (1967), *Run Wild, Run Free* (1969), *Melody* (1971) and *The Prince and the Pauper* (1977). He retired from acting after the last of these and later qualified as an osteopath.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Oliver!* (1968), Fi1m 76, as Oliver — [page](https://film.one/film/oliver.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Michael Jackson: Who Was the Man in the Mirror?* (2020), Actor
- *13 Moments that Destroyed Michael Jackson* (2019), Actor
- *Celebrity Shock List 2009* (2009), series, Actor
- *The Prince and the Pauper* (1977), as Prince Edward / Tom Canty
- *Love Under the Elms* (1975), Actor
- *Scalawag* (1973), as Jamie
- *Little Adventurer* (1973), as Mike Richard
- *Redneck* (1973), as Lennox Duncan
- *What the Peeper Saw* (1972), as Marcus
- *Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?* (1972), as Christopher Coombs
- *Black Beauty* (1971), as Joe Evans
- *Melody* (1971), as Daniel Latimer
- *The Boy Who Stole the Elephant* (1970), as Davey
- *Eyewitness* (1970), as Ziggy
- *Then Came Bronson* (1969), series, as John Beaman
- *Run Wild, Run Free* (1969), as Phillip Ransome
- *Oliver!* (1968), as Oliver — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/oliver.md)
- *The Ghost & Mrs. Muir* (1968), series, Actor
- *Our Mother's House* (1967), as Jiminee
- *Fahrenheit 451* (1966), as Second Schoolboy (uncredited)
- *Spaceflight IC-1* (1965), as Don Wolcott
- *The Counterfeit Constable* (1964), as Gérald

## Gallery

- ![Mark Lester (1975)](https://film.one/media/person/1243213/gallery-19df33112274.jpg) Mark Lester (1975) — Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Mark_Lester_3_Allan_Warren.jpg/1280px-Mark_Lester_3_Allan_Warren.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Mark Lester](https://film.one/media/person/1243213/gallery-b2a06afad668.jpg) Mark Lester — Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Mark_Lester_Allan_Warren.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Mark Lester (1975)](https://film.one/media/person/1243213/gallery-6ea3479c61e7.jpg) Mark Lester (1975) — Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Mark_Lester_2_Allan_Warren.jpg/1280px-Mark_Lester_2_Allan_Warren.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Mark Lester, Taken in London (1976)](https://film.one/media/person/1243213/gallery-8ce85a82cad1.jpg) Mark Lester, Taken in London (1976) — Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Mark_Lester_8_Allan_Warren.jpg/1280px-Mark_Lester_8_Allan_Warren.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Mark Lester](https://film.one/media/person/1243213/gallery-cb45277b5fc9.jpg) Mark Lester — Image via TMDB
- ![Mark Lester](https://film.one/media/person/1243213/gallery-3f655ecebf8b.jpg) Mark Lester — Image via TMDB
- ![Mark Lester (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/1243213/gallery-4123bd172aff.jpg) Mark Lester (2023) — Joyhill, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Mark_Wiki.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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