Mark Lee
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Mark Lee (born 1958) is an Australian actor and director, whose most prominent role was the lead in the film Gallipoli (1981), alongside Mel Gibson. He has worked extensively in Australian film, television and theatre for over thirty years.
His debut was in 1969 in the film Strange holiday (based on the novel by Jules Verne). He starred in the 1987 Australian television drama Vietnam (one of Nicole Kidman's early roles) and the 1989 cult film Everlasting Secret Family. Most of his work has drawn little notice outside of Australia, save for a short film Stranger so familiar, shown in the 2005 Reno Film Festival. He starred as a gay man in Sex is a four letter word.
In 2001, Mark starred in the one man show The time machine, adapted by Frank Gauntlett from the novelette by H.G. Wells, and directed by Penny Young.
His feature film directorial debut was an Australian feature titled The bet, released in 2007. He also made a documentary Mountains to the sea, about a couple of pub bands; and directed the play Unit 46 in 1999.
He has been married twice, and has children.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 12.59 |
Birthday | 1958-01-01 |
Place of Birth | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Also Known As |
1981
Gallipoli
7.056/463
As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank—both agile runners—become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Ar...
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Gallipoli
1994
Trapped in Space
4.4/17
After an accident during a routine trip to Venus, a spaceship has only enough oxygen left for three people... out of five on board.
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Trapped in Space
1995
Sex Is a Four Letter Word
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Some people say love is sex, sex is love. While others say sex is a four letter word. Sylvia is a love columnist who is writing a book on love stories...
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Sex Is a Four Letter Word
2000
Nowhere to Land
5.2/12
A pilot must safely land a 747 on which deadly nerve gas has been planted.
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Nowhere to Land
1983
The City's Edge
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In an effort to come to terms with his father's death, a young man (Weaving) moves into a rooming house amidst the decaying grandeur of Bondi Beach, w...
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The City's Edge
1986
Emma's War
3/3
After the start of WW2, a mother takes her children from Sydney to the countryside.
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Emma's War
1970
Strange Holiday
5.7/3
Ten boys and a dog are shipwrecked on an island in the Pacific. After a storm they discover another boat has been shipwrecked on the island. They make...
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Strange Holiday
1988
The Riddle of the Stinson
6.8/5
A true story. In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane and Sydney. A local bushman begins...
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The Riddle of the Stinson
1988
The Everlasting Secret Family
4.9/8
A beautiful, if ambitious and amoral, youth is tapped to become the lover of a powerful senator. The young man quickly realizes that he can hold this...
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The Everlasting Secret Family
1987
Vietnam
8.6/5
The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War.
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Vietnam
1997
Blackwater Trail
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A US criminal profiler (of sorts) is sent over to Queensland to help catch a serial slayer, who leaves biblical scriptures behind at the scene of his...
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Blackwater Trail
1998
Chameleon
6.3/8
A super-killer female cyborg with chameleon-like powers discovers maternal instincts when she protects a child from government operatives in this scie...
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Chameleon
1999
Chameleon II: Death Match
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Chameleon II: Death Match
2005
Entrenched: The Making of 'Gallipoli'
10/1
Documentary about the making of 'Gallipoli'.
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Entrenched: The Making of 'Gallipoli'
1995
Sahara
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Sahara
1982
The Best of Friends
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The Best of Friends
2004
The Mystery of Natalie Wood
5.4/8
Natalie Wood marries Robert Wagner and faces inner conflicts about her Hollywood persona.
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The Mystery of Natalie Wood
1997
Twisted
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Four unsuspecting victims find themselves beyond "The Twilight Zone" in a twisted and altered reality: an airline passenger thinks he's lost his ident...
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