Mark Lee

Acting

Mark Lee

Born 1958-01-01 · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mark Lee (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Gallipoli poster
7.0

Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

Gallipoli

1981

Sahara poster
6.6

After the fall of Tobruk in June 1942, U.S. Army sergeant Joe Gunn leads his tank into the Sahara desert, in order to evade advancing Rommel's forces and reach Allied lines. Along the way he picks up few Allied soldiers, but soon they are running out of water. They find water at the ancient well, but the well is a goal of an entire German battalion. Despite the impossible odds, Sergeant Gunn decides to defend the well.

Sahara

1995

Nowhere to Land poster
5.8

A pilot must safely land a 747 on which deadly nerve gas has been planted.

Nowhere to Land

2000

The Mystery of Natalie Wood poster
5.5

Natalie Wood marries Robert Wagner and faces inner conflicts about her Hollywood persona.

The Mystery of Natalie Wood

2004

Vietnam poster
7.6

The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War.

Vietnam

1987

Twisted poster
8.0

Four unsuspecting victims find themselves beyond "The Twilight Zone" in a twisted and altered reality: an airline passenger thinks he's lost his identity... a bored housewife thinks she's found romance... a conman thinks he's made his mark... and a hired killer thinks she's ready to retire. Unfortunately for all of them, they soon discover that there's nothing like reality to get in the way of an otherwise perfectly twisted perspective. Things are never quite that simple.

Twisted

1997

The Riddle of the Stinson poster
7.2

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 his own search, and finds the wreckage and two survivors ten days after the crash.

The Riddle of the Stinson

1988

Strange Holiday poster
6.8

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 friends with two of the survivors, a nurse and ship's carpenter, but discover there are three other survivors who are ruthless mutineers.

Strange Holiday

1970

Entrenched: The Making of Gallipoli poster
8.0

A documentary about the making of Peter Weir's Gallipoli (1981), originally released on the 2005 special edition DVD released by Paramount.

Entrenched: The Making of Gallipoli

2005

Emma's War poster
3.6

After the start of WW2, a mother takes her children from Sydney to the countryside.

Emma's War

1986

Sex Is a Four Letter Word poster
3.0

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. On a warm summer night she has invited six friends to tell true stories of their intimate love and sexual experiences. During the course of the evening the boundaries between love, sex and friendship narrow. People are exposed, fears are shared, friendships tested and relationships are destroyed and new ones formed. SEX IS A FOUR LETTER WORD is a contemporary film about love in the 1990s.

Sex Is a Four Letter Word

1995

Chameleon II: Death Match poster
3.4

In this sequel to the made-for-TV sci-fi thriller Chameleon, Bobbie Phillips returns as Kam, a beautiful but deadly (and genetically altered) government agent who is called into action when a criminal genius stages a daring raid, taking the clientele of an exclusive casino hostage.

Chameleon II: Death Match

1999

Blackwater Trail poster
9.0

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 crimes.

Blackwater Trail

1995

Trapped in Space poster
4.7

After an accident during a routine trip to Venus, a spaceship has only enough oxygen left for three people... out of five on board.

Trapped in Space

1994

The Best of Friends poster
10.0

The Best of Friends is a 1982 Australian romantic comedy about two best friends who have an affair one night, resulting in the woman becoming pregnant.

The Best of Friends

1982

The Everlasting Secret Family poster
4.9

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 place, with all its perks, only as long as he is young. He has no other function than being young. With the help of an aged judge, the young man, referred to only as The Lover, contrives a plan to make a change in the way of the world, a plan that will take him years to realize. To succeed, he must manipulate, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, the senator, his wife, the family chauffeur (who was, when young, a lover), and, by implication, the entire well-planned and controlling everlasting secret family.

The Everlasting Secret Family

1988

Chameleon poster
5.8

A super-killer female cyborg with chameleon-like powers discovers maternal instincts when she protects a child from government operatives in this science fiction tale set in the year 2028.

Chameleon

1998

The Message poster
NR

Leaving a broken marriage and finding a job at a motel could be the best thing that's happened to Marion in years. Disturbing phone messages however soon begin to threaten her sanity.

The Message

2025

The City's Edge poster
5.5

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, where he gets enmeshed in the lives of the other boarders, including a junkie, his sister, and an Aboriginal activist.

The City's Edge

1983

Without Warning poster
7.0

It was an ordinary day when successful film producer, Megan Turner, and her director husband, David, were flagged down by a goodlooking highway patrol officer who seemed friendly. WITHOUT WARNING is the story of sexual pursuit and intimidation that almost destroys the Turner's marriage and, in the end, leads to violence and murder.

Without Warning

1999