Mark Edwards (actor)

Mark Edwards (born 1942) is an Australian actor best known for his appearances in British horror films of the early 1970s.^[1]

He was cast as Cassio in a production of Othello at the Old Tote in 1965.

He studied in Bristol, England in the mid 1960s^[2] then moved to England and was in steady work.^[3]^{[clarification needed]} He moved back to Australia in the mid 1970s.^[4]

Select Filmography

Film

Rusty Bugles (1965) (TV movie)
The Recruiting Officer (1965)
The Wednesday Play - All Out for Kangaroo Valley (1969) as Robert
Cromwell (1970)
Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971) as Tod Browning
The Last Valley (1971)
Tower of Evil (1972) as Adam
The Boldest Job in the West (1972) as Michigan
Diamonds on Wheels (TV movie, 1973) as Whiteman
Terror in the Wax Museum (1973) as Sergeant Michael Hawks
Murcheson Creek (1976) (TV movie) as Dr Andrew Murcheson
Hospitals Don't Burn Down! (1978)
Shimmering Light (1978) (TV movie)
Roadhouse (1979) (TV movie)

Television

Consider Your Verdict
Adventures of the Seaspray (episode: A Strange Charter) (1967)
ITV Playhouse (episode: Bon Voyage) (1968)
The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder (episode: The Troupe) (1969)
Counterstrike (episode: Backlash) (1969)
ITV Sunday Night Theatre (1969) as Hester Lilly
W. Somerset Maugham (episode: Virtue) (1970)
A Family at War (1970)
The Troubleshooters (episode: The Bent Bonanza) (1971)
Love Story (episode: Sweet Sorrow) (1972)
A Point in Time (1973)
Arthur of the Britons (episode: People of the Plough) (1973)
The Carnforth Practice (1974)
La joven casada (1975)

Theatre

Coventry medieval mystery plays with the New England Theatre Centre
Wuthering Heights for the Education Department
Christ in the Concrete City
How the West Was Lost (1964) by Barry Creyton
Othello (1965) as Cassio (with Ron Haddrick) at Old Tote Theatre^[5]
A Severed Head (1965)
Wrong Side of the Moon
Faithful in My Fashion
Porgy and Bess

References

^ Vagg, Stephen (28 June 2020). "Ten random Australian connections with Hammer Films". Filmink.
^ "Two beards and a bright future". The Canberra Times. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 21 September 1965. p. 13. Retrieved 22 June 2020 – via Trove.
^ Bentley, David (18 April 1971). "It All Began at Old Tote". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 114.
^ "AGREEMENT ON CONSERVATION Concerted effort to save lake". The Canberra Times. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 27 August 1977. p. 13. Retrieved 22 June 2020 – via Trove.
^ "Othello". Tharunka. New South Wales, Australia. 3 May 1965. p. 3. Retrieved 22 June 2020 – via Trove.

External links

Mark Edwards at IMDb

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[1] Vagg, Stephen (28 June 2020). "Ten random Australian connections with Hammer Films". Filmink.

[2] "Two beards and a bright future". The Canberra Times. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 21 September 1965. p. 13. Retrieved 22 June 2020 – via Trove.

[3] Bentley, David (18 April 1971). "It All Began at Old Tote". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 114.

[4] "AGREEMENT ON CONSERVATION Concerted effort to save lake". The Canberra Times. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 27 August 1977. p. 13. Retrieved 22 June 2020 – via Trove.

[5] "Othello". Tharunka. New South Wales, Australia. 3 May 1965. p. 3. Retrieved 22 June 2020 – via Trove.

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