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In 1968 he played the title role in the film Oliver!, a musical version of the stage production by Lionel Bart based on Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist. Lester also made several appearances in a number of British television series.
Oliver!: Directed by Carol Reed. With Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed, Harry Secombe. After being sold to the mortician Sowerberry, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by their elderly mentor Fagin in 1830s London in this musical based on Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist.
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- Drama, Family, Musical
- Carol Reed
- 1968-09-27
Oliver! is a 1968 British period musical drama film based on Lionel Bart's 1960 stage musical of the same name, itself an adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1838 novel Oliver Twist.
Mar 12, 2021 · 16-year-old Jack Wild became an international teen heartthrob after playing the cheeky Artful Dodger in Oliver!, and he was even nominated for an Oscar. He soon went on to star in the US TV show HR Pufnstuf, and reunited with Mark Lester in the 1971 film Melody, soundtracked by the Bee Gees.
- Tom Eames
Actor: Oliver!. Mark attended stage school in London, England as a young child and made his film debut in The Counterfeit Constable (1964) at the age of six. He made countless TV appearances and became very well known in England.
- January 1, 1
- 1.79 m
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- 2 min
Oliver! (1968) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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Mark Lester as Oliver Twist. Two thousand young hopefuls applied for the title role in "Oliver!" and 250 of them were actually auditioned by producer John Woolf and director Carol Reed before making their choice.
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