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]} His best known credit was in Blood from the Mummy's Tomb.^[4]

Edwards moved back to Australia in the mid 1970s.^[5]

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^[6]
• A Severed Head (1965)
• Wrong Side of the Moon
• Faithful in My Fashion
• Porgy and Bess