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Mark Frankel 1962 - 1996
Empire (Or Premier) November 1996
Mark Frankel, the British actor best known for his
starring role in Leon The Pig Farmer, has died in a motorcycle
accident, aged 34. Frankel was born in Surrey and won a scholarship to
drama school. After graduating, he garnered rave reviews for his role in Days
Of Cavalry and won the role of Michelangelo opposite F. Murray Abraham
in an American made-for-cable mini-series. The actor spread his career
evenly between Britain, where he starred in director Gary Sinyor's Leon
follow-up Solitaire For 2, and Los Angels, where he starred in the
top-rated US show Sisters and too the lead in the action movie Fortune
Hunter. The part for which he will be most remembered, however, is as
Sinyor's bemused hero Leon, in the former's witty and finely observed
comedy about a Jewish estate agent who discovers that his father is in
fact a Yorkshire pig farmer. Frankel's last film, the comedy Roseanna's
Grave, in which he co-starred with Leon's Jean Reno, will be
released in the UK next year.
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