Mark Eden
Mark Eden (born 14 February 1928) is a British actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Alan Bradley in Coronation Street, a character he played from 1986-1989.
Early life
He was born in London and he received little formal education as he spent almost two years in a TB sanatorium as a child. However he read the literary classics including Shakespeare, having been introduced to the library by a teacher. He left school at 14 and worked on fairgrounds.
Career
Eden has appeared in repertory theatre in England and Wales and at the Royal Court Theatre. His many television and film roles include the Doctor Who serial Marco Polo (1964) in which he played Marco Polo, a reporter in Quatermass and the Pit in 1958, Number 100 in The Prisoner in 1967, and Inspector Parker in the TV adaptations of several Lord Peter Wimsey stories in the 1970s. He also had a long running role in Coronation Street (1986–1989) in which he played Alan Bradley. His exit from this role was famously being knocked down by a Blackpool tram. At the location there is now a plaque at the tram stop which recalls this scene.
'Mark Eden' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Frankenstein Island (1981)
Actors: Richard Banks (actor), Tain Bodkin (actor), Steve Brodie (actor), John Carradine (actor), Robert Christopher (actor), Robert Clarke (actor), Andrew Duggan (actor), Melvin (actor), Cameron Mitchell (actor), George Mitchell (actor), Patrick O'Neil (actor), Mel Pralgo (actor), Vic Schneider (actor), James Webb (actor), Marla Conner (actress),
Plot: When a hot-air balloon crashes on a remote island, the crew discovers Dr. Frankenstein's ancestor carrying on the family work, along with a race of mutants and a population of Amazons.
Keywords: amazon, balloon, character-name-in-title, doctor-frankenstein, frankenstein's-monster, independent-film, island, monster, remake, remake-by-original-directorGenres: Horror, Sci-Fi,
Taglines: The power is 7,000,000 volts--it's alive!
Quotes:
Curtis Ryan: It's when you mix the particular place, not here, but on the outside, well, that's when the power hits ya!::Mark Eden: The power?::Curtis Ryan: It's sort... it's built in, it's like telepathy.::Mark Eden: Telepathy?::Curtis Ryan: No, no! It's LIKE telepathy!Dr. Frankenstein: I hear thee. So as I hear, be thee assured my response is forthcoming!
Balloonist #2: [incredulously] Did you ever hear of a tornado at sea?::Balloonist #1: Well, that's what Doc called it. Sounded like his balloon's being torn apart! Whatever the number, it got him real good and surrounded.::Balloonist #2: Surrounded?::Balloonist #1: The water, man! The ocean! Anyway you shake it, those poor devils either ended up on it, in it or under it!
Sheila Frankenstein von Helsing: The brain! It's going to be destroyed!
Dr. von Helsing: The power will start again! The backup brain was hidden years ago, just in case!
Eden, Mark Filmography
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2014, role: actor , character name: Alan Bradley
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2013, role: actor , character name: Donald Baverstock
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2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2012, role: actor , character name: Himself - Friend
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2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2010, role: actor , character name: Alan Bradley
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2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1991, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1990, role: actor , character name: Himself - Audience Member
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1985, role: actor , character name: Larry
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1983, role: actor , character name: Joe Kaye
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1980, role: actor , character name: Richard Morris
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1977, role: actor , character name: Quartus
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1976, role: actor , character name: Mr. Pollard
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1972, role: actor , character name: Charles
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1970, role: actor
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1969, role: actor , character name: Jack Parker
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1968, role: actor , character name: Opening presenter
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1968, role: actor , character name: Lieutenant Commander Donald Kimberly
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1968, role: actor , character name: Robert Manning
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1967, role: actor , character name: Kellaway
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1965, role: actor , character name: Prinny
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1965, role: actor , character name: Oliver Marchant
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1965, role: actor , character name: Engineer at Dam
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1965, role: actor , character name: Mike Williams
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1964, role: actor , character name: Mr. Clayton
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1963, role: actor , character name: Sir Geoffrey Despard
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1963, role: actor , character name: Richard Webb
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1962, role: actor , character name: Mosquito Pilot
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1962, role: actor , character name: Terry
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1962, role: actor , character name: 2nd Prisoner of war
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1961, role: actor , character name: Police Constable
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1959, role: actor
Eden, Mark Filmography
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1970, role: director
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1970, role: director
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1967, role: writer
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1965, role: writer
Mark Eden
ALBUMS
- The Art of the Virtual Rhythmicon released:
Mark Twain
Many years ago on the Mississippi riverboats
They had men called gaugers
And the job of a gauger was to hang off
the side of the boat with one hand
And in the other hand he had a ball of twine
with a hunk a lead on the end of it
He’d wield the lead above his head
And let it fly into the river
Wherever the water marked the twine
He’d call up to the skipper and say
Marking on the twine is four fathoms
‘Cause then and there, year after year
It was getting pretty monotonous
Until in the 18 hundreds a little man
Came along and revolutionized the
Whole gauging industry
Instead of saying marking on the twine
He cut it short and said Mark twain
And in between each marking he’d
Fill it in with a little pattern about himself
And his every day life
Well if you’d been livin’ at that time
Coming up from a distance on the Mississippi
It would have sounded like this
Mark Twain four fathoms off the starboard bow
I got a gal named Cindy-Lou
Feeds me gin and bake beans too
Mark Twain, Mark Twain
Three fathoms off the starboard bow
I got a friend his name is Pete,
sings dirty songs down on Beel street
Mark Twain, Mark Twain
two fathoms off the starboard bow
I’ve been working the river since '92
I get a penny a day and bad liquor too
Mark Twain I won’t save my money
Till the day I die
They gonna bury me all but my good right eye
Mark twain, Mark Twain
No fathoms off the starboard bow
Look out skipper pull it to the side
You gonna bust your bow and split your hide
Oh great God we done run it down
Skipper gonna chase me with a big blood hound