Mark Goddard (born Charles Harvey Goddard; July 24, 1936) is an American actor who has starred in a number of television programs. He portrayed Major Don West, the adversary of Dr. Zachary Smith (played by Jonathan Harris) in the 1960s CBS television series, Lost in Space, and young Detective Sgt. Chris Ballard on The Detectives starring Robert Taylor.
Charles Harvey Goddard was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the youngest of five children, and grew up in Scituate. He was raised Catholic.
He led both his high school baseball and basketball teams to the state championship finals. Goddard dreamed of becoming a basketball player but eventually turned to acting. He originally attended Holy Cross College after high school, but he then transferred and studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. After two years, he moved to Los Angeles, California.
In 1959, after just three weeks in Hollywood, he landed a role in the CBS Four Star Television series Johnny Ringo, having played the character of Cully, the deputy, to Don Durant's character of Ringo, and Karen Sharpe's Laura Thomas, the girlfriend of Ringo. At this time, he changed his name to Mark Goddard at the suggestion of his friend and mentor, Chuck Connors of ABC's The Rifleman. Goddard appeared as Norman Tabor in the 1960 episode "Surprise Party" of the CBS anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson. He was cast as Sheldon Hollingsworth in the 1960 episode "To See the Elephant" of the ABC western series, The Rebel, starring Nick Adams. He played Tod Rowland in the 1960 episode "The Mormons" on CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.
Mark Goddard is the current managing director of the Asian Formula Three Corporation that runs the Asian Formula Three Championship and is a former racing driver. He is also the team proprietor of Team Eurasia, formerly known as Team Goddard and Minardi Team Asia. The team races in Formula BMW Asia, Formula V6 Asia by Renault and the Asian Formula Three Championship.
Mark competed in British Formula 3, finishing third in the B series in 1985.
He was employed by Ghiasports from 1999 to 2001 as their team manager. He oversaw the running of the China Formula 2000 Series during that time.
Mark Goddard won the Asian Formula Three Championship in 2002, driving for his own team with support from Castrol.
Actors: Jameson Baltes (actor), Allen Banks (actor), Josh Clark (actor), Tim Colceri (actor), Angelo Di Mascio Jr. (actor), Steve Eastin (actor), Michael Edwards (actor), Jeff Fahey (actor), Jim Hatch (actor), C. Thomas Howell (actor), Jon Ingrassia (actor), Mark Knudsen (actor), Ray Laska (actor), Ed Lauter (actor), Christopher Allport (actor),
Plot: A young renegade undercover cop (C. Thomas Howell) with a propensity for violence and a past history involving the murder of his cop father (Jeff Fahey) and the remainder of his family is recruited by a vigilante group with a leader (Ed Lauter) who wants only to kill all criminals and those associated with them.
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