Mark Ezra Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Mark Ezra
Writing
Biography
Ezra is a scion of the Ezra-Sassoon banking and trading dynasty. His ancestor, David Ezra, was a highly successful businessman in Calcutta, India. Another ancestor, David Sassoon, was treasurer to the Ottoman Empire in Baghdad before setting up in Bombay, now Mumbai, and becoming a British citizen. His mother, from Venice, Italy, was for many years a language coach at Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Ezra was educated at Ampleforth College, where he was a contemporary of Julian Fellowes, and at the University of Westminster where he studied film production. Ezra's horror movie, Slaughter High (1986) (originally April Fools Day), was picked up by Vestron at the Cannes Film Festival for ten times its production costs. He has directed several films, including Savage Hearts (1995), which featured Richard Harris, Julian Fellowes and Jerry Hall. Waking Ned Devine (1998), which he co-produced, was picked up by Fox Searchlight and grossed over $100 million. He wrote the screenplay for Steal (2002), which opened in the number 1 spot in France during the Cannes festival. His film House Swap (2010) won at the Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood. He is married to Production Designer and Composer Jenny Chartres. He is the author of several books and plays for children. In the 1970s and early 1980s he acted in several BBC TV productions, including The Young Ones (1982) and The Grand Inquisitor (1976) with John Gielgud.
Filmography Movies
Acting
Slaughter High
Eight different people are invited to their 10-year high school reunion at their now-closed down high school where a former student, disfigured from a prank gone wrong, is there to seek revenge.
The Grand Inquisitor
The Grand Inquisitor from Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov produced by the Open University.
Production
Living Doll
Howard, a shy morgue worker, falls in love with a girl who ends up in the morgue, but he doesn't let that stop him. Howard has a secret - he is in love with Christine. There's only one problem, Christine is DEAD! A grave was no place for Christine, the only place for her was at Howard's side. At last she was his, his to dress, his to feed and to care for.
Steal
An entrepreneurial criminal, Slim (Dorff) is as smart as they come. Cocky and confident, he assembles a team of risk-taking rush-seekers to pull off a series of five bank heists, each time using a different extreme sport to make the getaway. Following an unexpected windfall on only their second job, the gang nets $20 million in untraceable bonds. Having scored enough money to retire on, Slim and his crew decide to call the robbery game quits. But both the mob and the police have other plans in mind for Slim: they want him to keep working, for them.
Steal
An entrepreneurial criminal, Slim (Dorff) is as smart as they come. Cocky and confident, he assembles a team of risk-taking rush-seekers to pull off a series of five bank heists, each time using a different extreme sport to make the getaway. Following an unexpected windfall on only their second job, the gang nets $20 million in untraceable bonds. Having scored enough money to retire on, Slim and his crew decide to call the robbery game quits. But both the mob and the police have other plans in mind for Slim: they want him to keep working, for them.
Slaughter High
Eight different people are invited to their 10-year high school reunion at their now-closed down high school where a former student, disfigured from a prank gone wrong, is there to seek revenge.
Slaughter High
Eight different people are invited to their 10-year high school reunion at their now-closed down high school where a former student, disfigured from a prank gone wrong, is there to seek revenge.
Blind Justice
Following Southern Rhodesia’s declaration of independence, many face victory, while others grapple with violence under these new terms.
House Swap
A young California screenwriter and his composer girlfriend exchange their Echo Park home for a sprawling Tudor mansion near Glastonbury, England, in the hope of finding creative inspiration. Thinking they have the best of the bargain, they soon learn that the house comes with a stalker who seems able to enter through locked doors. Driven beyond endurance by the continual harassment, the screenwriter sets a trap to exact his revenge...
House Swap
A young California screenwriter and his composer girlfriend exchange their Echo Park home for a sprawling Tudor mansion near Glastonbury, England, in the hope of finding creative inspiration. Thinking they have the best of the bargain, they soon learn that the house comes with a stalker who seems able to enter through locked doors. Driven beyond endurance by the continual harassment, the screenwriter sets a trap to exact his revenge...
House Swap
A young California screenwriter and his composer girlfriend exchange their Echo Park home for a sprawling Tudor mansion near Glastonbury, England, in the hope of finding creative inspiration. Thinking they have the best of the bargain, they soon learn that the house comes with a stalker who seems able to enter through locked doors. Driven beyond endurance by the continual harassment, the screenwriter sets a trap to exact his revenge...
House Swap
A young California screenwriter and his composer girlfriend exchange their Echo Park home for a sprawling Tudor mansion near Glastonbury, England, in the hope of finding creative inspiration. Thinking they have the best of the bargain, they soon learn that the house comes with a stalker who seems able to enter through locked doors. Driven beyond endurance by the continual harassment, the screenwriter sets a trap to exact his revenge...