That's all she wrote, ladies and gentlemen.' Read was active on Twitter and had over 10,000 followers, to whom he posted a poignant message after his last performance stating 'That was my last public appearance. This is how he would wish to be remembered, as someone who spun a great yarn and made many people laugh.' 'Despite his failing health, he delighted the audience with his skills as a raconteur and storyteller.
'A fortnight ago, Mark made his last public appearance in front of a sold-out audience at Melbourne's Athenaeum Theatre,' his manager, Andrew Parisi, said in a statement. His manager released a statement following his death in 2013 saying Chopper wished to be remembered as someone who 'made many people laugh'. He claimed to have survived being stabbed, shot, run over by a car and beaten in the head with a hammer. He once tried to kidnap a judge at gunpoint in a failed attempt to get a friend freed from prison. He was known for torturing his victims with blowtorches, although he said in interviews he never hurt an innocent person. He rose in the underworld by stealing from drug dealers and 'targeting criminals' by claiming debts they owed each other. Read became a ward of the state in his teens and was certified medically insane three times, aged 15, 19 and 23.īetween the ages of 20 and 28, he only spent a total of 13 months outside prison gates, having been convicted of crimes including armed robbery, firearm offences, assault, arson, impersonating a police officer and kidnapping. He gained his iconic look after a fellow prison inmate cut off his ears in the 1970s The film is set to be played a several film festivals before an official release in 2023, a decade on from Chopper's death.
In the images released of the film Chopper can be seen pointing a gun at the camera, suggesting the iconic killer may be replaying some of the moments from his criminal life. His screen presence is through the roof.' He loved history, the old West, so when I told him this was a crime western he was thrilled. He grew up watching Westerns and wanted to be an outlaw, or a sheriff,' Holcomb said. I think it was something he had wanted to do for a really long time. The directors said Read, who had his life featured in the 2000 film 'Chopper' starring Eric Bana, was a natural in front of the camera. Brothers Matt and Trevor Holcomb are the minds behind Pinball, which looked as though it was not going to be made when they lost their producer in 2016 - but decided to revisit and rework the film during lockdown last year.
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