if jack hadn't started all the drinking and smoking he would've looked sooooo much better here but still i'm amazed at how he still manages to look gorgeous!!! mark looks really good too but i've always had a soft spot for artful dodger:)
@CorduroyAngel hi ..your right mark is up himself ..my brother was in the movie too as a dancer ... we know mark he's a pain in the a... really sad really the way he is ...
@RichardElden can you stop being so rude about Jack Wild please and thank you. He was short but definately not ugly! That may be your opinion but that doesn't mean you have to be immature and say he was "fucking ugly" have some respect for him. He had a much more eventful life than most ever will and it had to be cut short because of his actions. Just because he wasn't the main character in every single film that was made when he was alive, doesn't mean he wasn't talented. He's still very loved.
@RichardElden Being short and ugly is hardly a deterrent to becoming a successful character actor, Timothy Spall, John C. Reilly and Toby Jones come to mind immediately and I'm sure there are others. He got in the way of his own success by being an addict and an alcoholic and basically abusing his health until it was too late to fix it. You really seem to hate Jack Wild, what the hell did he ever do to you?
Oh lord, it makes me sad to think Jack Wild could have lived a long healthy life if only he had laid off the booze. It's so sad to see people you love who are determined to self-destruct. He might have aged much better and not gotten mouth cancer.
@Chizpurfle52595 Jack would have been 60 next year. I'm convinced he had youthful genes. Like you say if it weren't for the booze, if he were still alive he'd only look in his mid 40s.
I went to see Oliver Twist when I was 8 years old in 1968. I fell in love with England. I ended up going to England in 1983, meeting a Brit, getting married, living there, and having a son there. I used to watch Terry Wogan all the time. As for Jack Wild, he was part of my childhood I'll never forget. I would get up early on Saturday's to watch H.R. Pufnstuf. He was just adorable.
But it is truly horrific that Jack died don't think mark watever that asshole did not give a shit I can see the huge ego in him. I love jack so damn much I can't even stand it.
@EMRULEZX Yes,do that ; 'Dee Time' was a great show as well, Britain's first ever light entertainment chat show that went out completely live on BBC 1 every Saturday evening and had on it all the biggest stars of the time from movies, Pop music, tv and theatre. It was one of the biggest shows on tv for 3 years from 1967 to 1970 when it ended and was a 'swinging' fun show which resulted in of loads of copies after, eventually leading to Jonathan Ross ; Simon Dee was a huge tv star then
@midmodgal Yeah, Jack didn't have to look so goofy. A haircut, decent glasses, and clothes from the right decade would have gone a long way. Mark looks hunky!
Jack Wild was a very nice guy ; a great clip of him on Youtube is being interviewed on Dee Time by the late great Simon Dee in 1968, just after Oliver was released. So sad Jack died too young
jack wild was so cute in oliver! the perfect cockney voice.. too bad he died so young.. 53... michael jackson died 50 in fact.. mark lester still claims today that he is the real father of one of michael jackson's kids
Good grief! I can almost TASTE the palpable egotism of Mark Lester smearing out from this video. Mark seems to barely want to acknowledge that HE actually did a motion picture called OLIVER! W/ Jack Wild. Jack had his demons, & he passed in 2006. Mark Lester just chirped on about Mark Lester, and more about...well...Mark Lester...& even though MORE so, about...well....MARK LESTER! I can't say for sure WHO is the number one member of the Mark Lester Fan Club; but I have a very good idea! Peace.
Jack Wild's death was truly horrific. All those years of drink, drugs and smoking took a hideous toll. If you google his image, you'll see him near the end with his girlfriend and he looks like a tiny, fragile old woman. You'd never know it was him. It was a very sad story, especially after oral cancer surgery took his voice, but by all accounts he did his best to fight the good fight and got sober. Seriously, google his image, You'll toss those Marlboros out for good - it's that bad.
It's interesting - in a sad way - that of all the work Jack did on the movie Oliver! and all the many things that happened during that year of filming, the one incident he most vividly recalled and spoke of here was the time he got deathly ill smoking herbal tobacco.
@JubalCalif Letzer was only cast in "O)liver!" because he had the right look. He couldn't act so they had to put onions near his eyes and pull rabbits out of hats. All his singing was dubbed by a woman.
Marks a misserable old fart but hes ded cute coz his eyes are ded big. he needs to smile more tho. Jack is awsome coz he makes loads of jokes! R.I.P x
you can tell its them, Mark's eyes are still adorable big and his face has not changed! (i'm 11, good eye sight, i can identify stuff like this lol) and Jack's hair, the same, and face, not changed, still adorable awww! i didn't know he smoked... why has he got glasses? he didn't have glasses when he was younger! wierd how that happens. oh, well, i still think he's sweet! aww
@monkeybanana101 Yeah but hes not dead yet (Im sure being five months ago someone was bound to have said it already but if not :)).. Jack Wild on the other hand.. R.I.P. !! :(
Arthur's pancreas basically exploded, due to his extreme alcoholism. And no doubt Jack was loaded in this interview. He said he spent the 80's in a haze. But oh he left some beautiful images on that screen. His Dodger will live forever. Not a bad way to be memorialized. Most people aren't remembered at all.
Love Jack Wild!!!! I watch "Oliver!" with my kids and grandkids and He and Ron Moody well....................... they are just the business!! Jack acts through every scene he is in, even if the focus not primarily him - just a wonderfully lovely person.
Jack appears to be having a hard time speaking in this interview, both physically and mentally. His throat seems already damaged and his faculties are impaired. How sad to witness the decline of such a talented, beautiful person.
I too had a huge crush on Jack and watched him every Sat morning. I remember being so shocked and surprised when I realized I was looking at him years later in the movie Robin Hood with Kevin Costner. He seemed to have aged so so much and there seemed a sadness about him.
@JuanMacready Yeah, but it was a gradual build up. All that smoking. All that booze. It just didn't start in 2000. He was looking rough during Robin Hood because of his lifestgyle.
I think Jack's life would have turned out better had he never taken that role in HRP. His talent was so much deeper than that LA psycho-kidstuff and it got his head messed up. Just sayin.
@Brenda2OOO Jack wasn't given the big breaks he needed in the 1980s. I think he would have been great in something like EastEnders. He was a far better actor than some people give him credit for.
I have a page sized picture of Jack from a teen magazine from 1970. I had put on my mom's lipstick and kissed it all over LOL There are still traces of my lips on it;)
I would say Mark really didn't want to be there. He had moved on in his life, he wasn't acting anymore, and he didn't crave celebrity. Whereas Jack was still trying to get work and put himself out there.
But Jack admitted it was his lifestyle that gave him cancer. He smoked and drank to excess. Unfortunately for him, and his fans, it killed him far too young.
Certainly in the 1970s it was fashionable for celebrities to drink and smoke a lot. Jack's life sounds like a nightmare though, he recalled that he was drinking all through the day and would light up one cigarette as soon as he's smoked the previous one. Fortunately child actors today have more support so they can cope with the inevitable downturn.
Mark Lester always liked Jack and spoke of how Jack helped him so much during the filming of Oliver. Their lives took very different paths but there is no doubt who had the raw talent. And there's the tragedy.
I don't ge the sense that Mark is hostile. I get the impression that he's self-conscious, maybe a little shy and uncomfortable. He appears uncomfortable because of it.
I wish they had said more about 'Melody'. I really love that movie. (I still haven't seen 'Oliver'.) In fact, I watched 'Melody' earlier today, which I assume is why this clip showed up in the recommendations.
@kittyprydekissme: you gotta see "Oliver". Your life's not complete unless you see that one. Both Wild and Lester really shine. Everybody does, actually.
He certainly doesn't look 35 to me, but he was apparently. His life and the way he comes across here brings a tear to my eye. Mark Lester sweats hostility in this interview from my pov.
God, he was gorgeous.
DanniiXDoomm 6 days ago
if jack hadn't started all the drinking and smoking he would've looked sooooo much better here but still i'm amazed at how he still manages to look gorgeous!!! mark looks really good too but i've always had a soft spot for artful dodger:)
naeram 3 weeks ago
Blimey Jack was gorgeous.
DanniiXDoomm 3 weeks ago
Mark was handsome
TheSdMB 1 month ago
it just sucks cause you can tell hes been drinking. stay wild everyone <3
ILoveDraco8133 1 month ago 4
Lester seems a bit stuck up
2011TREADSTONE 1 month ago
Am I seeing this right? Oliver's taller than The Dodger?!
kowalskithepengui 1 month ago
1987? Jack still looks young here. I expected him to look awful like he did in later life.
MOONST0MP 1 month ago
@MOONST0MP It wasn't until he got to his 40s that he started looking terrible. Of course he was ill by then.
sirtinycreep 1 month ago
@MOONST0MP
1987 was when he was drinking his heaviest. He entered rehab in early 1988.
TheSdMB 1 month ago
I really don't like Mark Lester... he comes across as one big ego. Sorry, I shouldn't judge a man I don't know.
CorduroyAngel 2 months ago
@CorduroyAngel hi ..your right mark is up himself ..my brother was in the movie too as a dancer ... we know mark he's a pain in the a... really sad really the way he is ...
badboybaldy1 2 months ago
Oliver looks like daniel tosh o.e
Luaxen 2 months ago
1987 was such a depressing year. Everybody on tv was depressed, harking back to better days. Or was it just on the Wogan show?
Kevin107ish 3 months ago
Quite funny really, there body changes, there hair changes but thier eyes are just as inocent, sweet!
thatoldseadawg 3 months ago
society fucked him over
moshugari 3 months ago
Oliver, my favourite musical of all time. Wonderful! Every character a gem!
Sad ending for Jack Wilde. Dying in such awful means in 2006.
Mark Lester chases rainbows now. I think?
Celebrity can go awry, especially resulting from being a child star!
nineteenforty7 3 months ago
JAck was 35??? He looked like a mature 20 year old!
PieceofMindmusic 4 months ago
Hah Imagine if Mark's name was changed to Moe... Moe Lester..
RubyGold356 4 months ago 4
lol .. "he was in the different growin bank"
he is smart that was a good reply he Embarrassed the interviewer and made him explain what he meant
luv u JACK <3
shahad111 5 months ago
@shahad111 ............ different GROW BAG
IMPERIALSTORMTROOPER 3 months ago
@IMPERIALSTORMTROOPER aha I didn't hear him very well but it's funnier
shahad111 3 months ago
Where's the rest? (:
LeonieLuvsMichaelJac 5 months ago
Both of them were so adorable!
OohcoolProductions 5 months ago
Lionel Bart (allegedly) got these two on the charlie. Lester kicked it - Wild found it more difficult.
Jack Wild - what charisma. I honestly think Hollywood would have rediscovered him in the 2000s had he stayed healthy.
Even sadder is the fact that Arthur, Jack's brother, died at 49 in 2000.
Wook5ter 6 months ago
@RichardElden That's because he drank and smoked and got cancer.
Planetoxo 6 months ago
@RichardElden can you stop being so rude about Jack Wild please and thank you. He was short but definately not ugly! That may be your opinion but that doesn't mean you have to be immature and say he was "fucking ugly" have some respect for him. He had a much more eventful life than most ever will and it had to be cut short because of his actions. Just because he wasn't the main character in every single film that was made when he was alive, doesn't mean he wasn't talented. He's still very loved.
20hahacool20 6 months ago 4
@RichardElden Being short and ugly is hardly a deterrent to becoming a successful character actor, Timothy Spall, John C. Reilly and Toby Jones come to mind immediately and I'm sure there are others. He got in the way of his own success by being an addict and an alcoholic and basically abusing his health until it was too late to fix it. You really seem to hate Jack Wild, what the hell did he ever do to you?
Chizpurfle52595 6 months ago in playlist musical
Oh lord, it makes me sad to think Jack Wild could have lived a long healthy life if only he had laid off the booze. It's so sad to see people you love who are determined to self-destruct. He might have aged much better and not gotten mouth cancer.
Chizpurfle52595 6 months ago
@Chizpurfle52595 Jack would have been 60 next year. I'm convinced he had youthful genes. Like you say if it weren't for the booze, if he were still alive he'd only look in his mid 40s.
Planetoxo 6 months ago
I went to see Oliver Twist when I was 8 years old in 1968. I fell in love with England. I ended up going to England in 1983, meeting a Brit, getting married, living there, and having a son there. I used to watch Terry Wogan all the time. As for Jack Wild, he was part of my childhood I'll never forget. I would get up early on Saturday's to watch H.R. Pufnstuf. He was just adorable.
RevkahJC 6 months ago
Jack had the fountain of youth he was a great actor and singer
Lenore1963 6 months ago
Yes, he was short. But you need glasses or a Dr.
to say he was ugly. Every girl had a crush on him
back in the day. Stop being so jealous. That's ugly...
Ambrrrmay 6 months ago 7
@RichardElden No, your not great, your an ass...
He will always be remembered for his fun and great work. He was handsome,
and could act and sing. Who will remember you? Nobody...
Ambrrrmay 6 months ago
@Ambrrrmay wise words
bangform 6 months ago
Loved Jack. The greats have such issues. Didn't know he was so great...
Ambrrrmay 7 months ago
@RichardElden 4 minutes
bangform 7 months ago
i dont get why everyone thinks mark lester has such an ego? And if he has then its obviously because of his upbringing through fame
theswezzas 8 months ago
jack wild looks like a old chick
MilitantMovieBuff 8 months ago
But it is truly horrific that Jack died don't think mark watever that asshole did not give a shit I can see the huge ego in him. I love jack so damn much I can't even stand it.
cplenopro455 8 months ago
Oh jack you are still so cuteXD
cplenopro455 8 months ago 3
Jack always looks the same, hahah
Illbethere1998 8 months ago 2
@RichardElden And ? ; I mean what IS your point ?
TheKenfig 9 months ago
@RichardElden How five minutes ??
TheKenfig 9 months ago
@EMRULEZX Yes,do that ; 'Dee Time' was a great show as well, Britain's first ever light entertainment chat show that went out completely live on BBC 1 every Saturday evening and had on it all the biggest stars of the time from movies, Pop music, tv and theatre. It was one of the biggest shows on tv for 3 years from 1967 to 1970 when it ended and was a 'swinging' fun show which resulted in of loads of copies after, eventually leading to Jonathan Ross ; Simon Dee was a huge tv star then
TheKenfig 9 months ago
Love the film Oliver.I am an American that loves all things UK.Would love to go to England some day.
tcd61 9 months ago
This is 1987? Jack is sporting a Dan Tanna look circa 1978. Is Terry rocking a toop?
midmodgal 9 months ago 3
@midmodgal Yes, it is 1987. And I agree with you, Jack's fashions are ten years too late. :)
sirtinycreep 9 months ago 5
@midmodgal Yeah, Jack didn't have to look so goofy. A haircut, decent glasses, and clothes from the right decade would have gone a long way. Mark looks hunky!
GuaBaby 5 months ago
Jack Wild was a very nice guy ; a great clip of him on Youtube is being interviewed on Dee Time by the late great Simon Dee in 1968, just after Oliver was released. So sad Jack died too young
TheKenfig 9 months ago
R.i.p jack, he was sooooooooooooooooo lovely :'(
aliciah10 9 months ago
@RichardElden well technically he was cuz he was born in manchester BUT he was raised in London so .. :/
aliciah10 9 months ago
jack wild was so cute in oliver! the perfect cockney voice.. too bad he died so young.. 53... michael jackson died 50 in fact.. mark lester still claims today that he is the real father of one of michael jackson's kids
scyllaandcharybdis 10 months ago 3
Jack had a good sense of humor. I wish he were still alive.
PrettyFrocks 10 months ago
oh dear, you can tell Jack was a heavy smoker and drinker just by how he has aged. R.I.P
Bridie4167 10 months ago
Good grief! I can almost TASTE the palpable egotism of Mark Lester smearing out from this video. Mark seems to barely want to acknowledge that HE actually did a motion picture called OLIVER! W/ Jack Wild. Jack had his demons, & he passed in 2006. Mark Lester just chirped on about Mark Lester, and more about...well...Mark Lester...& even though MORE so, about...well....MARK LESTER! I can't say for sure WHO is the number one member of the Mark Lester Fan Club; but I have a very good idea! Peace.
BearyHairy 10 months ago
Hummmm.... i wonder where you can find the rest of this!! lol.
LeonieLuvsMichaelJac 10 months ago
aww you can so see that its them :D
XdisXesXwhyXimXhawtX 11 months ago 7
@XdisXesXwhyXimXhawtX That's coz it is them. ;)
sirtinycreep 11 months ago 5
You can still see Oliver in Mark's face
Herbsandspices100 11 months ago
Mark has'nt changed he still has that cute face. jack looks very different he has aged a little bit.
MsFanmail 1 year ago
I SOOOOOOO LOVE Jack Wild's voice. It's kinda soothing. It calms me down ^^ <3
Yassoda 1 year ago 19
If Jack only knew what he meant to his fans... I think it is so sad the way they are forgotten...
seanviv2 1 year ago 5
Jack Wild's death was truly horrific. All those years of drink, drugs and smoking took a hideous toll. If you google his image, you'll see him near the end with his girlfriend and he looks like a tiny, fragile old woman. You'd never know it was him. It was a very sad story, especially after oral cancer surgery took his voice, but by all accounts he did his best to fight the good fight and got sober. Seriously, google his image, You'll toss those Marlboros out for good - it's that bad.
notredamehesamighty 1 year ago 4
@notredamehesamighty Yes he looked seventy when he died.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
Jack probably didn't want to say he was unemployed.
JuanMacready 1 year ago 5
@TheRandomnessStudios Yeah, a 1970s outfit in 1987. ;)
sirtinycreep 1 year ago 3
Mark Lester kind of sounds like Harry Potter...
chalupaking4 1 year ago 2
did jack end up going to the states to do the sitcom ?. if so, what was the sitcom ?
Bethfromwigan 1 year ago
@Bethfromwigan No, never materialised according to wikipedia. It's on his page somewhere there under reboot of career !!
RShahProductions 1 year ago
Free Assange!
tracer740 1 year ago
jack looks a little....weird
Hsmgirl97 1 year ago
It's interesting - in a sad way - that of all the work Jack did on the movie Oliver! and all the many things that happened during that year of filming, the one incident he most vividly recalled and spoke of here was the time he got deathly ill smoking herbal tobacco.
Brenda2OOO 1 year ago
This is kinda random but the jack wild looks like the livelavalives "jeff" and it cracks me up. I luv jack though. A.K.A jimmy
ravenrlz123 1 year ago
jack is so goodlooking
BeccaLovesLahmas 1 year ago 9
jack wild forever , y love you
celidonia17 1 year ago
anyone know what year this interview was given??
femsual 1 year ago
@femsual 1987.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready thank u-- jack looks so cute here
femsual 1 year ago
@femsual Yes, the glasses were a bit large though.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready definatly-- did u see the interview jack did on here with simon dee?
femsual 1 year ago
@femsual Yes. It was a bit ironic though, when he said he wasn't worried about problems facing child actors as they get older.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready yah i know , i noticed that comment too, but he look so cute at that age. simon dee i heard passed on recenty too..
femsual 1 year ago
@femsual December 1987
sirtinycreep 1 year ago
I thought Jack Wild would grow up to look more like Paul McCartney lol
anythingnew 1 year ago
That Wogan guy is a real pratt and plonker.
AxeNewkill 1 year ago
Mark lester is my osteopath!
bus140808 1 year ago
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JubalCalif 1 year ago
@JubalCalif Jack was, Mark certainly wasn't.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
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JubalCalif 1 year ago
@JubalCalif Letzer was only cast in "O)liver!" because he had the right look. He couldn't act so they had to put onions near his eyes and pull rabbits out of hats. All his singing was dubbed by a woman.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
Marks a misserable old fart but hes ded cute coz his eyes are ded big. he needs to smile more tho. Jack is awsome coz he makes loads of jokes! R.I.P x
crazyJester1998 1 year ago
This is Christmas 1987. Jack was 35 here. He quit drinking in 1989, but so much damage had already been done to his health and career. So sad.
Brenda2OOO 1 year ago
How old was Jack here? He's not aged at all! He was only 5ft 3. <3
LIZZAWR 1 year ago
Even at this age, with years of alcohol abuse and a failing career, Jack Wild was hotter than hell. Damnnn, what a cutie.
Brenda2OOO 1 year ago 3
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Have you got Terry`s interview with James Stewart when he read `Beau` poem?
pjslev 1 year ago
Growing up, I'ld watch HR Puffinstuff with Jack. Aweful show but the hghlight was Jack, indeed!
OnCloudNine62 1 year ago 6
@OnCloudNine62 Aweful show? Nigga Please.. one of the most remakable shows eva!
mst3kpimp 1 year ago
you can tell its them, Mark's eyes are still adorable big and his face has not changed! (i'm 11, good eye sight, i can identify stuff like this lol) and Jack's hair, the same, and face, not changed, still adorable awww! i didn't know he smoked... why has he got glasses? he didn't have glasses when he was younger! wierd how that happens. oh, well, i still think he's sweet! aww
crazyJester1998 1 year ago
@crazyJester1998 Maybe he wore lenses.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
Do Ya' Want Ya' Wallet Back Hahaha (: X
Kayl3ighFulbrook 1 year ago 6
jack is a spunky little chap.. mark tho, needs to lighten up tho and smile more
dawnjones82 1 year ago 6
Love Jack Wild!
hollywoodgirl99 1 year ago 17
Jack was always the cuter and more talented of the two. He pulled Mark through both of their movies.Too bad Mark got all the height.
Brenda2OOO 1 year ago 12
Mark Lester looks like Julia Roberts so bad
MrSistasista 1 year ago
@MrSistasista Letzer grew up to be quite a strange looking man.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
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Is it just my machine that jams around 5:21 or is the video buggered?! I enjoyed what I saw tho. Thanks. :-)
1851davidb 1 year ago
Is it just my machine that jams at 5:21 or is this video buggered?! I enjoyed it while it lasted tho, thanks. :-)
1851davidb 1 year ago
I think Mark Lester wasn't a real blonde.
Debbie01yates 1 year ago
We'll never know what Mark Lester's main aim was...
monkeybanana101 1 year ago 15
@monkeybanana101 Nope, because that's where the video ends. Just thank your lucky stars you saw it at all!
sirtinycreep 1 year ago 2
I think it was something to do with the Imperial College in London.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@monkeybanana101 Yeah but hes not dead yet (Im sure being five months ago someone was bound to have said it already but if not :)).. Jack Wild on the other hand.. R.I.P. !! :(
RShahProductions 1 year ago
@monkeybanana101
To be an osteopath, presumably. Aim high.
weezlhed 1 year ago
@monkeybanana101 Maybe not, but just feel lucky we found the tape at all!
sirtinycreep 1 year ago
holy cow Mark Lester is STRAPPING!!!! HOTTT
ausoul 1 year ago 3
wonderful actors! Jack wild is amazing and never got recognised how good and talented he was!
inlineskater111 1 year ago 5
I remember HRP, I had a crush on him
EmpressElizabeth1920 1 year ago 4
how old are each of them here?
loopylauralovez 1 year ago
Mark Letzer was 29 and Jack Wild was 35.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
Mark was so cute in the "Melody"....but now?....
MrMich2011 1 year ago 2
Letzer never was an actor at all.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
Arthur's pancreas basically exploded, due to his extreme alcoholism. And no doubt Jack was loaded in this interview. He said he spent the 80's in a haze. But oh he left some beautiful images on that screen. His Dodger will live forever. Not a bad way to be memorialized. Most people aren't remembered at all.
Brenda2OOO 1 year ago 5
Did Arthur stop acting after the 1960s?
JuanMacready 1 year ago
R.I.P Jack Wild.
Injask 1 year ago
ive met mark lester
anticenaguy 1 year ago
So?
JuanMacready 1 year ago
Wow, Jack's voice is so croaky, his face fading, poor guy, but only himself to blame. I'll always love him for his role as Dodger, ALWAYS.
EvertonTV 1 year ago
Love Jack Wild!!!! I watch "Oliver!" with my kids and grandkids and He and Ron Moody well....................... they are just the business!! Jack acts through every scene he is in, even if the focus not primarily him - just a wonderfully lovely person.
L4priratesfan 1 year ago 4
mark lister is very posh
missgraceoc 1 year ago
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Jew boy Letzer is just a paedophile.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
He looks like a young Cliff Richard!!
ChaplainK 1 year ago
Jack appears to be having a hard time speaking in this interview, both physically and mentally. His throat seems already damaged and his faculties are impaired. How sad to witness the decline of such a talented, beautiful person.
Brenda2OOO 1 year ago 8
Maybe he was just drunk?
JuanMacready 1 year ago
I too had a huge crush on Jack and watched him every Sat morning. I remember being so shocked and surprised when I realized I was looking at him years later in the movie Robin Hood with Kevin Costner. He seemed to have aged so so much and there seemed a sadness about him.
jennabubbles 1 year ago 21
@jennabubbles I think that was around the time Jack contracted cancer...
sirtinycreep 1 year ago
Jack was diagnosed with cancer in 2000, ten years after the Robin Hood movie.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready Yeah, but it was a gradual build up. All that smoking. All that booze. It just didn't start in 2000. He was looking rough during Robin Hood because of his lifestgyle.
sirtinycreep 1 year ago
Do you think he was lying about never using drugs? I saw a heroin addict on TV who looked exactly like Jack Wild did in later years.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
I think Jack's life would have turned out better had he never taken that role in HRP. His talent was so much deeper than that LA psycho-kidstuff and it got his head messed up. Just sayin.
Brenda2OOO 1 year ago
He'd already been drinking heavily since he was 12.
FrankClanton 1 year ago
@FrankClanton and who told you that?
rossmill1 1 year ago
Wild said he started drinking and smoking regularly when he was twelve.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@Brenda2OOO Jack wasn't given the big breaks he needed in the 1980s. I think he would have been great in something like EastEnders. He was a far better actor than some people give him credit for.
sirtinycreep 1 year ago
If he'd been a few years older he would have been good as Del Boy.
JuanMacready 1 year ago 2
Jack Wild looks cute. RIP Jack, we miss ya.
mrblurblur2003 1 year ago 4
I have a page sized picture of Jack from a teen magazine from 1970. I had put on my mom's lipstick and kissed it all over LOL There are still traces of my lips on it;)
MissWitchiepoo 1 year ago 5
I always liked Jack Wild, ever since he was on HR Puffinstuff......had such a crush on him.....lovely man
sweetpea74403 1 year ago 6
poor jack he was so talented RIP.
scroffex 2 years ago 7
god mark lester seems quite boring and like he doesnt want to be there
jack wild looks really cute in oliver too
fantasticme5 2 years ago 7
I would say Mark really didn't want to be there. He had moved on in his life, he wasn't acting anymore, and he didn't crave celebrity. Whereas Jack was still trying to get work and put himself out there.
sirtinycreep 2 years ago
lol lester looks a bit like an anorexic john cena
Piccadillyo 2 years ago
christ look how different they are
Piccadillyo 2 years ago 2
all old (60s to 70s) british actors have some thing bad happen to them look at the carry on gangs biography and jack wild dies of cancer. its so sad
coltmanm 2 years ago
But Jack admitted it was his lifestyle that gave him cancer. He smoked and drank to excess. Unfortunately for him, and his fans, it killed him far too young.
sirtinycreep 2 years ago
oh i know but that was the 70s i wasnt around then but didnt people think it was not so much of a problem
coltmanm 2 years ago
Certainly in the 1970s it was fashionable for celebrities to drink and smoke a lot. Jack's life sounds like a nightmare though, he recalled that he was drinking all through the day and would light up one cigarette as soon as he's smoked the previous one. Fortunately child actors today have more support so they can cope with the inevitable downturn.
FrankClanton 2 years ago 4
Thankyou for posting, that was great. I'm going to have to see if I can find "Melody".
pazzensutra 2 years ago
@pazzensutra Amazon sell it.
sirtinycreep 2 years ago
Mark Lester always liked Jack and spoke of how Jack helped him so much during the filming of Oliver. Their lives took very different paths but there is no doubt who had the raw talent. And there's the tragedy.
Brenda2OOO 2 years ago 5
I don't ge the sense that Mark is hostile. I get the impression that he's self-conscious, maybe a little shy and uncomfortable. He appears uncomfortable because of it.
bunniview 2 years ago 6
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He clearly wasn't friends with Jack at all. But then maybe Jack was drunk during this interview and reeked of cigarette smoke.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
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rossmill1 2 years ago
I just read up on Wild's life/death... what a sad life for someone with so much talent.
sunshineuk1965 2 years ago 10
@sunshineuk1965 Jack would only be 57 now, indeed a waste.
sirtinycreep 2 years ago
I wish they had said more about 'Melody'. I really love that movie. (I still haven't seen 'Oliver'.) In fact, I watched 'Melody' earlier today, which I assume is why this clip showed up in the recommendations.
kittyprydekissme 2 years ago
You must see 'Oliver'. It's magical!
Israelgal 2 years ago 26
@kittyprydekissme: you gotta see "Oliver". Your life's not complete unless you see that one. Both Wild and Lester really shine. Everybody does, actually.
pazzensutra 2 years ago 5
Jack had already suffered three cardiac arrests by this time.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
This is the last time that Dr.Lester and Mr.Wild wer seen together.
143AC 2 years ago
They took part in an "After They Were Famous" reuinion for TV in July 2004.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago 2
no that's not true...they were together again for an Oliver Reunion along with Shane and Ron Moody
TFrOcks25 2 years ago 2
Good God, Wild looks like John Lennon here!
JuliatheCoolest 2 years ago 2
Actually, a bit more like John Denver.
JuliatheCoolest 2 years ago
He certainly doesn't look 35 to me, but he was apparently. His life and the way he comes across here brings a tear to my eye. Mark Lester sweats hostility in this interview from my pov.
BaddaBigBoom 2 years ago
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Despite the smoking and drinking Jack always looked young for his age until he became ill.
Lester is a weird guy who never was an actor at all. I'm not surprised he was so close to the gay paedophile Wacko Jacko.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
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You are a weird dude - every video I've looked at today has a comment from you.
Don't you have a job or something else to do? You need to find a new hobbie mate...
ChimaeraSuki 2 years ago
Maybe you should get a job, you fucking freak.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago