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Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read (17 November 1954 – 9 October 2013) was an Australian convicted criminal, gang member and author. Read wrote a series of semi-autobiographical fictional crime novels and children's books. The 2000 film Chopper is based on his life.
- Gary Kemble
- Read spent the first five years of his life in a children's home, and was made a ward of the state by the age of 14.
- Read earned his reputation as a hard man first by ripping off drug dealers in Melbourne, then making his living kidnapping and torturing members of the criminal underworld.
- Read spent only 13 months outside prison between the ages of 20 and 38.
- In the late 1970s, Read had a fellow prisoner cut his ears off, in order to get out of Pentridge Prison's H division.
Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read (born 17 November 1954), is an Australian ex-convict, author, and celebrity. Early life. Read was born to an ex-army father and a mother who was a devout Seventh-day Adventist. He was placed in a children's home for the first five years of his life.
Oct 15, 2013 · Oct. 14, 2013. Mark Brandon Read, a notorious Australian criminal and self-described “murdering maggot” who spun tales from his violent history into a successful comedy routine and 10...
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Oct 9, 2013 · Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read, a career criminal turned children's author, died in 2013 at age 58. He was known for his violent exploits, his best-selling true crime books, and his movie adaptation by Eric Bana.
Jan 29, 2019 · Just 16 days before he died, Tara Brown sat down with Mark ‘Chopper’ Read for his last ever interview. It quickly became a confessional in which he admitted in graphic detail to murdering four ...
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Oct 9, 2013 · One of Australia’s most colorful underworld figures and author, Mark “Chopper” Read – whose cavalcade of violent crime put him behind bar for almost 23 years – has died after a battle with...