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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.
- Criminal, author
- 9 October 2013 (aged 58), Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Chopper Read
Mark Brandon Read, detto Chopper (Carlton, 17 novembre 1954 – Melbourne, 9 ottobre 2013), è stato un criminale e scrittore australiano, riconosciuto per un certo periodo come la persona più pericolosa d'Australia. Viene riconosciuto anche come artista e celebrità televisiva dopo aver presentato qualche show televisivo.
9 ott 2013 · Notorious former underworld identity Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read has died after a long battle with liver cancer. But how much do you know about him? WARNING: Graphic content follows. 1. 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.
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Sundays are for 60 Minutes. #60MinutesAustralia. 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 ...
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9 ott 2013 · He and his colleague Andrew Rule edited the letters to create a book, Chopper, From the Inside: The Confessions of Mark Brandon Read (1991), about Read’s exploits.
9 ott 2013 · One of Australia's most notorious underworld figures, Mark "Chopper" Read, a career criminal turned children's author, has died aged 58. In an era of celebrity culture, he was both celebrated and condemned for his legendary exploits involving armed robbery, shootings, stabbings, torture and kidnapping. "Posh people love gangsters," he once said.
9 ott 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...