In Music, Film and Television
Mark (called "Marke") is a character in Wagner's 1859 opera Tristan und Isolde, a role to be played by a bass.
In the 1970s TV show Arthur of the Britons, Mark was played by Brian Blessed, and in the 2006 film Tristan & Isolde, he was played by Rufus Sewell. In "Lovespell" (1981) he was played by Richard Burton (as King Mark of Cornwall).
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