Mark Damon

Mark Damon's story is the part of Hollywood history I find most fascinating. Winning a Golden Globe as 1960's New Star for House of Usher could have locked him into the American leading-man track, but instead he chased reinvention to Italy and worked the Spaghetti Western circuit before pivoting entirely into producing. That second act is the telling one: knowing when to step out from in front of the camera and build films from behind it takes rare instinct. Mixing with Rome's Dolce Vita set only adds to the romance. When he died in 2024 at 91, he left a genuinely transatlantic film life worth remembering.

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Name (English)

Mark Damon

Name (Japanese)

マーク・ダモン

Reading

まーく・だもん

Born

April 22, 1933 – May 12, 2024

Origin

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Occupation

film producer / film actor / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rooster

High school

Fairfax High School

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Damon
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q541554

Tags

• Illinois
• film producer
• film actor
• actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.