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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.
Oct 9, 2013 · Read was a career criminal who wrote best-selling true crime books and inspired a movie. He died aged 58 after refusing a liver transplant, saying he did not deserve it.
Oct 9, 2013 · SYDNEY (AP) — Mark “Chopper” Read, one of Australia’s most notorious and colorful crime figures, died on Wednesday after a long battle with liver cancer, his manager said. He was 58.
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 ...
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Oct 9, 2013 · Read, who claimed to have killed 19 men, was a household name in Australia after the film Chopper starring Eric Bana. He spent nearly half his life in jail and became a best-selling author of crime novels.
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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 liver...
