- Born
- Died
- Birth nameMark Warwick Fordham Speight
- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- Mark Speight was born on August 6, 1965 in Seisdon, Staffordshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Scratchy & Co. (1995), Greys Inbetween (2008) and ChuckleVision (1987). He died on April 7, 2008 in Paddington, London, England, UK.
- In January 2008 he found the body of his fiancée, Natasha Collins in the bath, where she had died of a cocaine and alcohol overdose. He was arrested on suspicion of murder and supplying Class A drugs but was soon released without charge. A week after an inquest returned a verdict of accidental death on Natasha, Mark went missing. His body was found several days later on 13 April 2008 in a building next to Paddington station in London.
- Was engaged to actress/model Natasha Collins until her death.
- Often mistakenly believed to have played the part of Sam the Lift in children's game show Incredible Games (1994), due to the similarities with the character he played in Scratchy & Co. (1995).
- He took a degree in commercial and graphic art and, while working in television set construction, heard of auditions for a new children's art programme.
- He regularly toured with Speight of the Art, a series of art workshops he ran for children,[3] and during the Christmas period, he performed in pantomime as "Buttons" in Cinderella at the Watersmeet, Rickmansworth, in December 2007.
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