Actor Eric Bana played Mark Read in the film %27Chopper%27 Read died after a long battle with liver cancer He was known for torturing his victims with blowtorches ...

I don’t how I missed this story, but I blame the lamestream media. Mark “Chopper” Read, a legendary Australian true crime author played by Eric Bana in the 2000 Andrew Dominik film Chopper, died last ...

NOTORIOUS crime figure Chopper Read, whose life became a hit movie, is reportedly dead from liver cancer at age 58. The notorious criminal and author, whose life story was turned into the eponymous ...

MARK "Chopper" Read was a born storyteller but was lost for words a few weeks ago when asked what his legacy would be. MARK "Chopper" Read was undeniably a born storyteller, but when I asked him a few ...

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 ...

MARK Brandon "Chopper" Read has died of liver cancer, aged 58. "If you sit on the riverbank long enough you get to watch the bodies of all the people who wanted to kill you over the years float by," ...

SYDNEY, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Mark "Chopper" Read, one of Australia's most notorious criminals who also found fame as an author, died of liver cancer in a Melbourne hospital on Wednesday at age 58, his ...

Aaron has big shoes to fill. There was a feeling of panic for Aaron Jeffery. Had he just made a huge mistake? The actor had been handed the job of a lifetime, the portrayal of Mark Chopper Read in ...

Julie Posetti has previously received Federal Government funding to undertake research into journalism and multiculturalism Read is of course a popular culture icon in his own right, having been ...

As one of Australia’s most notorious gangsters, Mark “Chopper” Read once boasted of having killed 19 people without ever facing a single murder trial. But he later acknowledged that he had exaggerated ...

Mark 'Chopper' Read has confirmed that he is dying from cirrhosis of the liver. The Australian crime figure and TV star, who is famed for his drinking and bad behaviour, said that he has not touched ...

And in Dominik’s case, he has the extra wrinkle of trying to belittle his character’s self-made status by portraying him as an ultimately unhappy, lonely figure. But that could be playing into this ...