Mark Loosemore

He was born and lived his first seventeen years in Dorchester a delightful town in the County of Dorset. A short lived excursion into film happened in 1963 when he was a pupil at Hardyes' School. In that year a former pupil who then worked for Woodfall Film Productions returned searching for extras to appear in an upcoming film Tom Jones (1963) starring Albert Finney which was due to use various locations in Dorset for the exterior scenes. At that time Mark was the lead drummer in the Combined Cadet Force Corps of Drums. To his delight he was chosen to appear as one of the four drummers who led Tom Jones to his execution. Three days of filming just outside Bridport were among the most exciting days of his childhood. If you watch the film the sound of drumming as Tom passes through the streets of London on route to his doom is down to the extra half day spent with the film's sound department. This was the start (and unfortunately end) of his film career until he was able to assist in a very small way with funding for the short film Songbird (2018) starring the very talented singer Janet Devlin Now at the age of seventy who knows where his movie career may lead.