Mark Frankel

The 34-year-old actor died in a traffic accident on 24 September 1996 from injuries sustained when he was hit by a lorry.

Frankel's feature film credits include the title role in Leon the Pig Farmer which was released in Europe in 1993 and won the Critics Award at the Venice Film Festival and the Charlie Chaplin Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival that same year.

He had married French advertising account executive Caroline Besson in 1991, and together they had two children, Fabien and Max. The younger, Max, was born after Frankel's death. Fabien Frankel (born 1994) is also an actor.

Frankel also appeared in Maigret opposite Michael Gambon; the episode (Maigret and the Mad Woman) was shot in Budapest, Hungary for Granada Television. In Leningrad, Russia, he filmed TNT's Young Catherine playing the role of Count Orlov and starring opposite acting legends Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Plummer, Franco Nero, and Maximillan Schell. Catherine was played by Julie Ormond, also a graduate (1988) of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Mark Frankel (13 June 1962 – 24 September 1996) was a British actor, known for his leading roles in the British film Leon the Pig Farmer and the American TV series Kindred: The Embraced.

Mark Frankel was born to David Lionel Frankel (a former Royal Air Force pilot) and Grace Frankel on 13 June 1962 and was raised in London. His grandmother was a concert pianist, and his grandfather, a prominent violinist and conductor. His family was Jewish. His mother was from an Indian Jewish family in Mumbai.