Trivia

Mark got his first big break from actor/director Robert Townsend who sent him to an agency that was casting actors for The Warriors. Years later as Mark was coming out of retirement, Robert Townsend cast him in an episode of The Last OG.

Mark attended John Dewey High School in Brooklyn. One of his classmates was Spike Lee. For several years they lived a few blocks from each other in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn. The two crossed paths several times, but only professionally when Mark auditioned for the film School Daze. Although he didn't get the role, Mark was later cast in a number of Spike Lee's films.

Mark became a huge fan of director Franco Zeffirelli after watching the film Romeo and Juliet in college and the mini series Jesus of Nazareth . Nineteen years later, Mark was directed by Zeffirelli in the Met opera production of Carmen. At the end of the run Zeffirelli gave Mark an autographed copy of one of his set designs for the opera.

Mark proposed to his future wife during the taping of a scene of the soap opera Another World.

At the age of 67, Mark was allowed to do his own stunt work in, "Don't Move.".