Biography
Between Oscars, Emmys, and Golden Globes, his films have 9 Best Picture nominations, 6 Academy Awards including Best Picture, and 57 other nominations. They have grossed over 400 million dollars at the box office.
Tony Mark was the Executive Producer of Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker", which received 9 Academy Award nominations and won 6 Oscars including Best Picture. Other Oscar-nominated movies include Barbara Streisand's "The Mirror Has Two Faces" and Terry Gilliam's "The Fisher King". He produced the rodeo classic,"8 Seconds" as well as the first translation of James Baldwin to the screen, "Go Tell It On The Mountain". Among franchises, he was the Executive Producer of "Scary Movie 2", and with Robert Rodriguez created both "Desperado" and its sequel "Once Upon A Time In Mexico". He also worked with Rodriguez on "Sin City II - A Dame To Kill For". He was the Executive Producer of John Woo's 2024 feature, "Silent Night" and the 2025 Spanish language "Los Frikis" set in the punk rock scene of 1992 Havana.
For television, he was Co-Executive Producer and 2nd Unit Director on Seasons 1 and 2 of DirecTV's series "Mr. Mercedes" and Seasons 1 and 2 of Michael Bay's TNT naval series "The Last Ship" and Discovery's mini-series "Harley and the Davidsons". He produced "Georgia O'Keeffe", which received 9 Emmy nominations including Best Picture, and was nominated for Best Picture at the Golden Globes as well as the Producers Guild and Directors Guild Awards and won the Writers Guild Award for Best Screenplay. Other Best Picture Emmy nominations have come for "Witness Protection" and "And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself" both for HBO. Among television projects, Tony produced the decisive third season of John Singleton's "Snowfall" at FX.
Notable collaborations include John Avildsen, Michael Bay, Bruce Beresford, Kathryn Bigelow, Terry Gilliam, James Lapine, George Lucas, Bob Rafelson, Robert Redford, Robert Rodriguez, John Singleton, Barbra Streisand, John Woo, and the legendary Robert Wise. Tony wrote the original script and produced the final feature of Robert Wise's career, "Rooftops", a gritty drama shot on location on the streets of New York's pre-gentrified Lower East Side.
Tony has worked all over the United States and internationally in Bolivia, Canada, China, Dominican Republic, France, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, and Romania. He has written for MGM, ABC, NBC, Showtime, and USA Networks and has directed extensive 2nd Unit on films for Sony, HBO, CBS, TNT, Dimension, and DirecTV.
For the Guggenheim Foundation, Tony produced "Guggenheim Venezia - New York: Sessante Opere" a documentary on the art collections of Solomon and Peggy Guggenheim in New York, Venice, and Rome. He also produced and directed the documentary "Color War", an intense competitive staple of many summer camps. He is the Producer, Writer, and Director of the feature,"Local Sounds". . Tony co-founded acclaimed non-profit Assistance Dogs of the West (assistancedogsofthewest.org) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For over 25 years, using student trainers alongside professionals and rescue dogs alongside purebreds, ADW has been recognized at the forefront of the service dog movement.
Tony attended Horace Mann High School and Carnegie-Mellon University. He was the Artistic Director of Valley Theatre in Poughkeepsie NY, won Best Actor at the NY State Theatre Fest and spent two seasons in summer stock at Hyde Park Playhouse where he played comedian Lenny Bruce in the title role of Julian Barry's "Lenny". Along the way, he hosted "The Grotteaux", a late-night jazz/blues show on WPDH-FM, was the official photographer of the Dutchess County Fair in Rhinebeck, N.Y., and for 1 surreal month was the #1 salesman of Electrolux vacuum cleaners in the Northeast.
