Who wrote the screenplay for the film in which Mark Lester played the title role?
Mark Lester Mark Lester (born Mark A. Letzer; 11 July 1958) is an English former child actor known for playing the title role in the 1968 musical film version of "Oliver!" and starring in a number of other British and European films of the 1960s and 1970s and in a number of television series.
Pound (film) Pound is a 1970 film directed and written by Robert Downey Sr. It was based on "The Comeuppance", an Off-Off Broadway play written by Downey in 1961. It is about several dogs, along with a Siamese cat and a penguin, at a pound, as they await being euthanised; the animals are played by human actors. It was the film debut of Robert Downey Jr., the director's 5-year-old son, as a puppy.