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David Scarboro (February 3 1968 - April 27 1988) was a British actor who appeared for a brief role in the school drama series Grange Hill in 1985, but was best known for portraying Mark Fowler in the popular British soap opera EastEnders at its inception in 1985 until he left a few months later. The actor did not respond well to the sudden fame the role brought him, and after lateness and being judged to be un-cooperative on set, he was abruptly fired from the show. In the storyline his family awoke one morning to discover that Mark had unexpectedly left home during the night.

In December 1985 he briefly returned to the series in a special storyline where Mark was reunited with his parents who traveled to visit him in Southend-on-Sea where he had settled with an older woman who had children from an earlier relationship. He was later seen again briefly in 1987 when Mark was in a detention centre after he was arrested for assault. This was the last time David made an appearance in the series.

Away from the series Scarboro initiated libel proceedings after several national papers published inaccurate and damaging stories about his private life, but the press continued to pursue him and his family as his mental health deteriorated. The News of the World discovered that he was in a psychiatric unit, and published photographs of the place. Scarboro left the unit because he could no longer get the treatment that he needed there, and inaccurate stories about his condition were being published. He committed suicide in 1988, at just twenty years old, by throwing himself from Beachy Head. His parents subsequently left the country, appalled by the apparent impunity with which the press were able, as they saw it, to "get away with" the destruction of their son.

The role of Mark Fowler was subsequently taken by Todd Carty in 1990 and continued in EastEnders as a regular character until 2003.

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