Mark Collie

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Mark Collie
Born January 18, 1956 (1956-01-18) (age 52)
Origin Waynesboro, Tennessee, United States
Genre(s) country
Occupation(s) singer-songwriter
Instrument(s) vocals, guitar
Years active 1990-present
Label(s) MCA, Giant, Highway 64
Associated acts Aaron Tippin
Website http://www.markcollie.net

Mark Collie (born January 18, 1956 in Waynesboro, Tennessee) is an American country singer/songwriter and occasional actor. To date, Collie has recorded seven studio albums, and has charted more than a dozen singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.

His first single, "Something With a Ring to It", was co-written with Aaron Tippin. The song was later recorded by Garth Brooks.

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[edit] Film and television

In 1998, Collie appeared as Johnny Cash in the short film, I Still Miss Someone. Shot mostly in stunning black and white, it captures a moment in time during Cash's darkest years of the mid 1960s.

He has appeared in episodes of television shows such as JAG, Walker, Texas Ranger and The Strip.

In The Punisher, he played Harry 'Heck' Thornton, an assassin who plays Frank Castle a song, "In Time" (written by Collie) before attempting to kill him. The song is featured as the last track on the Original Soundtrack, and over the credits on the Director's Cut.

In Fire Down Below, he plays a thug who tries to kill Steven Seagal's character.

[edit] Personal Information

One of six children, he showed an early interest in piano and guitar and performed often for his family.

Currently divorced from his second wife, Mark likes car racing, fishing, golfing, and used to ride bulls.

Mark has diabetes and volunteers often for the American Diabetes Association. He also hosts the "Mark Collie Celebrity Motorsports Festival For Diabetes Cure", held every October in Nashville at the Nashville Speedway.

[edit] Arrest

On the night of July 19, 2007, Collie was arrested in Nashville, Tenn and charged with DUI. The 51-year-old country music singer was found slumped over the steering wheel of a car with the engine running near Music Row on the campus of Vanderbilt University. He smelled of alcohol and had take a blood alcohol test.[1]

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

Year Title Chart positions Label
US Country US 200 US Heat
1990 Hardin County Line 57 MCA
1991 Born & Raised in Black & White
1993 Mark Collie 38 156 6
1994 Unleashed
1995 Tennessee Plates Giant
1997 Even the Man in the Moon Is Cryin' MCA

[edit] Singles

Year Title US Country Album
1982 "I've Got to Have You Back Again"
1990 "Something with a Ring to It" 54 Hardin County Line
"Looks Aren't Everything" 35
"Hardin County Line" 59
1991 "Let Her Go" 18
"Calloused Hands" 31 Born & Raised in Black & White
1992 "She's Never Comin' Back" 28
"It Don't Take a Lot" 70
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1993 "Born to Love You" 6
"Shame Shame Shame Shame" 26
"Something's Gonna Change Her Mind" 24
"Even the Man in the Moon Is Cryin'" 22 1994 "It Is No Secret" 53 Unleashed
1995 "Hard Lovin' Woman" 13
"Three Words, Two Hearts, One Night" 25 Tennessee Plates
"Steady as She Goes" 65
1996 "Love to Burn" 72 unreleased Columbia Records album

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Mark Collie Charged With DUI [1]
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