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Alfred Marks
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Alfred Marks
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1921-01-28,Holborn, London, England, UK
Gender
Male
Biography
Alfred Edward Marks OBE (28 January 1921 - 1 July 1996) was a comic actor and comedian. Marks was born as Ruchel Kutchinsky in Holborn, London. He left Bell Lane School at 14 and started in entertainment at the Windmill Theatre. He then served in the RAF as a Flight Sergeant in the Middle East where he arranged concerts for servicemen. He also worked as an auctioneer and engineer. He started in variety at the Kilburn Empire in 1946, and his stage appearances included The Sunshine Boys and Fiddler On The Roof. He was also involved in comedy work with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe which later led to the formation (along with writer Spike Milligan) of The Goon Show, though Marks himself was not to become a member of that comedy group. His films included The Frightened City and Scream and Scream Again. His television show, Alfred Marks Time, ran for 6 years on ITV. He compered Sunday Night at the London Palladium and appeared in numerous other television programmes including Albert and Victoria, The Good Old Days, Blankety Blank, The Marti Caine Show, The Two Ronnies, The Generation Game, Lovejoy, Minder (TV series), Parkinson, The All New Alexei Sayle Show and the Dramarama play The Comeuppance of Captain Katt (a satire on the current state of Doctor Who). In 1967 Marks toured Australia for JC Williamson Theatres in Bill Naughton's Spring & Port Wine. In 1968 he played the lead in The Young Visiters a musical version of the turn of the 20th century Daisy Ashford novel, written when she was six and published as submitted by her with the spelling error, at the Vaudeville Theatre in London. Marks also appeared in the role of Wilfred Shadbolt in the Gilbert and Sullivan opera The Yeomen of the Guard in 1982. While on tour in Australia, Marks was appointed the second King of Moomba (1968) by the Melbourne Moomba festival committee; when asked what his qualifications were, he quipped (in full Cockney): "When I was eleven there were rival gangs around a fruit market in the East End. And desperately, I always wanted to be a member of the bigger rival gang. One day when I was in my best Easter suit, someone from one of the other gangs said to me 'would you like to be King of the Golden Apples?' 'All right, just sit there on this box and call out Apples, Apples, give me the Golden Apples.' Which innocently I did and they cobbled me with every rotten apple in the market." Description above from the Wikipedia article Alfred Marks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Penny Points to Paradise

4.1

Penny Points to Paradise
1951-04-25

Scream and Scream Again

5.4

Scream and Scream Again
1970-02-02

Mission: Monte Carlo

6.7

Mission: Monte Carlo
1974-01-01

The Yeomen of the Guard

0

The Yeomen of the Guard
1982-06-01

The Frightened City

6.4

The Frightened City
1961-09-01

5.3

Fanny Hill
1983-01-01

6.4

Our Miss Fred
1972-12-14

She'll Have to Go

5.2

She'll Have to Go
1962-03-31

Johnny, You're Wanted

5

Johnny, You're Wanted
1956-01-20

0

Weekend Guest
1974-02-26

There Was a Crooked Man

6.1

There Was a Crooked Man
1960-08-31

5.9

Valentino
1977-09-07

6

Desert Mice
1959-01-05

Antonia and Jane

5.5

Antonia and Jane
1990-01-01

0

Scramble
1970-12-01

A Weekend with Lulu

5.4

A Weekend with Lulu
1961-04-10

0

Poppy
1984-01-01

4.9

Hide and Seek
1972-10-07

The Ghosts of Motley Hall

6.8

The Ghosts of Motley Hall
1976-04-28

Albert and Victoria

4

Albert and Victoria
1970-06-13

6.7

Dramarama
1983-09-12

The Persuaders!

7.6

The Persuaders!
1971-09-17

7.3

Jason King
1971-09-15

7.3

Lovejoy
1986-01-10

6.5

Virtual Murder
1992-07-24

8

Raffles
1977-02-25

A Question Of Entertainment

0

A Question Of Entertainment
1988-04-24

Blandings Castle

0

Blandings Castle
1967-02-24

0

Fire Crackers
1964-08-29

5.5

The Adventurer
1972-09-29

4.6

Blankety Blank
1979-01-18

5

Oxbridge Blues
1984-11-14

6.8

Minder
1979-10-29

10

Cilla
1968-01-30

6.579

Rainbow
1972-10-16

4

Lost Empires
1986-10-24

7.7

The Sweeney
1975-01-02