Leo Marks

Leo Marks

Date of Birth: 24 Sep 1920

Country: UK

Biography: Marks was a poet, playwright, screenwriter and, during World War II, he was the head British cryptographer in the code department of the SOE. Breaking his father's letter pricing code at the family book shop Marks & Co. at age eight, Marks showed a growing interest in deciphering codes. He pursued a long and sometimes controversial postwar career as a writer for stage and screen, culminating in the film Peeping Tom, which hurt the reputation of its leading British director, Michael Powell.

Total Credits at Criticker: 3 (Actor), 8 (Writer)

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    Peeping Tom
    A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.
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    Twisted Nerve
    Martin is a troubled young man. With a mother who insists on treating him like a child, a stepfather who can't wait to see the back of him, and a mongoliod brother shut away in an institution, is it any wonder he retreats into an alternate personality... that of six year old Georgie? (imdb)
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    Undercovers Hero
    In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always bumbling in inspector Clouseau-style. As British Major Robinson he is hidden in Madame Grenier's Parisian brothel, right under the nose of the Nazi clients, such as Gestapo agent Herr Schroeder... (imdb)
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    Carve Her Name with Pride
    Violette Bushell is the daughter of an English father and a French mother, living in London in the early years of World War 2. She meets a handsome young French soldier in the park and takes him back for the family Bastille day celebrations. They fall in love, marry and have a baby girl when Violette Szabo receives the dreaded telegram informing her of his death in North Africa. Shortly afterwards, Violette is approached to join the SOE (Special Operations Executive). (imdb)
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    Guns at Batasi
    An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care. (imdb)
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    Cloudburst
    An American World War II veteran working for the British Foreign Office scours England for the killer who murdered his wife. (imdb)
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    Sebastian
    A British mathematician, working on code decryption, unexpectedly falls in love with another decrypter. This leads them to a complicated intrigue within the codebreakers. (imdb)
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    The Girl Who Couldn\
    Smilie that is. A tramp cures a teenager's amnesia and she fails to recognise him afterwards.
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