Alfred Marks

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Holborn, London, England, UK, 1921-01-28

Died: 1996-07-01

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Penny Points to Paradise	Edward Haynes	41
2	1956	Johnny, You're Wanted	Marks	50
3	1959	Desert Mice	Major Poskett	60
4	1960	There Was a Crooked Man	Adolf Carter	61
5	1961	A Weekend with Lulu	Comte de Grenoble	54
6	1961	The Frightened City	Harry Foulcher	64
7	1962	She'll Have to Go	Douglas Oberon	52
8	1970	Scream and Scream Again	Detective Supt. Bellaver	53
9	1970	Scramble		0
10	1972	Hide and Seek	Butcher	49
11	1972	Our Miss Fred	General Brincker	64
12	1974	Mission: Monte Carlo	Pullicino	67
13	1974	Weekend Guest	Arthur Steele	0
14	1977	Valentino	Richard Rowland	59
15	1982	The Yeomen of the Guard	Wilfred Shadbolt	0
16	1983	Fanny Hill	Lecher	53
17	1984	Poppy	Obadiah Upward	0
18	1986	The Come-Uppance of Captain Katt	Captain Katt/Ludovic French/Inspector Brough	0
19	1990	Antonia and Jane	Uncle Vladimir Hartman	55

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	Fire Crackers		0
2	1967	Blandings Castle		0
3	1968	Cilla	Self	100
4	1970	Albert and Victoria		40
5	1971	Jason King		73
6	1971	The Persuaders!	Pullicino	76
7	1972	The Adventurer	Daffon	55
8	1972	Rainbow	Himself	66
9	1975	The Sweeney	Gerald Bishop	77
10	1976	The Ghosts of Motley Hall		68
11	1977	Raffles		80
12	1979	Blankety Blank		46
13	1979	Minder	Barney Mather	68
14	1983	Dramarama		67
15	1984	Oxbridge Blues	Bernie Pinto	50
16	1986	Lovejoy	Solomon Senior	73
17	1986	Lost Empires	Otto Mergen	40
18	1988	A Question Of Entertainment		0
19	1992	Virtual Murder		65

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