Alfred Marks

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.

  • Popularitet : 3.347
  • Kendt for : Acting
  • Fødselsdag : 1921-01-28
  • Fødselssted : Holborn, London, England, UK
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Alfred Marks Film

  • 1951
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    Penny Points to Paradise

    Penny Points to Paradise

    4.1 1951 HD

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  • 1970
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    Scream and Scream Again

    Scream and Scream Again

    5.3 1970 HD

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  • 1974
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    Mission: Monte Carlo

    Mission: Monte Carlo

    6.7 1974 HD

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  • 1982
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    The Yeomen of the Guard

    The Yeomen of the Guard

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1961
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    Agent i underverdenen

    Agent i underverdenen

    6.2 1961 HD

    Tyven Paddy Damion bliver hyret af en gangster til "at samle penge ind". Paddy er tvunget til at tage jobbet for at hjælpe sin makker Wally,...

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  • 1983
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    Fanny Hill

    Fanny Hill

    5.3 1983 HD

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  • 1972
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    Our Miss Fred

    Our Miss Fred

    6.4 1972 HD

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  • 1962
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    She'll Have to Go

    She'll Have to Go

    5.2 1962 HD

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  • 1956
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    Johnny, You're Wanted

    Johnny, You're Wanted

    5 1956 HD

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  • 1974
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    Weekend Guest

    Weekend Guest

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1960
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    There Was a Crooked Man

    There Was a Crooked Man

    6.1 1960 HD

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  • 1977
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    Valentino

    Valentino

    5.9 1977 HD

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  • 1970
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    Scramble

    Scramble

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1959
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    Desert Mice

    Desert Mice

    6 1959 HD

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  • 1990
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    Antonia and Jane

    Antonia and Jane

    5.5 1990 HD

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  • 1961
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    A Weekend with Lulu

    A Weekend with Lulu

    5.4 1961 HD

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  • 1984
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    Poppy

    Poppy

    1 1984 HD

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  • 1972
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    Hide and Seek

    Hide and Seek

    4.9 1972 HD

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  • 1976
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    The Ghosts of Motley Hall

    The Ghosts of Motley Hall

    6.8 1976 HD

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  • 1970
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    Albert and Victoria

    Albert and Victoria

    4 1970 HD

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  • 1983
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    Dramarama

    Dramarama

    6.667 1983 HD

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  • 1971
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    De uheldige helte

    De uheldige helte

    7.633 1971 HD

    De uheldige helte er de to playboys lord Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) og Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis), der som følge af en kombination af...

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  • 1971
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    Jason King

    Jason King

    7.3 1971 HD

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  • 1986
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    Lovejoy

    Lovejoy

    7.4 1986 HD

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  • 1992
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    Virtual Murder

    Virtual Murder

    6.5 1992 HD

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  • 1977
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    Raffles

    Raffles

    8 1977 HD

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  • 1988
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    A Question Of Entertainment

    A Question Of Entertainment

    1 1988 HD

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  • 1967
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    Blandings Castle

    Blandings Castle

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1964
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    Fire Crackers

    Fire Crackers

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1972
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    The Adventurer

    The Adventurer

    5.5 1972 HD

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  • 1979
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    Blankety Blank

    Blankety Blank

    4.6 1979 HD

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  • 1984
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    Oxbridge Blues

    Oxbridge Blues

    5 1984 HD

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  • 1979
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    Minder

    Minder

    6.7 1979 HD

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  • 1968
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    Cilla

    Cilla

    10 1968 HD

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  • 1972
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    Rainbow

    Rainbow

    6.7 1972 HD

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  • 1986
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    Lost Empires

    Lost Empires

    4 1986 HD

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  • 1975
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    The Sweeney

    The Sweeney

    7.7 1975 HD

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