Alfred Marks

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

40

Gender

Male

Birthday

1921-01-28

Day of death

1996-07-01 (75 years old)

Place of Birth

Holborn, London, England, UK

Alfred Marks

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.

Known For

  • Rainbow

    Rainbow

  • Minder

    Minder

  • The Sweeney

    The Sweeney

  • The Persuaders!

    The Persuaders!

  • Blankety Blank

    Blankety Blank

  • Lovejoy

    Lovejoy

  • Festival

    Festival

  • Cilla

    Cilla

  • Desert Mice

    Desert Mice

  • Target

    Target

  • Jason King

    Jason King

  • The Adventurer

    The Adventurer

  • Dramarama

    Dramarama

  • Penny Points to Paradise

    Penny Points to Paradise

  • Poppy

    Poppy

  • Fanny Hill

    Fanny Hill

  • Raffles

    Raffles

  • She'll Have to Go

    She'll Have to Go

  • A Weekend with Lulu

    A Weekend with Lulu

  • Hide and Seek

    Hide and Seek

  • There Was a Crooked Man

    There Was a Crooked Man

  • Virtual Murder

    Virtual Murder

  • The Ghosts of Motley Hall

    The Ghosts of Motley Hall

  • Valentino

    Valentino

  • Oxbridge Blues

    Oxbridge Blues

  • The Frightened City

    The Frightened City

  • The World of Wodehouse

    The World of Wodehouse

  • Lost Empires

    Lost Empires

  • Johnny, You're Wanted

    Johnny, You're Wanted

  • A Question Of Entertainment

    A Question Of Entertainment

  • Fire Crackers

    Fire Crackers

  • Albert and Victoria

    Albert and Victoria

  • Our Miss Fred

    Our Miss Fred

  • The Yeomen of the Guard

    The Yeomen of the Guard

  • Scream and Scream Again

    Scream and Scream Again

  • Mission: Monte Carlo

    Mission: Monte Carlo

  • Antonia and Jane

    Antonia and Jane

  • The Come-Uppance of Captain Katt

    The Come-Uppance of Captain Katt

  • Weekend Guest

    Weekend Guest

  • Scramble

    Scramble