Leo Marks(1920-2001)

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Actor
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Peeping Tom (1960)

Leo Marks was born on 24 September 1920 in London, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for Peeping Tom (1960), Sebastian (1968) and Twisted Nerve (1968). He was married to Elena Gaussen. He died on 15 January 2001 in London, England, UK.

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Known for

Peeping Tom

7.6

Writer

1960

Sebastian

6.1

Writer

1968

Twisted Nerve

7.0

Writer

1968

The Girl Who Couldn't Quite

5.7

Writer

1950

Credits

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Writer

Undercovers Hero
5.2
- story and screenplay
- 1974
Twisted Nerve
7.0
- screenplay
- 1968
Sebastian
6.1
- original screen story
- 1968
Guns at Batasi
7.1
- original adaptation
- 1964
Espionage
7.5
TV Series
- writer
- 1964
The Webster Boy
5.8
- story
- 1962
Peeping Tom
7.6
- original story
- screenplay
- 1960
Carve Her Name with Pride
7.2
- poem (uncredited)
- 1958
Cloudburst
6.6
- play "Cloudburst"
- screenplay
- 1951
The Girl Who Couldn't Quite
5.7
- based on the stage play by
- 1950

Actor

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Peeping Tom

Personal details

Born
- September 24, 1920
- London, England, UK
Died
- January 15, 2001
- London, England, UK(undisclosed)
Spouse
- Elena Gaussen1966 - 2000 (divorced)
Other works
"Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945" HarperCollins, 1998; reprint, The Free Press, 1999, Touchstone 2000.
Publicity listings
- 1 Print Biography
- 4 Portrayals

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Trivia
Leo wrote the "code poem" used by Violette Szabo as portrayed in the film Carve Her Name with Pride (1958). Leo was a real wartime cryptographer and often composed poems like this for agents to use as an emergency code. The life that I have Is all that I have And the life that I have Is yours The love that I have Of the life that I have Is yours and yours and yours A sleep I shall have A rest I shall have Yet death will be but a pause For the peace of my years In the long green grass Will be yours and yours and yours