Jack Marks
comedian · screenwriter
- February 12, 1895
- March 12, 1987
- 92 years
- lung cancer
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Jack Marks, 92, English performer and screenwriter (Up for the Cup), lung cancer.
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|Jack Marks (12 February 1895 – 12 March 1987) was an English performer and screenwriter. He was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, and began his career as a comedian, dancer and singer. [citation needed] He appeared before King George V and Queen Mary at the inaugural Royal Command Performance in London in 1912. He later became a successful screenwriter for several British films, such as Up for the Cup (1950).
Marks married Iris Dilley and they had a son, Howard.
He died from lung cancer in St John's Wood.
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