Leopold Samuel Marks, (24 September 1920 – 15 January 2001) was an English writer, screenwriter, and cryptographer.
Scorsese subsequently asked Marks to supply the voice of Satan in his 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ. In 1998, Marks published his account of his work in SOE – Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's Story 1941–1945.
The marriage lasted until shortly before his death at home from cancer in January 2001. ==References== ==Sources== Leo Marks (1998), Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's Story 1941–1945.
The bookshop subsequently became famous as a result of the book 84, Charing Cross Road, which was based on correspondence between American writer Helene Hanff and the shop's chief buyer, Frank Doel. ==Work in cryptography== Marks was conscripted in January 1942, and trained as a cryptographer; apparently he demonstrated the ability to complete one week's work in decipherment exercise in a few hours.
According to his book, Marks wrote the poem in Christmas 1943 about a girlfriend, Ruth, who had recently died in an air crash in Canada; supposedly the god-daughter of the head of SOE, Sir Charles Jocelyn Hambro. The life that I have Is all that I have And the life that I have Is yours.
The other side of this story was published in 1953 by Marks's German opposite number in the Netherlands, Hermann Giskes, in his book London Calling North Pole. ===Reporting to Brigadier Gubbins=== In his book (pp. 222–3), Marks describes the memorandum he wrote detailing his conviction that messages from the Netherlands were being sent either by Germans or by agents who had been turned.
Three of the poems published in the book were scrambled into the song "Dead Agents" by John Cale performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, in April 1999. Marks describes himself as an agnostic in Between Silk and Cyanide, but frequently refers to his Jewish heritage. ==Marriage and death== He married the portrait painter Elena Gaussen in 1966.
The book was written in the early 1980s, but didn't receive UK Government approval for publication until 1998.
Scorsese subsequently asked Marks to supply the voice of Satan in his 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ. In 1998, Marks published his account of his work in SOE – Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's Story 1941–1945.
In 1998, towards the end of his life, Marks published a personal history of his experiences during the war, Between Silk and Cyanide, which was critical of the leadership of SOE. ==Early life== Marks was the son of Benjamin Marks, the joint owner of Marks & Co, an antiquarian bookseller in Charing Cross Road, London.
Scorsese subsequently asked Marks to supply the voice of Satan in his 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ. In 1998, Marks published his account of his work in SOE – Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's Story 1941–1945.
The book was written in the early 1980s, but didn't receive UK Government approval for publication until 1998.
Three of the poems published in the book were scrambled into the song "Dead Agents" by John Cale performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, in April 1999. Marks describes himself as an agnostic in Between Silk and Cyanide, but frequently refers to his Jewish heritage. ==Marriage and death== He married the portrait painter Elena Gaussen in 1966.
Leopold Samuel Marks, (24 September 1920 – 15 January 2001) was an English writer, screenwriter, and cryptographer.
The marriage lasted until shortly before his death at home from cancer in January 2001. ==References== ==Sources== Leo Marks (1998), Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's Story 1941–1945.
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