- Born
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- Birth nameLeopold Samuel Marks
- Leo Marks was born on September 24, 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 January 15, 2001 in London, England, UK.
- SpouseElena Gaussen(1966 - 2000) (divorced)
- 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
- Was head of code development and code security for the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The SOE was reponsible for supplying and coordinating resistance activities against the Axis powers during WWII.
- Was the son of the owner of Marks' bookshop as featured in 84 Charing Cross Road (1987).
- He was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in 1945 for his wartime work with SOE.
- His body was donated to University of East London for medical science.
- The only indecipherable code in the world is a woman
- Peeping Tom (1960) - £1,000
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