George Harrison Marks
George Harrison Marks (6 August 1926 – 27 June 1997) was an English glamour photographer and director of nudist, and later, pornographic films.
Born in Tottenham, Middlesex in 1926 to a Jewish family, Marks was 17 when he married his first wife, Diana Bugsgang. He worked as a stand-up comedian in variety halls towards the end of the music hall era, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, in a duo called Harrison and Stuart. Marks left the act in 1951 to develop his photographic career, taking pictures of music-hall performers and showgirls. The model and actress Pamela Green was performing as a dancer in a 1952 revue called Paris to Piccadilly, a version of the Folies Bergère in London. She became Marks' lover and began working with him as a model. Their relationship ended in 1961. During the 1960s Marks had a relationship with another of his models, June Palmer, and he married his second wife Vivienne Warren in 1964.
While he was filming The Naked World of Harrison Marks he began a relationship with Toni Burnett, an actress and model who made a brief appearance in the film. In 1967, the year the film came out, Marks and Burnett had a daughter, Josie Harrison Marks. Marks' and Green's business partnership was dissolved in the same year, and in 1970 Marks was bankrupt.
In 1971 he was tried at the Old Bailey for dealing in pornography by post. Marks and Burnett married in September 1973, but they split up around 1978. In 1979 Marks began a relationship with Louise Sinclair, a teenage glamour model.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.0907 |
| Birthday | 1926-08-06 |
| Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Harrison Marks, |
1961
As Nature Intended
4.944/9
Three girls on a tour of the English countryside meet up with two young women who introduce them to the joys of life in a nudist camp.
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As Nature Intended
1969
The Nine Ages of Nakedness
3.8/5
A man attempts to deal with the bevy of naked beauties who have been bothering his family for generations.
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The Nine Ages of Nakedness
1977
Come Play with Me
4.741/29
Two alluring young ladies live with their beautiful widowed aunt on a secluded wooded estate. The women have earned themselves quite a reputation in t...
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Come Play with Me
1961
The Window Dresser
0/0
A cat burglar hides from the law by posing as a display mannequin in a lingerie shop.
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The Window Dresser
1995
Doing Rude Things
3.8/5
A light-hearted celebration of British sex films from the 1950s to the early 1980s. Presented by Angus Deayton, the programme includes interviews with...
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Doing Rude Things
1964
The Four Poster
2/1
A girl is staying at a spooky hotel, where she is menaced by a hunchback, but a soldier saves her.
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The Four Poster
1964
Vampire
2/2
Soho 'glamour' filmmaker George Harrison Marks plays girl-hungry vampire Count Dracula III in this strange striptease short.
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Vampire
1966
The Naked World of Harrison Marks
3.667/3
Work of popular nude photographer
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The Naked World of Harrison Marks
1960
Hopeless Helpmates
0/0
A frenzied anarchist slapstick in the best traditions, with the complete destruction of the scenery, and with a sarcastic mockery of the creative inte...
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Hopeless Helpmates
1963
The Chimney Sweeps
0/0
Slapstick comedy of mayhem between two sweeps and two comic burglars.
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