# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leo-marks
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:25:25.686Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leo-marks"
name: "Leo Marks"
slug: "leo-marks"
description: "Leopold Samuel Marks was an English writer, screenwriter, and cryptographer. During the Second World War he headed the codes office supporting resistance agents in occupied Europe for the secret Special Operations Executive organisation. After the war, Marks became a playwright and screenwriter, writing scripts that frequently utilised his war-time cryptographic experiences. He wrote the script for Peeping Tom, the controversial film directed by Michael Powell that had a disastrous effect on Powell's career, but was later described by Martin Scorsese as a masterpiece. 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."
tagline: "British cryptographer, playwright and screenwriter (1920-2001)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/19/Leo-Wormelow.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1920-09-24"
deathDate: "2001-01-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.29
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.726858666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0548896/"
    handle:    "nm0548896"
sources:
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D1%81"
    title: "Лео Маркс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%B3_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "ليو ماركس (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "ليو ماركس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Marks"
    title: "Leo Marks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Marks"
    title: "Leo Marks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Marks"
    title: "Leo Marks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Marks"
    title: "Leo Marks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Marks"
    title: "Leo Marks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3229576"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2160148"
    title: "Leo Marks"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump