Template:Multiple issuesLeopold Samuel Marks (24 September 1920 – 15 January 2001), MBE, was an English cryptographer during the Second World War. He headed the codes office supporting resistance agents in occupied Europe for the secretive Special Operations Executive. After the war he became a playwright and screenwriter. Near the end of his life he published a highly regarded personal history of his experiences during the war, Between Silk and Cyanide.
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His body was donated to University of East London for medical science.
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He was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in 1945 for his wartime work with SOE.
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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
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Was the son of the owner of Marks' bookshop as featured in 84 Charing Cross Road (1987).
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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.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Undercovers Hero
1974
story & screenplay
Twisted Nerve
1968
screenplay
Sebastian
1968
original screen story
Guns at Batasi
1964
original adaptation
Espionage
1964
TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Webster Boy
1962
story
Peeping Tom
1960
original story / screenplay
Carve Her Name with Pride
1958
poem - uncredited
Cloudburst
1951
story and screenplay
The Girl Who Couldn't Quite
1950
play
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Sticky Fingers of Time
1997
Dex
Dogs: The Rise and Fall of an All-Girl Bookie Joint
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