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Louis Marks was born in 1928. He is an acclaimed BBC script writer and producer. He attended the University of Oxford and graduated with a DPhil. He made the surprising choice to become a writer. He began by contributing to The Adventures of Robin Hood in 1959 and continues write to work in television into the 2000s, an exceptional record in modern television.

His early work was as a writer. His scripts included The Man Who Finally Died (1967) for the BBC, and Special Branch for Thames Television (1970). He also wrote for Danger Man with Patrick McGoohan, and for the Doomwatch science fiction series and for Doctor Who on four occasions. The first of these, Planet of Giants. opened the second season of the programme in 1964 and this makes Marks the longest-living writer who has contributed to the series, being one of just two survivors of the various writers of the First Doctor's era the programme. His second script Day of the Daleks in 1972 and as originally written, the serial revolved around the Ogrons instead of the Daleks. During the Tom Baker years he wrote the Jekyll and Hyde script for Planet of Evil; and then The Masque of Mandragora, which was perhaps his most unusual script for Doctor Who and drew on his academic background and studies in Renaissance Italy.

He also served as a script editor on programmes such as Bedtime Stories (1974); The Stone Tape (1972); and No Exit (1972).

Marks' producer credits include The Lost Boys (1978), Fearless Frank (1979), and the BBC's adaptation of George Eliot's Middlemarch (1994). He worked with Jack Clayton on Memento Mori in 1991, Harold Pinter on The Hothouse, 1987 and with Mike Leigh on Grown-ups, 1982.

His most recent critical success was his production of Daniel Deronda by George Eliot for the BBC in 2002.

He has worked with distinguished actors including Anthony Hopkins, Claire Bloom, John Gielgud, Nigel Hawthorne, Michael Gambon, Judi Dench and Ben Kingsley on the adaptation of another George Eliot work Silas Marner in 1986.

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