- Served with the Royal Air Force as a flight sergeant, based in the Middle East.
- He was made an OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the 1976 Queen's New Year Honours List for services to entertainment.
- Had an operatic bass-baritone voice
- Studied singing in Italy for three years and first appeared on stage as a stand-up comedian at London's Windmill Theatre.
- At 14 worked in Petticoat Lane in London.
- British comic actor and entertainer, on the variety stage from 1946.
- Father of Danielle and Gareth Marks.
- Appeared in a Children's Film Foundation film called Scramble.
- He was scheduled for the film Work is a Four Letter Word ( 1968} but walked out before filming started and was replaced by David Waller.
- He, Hermione Gingold, Richard Attenborough appeared in a sketch called The Dooms in a radio programme called Home a Eight,.
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