George Harrison Marks
Directing
Biography
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
World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investigative reporting and a forceful editorial stance. Its journalism produced major public and political repercussions—including investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six—and it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of “Seven Up!” as part of the strand in 1964.
World in Action
Two alluring young ladies live with their beautiful widowed aunt on a secluded wooded estate. The women have earned themselves quite a reputation in the surrounding towns and men from all over the region are frequent visitors to the small countryside home, hoping to encounter one, or preferably both, of the seductive nieces. Of course, the aunt has equally strong desires and refuses to be outdone. Soon all three are offering the many courters the chance to Come Play with Me!
Come Play with Me
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.
As Nature Intended
A man attempts to deal with the bevy of naked beauties who have been bothering his family for generations.
The Nine Ages of Nakedness
A light-hearted celebration of British sex films from the 1950s to the early 1980s. Presented by Angus Deayton, the programme includes interviews with movie veterans Robin Askwith and Pamela Green, as well as featuring clips from popular X-rated movies like “Come Play with Me” (1977).
Doing Rude Things
Rita Landre plays a witch who casts spells to make anyone she wants disappear. She also makes her own clothes disappear.
Witches Brew
A heavy S&M film which features scenes of murder and whipping in a torture chamber
Pattern of Evil
A cat burglar hides from the law by posing as a display mannequin in a lingerie shop.
The Window Dresser
Before she became a regular in the Carry On films, Margaret Nolan was known as Vicky (or Vicki) Kennedy and worked as a glamour model. Here she bares the lot, for the lecherous lens of George Harrison Marks.
Meet the Fabulous Vicky Kennedy
An attractive woman drugs, kidnaps and tortures a man. The man manages to break free and attacks her.
Macabre!
Soho 'glamour' filmmaker George Harrison Marks plays girl-hungry vampire Count Dracula III in this strange striptease short.
Vampire
A young woman stripping in a hay loft.
Making Hay
A performance of the band The Alberts. One of several films made especially for deaf children by adult film maker George Harrison Marks.
Uncle's Tea Party
Glamour goddess Pamela Green reveals all in a key '60s striptease collaboration with George Harrison Marks. Possibly a film test for her role in Peeping Tom (1960).
Xcitement!
A crazed butler harasses a semi-clad woman in a hotel.
Nightmare at Elm Manor
Work of popular nude photographer
The Naked World of Harrison Marks
Customers and staff enjoy an uninhibited orgy in a London sex shop.
Sex Is My Business
A girl is staying at a spooky hotel, where she is menaced by a hunchback, but a soldier saves her.
The Four Poster
A man stops at an Inn and is seduced by twin sisters.
Halfway Inn
George Harrison Marks dispensed with props for his "Nude in the Sun" series, instead showcasing his models' attributes without distraction; this is Margaret Nolan's installment.