Biography
Louis Marks was an English screenwriter and producer, primarily for BBC Television. Born in London in 1928, he read history at Balliol College, Oxford, and gained a DPhil before entering television in the late 1950s.
He wrote for series including The Adventures of Robin Hood, Danger Man and Doomwatch. For Doctor Who (1963) he contributed the scripts for Planet of Giants (1964), Day of the Daleks (1972), Planet of Evil (1975) and The Masque of Mandragora (1976). He also served as script editor on The Stone Tape (1972).
As a producer his credits included the BBC adaptations of the Theban plays (1984–1986) and George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1994). Marks died in 2010.
