George Harrison Marks was an English glamour photographer and director of nudist, and later, pornographic films.
21 Facts About Harrison Marks
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Harrison Marks 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.
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Harrison Marks left the act in 1951 to develop his photographic career, taking pictures of music-hall performers and showgirls.
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Harrison Marks became Marks' lover and began working with him as a model.
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In 1979 Harrison Marks began a relationship with Louise Sinclair, a teenage glamour model.
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Harrison Marks provided nude photographs for photographic magazines on a freelance basis as well as selling his own stills directly.
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Harrison Marks was the photographic consultant for the film Peeping Tom, which featured Green in a cameo role.
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In 1958, as an offshoot of his magazines, Harrison Marks began making short films of his models undressing and posing topless, for the 8 mm film market.
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Harrison Marks's films were available over the counter at camera shops, and supplied discreetly by mail order from the back pages of his Kamera magazine.
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Harrison Marks appears in the film as the shop's owner; Green performs a striptease in the store's display window.
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One such film, Witches Brew features Pamela Green as a witch casting spells; Harrison Marks makes a brief appearance as her hunchback assistant.
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Harrison Marks implied in several interviews over the years that the film was financed by organised crime.
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Harrison Marks made ends meet during this period by continuing to shoot short films for the 8mm market and releasing them via his Maximus Films company.
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Harrison Marks had been eager to shoot soft porn material ever since the Window Dresser case, much to the disdain of Pamela Green, who dissolved their business partnership in 1967.
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Harrison Marks made short films for a British hardcore pornographer known only as "Charlie Brown", and began making hardcore versions of his own Maximus short films which were released overseas on the Color Climax and Tabu labels.
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In later years Harrison Marks was reluctant to discuss these hardcore short films and claimed "not to remember" their names.
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Harrison Marks' cats remained a fixture of his studio and can be spotted scurrying about in several of the 8mm glamour films of the period, occasionally even appearing in prominent roles.
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Harrison Marks produced and directed short erotic corporal punishment films for Janus for the then-emerging home video market.
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In 1982 Harrison Marks left the Janus stable to set up his own fetish magazine Kane which featured caning and spanking photos.
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Harrison Marks created the Kane International Videos division and went on to direct a number of full-length corporal punishment videos in the 1980s and 1990s.
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In 1967 Franklyn Wood, a former art editor of The Times and the first editor in Fleet Street to run a diary under his own name, published a biography of Harrison Marks called The Naked Truth About Harrison Marks.